OBAMANIA

THE DAILY KEENE 

Okay, I meant “Daily” in the sense of prepared during the daytime, not that I was going to actually produce one of these rants every day.

Yes, that was my daughter cavorting in Times Square Tuesday night, her face and arms covered with Obama stickers and tattoos, gracing the CNN screen.

I thought Sarah Palin was an inspired choice- for giving the keynote speech at the Republican Convention. She can rally and energize a crowd, and is a great campaigner.  I’m not sure what she was doing in the substantive vice-presidential role channeling Dan Quayle. McCain was in need of a Hail Mary, and Sarah was it.

The comparisons between the Barack Obama of four years ago and the Sarah Palin of today are striking. McCain’s choice of her was the equivalent of John Kerry deciding to select Obama as his running mate in 2004. A great convention speech only goes so far.

McCain himself has never appealed to the party base. His biggest bump in the polls by far occurred when he selected Palin and she wowed the convention.

John McCain was taught an important lesson in this campaign. The Washington-New York media will fawn all over you when you challenge George Bush and/or the Republican establishment. Once you become the candidate of that same establishment, however, you are very much expendable.

Now that the election is over, the Democrats have a green light to tax and dismantle 401K’s, increase the tax on capital gains, and allow the estate tax to spring back to life.  ACORN will take over the role of the League of Women Voters.

Image has won out over substance. Let the Cult of Obama begin.