McCain-Palin...Wow!

I have to say, I was going with McCain mostly because he was the last bastion against the farthest left presidential candidate ever to run.

I was a Romney guy during the primaries.  And Romney really appealed to my intellect.  He was the smartest guy running for President, but not the best politician in the fray.

The selection of Sarah Palin confirms just how accomplished a politician McCain is.  In selecting Palin, McCain has attracted a lot of people who wouldn't even give him a look in.  Sarah Palin plays well to a lot of people.  For us normal everyday people, Sarah reminds us of a librarian-hot version of all those steely women we know in our lives as mothers, wives, sisters, and aunts.  The sort of women we meet every day, who happen to rise to the occasion when called upon.  The sort of woman who meets the slings and arrows that life throws up in her way, keeps taking it, and then continues to say: Bring it on.

I have to say, watching her speak and come out swinging, I was overwhelmed with emotion, and choked down that lump in my throat.  It reminded me of how great America is that nomal every day people like her choose to go into politics.

I also had a similar response to McCain's acceptance speech last night.  I can't help but keep thinking that the real change people are waiting for is a change wherein politicians have a core belief system and act upon it.  I now have no doubt that McCain, as much as I have disagreed with him at times, works from that core that says that America is the greatest country in the world, and that every political move he makes is less about McCain and more about America.

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of Obama.

Comments

[Ross]

"McCain has attracted a lot of people who wouldn't even give him a look in. "

I think that is the key point, for the first time in over a year Barack Obama is no longer the undivided focus of the media's attention.

[GorseFox]

As an outsider, but Americanophile, GF must say that he likes the cut of the McCain/Palin jib! There seems to be some substance - not just sound-bites and empty substance-free rhetoric.