If there's one thing that you can say about the Republican ticket for president as it emerges into greener fields, it's that Sarah Palin has added the gumption that seemed to be missing. John McCain has always been a man of gumption, but there have been doubts cast on him because of age. With Palin on board, all doubts can be cast away.
The primary reason that all of this is happening, and this very entertaining NYPost article articulates this well, is that there has been so much up and down, positive and negative, directed at both the Republicans and Democrats for some time now. The war is on the verge of being considered an absolutey victory to the chagrin of the Democrats (not that they should think poorly of it, but they were wrong), and Obama-mania has been sweeping across the land for months now.
Bottom line - she is fresh and the rest is not. How long this will last remains to be seen, but for now, the GOP seems to be heading in the right direction thanks to Sarah Palin.
The tectonic plates are definitely rumbling. Partisan Democrats may not believe it, but independents and dispirited Republicans now see the McCain-Palin pick as a sharp break with Bush (McCain now has a double-digit lead over the "post-partisan" Obama among independents).
(via NY Post)
Read more about Palinmania on this blog.
