Sep 29 2008
With Sarah Palin, It’s all about JOY - Message to the McCain campaign
New wine needs new wineskins
It’s urgently time to remember what it was that swept America off their feet when they first met Sarah. What above everything else was it that represented her great attraction?
Suddenly the answer stirred deep inside me: that great attraction is Sarah’s infectious JOY that just gushes out of her everywhere she goes.
This is what distinguishes here from almost every other politician today, and what so deeply touched the heart of America and draws people.
That and her endearing feistiness that enabled her to put down the old-boy network in Alaska with a smile.
Unfortunately, the intense, unprecedented hatred and calumny that she evoked has produced a spirit of fear in the McCain team - and their infecting her with a terror of making mistakes is the classic recipe for disaster, making her tight and causing her to question her competence and ability, eating away at her self confidence.
We’re seeing the signs of impending collapse - this needs to change now or we will have destroyed a key player for this election and for to our party’s future.
In the McCain in the end has to make the sale; he’s the candidate for President.
However, Sarah has been given an incredible opportunity in this campaign, one that is almost unique in the annals of presidential politics.
Specifically, what Sarah’s calling in this campaign is and will be is to open up hearts of American to give McCain a fair listen, which they weren’t open to before Sarah came on the scene. She can turn the hearts of people who otherwise would never have considered voting for a Republican, for someone like John McCain, and gain him an audience.
This is the jewel you got with her; that’s what you got to go with.
And to do that, you have to let her be her own maverick - and that means that she isn’t always going to echo McCain - indeed for her to be on a tight leash would be false to Sarah’s character.
And what will destroy Sarah in the eyes of the American people will be if they perceive her as false.
And destroy her not just this election, but forever. And that is a loss that our nation cannot afford.
4 Responses to “With Sarah Palin, It’s all about JOY - Message to the McCain campaign”
Civil Truth,
First, let me thank you for letting me know about this post. I’m not up to making complete blog rounds these days and could well have missed this important information you have here.
I hope and pray that Palin doesn’t become discouraged. I know that the attacks must be rough on her. But if I assess her correctly, she is up to the challenge of idiots who attack her because they see that she may indeed be the hope of the Republican Party at a time when many true Republicans had despaired of the Party itself.
I did send Governor Palin a letter of encouragement last week. I hope that my letter reached her!
CT–spot on!
McCain needs to let Palin be Palin.
I have to say that I have not heard very much positive news about her qualifications.
Nikki, if you haven’t heard much about her qualifications then it’s because your media sources are tainted, and you’re too lazy to make an effort.