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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Mother of the year, maybe. But VP of a whole nation? No thanks. It takes much more to lead a nation in today's complex world, than someone who can take care of a large family and runs a large town.
Isn't that two for two now for McCain and the beauty queens?
There's a culture divide between evangelicals and traditional Christians in a lot of swing states. She's going to push the latter away from McCain.
I'm thinking about Buchanan in 92. Only with heels.
The beginning of the end for them, I'm thinking. They need to reach OUT to Independents, not rock the base.
I think there is a need for push back from the GOP noise machine. So much to say so little time.
It's hard to know what Obama can do to respond to Palin's really over the top attacks on him--did Palin go to law school? If not, it was pretty stupid for her to attack Obama on questions of writing legislation or anything remotely like his legal credentials.
His perfect pitch on her daughter now makes him look less poised and gracious and more like a bit of a ninny after Palin's non-stop personal attacks on him. Yet if he swings back, he'll look like he's hitting the darling of the right-wing, I mean mainstream, media, because she certainly charmed the socks off the male commentators on PBS... PBS what the hell has happened to this country?
I think it's time to let Biden loose and not be so naive as to think you can be completely "above it all" and still win. They should jump on the "victory in Iraq" moment. And if they say "we're not going negative," I'm going to scream.
I'm glad she came out swinging tonight and damaged the victim narrative. Joe Biden needn't worry about harming a self-proclaimed pit bull, and he's free now to have at it.
Gloves off all around.
I can't wait.
The whole night has been bitter, angry and frequently filled with incredibly ironic contradictions. I felt the entire feel of the speech was amateurish in it's delivery and tone. I'm surprised to read so many positive reactions to her from the media. It's insulting and sexist! Is the bar for her set so low because she's a neophyte, or because she's a woman?
Very disappointing. She's using this aw shucks hockey mom image as a way to deflect criticism. This is what people want of women in politics? She's a freaking stereotype, ready to bake cookies, and put on a little lip gloss to get her way with the good old boys!
McCain has a running mate that should set women back from this level of political achievement for decades.
I understand that the speech was written for her by the McCain campaign, and I have no reason to doubt it. And why would they drag that poor baby to this event?
Think Vladimir Putin is going to like being insulted and sneered at and spoken-down to when she's president? All this goes to show that Princess Caribou is an amateur, and has no business on the world stage.
She lied on her first national address after being confirmed as VP pick, she claimed she told congress that she wouldn't take the money for the bridge to nowhere, leaving unmentioned this happened more than a year before she was elected governor, and also that congress had already given the money to Alaska with no strings attached whatsoever. She lied because McCain lies and gets away with it, and has for years. She's continuing to lie, and as long as everyone focuses on other things she'll get away with her continual lying. That's what needs to be pointed out, her lying (or inconsistencies, if you want to be less honest about it, but more delicate).
--Ron
When Sarah Palin said:
"winning is survival, and defeat means death."
did she mean she'd kill herself?
This all or nothing approach epitomizes the Republican way. No hint of bi-partisanship.
Enough already. This is NOT country first, its party first.
Pain's speech was disgraceful, mean spirited and angry. It did nothing to convince me that the horrible eight years of Bush rule will be over if McCain took office. Her speech to nowhere will take us nowhere. Go Obama and Biden...
For her introduction to America, I believe she has over-played her hand. She came off as smug, sarcastic, nasty and mean-spirited. I don't think she will get very many votes for McCain. When people come to learn what she believes and how far she is away from what they believe, they will question. But, super-impose this ugly and nasty image she presented tonight, and people will be turned off.
by this point that McCain is a twit, and Palin is merely past tense. So much for abstinence education.
The community organizer isn't tough enough to be president. He's over.
and it's a nasty, mean, angry shade of blood red.
Of course we've heard the joke before, only the line went: what's the difference between a woman with PMS and a pitbull? Another version compares women lawyers to pitbulls.
Personally I'm sick of people whining about sexism every time Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin are criticized for something.
If the best that the Democrats and Republicans can do is a couple of thin skinned princesses then maybe it's best for American woman to wait for a candidate that won't hide behind a fragile gender shield.
American woman deserve better than to be represented by a precious prima donna.
I'm guessing little Trig was at least as drugged as dragged. And did I imagine it, or did Hubby Palin seem really, really awkward holding him? See, Sarah? We all can snark!
I was actually delighted by her speech. I was concerned that she might do well. I don't support McCain and Palin delivery was awful. I was reminded of my 5th grade teacher reading "Black Beauty" to our homeroom. Her head moved from her left to her right as if she was a "Hall of Presidents" animatron. Her cadence was difficult to follow. The 'read them their rights" business was weird. Was ther a Miranda Rights issue during the democratic primaries I missed? The end didn't build at all. Just a terrible performance.
While I want to consider myself above the standard distinction of republican or democrat, after tonight I know in my heart it would be impossible for me to vote for the GOP.
The awful thing was thinknng that McCain could win. Seeing some of the analysis that followed on CNN tht praised Palin's efforts, I worried that McCain;s recent attacks on the media may actually have an influence.
Did some idiot with the Obama campaign say that it was "shrill." There was a great deal of discussion about the word on CNN and I wondered.
We are so underserved by the MSM.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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