60 days to go.....The Sarahcuda Edition

now with 100% less Bristol Palin.....

so anyway, I'm assuming you saw or heard The Speech last night. The big "whoosh" sound you heard was the air exiting Senator Obama's balloon. If you missed it, Hot Air has the streaming video of the whole thing.

I liked the part that started when the announcer said "....Governor Sarah Palin" to when she waved and walked off the stage.

The money quote that all the kids are talking about:

"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities..."

Powerline live-blogged the evening.

Ace has some thoughts on the fecklessness of the libtards:

"Now, after the fact, the left is convulsing and gnashing their teeth. "How could we have allowed ourselves to so demean Sarah Palin as to turn her home-run speech into a genuine star-making speech by lowering expectations so much through our derision!?!"

How could you have done that, you ask. That's not the right question. The right question is Is it even possible for you to avoid doing that?, because you do every. Single. God. Damn. Election. Cycle.

It works in my favor, and yet I'm still horrified to see you doing it every time."

Day by Day riffs on the Sarah-cuda chord.

Speaking of cartoons.....I can't wait until the Palin-Biden debate on 02OCT08.

The WSJ Online on hope-n-change-n-siht

"There is nothing more dangerous to entrenched Washington power than a populist conservative who looks unlikely to buy into Washington’s creature comforts. Take a close look at Governor Palin’s record on ethics and energy in Alaska, and it becomes clear what this Beltway outburst is actually about. The irony is that while Senator Obama is running on change, his acceptance speech made explicit that he’s promising only more power and money for Washington. Sarah Palin’s history of taking on the career politicians of a corrupt Alaskan GOP machine — her own party — shows that she’s the more authentic change agent."

The always salient Thomas Lifson on why the leftards are so, so wrong about Palin:

"Sarah Palin is the ultimate All-American Girl, beautiful but not glamorous, powerful but unpretentious, high-powered but down-to-earth, a reformer who speaks up while others cower in fear of rocking the boat. Like Ronald Reagan, she can reach right through the television camera into people's minds and hearts. We recognize one of us.

The left, so wrapped in artifice and fakery, are driven crazy by this. Her behavior appears bizarre, inexplicable. In their minds, she is a disaster and they pretend to be gleeful, asking when McCain will dump her. All while panicking, because they can see the energized GOP base and the failure of Barack Obama to garner the ten-to-fifteen point post-convention bounce to be expected after his speech before the multimillion-dollar Greek temple set and fireworks at Invesco Field only 5 days ago. Those who planned the classical Greek theatrical stage never for second contemplated the possibility of a deus ex machina named Sarah."

Patterico on the Liberal MainStream Media (I know, redundancy alert):

"I think I know exactly why we're hearing all this utter nonsense about how Palin supposedly wasn't vetted.

The spoiled little children in the media are throwing a widdle tantrum because they weren't kept in the loop.

So if they didn't know anything about Sarah Palin, and if they didn't expect McCain to pick Palin, then it stands to reason that McCain didn't know anything about Sarah Palin, and McCain didn't expect himself to pick her.

Guess what, media? Some of us had heard of Sarah Palin before, and were hoping that she was exactly who John McCain would pick."

Meanwhile, in Iraq:

"General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, said declining violence in Baghdad raised the possibility that American combat troops could leave the capital by next summer.

Asked in an interview with the Financial Times whether it was feasible that US combat forces could leave Baghdad by July, he said: “Conditions permitting, yeah.”"

Baghdad, of all places. The MSM completely ignored the fact that we turned over al Anbar province to Iraqi control last month. Somehow, "war news" doesn't seem to be a priority for the MSM anymore.

more soon.