Reaction To Sarah’s Performance

October 3, 2008 / 12:35 am • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

You can see how I reacted, moment by moment here.

Redstate: Ifill was biased. Big surprise.

From StoptheACLU: “She killed.”

Don Surber: “I don’t know if she can still save McCain, but she got game.”

Michelle Malkin on Biden: “Man, he’s tired.” And this:

She was warm, fresh, funny, confident, energetic, personable, relentless, and on message. She roasted Obama’s flip-flops on the surge and tea-with-dictators declarations, dinged Biden’s bash-Bush rhetoric, challenged the blame-America defeatism of the Left, and exuded the sunny optimism that energized the base in the first place.

Mark R. Levin: “She is the bright light in this campaign from my perspective.”

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The Anchoress: “When I saw that audience [Frank Luntz focus group] response to Palin I thought: here in a nutshell is why the other side has worked so vociferously to destroy her, so quickly.”

Lorie Byrd: “Sarah is no Dan Quayle. And she is no Tina Fey cartoon. And she is no drooling moron.”

Commenter from Ann Althouse (who is fabulous, I must say): “I feel like smoking a cigarette.”

Gateway Pundit with pictures: “The media looked like they wanted to cry.” He’s actually there. I hope there were tears.

Rachel Lucas disclaims any relation to Charles Krauthammer. Well, that’s a relief.

Glenn Reynolds smacks Biden around for his ignorance about the constitution. I found myself explaining his dull-wittedness to the fam. And yelling,”Liar!” at the TV. See what 35 years in the Senate gets you? See how smart you get? And Biden is a lawyer.

Tigerhawk watched an audience-meter and observes: “I’m still fascinated with Biden’s disproportionate appeal to women, as opposed to men, in the audience meter. Democrats have really mastered the code words. There is another way of looking at this, though: The men and women react differently to Biden’s rhetoric, and very similarly to Palin’s. Which is better for the country?”

Jim Treacher reacts as I did to Biden every time he talked–I just zoned: “# Joe’s point aboutZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ”

Cassy Fiano says, “Hey, maybe I’m setting the bar too high. It seems like everyone loved her!”

More later. I’m going to bed.

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  • murphy stone

    Here is the best analogy for the Thursday night VP debate Sarah Palin reminded me of Mary Richards )Mary Tyler Moore confronting her gruff boss Mr. Grant. SHE’S GOT SPUNK!

  • Naqamel

    The only thing I wished Palin would have done would have been to point out how utterly stupid Obama/Biden’s plan to let Judges change principle owed on a house in bankruptcy court.

    That is home value DEATH.

    Let’s say you buy a house for $150,000. You neighbor buys a house next door for the same amount – he defaults, goes bankrupt, and a Judge lowers his principle down to $75,000.

    Guess what that does to *your* property value.

    Other than that, to use a boxing analogy: Palin wins by KNOCKOUT.

    Forget what the MSM says about it – watch the body language. Fred Thompson looked thrilled afterwards, and Guiliani was so excited he almost jumped out of his shoes.

    The MSM goons on CNN looked like someone ran over their dog.

    Someone did: It was Saracuda, and she ran over Biden leaving only the botoxed forehead and hair plugs.