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 your
 JB> favorite meal ?  "Moose Stew."  How do Obama and Biden compete with
 JB> that one ?

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

Ed

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