Pundits are all about spin. That's what most of them are paid to do. And this little bit of unintentional honesty shows just how deep the spin runs. They are nothing but highly paid shills who should be shunned and ignored.

This is the best RNC ever.

Ok, let me ask this question from a different angle. Why is the choice of Sarah Palin worse than Tim Pawlenty?

Wait, wait, don't tell me. It'll come to me...

With this outtake, does this mean I can be spared from listening to Mike Murphy pontificate on TV--at least for a little while?

I've heard Democrats sound as tortured this year in defending their cases. Remember the gentleman from Texas who got nailed by Chris Matthews for his support of Obama despite not being able to name a single thing that Obama actually did?

Murphy struck me as a partisan of the same stripe, just of a different party.

MM 0:21: ...Uhm, y'know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world, Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, ....and these guys,... this is all this race, just run it up...it's not gonna work

PN 0:37: "It's over..."

CT (?) 0:52: "..is she really the most qualified woman...?"

PN 0:55: "The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives. Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and that's not what they're good at, they blow it."

MM: 1.08: "Y'know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatest of McCain is "no cynicism," and this is cynical...

CT 1:15: "and, as you called it, 'gimmicky'..."

MM 1:18: "yeah..."

CT "thanks, guys..."

PRICELESS

...why doesn't McCain simply nominate a saucepan for VP? After all, a saucepan has no less executive experience than Obama, Biden, and McCain put together?

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

"I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit"

This was really nice to see when I got home from work, I did not even need a Hershey Bar.

Murphy helped McCain lose his first campaign and Noonan hasn't done anything notable since Reagan.

I can see why this would be hard for them.

to "kill her quick."

First thrust to the lady with the poisoned pen, and the running mouth!

The real "executive experience" that Obama displays EVERY DAY, and the kind of "executive experience" that you GOP toadies so fear is his proven ability to organize, oversee, and conduct a campaign that has accomplished the unthinkable: A perceived black man with a better than even chance of winning the White House.

Compare that with Palin's "executive experience" of signing off on the hiring of a new groundskeeper for the city park in Podunk, AK.

Oh my fucking christ in a gravy boat.

It just gets better and better.

This is like one of those movies where the big bad phony politician gets exposed by the clever twelve-year-olds and the last ten minutes is all the bad guys getting humiliated again and again and again.

Cue the hero's lovable mutt dog, who comes onto the stage and pees on the villain's leg.

Peggy Noonan is sexist.

Where did all of ya go? Come back and give us your thoughts on recent events.

is that while she's saying this, the WSJ is running her column describing Palin, and the campaign's choice of her, in glowing pastoral phrases usually reserved for Cuban boys and dolphins. Stay classy, Peggy!

Having just read Noonan's column, I note she's adapted the tried and true line applied to George W. Bush, "this is a guy you'd want to have a beer with." Now we have "she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough" (which, I guess, is something like "Ford Tough"). There we have it! "This is a woman you'd like to have a mooseburger with." Too bad that will sound revolting to many voters on numerous levels.

After expressing my delight with this, I still have a question. What does he mean by 'run it up?'

And they would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those darn kids!

Man, this is the political equivalent of an B-grade action flick. Part of me thinks I should feel guilty about enjoying the explosions and car-crashes so much, but I'm just having too damned much fun to care.

This latest episode of the Jerry Springer sho...excuse me...Republican National Convention is--to use a term McCain should appreciate--such a target-rich environment. Hell, the Democrats don't even have to take the shots. McCain's appalling Palin appeasement to the knuckledragging wing of the Republican Party is going to blow up in the faces of Schmidt, McCain, and the rest of this cynical lost patrol.

Noonan's off-camera honesty only points out the obvious. What other misfires await??

Someone needs to make a You Tube video contrasting what these two said in public and in print with what they're saying here. I'm sure there's someone working on it right now.

The reason why Tim Pawlenty would've been a better pick is that he's been governor of Minnesota since 2003. Palin has been governor of Alaska for 20 months. Pawlenty was a five-term member of the MN House of Representatives. Palin was mayor of a town of about 1500 for one term. Pawlenty served as House Majority Leader. Pawlenty has some experience with foriegn relations, having worked with Mexican President Fox, and having led Minnesota delegations to the Czech Republic. Palin is head of the Alaska National Guard.

Again, I am not dismissive of your anger over how the media treated Clinton, but if you insinuate that there is gender bias in pointing out that Palin is unqualified, you do yourself, Senator Clinton, and the cause of feminism a disservice.

I used to live in NYC, and once was lambasted by several of my fellow African-Americans because I deigned to say that, should Al Sharpton enter the mayoral race against Giuliani, and receive the Democratic nomination, I would vote for a third-party candidate. I have too much self-respect, and pride in my race, to blindly support any candidate who happens to share it. You undermine your own very valid argument about how women are taken for granted by the Democratic Party when you impose identity politics upon every situation. I see my own people do that, and I hate it, and I would hate to see you do the same.