STUMBLING IN THE DARK - Just a Minute for Thursday 9/4/08

Howdy… it’s Thursday – almost to the end of the campaign marathon.

 

            It’s going to be a day out of sync because of the time that elapses between when the news happens and when I can get it through the system and on the air. So today’s JUST A MINUTE deals with the events leading up to the actual acceptance which comes on Thursday but won’t get on the air here till Friday.  Sorry… them’s just the realities of the thang.

 

            But I think you’ll get from the narrative I try to portray today and tomorrow the sense the ground beneath the race track has shifted over the last few days. Whereas the Republicans were sort of half-way pumped up – and campaign pros like Karl Rove said the gap would close before election day… the placing Governor Sarah Palin’s name in the race has effected a marvelous change in outlook.

 

            My take has been the GOP electorate (the base if you will) has been on a sort of “I’ll vote for him (McCain, but not enthusiastically.” And just about every body from ping-pong coaches on up know you don’t win the contest that way. So… down inside I felt rather depressed by the whole situation . But there has been a game-changing development by McCain picking Sarah Palin – the less than two year in office governor – as running mate. I really sense there’s a big change coming – possibly already here… the polls will tell (maybe). So I’ll give more observations tomorrow on the air and here on the blog. (I’m not sure anyone reads what I write here anyway.)

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

STUMBLING IN THE DARK 

Just A Minute – Last Friday our liberal Washington media got its plug pulled. ‘Maverick’ John McCain did the unthinkable and picked a ‘maverick’ Alaskan governor for his running mate. The reverberations ring from Minnesota across the nation.

The first opinions stories posted Wednesday on the Washington Post’s net blog were awash in crocodile tears about “poor John McCain.” It was pitiful -- and sickening. Amidst sounds of circling wagons, battening down the hatches and preparing to throw the Visigoths back across the moat – it’s liberal news media inside the Beltway, tazered and choking now on a huge swallowed panic button. They’ve gotten a glimpse of ominous signs of a conservative and angry tidal wave washing over Washington – which they can’t bear to let happen.

I’m not writing today about Sarah Palin’s speech – you’ve seen it or heard about it – and it’ll be hashed-over and re-minced for the next two months.  Fred Thompson, former Tennessee Senator returned first fire Tuesday night, so the game’s afoot. For the first time in a long time it’ll come down to principle over politics.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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