...right-wing hypocrisy? Hypocrisy has always been the exclusive property of the loony libs. Still waiting for a cogent answer, Godot.

Lots of pubs have convictions. What was Palin charged with?

38 pages of comments,,,,380 +/- posts ….not a single structured paragraph or even sentence….380 identical statements masquerading as thoughts. THIS is the gift Senator Obama has given us. After a year of being called every vile, repugnant, pejorative imaginable; “Stinking racist” not even making the top ten, I surrender. I tried to be but a single voice in the dialogue, I pointed out things that now are so painfully evident, but it seems “the organizer” organized the “movement” a little too well.

This is just horrible, Kafkaesque even. After all I’ve seen in my life, nothing even comes close to watching what the Party of Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, et al has, and is, doing to itself. Every parody spewed out by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, turned out not to be parodies at all.

The best understudy ever, was right there for all to see, ready, willing, and oh so able to jump into the cockpit and finish the job the first President Clinton had begun. But the Organizer had a better idea; beat this fine, wonderful woman to within an inch of her life.(metaphorically speaking of course) He would have finished the job of course, like he tried to do with Bill and his legacy, but the Editor of The Law Review, running as meticulous a campaign as there ever was, kept her around for the most important job of all…..who to blame when it all comes down, crashing and burning into a fiery inferno.

Jesus, this sucks.

Since when is wealth redistribution by the Democrats right-wing hypocrisy?

It's not.

Vote-buying with oil company revenues is wealth redistribution by Republicans, or, more specifically, Palin.

No hypocrisy there, eh wingnut?

My apologies to the few, but wonderful, contributors who also did their best to shine a light in this darkness. I certainly didn't mean to imply I was the only one. Chalk it up to "poetic license."

Why is a windfall profits tax good enough for people in Alaska, but not good enough for the rest of the country?

Is there any good reason why Deficits Dubya can't use some of those proceeds to make up for his fiscal irresponsibility?

Just making them look and sound like an appealing package.

Don't get fooled again.

The Republicans have completely omitted their responsiblity from their convention how it was their ideas - their policies - their politics - Republican power - that got us into this mess we're in. Talk about "Personal Responsiblity!"

For Sarah it was reform only when it was convenient for her career - it's not been about the people - but about what was good for her career. She comes off as the corruption fighter. But Republican policies are the same old policies that benefit the rich and fail the rest of the American people - Alaska is small time politics. Leaving us a broken country due to an imbalance of wealth.

She's for teaching creationism in schoools, and doesn't think global warming is at all man-made.

Now that's scary!

Please save us from more of the same the Dark Ages.

Please don't just believe what you hear - The Republicans think if they repeat and assert things enough times - people will believe it.

George Bush should have taught us too darkly and painfully - that saying it doesn't make it true.

An angrier, pissier less smart version of her? Either that or a rabid chipmunk (especially with the priceless pics I see of her in my local paper ... all fired up with nowhere to go).

With apologies to Ms. Tina (for the unfortunate resemblance).

Regular readers of your posts, of which I have the honor to be one, know that you favor Hillary. But I'm not sure where you get the 'we're more doomed today than we were yesterday' vibe.

So the Republicans found somebody with more charisma than Mitt Romney who wasn't Huckabee. She fired up the base. This is their convention, their glory moment. But there's more to winning than that, especially in a cycle with shrinking republican registration and growing democratic and independent registration. The Republicans were always going to beat the crap out of the democratic candidate. Don't you think we should wait a few more days to see how Obama and Biden respond and what the polls say?

Palin didn't write her speech. She just read it off a teleprompter. It was written by Matthew Scully who also scripted Dan Quayle.

And again, she didn't read it very well. It was a stiff halting performance in which it was clear she was reading off a teleprompter the whole time.

The cheering seems to have distracted commentators from the content.

No, sir. You are mistaken. After Obama loses the Dems will regain their senses and realize that it was he -- with the help of Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" -- that sabotaged this election. And he will be sent back to Chicago, where he belongs. Bill and Hillary will pick up the pieces of the Party and we will be ready for 2012. The Democrats will still control the House and Senate, McCain will not run for a second term and it will be an open election once again. We'll just need to wait four more years.

Always benefitting the rich leads to an imbalance of power and wealth, selfishness and greed, and like we are now - a broken country.

An imbalance that breaks...

It's not really country first, it's me first.

Me, Me, Me, freedom for me! I can do whatever I want! Screw everybody else!

As I said on my post on Open Salon, Sarah Palin is one mean girl. She's the type of girl I stayed away from in middle school.

Joan said so nicely,

"Palin shook off the victim mantle by coming out swinging, first blasting "the pollsters and the pundits" for writing off McCain last year, then tearing into Barack Obama with glee, teeth bared like a Rudy Giuliani in heels".

The only different between Sarah Palin and a pit bull is the lipstick?

She needs to apologize to all pit bulls of the world immediately.