I like Athouse - she's a Lieberman type Democrat so I disagree with her on lots of stuff - but she is usually very fair-minded.
Here's her posting on Palin as she "live-blogged"
11:31: She's speaking extremely well, and she's presenting herself as a McCain-style maverick. She seems like his perfect counterpart. She enumerates achievements in Alaska that involve taking "risks" and "challenging the status quo." She rejected "the Bridge to Nowhere." Now, she's praising McCain extremely well, and he's fiddling with his wedding ring, a reflex married people often have. Her speech is amazingly clear and strong, passionate and devoid of any hesitation or filler "uhs." The sign on the lectern reads "Country First." It's fitting, she says, that this privilege of running with McCain has been given to her almost 88 years after women got the right to vote. She wants to honor Geraldine Ferraro, the first (and up until now the only) female, major-party VP pick and Hillary Clinton, who "showed such determination in her presidential campaign." Palin loves to point her index finger and jab it about, a gesture you don't see that often in a politician anymore and that you almost never see done with a pointy polished fingernail. It's especially striking when she talks about Hillary and urges us to join her cause.
11:49: Wow! Great performance! Fabulous first walk onto the national stage!
Couldn't agree more! This is one great Presidential race...SP will add an interesting dimension and attempts to bury the "abortion" issue as not important (so as not to connect Obama with his views on infanticide)will fail now. It's back in the mix whether they want it there or not. Bring on the debates!
Posted by: Judith Anderson | Friday, August 29, 2008 at 08:44 PM