If Sarah Palin's not running for president, what a terrible waste that would be of the single best stump speech I've heard since, well, Palin's '08 convention speech, which just happened to be the single most electrifying political moment of my adult life. A thrill didn't just run up my leg that night, it ran up everything in me that's American, and today in Madison, WI, it happened again. Surrounded by an obnoxiously hostile, astro-turfed, pro-union crowd that tried and failed to drown out her message with obnoxiously hostile astro-turfed noise, the former Alaskan Governor took the fight directly to the growing pile of Obama's failures in the most effective way we've heard yet from a potential GOP challenger.
You see what else she did there? Exactly what she did as a reform-minded governor in Alaska. She called the GOP Establishment out for everything they're doing wrong, appealed to reasonable rank-and-file union members disgusted by their leadership, and reaffirmed her own proud union credentials. Better yet, she also launched the kind of tight, sharp, and articulate attack on President Obama's failed presidency that likely has the White House — and their media allies — loosening their ties, clearing their throats, and looking for any word she might have mispronounced as an excuse to drown out her appealing message
Who knows how the MSM will try to spin this speech into a negative, but we all know they will. However, that's the beauty of the Internet age. Today the corrupt media has no say in the matter. We as citizen journalists and activists can spread the word unfiltered through Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media. Please do.