Begin
Part 1:
Her family, her small-town-ness, her record of reform(?)
Part 2:
On the attack:
-Mocks Obama for being a "community organizer" (x 2)
-Bogeyman of big government/excessive spending mentioned (x 4)
-Washington/media elites bashed (x 3)
-Bashing Obama's campaign branding or stagecraft (x 3)
-Bashing Hollywood (x 1)
-Obama will raise your taxes (x 9)
-Attack on Obama the "author" (x 1)
-Obama = a surrender monkey/weak on terror/un-American (x 4)
-Obama condescends to real "small town people" (x 3)
Policy:
-Drill for more oil (x 3)
-Small town people are better than everyone else (x 5)
-Government/Washington needs to be "reformed" (x 4)
-She is a real, small town American (x 2)
-She opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (x 1) - inaccurate
Part 3:
John McCain is a POW war hero, so you must vote for him
The End
So, like campaigns of the past, this is about the small town/big city divide, big government, and higher taxes. It's about how the Democratic candidate is weak on national defense. It's the same playbook as 1972, the same as 1980, and the same as 2004. The sole new issue is oil and how we should drill for it in every last corner of the earth. The other issues she mentioned were vague notions of government reform (that is, government destruction) and the "war on terror". It feels like an amalgam of 2000 and 2004. McCain has been swallowed by the Bush base. He's no m-word, he's a pandering hypocrite with a smug, ignorant, and classless VP. But can they repeat Bush's success, or will Palin take the ticket down? I'm still leaning toward an Eagleton.
