Sunday, September 14, 2008

Sarah, Warrior Princess, Steals Obama's Thunder

According to TimesOnLine, Sarah Palin is now being called Xena, the Warrior Princess. An Obama official admits that Palin has stirred the pot.
In the face of Palin's onslaught, Obama has continued to base his campaign on the outdated claim that John McCain and his running mate represent four more years of a failed Bush administration.

A senior Obama adviser said candidly that claim did not work. “I don’t think it’s sticking. The McCain campaign has stolen our message of ‘change’ - the very thing we’ve been campaigning on for 20 months. Well, who’s the change? It’s McCain.”

Palin’s astounding rise has left the Obama camp floundering for a new narrative that will capture the imagination of voters in the run-up to the November 4 election. “There is overreaction and panic,” the official admitted. “The hard part for Barack is she’s stolen his thunder a bit. It has knocked us off our game.”
With the Obama train being sidetracked by the Palin nomination, a new Democrat strategy was created which, right now, seems to be something akin to sending blowflies to search for stinking carcasses in Palin's past.

Meanwhile, the Democrat mainstream media department is pushing the "Palin's lack of experience" theme which I think is a non-starter. A tale of the tape shows the warrior princess has held positions of more responsibility and more authority than Obama ever has.

However, having the media and the Obama campaign stressing out over Sarah Palin is arguably illogical. Obama is running against John McCain last I heard.

Nevertheless, I expect that the Democrats will be throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, at the McCain-Palin ticket. It'll be messy. And let's not forget the customary Democrat October surprise. I've already heard one rumor regarding McCain that is apparently being scheduled as a bombshell mere days before the election.


[Update]

Not the kitchen sink but it's close. This too.

The Dems have blown past mudslinging to creating stuff out of thin air.

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