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Friday 10 February 2012

Palin's big moment

Unlike Iain Dale, I kept finding myself cringing, although I can see she got the crowd going. James Fallows' reaction hits the mark:

The speech was surprisingly negative and mocking... If these words were delivered by someone older, less attractive, and male, they could have come straight frpm a Limbaugh radio monologue... Potential drawback: having taken this tone, she's exposed herself to more direct, aggressive attack by the Dems than she has received so far.

Barack Obama has used his family as a prop from time to time... That's life in politics; everybody does it to some degree.Very few politicians do it as all-out as Sarah Palin just did... I can't recall any spectacle comparable to Baby Trig being passed from Cindy McCain, to Trig's 7-year-old sister, to Palin herself when she ended the speech...  From this point on it will be hard for her to declare anything about her personal or family life out-of-bounds.

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