Because she can field dress a moose

He may not know Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from a hill of beans, but all former Senator Fred Thompson needs to know he read from the teleprompter last night, including a new talking point: she can field dress a moose - a rare talent for tough times.

Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Gov. Sarah Palin is.

She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.

Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the union -- and won -- over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.

Let's be clear ... the selection of Gov. Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.

Sound like anyone else we know?

She has run a municipality and she has run a state.

And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose ... with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.

More from Nashville area blogs:

• the torch passed tonight - mushin no shin
  One of the things I’ve kept with me are words from my dad — who politically, as essentially a moderate Lamar! / Bredesen supporter is certainly the quintessential Tennessee swing voter, if not representative of large swaths of the American populace — well, he always told me that what made Ronald Reagan great was his ability to connect with the American people, to inspire them, and to motivate them to once again believe in their ability to create an America that makes us all proud, in a time when America needed hope above all else. Clearly, we are at such a moment, and we have such a candidate. This time around, he’s a Democrat.




• Things I Learned Today - Silence Isn't Golden
  7. I was vetted more thoroughly by Wash U Law than Sarah Palin was by John McCain.




• Country First? But Which Country? - Enclave
  How ironic that the GOP spent its first whipping post party reinforcing "Country First," when their presumptive VP nominee, Sarah Palin has some checkered affinities with an Alaskan separatist organization trying to gain independence for "The Land of the Midnight Sun":




• Twice as Nice in the Twin Cities - Bill Hobbs
  Fred Thompson's speaking at the convention as I write this... and sounding great.




• McCain’s decision making on display - Palin vetting process took one day - TennesseeFree
  The Washington Post reports that Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate. You would think such a decision would require a lengthy process, an examination of all the prospective positives and negatives.




• Quayle-izing or Bush-izing Sarah Palin - Crone Speaks
  The fact of the matter is, Sarah Palin is an extremist right-wing hack that does not belong in any position that determines people’s lives — including governor.




• Palin Sexism Watch: Right-wingers Appalled at the Sexism (Video & Links) - Tennessee Guerilla Women
  In the year 2008, pigs fly. If this keeps up, misogyny may one day be as much of a societal taboo as racism certainly is. I don;t expect to live to see that day, but I do intend to work for it.




• The "Feeding Frenzy" - Sean Braisted
  For 6 months now the GOP has been hemming and hawing about how unqualified Barack Obama is, how he gives a good speech but there is no substance behind him, how he's untested and unready.