i can’t keep up with the facebook messages, text mesages and emails that i keep receiving from my liberal friends. their messages aren’t the typical partisan banter that i usually get….their screaming and indignation has reached a level that i haven’t seen in my lifetime.

my journalists friends have also reached a new high with their inability to keep their outrage from showing. i’ve exchanged phone calls or emails over the last 24 hours with reporters from cnn, abc, cbs, ap, the new york times, the la times, the washington post, politico and several bloggers and in every instance the reporter is annoyed with the selection of palin for vice president.

the liberal and media frenzy that i am experiencing comforts me. my political experience tells me that we are on to something. we aren’t there yet but we have totally struck a powerful nerve. liberals and their media friends can’t believe we did what we just did. palin has completely overturned the east coast expectation game. it is a typical move by the maverick mccain of 2000 and it has given great excitement to the convention.

the messages from the liberals prove that they are really upset with the selection of palin mainly because they weren’t the ones to actually put a woman on the ticket this year. their outrage stems from their belief that they “own women” and they are the only heir to female issues….their screams echo forth as if to say “women aren’t republicans”. it is the same miscalculation and elitist attitude the liberals have about black people and gays. but while the liberals play their same-game with women, palin has the opportunity to shift the democratic paradigm the same way that reagan did with blue collar voters.

in 2008, women can’t be taken for granted. palin has a chance to show american women that conservatives can CHOOSE to run a family and a state. she is a sitting governor that upset the political crowd in alaska just 2 years ago. she is an experienced reformer – you just haven’t heard of her. but that says more about you than her.

the media hyperventilating continues as well. their outrage is not only based in their hope for an obama presidency but in the fact that mccain didn’t play their game. the one word that i hear from all reporters about the mccain selection is “vetting”. journalists’ egos prohibit them from seeing that they aren’t part of the vetting process – we don’t think that you have to sit down with tom brokaw several times before you are ready….you don’t have to go toe to toe with the new york times to be prepared. journalists have an important role to communicate candidates’ positions and ask tough questions about those positions but we don’t need their collective sign off. besides, doesn’t “change” mean new?

i am amazed with the number of cnn commentators that have actually pointed to obama’s “vetting” as his 20 month campaign with them. this is more about the media’s lack of connections to palin than her qualifications. the group think that the media is doing on palin’s selection is sad. the smear attacks and lazy reporting has turned gossip media into cnn specials. joy behar on the view was barley able to speak she was so flustered that there was a female politician that wasn’t a democrat that she hadn’t heard of….and the US Weekly stories are so outrageous that someone should start a boycott of janice minn and jann wenner’s rag. palin isn’t the wife of a former president (i.e. hillary) or the daughter of a politician (i.e. pelosi), she arrived on this stage because of her own hard work.

the backlash against the media for their treatment of palin will come. i am already getting messages from independents and apolitical female friends outraged at how she is being treated. i can’t wait to hear her speech tonight……