GOP faithful under the spell of a new enchantress

GOP faithful under the spell of a new enchantress

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have charmed GOP convention delegates and wooed TV audiences with her Sept. 3 vice-presidential acceptance speech in Minnesota, but it’s a good thing for her she was working the crowd and not testifying under oath.

On Monday, the Associated Press published a Fact Check of Palin’s convention speech and what swooning Republicans have been saying about her since Sen. John McCain of Arizona brought her on board as his running mate. The report also dealt with GOP attacks against Ilinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee. Without calling anyone a liar, AP writer Jim Kuhnhenn kindly left it at this: “In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.”

The instances of truth-stretching are too numerous to list for purposes of this column. In any case, the specificity of her lies is not nearly as important as the pugnacious verve with which she delivered them.

Playing on the emotional uplift her surprise pick sparked, Palin came out swinging with both partisan fists. For those not seduced by her sweetly vicious, coyly aggressive oratory, her mission was clear: Transform the 2008 presidential campaign into a contest about personality rather than one about issues...

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He is the type of guy you could have a beer with.

She even has the same hard to listen to voice.

I can't stand her voice already, I turn off the sound.