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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Sarah! They love her down South.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brown-eyed Madelene Fyke of Byron is only three years old.
Already, though, says her mother, Andrea, she’s a Sarah Palin fan.
Whether the adoration of Palin does sweep down to the pre-kindergarten set is subject to debate, but in the Middle Georgia town of Perry, it’s a real as Christmas. When she came here Monday afternoon to urge support for U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, she was greeted by a wildly cheering crowd of about 2,000 with the now-familiar chants of “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.”
Among the women interviewed, one theme was constant — an appreciation of her ability to juggle the demands of a family, her duties as governor and a national political campaign.
Liberal commentators and other partisans recognized her appeal, which is why they were so quick to trash her presumably inadequate education and experience.
Four years is a long time, but a Sarah Palin-Bobby Jindal ticket would be dynamite — assuming, of course, that the country’s not yearning then for another Bush. I’d readily offer up former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for top-of-the-ticket.
Today is the reason she was here. It is, as she and others pointed out, a U.S. Senate runoff of national importance. In Minnesota, Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman hangs to a 270-vote lead over comedian Al Franken, with a Friday deadline for the recount to be finished.
A win for Democrats there would give them 59. A win here would give them the filibuster-proof Senate that would allow President-elect Barack Obama to take the courts as far left as he chooses and to raise taxes and social spending as high as he chooses.
Chambliss should win and my guess is that he will, 56-44. Georgia doesn’t intentionally elect liberals statewide. Occasionally it has, but only because the electorate was fooled. There’s no fooling here.
Vote today. It’s all about turnout now.
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