Going Out on a Limb for Palin

Despite Palin's satisfactory peformance in Thursday's vice presidential debate, there are murmurs of doubt in some corners of the right as to whether McCain will win this election. 

Even if the doubt were warranted, it is far, far too early to make negative predictions of any kind. The 2008 election is still a lifetime away, in New Media Time.

And note this fact:  The levels of viewership for the vice presidential debate were very high.  As John at Powerline notes:

The debate last night was watched by an astonishing 69.9 million people. It was the most-watched vice-presidential debate ever and the most-watched debate of any sort since 1992. It drew 61% more viewers than the 2004 vice-presidential debate and 33% more than this year's first Presidential debate. And none of that was because of Joe Biden.

Yes, I know how the polls look.  But polls are written in sand, not granite.   

I think many of the 69.9 million people who tuned in to the vice presidential debate this year did so for a reason.  They harbor hope that they will see real change this year -- and their hope is not in Barack Obama.  He wasn't even in the debate.  So Sarah Palin drew them in.  I think she will also draw them to the polls.

Comments

[rrobin]

Here's a video about this "financial crisis" I suggest we get out to every voter possible, all over the country, and I also understand that Sean Hannity's America on Sunday night on Fox is going to focus on this in a very specific, hard-hitting way.
Especially before this next debate, the exposure of this may wind up being the issue that actually sinks the Obama campaign.
http://tinyurl.com/3ud4qt

[Peggy McGilligan]

Again, all hopes rest on Governor Palin at the Vice Presidential Debate, no thanks to Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson. Ms. Palin knocks it out of the ballpark; she delivers. There’s an observation I'd like to make about Democrats though. A faux pas they commit with increased regularity. Now if you don't like Bozo the clown, if you feel that he’s a particularly bad clown and bad for the country, why then don a Bozo wig, a pair of size 14 shoes, and a rubber nose whenever denouncing Bozo?

If there’s an official uniform of the president, it's the pastel blue tie, white shirt, and dark suit first popularized by George W. Bush. The color scheme comes from the presidential flag. No other American president made those colors his signature style before George W. Bush. In 2004, Bill Clinton even had his presidential portrait painted wearing George W's distinctive garb. Although the 1960 Kennedy vs. Nixon debate was televised in black & white, people still argue the significance blue vs. grey played during the election.

But there remains no ambiguity about which candidate wore what color (Kennedy, blue). Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And, the fashion police have long memories. Ms. Palin dressed for and aced the debate. Note: before castigating Bozo, please try not to emulate Bozo. It makes one look like a clown. Unlike foppish Al Gore, Joe Biden and others, we must not allow our inner bozos to dictate our thoughts and actions, much less our mode of dress: http://theseedsof9-11.com