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The Palin Threat: Real Change

By Jeffrey Lord on 9.4.08 @ 12:08AM

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Why? Because Sarah Palin is a threat. A serious threat. She is the very embodiment of fundamental change. If she had the guts to take on the old boy network in Alaska she clearly will be unafraid to do the same in Washington. And every liberal interest group in town and their allies around the country and the blogosphere know it, so they are rallying to do their damnedest to destroy this woman, her family and everything she represents. They simply cannot afford to have real change.

But to use McCain's terminology from his announcement speech of his pick the other day, Governor Palin has thrilled a lot of people in these parts. It's not simply because she's a woman, either.

It's because she's the very embodiment of a profound and powerful change. Unlike Obama and Biden, she quite demonstrably means business. Unlike them, she has, as did Margaret Thatcher, what our Spanish friends refer to as "cojones."

That simple fact will make her a star -- and quite possibly Vice President.

Bring it on.

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania.

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