Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing--few if any would ever vote for McCain--but all agree that Palin was very strong. The more liberal among them are a little panicked.
The comments on the blog were interesting.
Most parroted the Hussein line "She read a speech that was written for her, but she's a lightweight."
But no one could deny the impact of her speech. The Leftists (and that’s who reads TNR) though it was mean and hope that it would blow over in a few days.
The problem for them is, this is a campaign, and there will be other speeches. The problem for the GOP is that the press is so far in the tank for Hussein that that avenue to the people has been closed to them. It remains to be seen if the McCain/Palin camp has a strategy for bypassing the gatekeepers.
But here is one that represents my thinking;
Eos said:
Palin is a genuine original. She is of a type not seen before in our politics, more resonant of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington than of any politician in living memory. Her speech was directed at an unarticulated and underrepresented mainstream current in the country. She was tough, charming, poised, confident, unbeholden and unbespoke, a maverick, a reformer and non-doctrinnaire.. McCain and Palin just became to ticket of change in this election. Obama and Biden now seem ordinary and over-famiiar. The Left of the Democratic Party should be very afraid. The rest of us really enjoyed the speech.
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