So let’s say you’re an experienced senator running for president, and you’re lucky enough to have as your opponent someone who declared his candidacy after barely two years in the senate and no notable experience before that.
And then let’s say when you announce your vice president, your opponents make her lack of experience their number one talking point for all those pissant news shows your opponents like to go on.
And then let’s say you have a national audience of 20-25 million people the first night your vice president speaks. Hmmm. What should the topic be?
I think the McCain campaign was masterful tonight in making it about Obama’s lack of experience; the chants of “zer-o”, while not as good as 2004’s “flip-flop”, were not bad. And I think the Obama campaign led with their chin, right into Giuliani’s snearing jabs and Palin’s smiling uppercuts. Hillary could never quite turn everyone on to the fact that Obama is a frighteningly underprepared lightweight. Through their own over-aggressiveness, the Obamaniacs gave McCain a chance to do just that.
Update: Good grief, looks like I underestimated Palin’s audience by 1/3. Drudge shows her having 37 million viewers, compared to 38 million for Obama’s speech and 24 million for Biden.
McCain should send out thank you notes to every scurrilous reporter, every sexist Democrat hack, every scummy blogger who couldn’t control themselves for four measly days and just haaaaaad to pass judgment on and spread rumors about Sarah Palin before they knew poop about her. Thanks to them, nearly as many people tuned in last night to see a smiling, beautiful, articulate Republican tear their candidate to shreds as tuned in to watch his sermon from the Barackopolis.
This one goes out to the scuzz buckets:
Posted by Apollo in Audacity of Hype