Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Jeff Binkley wrote:
 EH>> Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett wrote:



 SH>>>>> 4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which
no one else
 EH>>>> in the party, or
 SH>>>>> perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.

 SH>>>>> 5. Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.

 SH>>>>> 6. May detach some young people, especially women.

 SH>>>>> 7. May attach some women pissed off about Hillary.

 SH>>>>> 8. As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.

 SH>>>>> 9. Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic
 EH>>>> primary, which featured
 SH>>>>> a black vs. a female trail-blazer, and put both
sides on notice
 EH>>>> on sensitivity issues.
 SH>>>>> Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama's
 EH>>>> critics may face charges
 SH>>>>> of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.

 SH>>>>> 10. Steps on Obama's claims to have been a reformer, as he
 EH>>>> reformed nothing (much less
 SH>>>>> the corrupt mare's nest of Chicago arrangements),
while she was
 EH>>>> a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.

 SH>>>>> 11. As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her
 EH>>>> side take on the Democrats
 SH>>>>> on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.

 SH>>>>> 12. Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the
 EH>>>> Democrats, some of whom will now
 SH>>>>> wonder more loudly than ever why they didn't pick Hillary.

 SH>>>>> 13. Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn't.

 SH>>>>> 14. Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama's
light resume
 EH>>>> more potent than ever.
 SH>>>>> Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And
he's--to use
 EH>>>> a term from Alaska, and
 SH>>>>> the Iditarod--their lead dog.

 EH>>>> http://tinyurl.com/6xhju6

 JB>>> She also reaches out to a number of blue collar democrats, both women
 JB>>> and men alike.  Her best answer so far was to the question, what is
 EH>> your
 JB>>> favorite meal ?  "Moose Stew."  How do Obama and
Biden compete with
 JB>>> that one ?

 EH>> They can't. All they can do is repeat their lame comment that her only
 EH>> qualification is that she's a former mayor of a small town.

 MG> Even *IF* that's all the experience she has (we all know that isn't the
 MG> only experience) even the mayor of a small town in Alaska has more
 MG> executive experience than a Senator with only a little state assembly
 MG> experience before the senate. The fact is that if he wins this election
 MG> he'll have to break his word to his constituents in Illinois. Doesn't
 MG> anyone care about that?

The irony of it all is lost on them.

We will also be hearing about the "ethics probe" going on in
Alaska aimed at Palin. The probe was initiated by her Dem opponent after
she beat him in the race for Governor based on wild claims.

Ed

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