Mover Mike

Gov. Sarah Palin knocked it out of the park! It is thrilling, to me, to watch a strong woman work her magic. It’s about time that 50% of the population of this country is represented in one of the two most powerful elected offices. You can just see the determination in the set of her jaw. First, we witnessed the professional skewering of Obama. Then we saw the mother in her as she held her newborn.

Here’s some of how the left at The New Republic reacted:

I completely misjudged how negative she would be. Her lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. But she’s a far better messenger than an angry white man

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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From Polipundit:

Sarah Palin makes Dick Cheney look like a puddycat. I mean that as a compliment.

LGF

Just a terrific speech from Sarah Palin. She didn’t miss a word. That must have struck terror into the hearts of Obama’s handlers.

Slate got into the picture with this comment in The XX Factor:

Sarah Palin loved being onstage, and people loved watching her love it. This was no Sarah, plain and tall. There was a palpable eros in the room at the RNC tonight… What Hillary Clinton pretended to be at the end of her campaign, Sarah Palin is: a red-blooded Middle American populist.

While her platform may be undeveloped, her persona is not. It’s actually more complex than we’re used to seeing onstage: a combination of eros with tough love, motherhood with wifeliness, fierceness with friendliness. It’s not a tack Hillary tried. Throughout, Palin made full use of the old power women had (as the domestic angel) while embracing fully the new power women want (as the boardroom madam).

And isn’t the image at the top absolutely wonderful. It’s from Right Voices.

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