The last post was getting kind of long, so a new version of “Link Love for the VP Candidate that we <3″ is here!
The RNC is cheering on Sarah Palin. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says that it’s a brilliant pick: “John felt we are matching history with history. Maverick picks maverick.”
Phyllis Schlafly endorses Sarah Palin pick and had chosen Palin to speak at anti-abortion event during RNC week. “I think it’s more energy around Palin. It’s just an amazing revival of energy across the board among grassroots Republicans.” Gov. Matt Blunt of Missouri agrees.
Republicans at the RNC, despite the best efforts of the Daily Kos, are rallying around Palin. Senator Brownback says that conservatives are “pumped” about Palin. Mike Gallagher says:
“This is a gun-loving, hockey-mom, mother of five juggling a career and a staunch pro-life conservative. I have to tell you, it does not get any better for conservatives if you had written this in a Hollywood script.”
The Associated Press comes out and says it straight: everything’s topsy-turvy, with the liberals beating the “stay at home mom” drum.
Jane Swift, former Governor of Massachusetts (and the only other woman to give birth while holding that office) tells the media to back off the sexism and focus on Sarah Palin’s accomplishments as governor.
Forbes reports that a Kentucky delegate is hopeful that Palin will improve McCain’s energy policy.
Georgia delegates rally around Palin. Miscelleanous quote from the article: ” Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer said McCain ‘could not have made a better choice’ than Palin.” With all due respect, Mr. Roemer, we’ve been saying that for months!
Catholic, abstinence-teaching mom is more excited about the Palin nomination after yesterday’s headlines. Quote from the blogging daughter: “Take off your red and blue glasses, rub your eyes a little bit and open wide. You’ll see that conservatives’ reaction to Palin’s pregnancy is beautiful from every angle except one - the political one.”
US News and World Reports sez: people too excited about Palin to care about the media kerfuffle, which was totally inappropriate anyway. Check this out:
Brian Burdette of Greene County, Georgia (a small rural county well southeast of Atlanta, not heavily Republican) said Independents and Democrats were calling in to Republican headquarters. A nurse at a small hospital who is a Republican told him that other nurses came up “with tears coming down their eyes.” Debbie McCord, of Columbia County, Georgia (the mostly white and upscale suburbs of Augusta), said that the decision “electrified the Republican base.” Tom Liddy of Arizona, the son of G. Gordon Liddy, said that he was whipping the convention’s rules committee, filled with veterans of Republican National Conventions, “There were tears coming down their eyes,” he said. “One woman from Wyoming said, ‘We didn’t know John McCain cared about us.’”
You go, Sarah Barracuda! 
Keep checking back for updates. Feel free to shamelessly self-promote your own blogging in the comments, or send along news stories, for inclusion into the latest edition of Sarah Palin Link Love.
Updates: Neil sends this one over: top Hillary supporter, disillusioned with the Obama camp and the sexism, defects to the McCain/Palin ticket. It’s morning in America!
Mothers and feminists respond to the sexism and the amniotic fluid issue (which is clearly an issue of national importance). Yes, folks, the Left - and NOW - wants to tell women what to do with their bodies.
“We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling. That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails.”
…and she’s a liberal.
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“everything’s topsy-turvy, with the liberals beating the “stay at home mom” drum.”
Yep. Only they are mainly just vainly trying to convince themselves. Do they think they are getting libs off the couch to go vote with rhetoric like that? Unlikely.
But is Palin getting people out to vote? Oh, yeah! My favorite blog title was something like, I went from sitting it out to “Where can I get a yard sign?”
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Here’s a great link - video of one of Hillary’s biggest supporters switches to McCain - http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/tamcam/archive/2008/09/01/top-hillary-supporter-switches-to-mccain.aspx
“John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced today that he was supporting John McCain for president. Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her family through out the primary season, complained of sexism, and said the Democratic Party is “being taken over by the moveon.org types” in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.com’s Tammy Haddad.”
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Neil,
ROFL. Seriously. She has brought some energy and vitality to this race, and the Republican party, in ways that have not been seen since… Reagan? (Rachel Lucas has a picture of her: The face that slayed a thousand RINOs, aka Ronald Reagan in a skirt.)
Thanks for the article. That’s awesome news. I expect that more like it will follow… and the MSM, try as it might, will not be able to keep her down.
“There were tears coming down their eyes,” he said. “One woman from Wyoming said, ‘We didn’t know John McCain cared about us.’”
That’s a heck of an awesome quote. I’m gonna have to chat with my contacts in the delegation to find out where this Wyoming woman was from.
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“Forbes reports that a Kentucky delegate is hopeful that Palin will improve McCain’s energy policy.”
I’m hoping that part of the deal she made to run with McCain included him converting to a supporter of drilling in ANWR.
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Hi Scott,
Beyond that link, I know nothing.
(Believe it or not, it’s taken several hours to put each of these together.)
If you find out more, I’ll report.
Kevin,
That would be nice. We can all hope that Palin will play tough with McCain. Something tells me that, even if she didn’t, she’ll fight for it after getting into the White House. I imagine that it will be a lot more politically popular when it comes from an Alaskan, who was a very, very popular governor, than if it looked like the rest of us intruding upon their land.