Indiana

Palin on Parade

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Like most of you I watched Sarah Palin tonight accept her party’s nomination for Vice-President of the United States.  Overall, you take away from the speech what you brought.  If you like her, she hit a home run.  If you don’t like her she took cheap shots.

Regardless this was an address geared primarily toward the GOP base and it worked.  They are motivated, excited and Sarah Palin is their hero.  For the left, she is a villain and this race is going to get real ugly real quick.

And for the record, picking a fight with the press is always good with party loyalists, but you are still going to have to make the rounds and there is nothing worse than antagonizing people who buy ink by the barrel and own broadcast towers.

At the end of the day, this race will come down to ground game and getting out the vote.  I think the GOP finally has a fighting chance at winning the race.  I’ll be interested to see the polling data in the next few days, particularly the energy and enthusiasm of both parties about their nominees.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).