Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:55:41 PM
Barone’s analysis at US News — a star is born:
Sarah Palin’s speech to the Republican National
Convention last night was a home run. A star was born. While the Obama
campaign has attempted to disparage it by saying that it was written by
a former George W. Bush speechwriter, Matthew Scully—and thus link it
to the McCain=Bush meme that was one of the chief ideas thrust forward
in their convention in Denver last week—it cannot be dismissed as such.
Scully reportedly had written a generic draft that could have been used
by whichever vice presidential candidate McCain had chosen. But once
Palin was the choice, she and Scully reportedly worked together and
produced a draft that was brilliantly designed to promote the
McCain-Palin ticket, and not to look backwards and justify the Bush
administration. This will surprise no one who knows the
independent-minded Scully (who left the Bush team to write a book on
the responsibility human beings have to animals) and a woman who was
described, by Fred Thompson on Tuesday night, as the only major-party
nominee, with the possible exception of Theodore Roosevelt, who knew
how to field-dress a moose. According to accounts I heard, they worked
together quite satisfactorily and produced a text that reflected the VP
nominee’s convictions and the ticket’s political imperatives.
Be sure to read all of Barone’s analysis