Palin to the Base

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September 16, 2:10 AM

by Ryan D. Briceland, Denver Young Democrats Examiner

 

We know they kind of crowd Obama can get in Colorado, but what about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin?

The Republican nominee for vice president stopped by the Jeffco fairgrounds to give a speech in front of 5,000 people. Later she spoke in Golden. According to the Denver Post article, “Palin Wows the base at Jeffco Fairgrounds,” many of the people in attendance were diehard Republican supporters. Most of the people quoted said much of the same thing: “Sarah Palin will make a great vice president or president because she’s just like us.”

Someone needs to ask these people why they think they would make such great presidents. Like the title of the article implied Palin said nothing new, nothing of substance. But she wore her stylish reading glasses and talked with a charming quasi Minnesotan / Canadian accent, so all 5,000 people must’ve come away impressed.

In Palin’s first solo endeavor outside her home state of Alaska she outlined her vision for the role she’ll play as vice president. Brace yourself. I’m not making this up. In each account of her speech, in The Denver Post live blog and the Rocky Mountain News, Palin said she’d make helping the families of children with special needs her third priority. Right behind energy independence and government reform.

Said Palin, "My mission is going to be energy security and government reform. It's going to be helping families who have special needs, and I will push for innovative cures to diseases."

Having worked with special needs children in the public school system I can tell you that I have all the respect in the world for their care and the needs of their families. In this state of crisis and war I don’t think the Vice President of the United States of America should spend any time on this issue. At all.

I suspect this compassionate tangent is following a script written by super politico’s inside the Republican establishment to make Sarah Palin seem “just like one of us.” Unfortunately these tactics still work. The good news is that these days they only work on about 5,000 Coloradoans, not 50,000. 

In The Denver Post liveblog you can read all about the transparent attempts being made by the Republican Party to attract women voters simply based on their gender. At one point the person introducing Palin led the crowd in a chant of “Yes, Women Can.”

It was a blatant rip off of Obama’s slogan and a slap in the face to women’s reproductive rights. Didn’t the women in attendance know that mockery is the most sincere form of flattery?    

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