Quote:
Originally Posted by roachboy
someone is saying that sarah palin "hit the ball out of the park" and that "everyone should rent mr. smith goes to washington" because "palin is a female jimmy stewart" so therefore...
|
I think this is just what they are aiming for... it isn't too dissimilar from what they did with Bush. They positioned him as a down home good ole boy. Sarah is the female equivalent (only she may be the real thing).
I think it is useless to mock her for her "plain speech" and mispronunciations. It is just this that give her an appeal to the middle class. She is "just like them." She asks the same questions. She has the same accent. She has the same hairstyle.
If George Bush was a guy that people would like to have a beer with then Sarah Palin is a woman that people would like to go to a cook out with...
The positioning is quite smart on the part of McCain's strategists.