Palin energises U.S. Republicans
U.S. Republican presidential nominee John McCain has a new attack dog. Her name is Sarah Palin, and she bites hard.
Brown says judge me on my recordPalin's mocking critique of Democrat Barack Obama and the Washington elite charged up Republicans looking for signs of hope that she and McCain can win the White House on November 4.
Now it is McCain's turn. The Arizona senator will deliver a televised address on Thursday night accepting the Republican nomination for president.
Palin, 44, Alaska's governor and McCain's vice presidential running mate, drew shouts of "Sarah, Sarah" on Wednesday in her national political debut, unleashing red-meat rhetoric against Obama that had been largely lacking from this four-day event.
She cheerfully shot down criticism from Obama that her experience as governor and ex-mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska, did not match his own as leader of a large presidential campaign.
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," she said in a swipe at Obama's own early career in Chicago.
Democrats argue that McCain, by picking the relatively untested and unknown Palin, had ceded his argument that Obama was too inexperienced to be president.
Palin also found Obama's lofty style of rhetoric wanting and devoid of details of where he would take the country if elected although she offered few policy specifics of her own.
"Listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the (Illinois) state senate... What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet?" she asked.
She resurrected Obama's comment from his primary battle with Democrat Hillary Clinton that people in small towns are bitter and cling to guns and religion.
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