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Don't confuse Republicans' thrill over the Palin nomination with the Dems' worship of Obama: A reply to Paul Mirengoff

By Beldar

My blogospheric friends over at Power Line are still struggling to get their minds, individually and collectively, around what has just happened in the Grand Old Party. Paul Mirengoff writes:

We conservatives have had a good time ridiculing the Obama phenomenon, especially its messianic feel ? the willingness of its adherents to pour so much hope and belief into such an empty, or at least incomplete, vessel ? and its elevation of "narrative" over substance.

It turns out that we were dying to have basically the same experience.

That was posted late at night, and I hope Paul didn't intend to call Gov. Palin an empty or incomplete vessel. Maybe he didn't re-read the post; maybe he didn't think through the comparison. If that is truly his considered opinion after having thoroughly investigated Gov. Palin, he's entitled of course to that opinion, but I think it is a profoundly wrong one, more wrong than anything I've ever seen published on that blog (of which I've been a regular reader for about five years).

This will be my 43rd post on Gov. Palin, dating back to June 8th of this year. I will let the previous 42 posts stand on their own as refutation of the "vessel" comment.

But Paul misunderstands ? in a way that surprises me a great deal ? the nature of the GOP faithful's reaction to Gov. Palin.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on September 06, 2008 (boomark / email).