between a Pit Bull and a Hockey mom? Hockey Mom's tuck their babies into bed at night. Pit Bulls shit on your lawn and dare you to do something about it.

If you'll notice the pivot point in Sarah Palin's speech from the personal to the political was Harry Truman. Lucky for her it hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. Really, Sarah? You want to be comparing yourself to a vice presidential pick who assumed the presidency before the elected president was even half-way into his new term?

We loved it!

After listening to that angry Keith whats-his-name over at MSNBC with the snarling, hateful, vicious stuff that he spews forth----this woman was a sweet lamb.

BTW> Peggy Noonan's column yesterday addressed the open mic and she explained what she meant when she said the words, "It's over." (She was NOT referring to McCain's campaign--go find it and read it for yourself).

If Noonan thinks Palin is a political BS ploy, then she has been part of the elite group long enough to get herself tainted. I remember when Peggy was a callow little Catholic girl who would have embraced someone like Sarah Palin---who is a breath of fresh air for the rest of us who are sick of the real BS we have to deal with every time we turn on the newsand listen to the utter hypocrisy of the Left.

I wonder why we never hear liberals complaining about the "conservative main stream media"? Maybe because it doesn't exist. If they get a chance to reactivate the Fairness Doctrine does that mean Keith et al will be forced to give air time to Rush et al?

I do not listen to any talk radio shows but I know Unfairness when I see it and the Fairness Doctrine is anything but fair.

Delivering the mendacious bile with that flat, Tracey Flickish sneer may have grated on my ears, but it was surely honey-sweet to the hard-right, we're-not-all-white conventioneers in attendance at St. Paul.

The convention is the final reinvention of John McCain, a man I once greatly admired and who now has completely surrendered his campaign to the hard-right wackos. The maverick is now the sellout. Can't beat 'em? Then, join 'em. He's even brought Tucker Eskew onboard to coach Palin, the very same Tucker Eskew directly responsible for the smears against McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary. Remember the push-polling that insinuated McCain fathered an illegitimage black baby? Yup, *that* Tucker Eskew.

So we find ourselves in a time-warp, back to 1992 and the culture wars. The big question: will that same old paranoid, fear-mongering, hate-peddling, wedge-driving, old-school divide-and-conquer work yet again on the amorphous middle, those independents whose votes will decide this election? Even now, when the issues are large and pressing, will we be consumed by smallness and small-mindedness?

When she left Warsilla, she left them in 22 million dollar debt.

Yep, that's a pub. Compare this with Bush, who's going for yet another record-breaking deficit himself. She's more of the same.

Pubs really hate it when you bring up facts. Makes 'em defensive.

If Joan Walsh thinks that Obama was "savaged", she must not read the letters from Salon's readers. Walsh really, really needs to get out more.

I noticed how after the speech the press groveled and purred over Palin without bothering to find out how people not the gop base felt.

I read comments on many sites from Indies and listened to call in on Cspan.

It seems she greatly offended the indies. The only ones who liked her speech were the base and the press that the McCain camp spent yesterday bullying around.

It was a disaster for McCain as far as independents went. Instead of Hillaryites and fence sitters falling for it they were upset and said there was zero substance and she did not answer the questions of why she should be vp or anything on the issues.

I think the press and the gop think it's still 2000 or 04. That this stuff is still selling.

People are hurting and demand more then just culture wars. They want substance and the gop is not providing it and Palin was roundly panned.

While Ms. Pitbull run-amock is distracting, the Bush administration is busy passing every corrupt executive order that he can. He has stolen all of the powers from the National Guard; Ms.Pitbull did not see that coming. Plus, Cheney is saber rattling with Russia and Iran, and North Korea is firing up their nuclear program, and our troops entered Pakistan, and Pakistan is furious, yet Ms. Pitbull is dawing her lipstick and sputtering out hateful, devisive, and vengeful words while "The Band Played On!"

I intend to vote for Obama in November, but quite honestly the letter here contain so many unfair and/or unfounded attacks on Palin, that I half wish she was on the Obama ticket rather than Biden.

For example, she increased the long term debt of Wasilla, but much of that constitutes (what amounts to) a mortgage on a large sports complex that serves the people, especially the youth, of Wasilla.

Correct me if I am wrong, but nearly all major facilities and capital expenditures in the US, such as hospitals, libraries, courthouses etc. are financed in this way over the long term, rather than paid for by cash out the the current year's revenues.

Personal incomes in Alaska are higher than in the lower 48, so this project hardly seems to represent an intolerable burden on the people of Wasilla.

Similarly, there is little evidence that she is gung-ho on abstinence-only sex education in public schools, or that she prevented her daughter from accessing information on, or obtaining birth control.

So she favors more drilling for oil in Alaska? Well do I, because I intend to buy a new car soon and hope it will last the ten years until President Obama has eliminated the use of oil and I can get me a nuclear-powered golf cart to get around in.

So she wants to ban bad books? Not good, but hardly anyone reads anything in the US these days except for Harry Potter books.

Is she fit to be the next-but-one President of the US? Hell, no! But let's stick to real reasons why she would be a hopeless President-in-waiting, like her lack of experience of foreign affairs.

And another thing. I am not so sure Biden will give her a pasting in the debates. Biden is a windbag who thinks he is much smarter than he really is, and often comes across as incredibly condescending. I would not be surprised if he gets egg on his face.