09-04-2008, 07:35 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Republicans, wrote a Wall Street Journal columnist, may have found their own Margaret Thatcher while <b>the New York Post hailed Palin as a fighter and urged her on: "You go, girl."</b>
Under the headline "She shoots! She scores!" Tom Shales of the Washington Post said Wednesday's speech by John McCain's surprise vice presidential pick was a political bull's eye even if it lacked eloquence.
<b>"If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night -- the night that John McCain's brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from laughingstock to national star," </b>Shales wrote.
"To those in the hall and probably to millions watching at home, she came across as genuine and down-to-earth, <b>a self-described 'hockey mom' whose confidence and bravado were not exactly ingratiating but were somehow persuasive."</b>
With the stakes high and the McCain campaign facing questions about her thin resume and pregnant teenage daughter, Palin rose to the occasion, he said.
<b>"She proved herself in the great arena; that's what counts politically. Nobody could watch that speech and still consider her a joke, no matter how flimsy her credentials and qualifications may seem on paper."</b>
In a reference to her feisty jabs at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the New York Daily News ran the headline: <b>"Hockey mom drops gloves."</b>
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal said that by picking Palin, McCain had ushered in a promising new face for the conservative cause.
<b>"Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher,"</b> wrote Fund.
"If John McCain wins, conservatives may find one of the most enduring accomplishments of his term will have been what he did before it started: helping to fill the Republican Party's future talent bench with such a fresh and compelling figure."Â
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>"America has just learned why Mrs. Palin enjoys the highest approval ratings of any governor in America." </b>
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Under the headline "She shoots! She scores!" Tom Shales of the Washington Post said Wednesday's speech by John McCain's surprise vice presidential pick was a political bull's eye even if it lacked eloquence.
<b>"If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night -- the night that John McCain's brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from laughingstock to national star," </b>Shales wrote.
"To those in the hall and probably to millions watching at home, she came across as genuine and down-to-earth, <b>a self-described 'hockey mom' whose confidence and bravado were not exactly ingratiating but were somehow persuasive."</b>
With the stakes high and the McCain campaign facing questions about her thin resume and pregnant teenage daughter, Palin rose to the occasion, he said.
<b>"She proved herself in the great arena; that's what counts politically. Nobody could watch that speech and still consider her a joke, no matter how flimsy her credentials and qualifications may seem on paper."</b>
In a reference to her feisty jabs at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the New York Daily News ran the headline: <b>"Hockey mom drops gloves."</b>
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal said that by picking Palin, McCain had ushered in a promising new face for the conservative cause.
<b>"Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher,"</b> wrote Fund.
"If John McCain wins, conservatives may find one of the most enduring accomplishments of his term will have been what he did before it started: helping to fill the Republican Party's future talent bench with such a fresh and compelling figure."Â
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>"America has just learned why Mrs. Palin enjoys the highest approval ratings of any governor in America." </b>
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