RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick takes note of the popularity of the McCain-Palin team and the ugly attacks emanating from Obama's camp... excerpt below.
"Two days ago, "a massive crowd of about 23,000" (CBS News) showed up to welcome Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin to Virginia.
It was the first time they have visited the Commonwealth as a team, and it was the largest non-convention crowd for any Presidential campaign this year (yes, more than any crowd Obama has attracted).
Clearly, Virginians are energized about the McCalin/Palin ticket and ready to elect them to the White House.Yet, the other side is fighting back.
At this week's rally, former Senator Fred Thompson said: "Gov. Palin is the most remarkable success story in the history of American politics," but she is now "undergoing the most vicious assault that anyone has ever seen in public life."
Why?
Because two weeks ago, Senator Obama and his liberal allies in the media thought this race was over.
But they didn't expect a successful governor to arrive on the scene -- a bold female executive who took on the status quo in Alaska; a reformer; and a hockey mom who doesn't just talk the talk, but walks the walk. Someone who couldn't be further from Washington-as-usual.
And that sort of messed up Obama's "change" message. So, now he and his cronies are attacking Sarah Palin.
"Frankly, I think Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright was correct when he says [Obama is] just doing what politicians do," Thompson said at the rally this week. "That's not the kind of change this country needs."
I agree.
We need real mavericks, real reformers, with real records of success -- not all this talk of empty change from someone who thinks running for president is somehow qualification for being president.
The Obama campaign is worried and desperate, but they are also organized, energized, and well funded here in Virginia. They are willing to stop at nothing to take down John McCain and Sarah Palin. And you can bet that whatever they use will be trumpeted by their friends in the liberal media."
Jeff Frederick
Chairman, Republican Party of Virginia
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