Palin takes advantage of the hand wringers

Via GateWayPundit, this is just damned cool:

On Sunday the left went bonkers after they discovered that the TelePrompter-less former Governor Sarah Palin wrote notes on the palm of her left hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus on her brilliant speech knocking the Obama Administration’s horrid record on economics and national defense.

Today Sarah fired back…

In case you can't tell, she wrote "Hi Mom" on her hand...

The gal's got chutzpah... and you know the haters are gonna be hatin' her all the more...

Heh...

Crossposted(*)

Comments

[chuck aka xtnyoda]

There is the scriptural application:
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.
(Job 3:25 HCSB)
Fear attracts the thing feared... sort of like if one fears the dog... the dog senses the fear and responds in kind.

In this case the dog is a pit bull wearing lip stick.

The MSM's and the "left's" fear of Palin is bordering on abject paranoia and hysteria... seems they are starting to have dreams and hear voices of Palin in the night?

What they can't seem to realize is that every time they run these kind of articles they are making Palin stronger.

Funny.

[Dan Gill]

I saw one of the articles. It's ridiculous comparing a prepared speech on a TelePrompTer to a few ouline notes, whether on ones palm, or written on paper. It is truly sad how the MSM obviously hates her and scratches and claws to find the least little thing to criticize.

[Locutisprime]

I guess I will be alone in my opinion on this one, but IMO? This was something that was very sophomoric and a un-needed distraction for Palin.

Notes vs. Teleprompters? Apples and oranges IMO. Everyone uses notes. Except for Bill Clinton. So calling hypocrisy against Palin for using notes compared to Obama who address school kids from his teleprompter is BS IMO.

The problem is...she wrote the notes on her hand and then referred to them during a basic Q&A during a friendly interview.

As a politician on a national level? You have to have your talking points committed to memory. You can't write them on your hand or pin them to the inside of your jacket.

Just doesn't work. It looks bad. And in a world of perceptions and media crafted personality?

A really stupid move on Palin's part if you ask me.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Perhaps. But then again, you have to figure in these things really don't have any influence on people's ideas like we all keep pretending. Most people have their minds made up one way or the other.

Is Sarah Palin an exception to that? Puh-LEEZE. If ever there was a public figure who's missing a "middle ground," she's the guy, definitely.

Except maybe for Obama. Whoever answers "not sure" in a poll about Palin, or Obama, is either a vegetable or someone who really didn't feel like talking to a pollster...probably both. Remember when Holy Man lost His place on the teleprompter during the "It, uh, it will cost, uh..." speech? Number of people who thought He was a genius up to that point, and then based on the new evidence, changed their minds: I could probably count 'em on one hand.

People of all stripes, just generally aren't that fact-based. They're emotion-based and tribe-based. It's sad but it's true. Whoever "decided" just now that Palin's a dimwit, has been thinking that, with very few exceptions, since August of 2008. This was a calculated move and the calculations are probably better thought out than you expect.

[oldwolves]

"Just doesn't work. It looks bad. And in a world of perceptions and media crafted personality?
A really stupid move on Palin's part if you ask me. "

Stupid as in, being real? Stupid as in being honest?
Apparently some people here prefer false images over truth. I think your looking for Huffington post, two doors down.