Thinking Right

By Kathy

September 3, 2008 11:32 PM | Link to this

She is a female Reagan! WOW! What a great speech!

By Q3

September 3, 2008 11:33 PM | Link to this

Jim….election just ended tonight…not November. Forget about the men in this election….this lady said it all. Get out of the way Hillary…there’s a new sheriff in town and her name is Sarah Palin.

By amused

September 3, 2008 11:37 PM | Link to this

She introduced her family and then ripped into Obama. They shouldn’t have given her the nasty stuff to say, she came off as a total b**.

By Bush go away

September 3, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this

Just when you thought Wooten couldn’t get any more shrill. “Hey Putin, better stand down; we got Sarah Barrcuda on our side now! And she played high school basketball.

And all around the world, bad guys wet their pants. I think I’ll buy stock in Depends.

By Bush go away

September 3, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this

Just when you thought Wooten couldn’t get any more shrill. “Hey Putin, better stand down; we got Sarah Barrcuda on our side now! And she played high school basketball.”

And all around the world, bad guys wet their pants. I think I’ll buy stock in Depends.

By Left Of Center

September 3, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

Come on, Jim. You are fawning all over the place for Sarah P. She teaches and wants to teach abstienance nationwide along with creationism, and her own daughter doesn’t mind Momma’s advice about absitenance. What great family values we have with the Palins. I’ll take Barack and Biden any day. Let’s face it, McCain could have picked Ronald McDonald fo rhis VP mate, and Wooten would have been all over it, just feeling the love of it all. Too bad, Jim. Biden is better!

By Bill

September 3, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

I has no idea what to expect. But I can tell you clearly what I am voting now…

By Clinton 2X

September 3, 2008 11:51 PM | Link to this

not a bad speech. hillary needs to be taking notes

By juan

September 3, 2008 11:58 PM | Link to this

Didn’t Dole lose in 1996? I’ll take that outcome.

Can she help McCain in IA, NM, or NV? They contain the 18 electoral votes Obama would need if he can hold the Kerry states.

Does she help with indepent voters? That is the Area JM really needs the help. Does she help JM electorally.

She probably was the best candidate to energize the base

Juan

By Georgia Gal

September 4, 2008 12:03 AM | Link to this

I watched and my reaction is WOW!!! I was not disappointed at all. My husband summed it up very well when he commented “She is stirring up a great big pitcher of lemonade”. I have to agree that she took all those lemons thrown at her since last Friday and served up an extremely tasy refreshment!!

By Forrest

September 4, 2008 12:04 AM | Link to this

All the commentators I’ve heard say she did great and will be dangerous to Obama. She will eat Biden’s lunch. As for the “nasty” stuff, give me a break, after what they have dished out to her this week what she said was mild.

By Kris in NC

September 4, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this

Hey Left of Center, I think after the 1st one, we got the point of your post but 4 more post of the same nonsense is a little over the top.

As the old saying goes, when you are pointing the finger at someone else, in this case at Sarah Palin and her family, you got 3 pointing back at you. Teen pregnancy is a big time problem in this nation.

Let’s focus on the issues and leave her family especially her daughter and unborn grandchild out of this election.

Obama and Biden got slammed by a woman who does have more experience in running a state and not some organization. Biden has been in the Senate, has he ever run a state, nope. Obama has never until 4 years ago, never done anything but sat in the state senate in Illinois, never ran a business. In fact, I do believe Obama has never served his country.

I know who I am voting for and it ain’t for Obama. Finally a woman who can handle herself with these two. Biden wants to fight Lieberman in the gym, let him try fighting Sarah, he would get his butt kicked for sure.

By Evil in EAV

September 4, 2008 12:10 AM | Link to this

Wow, Wooten is smitten judging from his last 3 or so columns.

By Ray

September 4, 2008 12:14 AM | Link to this

Home run, plain and simple. Ought to keep the libs quiet for awhile. Can’t wait for the Joe Biden debate. He’s going to get his a** kicked.

By Bush go away

September 4, 2008 12:23 AM | Link to this

Palin couldn’t hit a home run if you put her in a Little League park, gave her an aluminum bat, and access to Barry Bonds “nutritional supplements”.

Hell that was such a lightweight performance Biden won’t even have to plagarize anything for the debate.

By Loni

September 4, 2008 12:23 AM | Link to this

Wow….one pre-written speech and you’re already sold. Obama has been nothing but respectful to Palin and her family and this is how she responds. Typical…Obama gets blasted for great speeches…but when PTA Barbie comes to town all of a sudden speeches are a great thing. Most people have only heard of her for FIVE DAYS and already have her elected. Hypocrites (and probably a bit of desperate bigotry) abound.

By UnhappyRepublican

September 4, 2008 12:44 AM | Link to this

She sounded like a total idiot. Nothing substantial, just negative talk. Send her and her trailer park family back to Alaska. What an insult to more deserving Republican female nominees. McCain is a total sell out and desperate.

By UnhappyRepublican

September 4, 2008 12:45 AM | Link to this

She sounded like a total idiot. Nothing substantial, just negative talk. Send her and her trailer park family back to Alaska. What an insult to more deserving Republican female nominees. McCain is a total sell out and desperate.

By UnhappyRepublican

September 4, 2008 12:45 AM | Link to this

She sounded like a total idiot. Nothing substantial, just negative talk. Send her and her trailer park family back to Alaska. What an insult to more deserving Republican female nominees. McCain is a total sell out and desperate.

By DeanMorgan

September 4, 2008 12:47 AM | Link to this

You can tell all the democrat have their panties in a knot now. The funny thing is if Obama picked Hillary as vp he is the next President. As it is, he chose Biden and now he is going to lose the election. Obama’s camp used the Palin pick as a bad judgement call on McCain’s part, but obviously the worst judgement is Obama’s decision to not chose Hillary. What irony. There will end up being a woman this election and the White House after all and it isn’t Hillary Clinton. Instead it is going to be a lady named Sarah Palin.

By UnhappyRepublican

September 4, 2008 12:49 AM | Link to this

After 8 years of Bush, this is the best that we can offer? I’m so disappointed. There are so many more deserving Republican women, than this trailer park Alaskan. While the other side offers hope, we continue with more of the same rhetoric. I just wish we could offer something more. What a joke McCain has become.

By Obama the Man

September 4, 2008 12:51 AM | Link to this

Hey Loni….stop crying and just walk away with your tail between your legs…..your man obama cannot measure up to this woman….I bet you feel like a complete loser now…if not you should….sucker!! LOL

By Phil Davis

September 4, 2008 12:51 AM | Link to this

Are there ANY minorities in the Republic party? Is there ANY way this can possibly be good for our country? If we are divided we will fail.

By J

September 4, 2008 12:57 AM | Link to this

So much of what Palin said in her speech was patently false.

1- She left her her small town in the red and raised taxes 38%.

2- She was actually one of the sponsors of the “bridge to nowhere”

3- Obama’s tax plan lowers taxes for 83% of Americans while McCain’s lowers taxes for big oil. The opposite of what she claims.

It goes on and on. She is a prop and her only qualification is having put the previous governor’s jet up on Ebay - the man who helped the sportscaster get into politics in the first place.

I’d much prefer a Harvard educated expert on the Constitution with excellent judgement to this fakery.

McCain also has no “executive” experience. But he is a Washington insider who has voted with Bush on nearly everything.

I look forward to her debate with Biden.

By Keeping It Real

September 4, 2008 1:02 AM | Link to this

Okay the show is over for both parties and we can now get down to the task of selecting a president. I am glad Palin ripped into Obama. The gloves are off now and she cannot hide behind being a woman, her looks or her family values from now forward. Debates about her record with Mr. Stevens, Dick Chaney and earmarks will be coming out now, but it is too late to keep T Boone Pickens and some of the other zillionaires in Texas from making money from the energy project(compressed gas line) she was bragging about. She did make a good spin about energy, terrorism and more jobs in reference to the project.

Now we know why she was selected over more qualified women in the republican party. Its business as usual. Even a maverick like McCain can be bought when the stakes are high. Let’s see what other little tidbits will come up on the Alaskan frontier.

Let’s focus on whether the country is better off with a 72 year old Viet Nam POW with some issues or a Harvard Law grad with a belief that we all should share in the bounty that is America. I am voting for the man from Harvard because I do not believe that the 72 year man can wake up at 3:00 in the morning and know where he is. Bush was bad enough when he was fully awake. Whoever heard of an incumbent party President and a Vice President staying away from their own convention? Maybe they will show up tomorrow night.

By Phil Davis

September 4, 2008 1:11 AM | Link to this

Just to read the tone of these letters and posts tells me we have some serious problems in this country. Why are we so hateful to each other?

By GMAN

September 4, 2008 1:12 AM | Link to this

I just watched part of the 1st episode of “The Washington Hillbillies”. Now all they need is a catchy theme song…

Come and let me tell ya a story Bout a man name John Who couldn’t find his way From the bedroom to the john And then one day he searching for Veep And down from Alaska came a hockey mom creep…

Not bad huh?

Bush/McCain - Gambling with our children’s futures!

By Hannah

September 4, 2008 1:18 AM | Link to this

I espected no less from Palin. AWESOME! What a woman!

Thanks again, John McCain (I certainly underestimated YOU)!

By Mike Toreno

September 4, 2008 1:22 AM | Link to this

Wooten’s certainly whistling in the graveyard, isn’t he? We’ve been talking about her corruption, the fact that she ran a tiny town and a small state and grabbed every bit of pork she could get, the fact that she has no clue about any aspect of national policy. She’s the one that brought up her daughter’s pregnancy, the only questions we’re asking are, why did she veto assistance and housing to teen mothers. She’s the one that flew her daughter’s boyfriend out there.

She read a speech written by others, with a lame delivery, she recited lies in the speech that have already been disproven. But anyway, Wooten doesn’t believe any of what he said, because he keeps saying it over and over. If you have confidence in what you’re saying, you say it once.

By Christopher Calandro

September 4, 2008 1:28 AM | Link to this

Unhappy Republican?

If you’re a real Republican, then Joe Lieberman is Michael Moore’s favorite liberal.

You’re phonier than Obama.

By Atlanta Guy

September 4, 2008 1:36 AM | Link to this

I agree with Peggy Noonan Jim. She’s awful!!! The standards of the party were clearly lowered with Palin as pick for the VP. Given her thin resume….and it is indeed thin…she amounts to nothing more than an affirmative action, gender-based hire. She’s lowered the bar for VP qualifications.

I’ll paraphrase…. Tim Pawlenty…you wanted that job…and you were qualified…and they gave it to a woman….all just for a quota and to stir things up a bit.

By Atlanta Guy

September 4, 2008 1:39 AM | Link to this

I agree with Peggy Noonan Jim. She’s awful!!! The standards of the party were clearly lowered with Palin as pick for the VP. Given her thin resume….and it is indeed thin…she amounts to nothing more than an affirmative action, gender-based hire. She’s lowered the bar for VP qualifications.

I’ll paraphrase…. Tim Pawlenty…you wanted that job…and you were qualified…and they gave it to a woman….all just for a quota and to stir things up a bit.

By Proud American

September 4, 2008 1:44 AM | Link to this

So this grandma-to-be mocks Obama in her pre-written speech. What will happen when her dubious background is mocked? She’s an easy target. Governing a state that has far less the population of Metro Atlanta, does not a potential President make.

By Proud American

September 4, 2008 1:44 AM | Link to this

So this grandma-to-be mocks Obama in her pre-written speech. What will happen when her dubious background is mocked? She’s an easy target. Governing a state that has far less the population of Metro Atlanta, does not a potential President make.

By Mary

September 4, 2008 1:50 AM | Link to this

Hey J:

Ain’t nothing fake about this gal. I’m from Alaska and I can tell you she doesn’t mess around. Don’t repeat what you hear in the media just to make a point for Obama. It hurts your credibility. It’s not true what they say about her. She did not leave her small town in the red or raise taxes. Just the opposite. She dropped the oil tax for residents and raised taxes on the oil giants. We don’t pay state tax in Alaska or sales tax in most parts like Anchorage. She’s the real McCoy.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all elected officials put the interest of the people first and faught off corrupt politicians. She does that and doesn’t spend a penny she doesn’t have to. I voted for her opponent and over the past two years have come to love her.

By Michael

September 4, 2008 1:58 AM | Link to this

After the Republican speakers precluded Palin with “a noun, a verb, and John McCain was a POW,” she pretty much just reiterated such stuff. There sure was a lot of BS in her speech, including the new talking point that anybody with “executive experience” is fit for the presidency. Someone should really point out how dumb this is since it would mean she’s more qualified than John McCain (which she’s not).

I disregarded all of the talk about McCain being a hothead and such in 2000 when I thought about voting for him. Now I see what the talk was all about. You can pull all the “small town values” talking points you want, but this woman’s top job was being the leader of a state about as populated as Gwinnett County. Does this mean Charles Bannister is a prime candidate for VP in 4 years?

Many of us Obama supporters were skeptical about him at first because he did have little experience. But he has now been vetted like crazy and we have seen him over a year react to big situations. We have seen the best and worst because he’s not some complete stranger. His first big move was to pick someone with more experience than him to be his No. 2. That’s what great leaders do. They don’t pick a No. 2 because she checked the right boxes on a GOP Q&A form.

By AJ

September 4, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this

A female Reagan? You people need professional help. Two weeks ago you didn’t even know who she was, now you’re comparing her to your great God. Oh and thanks for ruining the country the last eight years. Appreciate your dome.

By deb

September 4, 2008 2:07 AM | Link to this

AMAZING……..ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! I WAS PROUD OF HER!

By Wootenisahack

September 4, 2008 2:14 AM | Link to this

It’d be a different story if she wasn’t hot. Think any of you who support this woman would be jumping on the bandwagon if she looked like a bowling shoe? And whoever said she’s gonna whup Biden in the debates needs to come back to reality instead of “faith based” reality. Your war hero - and his sorry excuse for a running mate - is going down. BTW…Cindy McCain = Madam Mim from the Sword in the Stone.

By Jawgadude

September 4, 2008 2:16 AM | Link to this

You’re all ignoring one thing… she has as much “star power” & charisma as Obama. Add in the fact that she is an attractive female and you have the makings of America’s Lady Di… just without the car crash. She will be a force in American politics for many years and could easily become our first female president. No spin… just analysis.

By Forrest

September 4, 2008 2:19 AM | Link to this

What is with these goofball comments about prewritten speeches? Are you so naive you don’t know all major politicians have speech writers?

By boxalarm

September 4, 2008 2:25 AM | Link to this

Question…didn’t the war end May 1, 2003? Just checking…I wasn’t quite sure.

By Fred

September 4, 2008 2:35 AM | Link to this

Go ahead, call her a b*tch, mock her family, belittle her experience. You know very well you’ve seen the future. If she doesn’t win VP this year, she’ll get the whole thing in 2012.

By bubba

September 4, 2008 2:41 AM | Link to this

Uh, not so much goofball comments Forrest (Run, Forrest, Run!). Actually, they have a point. The woman didn’t contribute anything to that speech. A team of surrogrates who’d rather debate tax cuts than talk to girls wrote it; all she had to do was show up. And still, people are awed by it. Including you, probably. You should really go to bed. You gotta go to work soon to pay for your East Cobb manor.

By Paul

September 4, 2008 2:45 AM | Link to this

Gov Palin’s speech was well evaluated by MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews. “A torpedo has just been launched against the Barack & Michelle Obama ship.” Obama & company, you have just met a lady who will delivery deadly blows with consummate class and style.

By Dave

September 4, 2008 3:51 AM | Link to this

When she is President of the United States after John chokes on a pretzel day one in office this great country will go down in flames faster than John’s jet. What has the McCain machine done? Sorry John, you blew it. God help us all …

By carolyn williams

September 4, 2008 5:14 AM | Link to this

Jim, If reading a lame,”let’s complain about the other candidate rather than talk about the issues speech” is all it takes, you are right she can handle the load—but then so can my bright 9 year old nephew. Electrifying, NOT!!! Bitter, shallow, simple, YES!!!

By NCBravesFan

September 4, 2008 5:53 AM | Link to this

Jim, two things …

1: If she’s so tough & so qualified, let her start talking to the media about the issues that are important to this country. She’s running to be vice president, not pit bull in chief.

2: I’ll anxiously await your blog post about Palin’s church up in Wasilla and the Jews for Jesus speaker that was there recently. Because I know since Jeremiah Wright is on the table for conservatives, that you’ll want to properly scrutinize why someone would attend a church where a speaker blames Israel for terror attacks because the citizens aren’t “saved.”

By Not very honest

September 4, 2008 5:57 AM | Link to this

Really, she didn’t support the bridge to nowhere. Actually, she did, until the rest of the nation went beserk about it.

Not into government handouts? Really, what about the more than twenty million dollars in federal funds her town received annually when she was Mayor of her little town. By the way, she traveled to DC to lobby for those funds.

I am an independent moderate, the kind that both parties need (though I am not particularly sure that my vote matters much in GA) and I have to say I am disappointed.

Neither party’s choices appeal to me much, but I can promise you nothing I heard last night convinced me to vote for McCain.

By Nodoginhunt

September 4, 2008 6:02 AM | Link to this

Everyone of you “Dimocrats” are an embarrassment to common sense and decency. I now will work even harder to elect McCain and Palin just so you can sit and be miserable for another four years. Your lack of class and general political aptitude is stultifying.

By Joyce

September 4, 2008 6:09 AM | Link to this

“Not Very Honest”, all governors lobby in DC for their state. They also work on international trade for their state.

I was impressed with her speech Friday, but she knocked it out of the park Wednesday at the RNC.

It’s been a long time since a candidate — especially a VP candidate — has moved me so much.

Palin is a great communicator. Plus, she is down to earth and a fighter for the common man/woman.

By Pat

September 4, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this

Great(and true)barbs against the “community organizer.”

http://www.cafepress.com/IdVeepHer

By Barry

September 4, 2008 6:16 AM | Link to this

I’m so glad to see the Dimocrats trying to bash Sarah Palin on here because that just proves they are running scared! Joe “Dirt” Biden and Hussain “Insane” Obama don’t hold a candle to her alone much less with the experience and integrity that John McCain bring to the table. ALL Obama and Biden can say they are running on is change. Well after last night, I don’t think their 2 cents of change matters much! I’m for McCain and Palin all the way! And by the way, John McCain did an excellent job in his pick for VP. Sarah Palin is a class act all the way!

By Millard

September 4, 2008 6:40 AM | Link to this

Anyone who would refer to a college educated, self-made Governor of a state in this great union as “trailer trash” sure fits the mold of the elitist Obama led Democratic ticket.

Elitist would presume to know more than the “average citizen” thereby feeling the need to have government make all their decisions for them.

Elitist would deny your rights, such as denying you the second amendment right to self protection and belittle the “average citizen” for clinging to guns and religion.

I lived in New York City for 20 years. The city is full of elitist who look down on rural America as a bunch of idiots who can’t even decipher a wine list in an overpriced restaurant.

Elitist will lie to your face and laugh at you behind your back. Gov. Palin is surely a refreshing change.

By Redneck Convert

September 4, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

Well, she even fights like a redneck. If you get into a ruckus, don’t argue any of the points. Just insult the other guy’s mama and tell him what a bum he is, if you can’t answer back.

She was awful smart. She didn’t let herself get into nonsense about how to get jobs back and make prices lower and how to deal with health care and such. That stuff is for losers. She just let loose both barrels on Obama. Without getting into issues.

Us Republicans can win if we just follow her lead. We need to stay away from talking about the mess we got now and just say Obama’s mama wore combat boots and he ain’t so hot hisself. It works in the bars and it will work in the election.

I just wish old man McCain would stop hugging people. The libruls already put up big billboards showing him hugging My President. Now he’s hugging Sarah and it seems to me his hips was moving while he was doing it. Maybe somebody needs to do some snipping there.

Well, I got a load of beer to deliver but I sure feel good about it after last night. Have a good day everybody.

By The Man

September 4, 2008 6:51 AM | Link to this

I laugh at those who now equate this chick to Reagan. People SHE READ A SPEECH THAT WAS WRITTEN FOR HER!

Joe Biden will clearly wax that @ss in the debates in a few weeks, so she’d better study up!

All we got last night was a horrible standup comedy show, full of insults. You can tell she was so entertained by herself she was snickering during her delivery. She kind of looked dimwitted, almost egging herself on. And supporters.. we know you have been SO BORED and unnmoved in your lives, someone who was able to actually get your “prim and proper” selves jostling in your seats kinda made you feel good.

Sarah “Barracuda” can guarantee that she won’t be given much of a break going forward. What’s the line on how long before the tears?

By Bud Wiser

September 4, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

“By UnhappyRepublican

September 4, 2008 12:44 AM | Link to this

She sounded like a total idiot. Nothing substantial, just negative talk. Send her and her trailer park family back to Alaska. What an insult to more deserving Republican female nominees. McCain is a total sell out and desperate.”

UnhappyRepublican my arse!

Maybe you are more impressed by the community organizer, which is like a mayor, but without the responsibilities.

Maybe you are more impressed with a candidate who has written two memoirs about himself, but has written not one single piece of legislation since being in the United States Senate for, say, about 143 days before declaring to run.

Maybe you are more impressed by a candidate that has already promised to raise taxes on not only his vague interpretation of the “wealthy”, but on virtually by extension of his proposed tax structure, most of the small business owners in America, who comprise a large portion of our nations output. and jobs.

Maybe you are more impressed by a man who obviously flosses well, speaks well in front of a teleprompter, who associates himself with known or investigated home grown criminals and terrorists, and attends a separatist church with a leader who spouts hate and promotes racial disharmony.

Maybe you are more impressed by the fake Greek columns than just a plain old podium.

Maybe you are more impressed with the Democrats because you are one, and therefore maybe you are an idiot, and a not very well disguised one either.

Sarah Palin used last night to introduce herself to a lot of America that did not know her yet. She didn’t have to outline Republican strategy on health care, the economy, energy, etc., because that is her boss’ job, his plans that are important. The left wing spinners are in full panic mode now, because she is going to devour that lifetime political hack from Delaware, Joe Biden.

And watch Bill O’Reilly devour Obama tonight on The Factor, unless The Messiah suddenly backs out at the last minute. Obama’s backers must be MAD to let him go there…he is TOAST; either that, or they are now gripped by a sense of panic and fear that they really might lose what they feel they are entitled to, much the same way Hillary assumed the nomination always would be hers.

Last but not least, there may be an emergency call out for a really good dentist or oral surgeon today….. doubtless Hillary Clinton has ground her teeth down to the gum line after watching and hearing another woman on the podium. It’s always about the Clintons, isn’t it? And it seems to be always about other women.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 4, 2008 7:02 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I recorded my initial impressions last night on the “Waiting for Sarah” blog. I have only one additional thought, arising from the single unscripted line in the speech. I am always more comfortable with people who seemingly have a sense of humor. Obama does not; Biden may have one but he keeps his game face on at all times. McCain has a Bob Dole sense of humor, which is great if unappreciated by leftists. Sarah seems to have a good and gentle sense of humor. She delivered her scripted humorous lines well, and showed a good nature in the jabs at Obama, but the old “Lipstick” joke, extemporaneous, made the speech as far as I am concerned. It shows she can think and talk simultaneously. Sarah is not one to trifle with.

By The Way

September 4, 2008 7:04 AM | Link to this

Palin’s only gaff came when she failed to thank her husband’s pit crew.

Her magnanimity became obvious when she told the throng how she forgives her husband for his clubbing (baby seals).

By JIm

September 4, 2008 7:09 AM | Link to this

Well she does have experience 5 childred. Question common sense though.

By Captain Freedom

September 4, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this

Wow. That was some speech, if by speech one means a series of disconnected diatribes delivered dyspeptically. Such fire in the belly! Such sneering derision! I guess Hillary is not the only beeeyotch in Washngto now!!!!

THE Captain is especially pleased to note that the liberals aren’t the only ones who can do shrill!! meeeeee-ow!

By Bud Wiser

September 4, 2008 7:19 AM | Link to this

Watch Bill O’Reilly devour Obama tonight on The Factor, unless The Messiah suddenly backs out at the last minute. Obama’s backers must be MAD to let him go there…he is TOAST; either that, or they are now gripped by a sense of panic and fear that they really might lose what they feel they are entitled to, much the same way Hillary assumed the nomination always would be hers.

By L MITCHELL

September 4, 2008 7:20 AM | Link to this

this journalism major made her speech writer proud for sure! an evening full of spinning, good jokes and insults. EVERYTHING about this conventions LOOKS and SOUNDS very old. and the republican plan for change is …………..?

By The Way

September 4, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

During Palin’s speech, I watched the Super Semi-Finals between the William’s sisters. I kept switching back to Palin’s speech, but that semi-final was some of the greatest moments in sports history. They’ll be plenty of Palin to go around till november.

How about Venus? Her serve is nearly 130. Isn’t that a category Five?

You know, Palin’s husband may race snowmobiles, but with Hanna, Ike and Josephine three wide at Atlantic Freeway, God races Hurricanes.

‘muff said.

By TW

September 4, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

John McCain is to be commended for his choice in Sarah Palin - for filling the small sliver of daylight that separated him from his idol, George W. Bush. Palin’s ability to look the American people in the eye and unflinchingly lie about not having taken the money for the Bridge to Nowhere demonstrates the mastery of deceit we have come to expect from the White House. She also brings McCain’s record the much needed stain of corruption and investigation so that he can truly represent himself as George W Bush’s clone. The package is now complete.

Yes, John McCain went out and found himself the missing piece - He found Bushgirl!

McSame/Bushgirl ’08 – ERASING ANY DOUBTS ABOUT FOUR MORE YEARS!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 4, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this

Dear Keeping @ 1:02, you call to mind one of WFB’s clever lines, “I’d sooner be governed by the first 50 names in the Bronx telephone directory than the Harvard faculty.” (Fox and hedgehog theory.)

Dear Michael @ 1:58, bad analogy, Charles Bannister is not particularly a good candidate for Gwinnett county executive either. As to Obama’s “vetting,” you are drinking the koolaid there. Nobody from college speaks about him, nobody from law school speaks about him, nobody from his law practice days (especially not Rezko and Ayers, probably the two who knew him best), and only two women from his “community organizer” days –he is the blankest slate ever to wrangle a nomination. I don’t know whether he is a crazed leftist – I suspect he is – or merely a political opportunist. I am gravely troubled by Obama’s proposed change in taxes, wherein fully 50% of the American public will pay no income taxes – when 50% are not paying their fair share, we have a real problem. (I know, you leftists say it is “fair” for 50% of the people to pay nothing – weird definition of “fair” when it has the same meaning as “leech.”)

Dear Jawgadude @ 2:16, I think you are on to something there. I was thinking about running a batch of “Palin/Jindal 2012” bumper stickers.

Dear Boxalarm @ 2:25, no, just the initial mission. The war ended only last month. I know your team tried to surrender in the interim, but you lost.

Dear NCBraves @ 5:53, what is your problem with “Jews for Jesus?” The “Jews for Jesus” people I have met are not anti-Israel left wing crazies. I suspect you just don’t like Jewish people. I will be pleased to introduce you to a huge number of Alabama Baptists for Israel, who are the biggest fans of the “Jews for Jesus” people. Jewish people and Fundamentalist Christians have a huge amount of common ground, and I have never heard a Protestant say an unkind word about Jewish people, nor have I ever heard a Jewish person – especially a “Jews for Jesus” rep - say anything unkind about anyone.

Dear Millard @ 6:40, I wish I had written your first line, well done.

Dear Redneck, you should have stayed around for the “energy” portion of her speech. She knows her stuff.

By pat

September 4, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this

+ Class and style???? You have to be kidding! From just what we have learned about Palin thus far those words and her are an oxymoron.

By laughingoutloud

September 4, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this

“- He found Bushgirl!” good one TW. LOL!**

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 4, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this

Dear Man @ 6:51, I heard it was 2:1 that she would have Biden in tears before the end of the first 20 minutes. Nevertheless, you may be right about the difference between reading a speech from a teleprompter and having to think on your feet – we saw that in Obama’s mediocre performance at Saddleback.

By The Way

September 4, 2008 7:37 AM | Link to this

Palin’s greatest moment came when she said that she’d rather her husband lose a snowmobile race than her country lose a war. Such patriotism is going to be hard to beat in November.

‘muff said.

By Bud Wiser

September 4, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this

Do you suppose now that the Dimwitocrats will finally figure out that they are running against McCain and Palin, and not George Bush?

Their obsession with Bush highlights their desperation of the fact that they themselves have absolutely NO substantive base to run on, except to raise taxes by taxing the wealthy, which by their vague interpretation is virtually everybody. You class envy and wealth envy idiots buy into his crap because you haven’t the intelligence, drive, or any part of what it takes to improve yourselves and your station in life. You expect it to be given to you by the government, taken from life’s achievers, and you have to do nothing to get it. It is called the entitlement mentality, and I believe we have just seen what the entitlement mentality did for Hillary Clinton in her primary races.

She lost. And you Dimwits are losers as well, and boy what a loser you have for a front runner!

Go with that community organizer, that’s about as expansive as yours and his level of thinking anyway.

Go with that self absorbed megalomaniac who has had time only for himself and his career, not for the business of being a Senator.

Go with a man that has found time to write two memoirs about himself, but has not even bothered to write one single piece of proposed legislation as a sitting Senator, nor has he called into session one single committee meeting for the committee he supposedly heads.

Go for that man who says he puts ‘family first’, while his half brother lives in squalor and near starvation in a shack in Africa, while he has caviar and champagne in his house in Illinois that he was aided to purchase by an investigated criminal.

Go with the team that is running hard against George Bush. The rest of America knows who the Republican ticket is, but the Dimwits haven’t figured that out yet. Maybe they will after the election and they have lost. Maybe Americans are more desirous of candidates that know who they are running against, because it reflects that these if clowns can’t even figure out who their highly publicized opponents are, how can they be competent enough to run the country?

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid

By reader110

September 4, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this

Setting aside the fact that she was completely wrong about many of the facts, I’ll say this - just as all of you said about Obama - she sure reads a teleprompter well.

By The Way

September 4, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

Anyone else notice how I tricked Redneck into dropping the hack hillbilly syntax to his blogs? Just like I tripped Duhng into reusing his unreadabel italics. What a dope.

What a couple of fallguys! What a bunch of maroons!

In other news:

Hanna, Ike and Josephine are three wide at Atlantic Freeway! Palin’s husband may race snowmobiles, but God races Hurricanes!

By The One

September 4, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

You have to be kidding me, She’s a Part time mom and a part time politician. Why was she even a thought, I didn’t think we were in need of votes that bad. Now we’re going to have to pay for babysitters and nurses. Fine Example.

By Bud Wiser

September 4, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

My mistake. Obama chairs no Senate committees.

He has no experience there, either.

He needs to start thinking more of the US Senate as just one, big, happy community.

By CONSERVATIVE VOTER

September 4, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

This is one conservative that will give the people an honest answer. I don’t think Gov. Palin is more qualified than Senator Obama.

Obama: B.A in political science from Columbia University, with a specialization in international relations J.D. in Law from Hardvard, graduated magna cum laude; President of the Harvard Law Review 12 years (92-04) teaching constitutional law 7 years State Senator: sponsored more than 800 bills 4 years Senator for Illinos, a state with 12.8 million people

Palin: Bachelor’s in journalism from University of Idaho 4 years Wasilla City Council (8000 people) 6 years Wasilla mayor (8000 people) 1 year “Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission” 20 months governor of a state with 660,000 people

By The One

September 4, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

You have to be kidding me, She’s a Part time mom and a part time politician. Why was she even a thought, I didn’t think we were in need of votes that bad. Now we’re going to have to pay for babysitters and nurses. Fine Example.

By The One

September 4, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

You have to be kidding me, She’s a Part time mom and a part time politician. Why was she even a thought, I didn’t think we were in need of votes that bad. Now we’re going to have to pay for babysitters and nurses. Fine Example.

By let's get serious

September 4, 2008 7:56 AM | Link to this

Yeah, yeah, Peggy Hill for VP! Peggy Hill for VP! Oh, wait, that wasn’t Peggy Hill? Than who the heck is she and why does she pattern herself after a cartoon character?

By Goldie

September 4, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this

WOW— What a whitewash last night. Repugs can say “BUH-BYE!” for the next decade or so…

I don’t care if Palin did a good job at reading a speech that someone else wrote for her — it doesn’t change the fact that she’s a religious extremist who’s attempting to take over the Repug Party in totality.

By JW

September 4, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

Jimmys got a girlfriend! Jimmys got a girl friend! So now all conservatives need is a pretty face and we should fall for it. What would Karl do with a candidate like this? She had the gall to belittle Obama’s community service while at the same time the GOP is feeding us info about her high school basketball team and her PTA. This election will be about the future and the GOP still doesn’t get it.

By Fred Flintstone

September 4, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

Palin

Divisive and mean-spirited

Small minded without much exposure to the diversity and depth of the world we live in

Exactly what the United States of America needs in these perilous days

HUGE RISK

Poor judgement call by John McCain and the republicans who forced this selection on him at the last minute

By Bitter EX democrackkk

September 4, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

HOMERUN speeches by all of them last night!!! Even Julie Annie!

WOW, NEVER have I been so inspired by political speeches, except for Dr. Ron Paul…course they kept him out of the RNC convention it seems…

By Peadawg

September 4, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

I can’t help but laugh when i read all these post about Palin being classless, mean, hateful, etd. towards Obama, the dems, and the media. What the heck did you expect? The media and the dems having been bashing her for a week. Hell have no fury like a women’s scorn, right?

By The Way

September 4, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Palin’s only gaff came when she failed to thank her husband’s pit crew.

Her magnanimity became obvious when she told the throng how she forgives her husband for his clubbing (baby seals).

By The Way

September 4, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Palin’s only gaff came when she failed to thank her husband’s pit crew.

Her magnanimity became obvious when she told the throng how she forgives her husband for his clubbing (baby seals).

By CONSERVATIVEVOTER

September 4, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

“HYPOCRISY IN POLITICS”

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate.”

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state _ by population.

MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right _ change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington _ throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

By Famuan

September 4, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

So all Sarah did was appeal to the base? That’s it? Oh….no worries for Obama and Biden then. If Wooten think this election will be won by the fanatical evangelical wingnuts that want to criminalize sex (unless its the knocked up daughter of their VP pick and there will be a “wedding” - wink, wink - to her high school dropout boyfriend, then sex is okay)- then Wooten’d in for a rude awakening Nov 5th. Obama’s base has been secure for quite some time, he’s reeling in those moderates and Independents who find McCain and Palin a bit to Talibanish for their tastes.

Oh, and all she did was READ a speech…a canned speech that was tweaked just to fit her. Sarah Jessica Parker could have done that, Sarah Michelle Gellar could have pulled off the Buffy speech…he!!, Sarah Silverman could have done it! All Sarah Palin did was READ and mispronounce YET again…NUCLEAR!

Chris Matthews was right…now they want to make this about the beautiful black family with college educated parents and bright engaging daughters taking piano and ballet lessons versus the Clampetts of Alaska planning a shotgun wedding.

Why won’t Wooten talk about the 11,000 who turned out to rally for Ron Paul Tuesday night?? The 11,000 disgruntled republicans that were not energized with the Palin pick? The media searched high and low for the 5 Hillary supporters that dont want to vote for Obama, but there were 11,000 in ONE place and not one media interview?? Why is that?

By The Way

September 4, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

So Palin’s husband races snowmobiles? Then why is her daughter only interested in submarine races?

By Fred Flintstone

September 4, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

lemme get this straight

If you are White male (hockey player) teenager with a baby on the way you receive a standing ovation and welcomed on a national stage with the Republican nomination Vice President

If you are Black male (football player) who is caught having consensual sex you are sent directly to jail for ten years and your name is Genarlow Wilson

By me

September 4, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

VERY impressive speech by Palin! Look out Dems, there’s a new force to reckon with — Palin Power!

By Jim H.

September 4, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

You dummycrats are in big trouble in this election now and you know it. It’s hilarious to watch you squirm and spin. The majority of this country still has traditional conservative values (thank God) and the pick of Sarah Palin has fired up this majority.

The dummyccrats media-created, over hyped, empty suit is fading. Can you say President McCain in 2008 and PRESIDENT PALIN in 2012?

By Whiners

September 4, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser

Watch Bill O’Reilly devour Obama tonight on The Factor,

Don’t make me laugh. You think O’Reilley is some hard hitting journalist? Your standards are pretty low. BOR will kiss BOs butt during the interview I guarantee it. What tough questions can he ask that Obama has not already answered 100 times? Obama is going on Faux just to shut them up about being afraid to appear on that fake news channel. Obama’s too smart and too educated to have a nitwit like O’Reilly trip him up.

By Greg

September 4, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

I certainly liked what I heard & saw last night from Gov. Palin and her family. She’s a fiery speaker though not yet polished on a national stage. Given her extraordinarily appealing nature, however, I’d be willing to give her aplenty of time to grow.

I was reseaching the history of Alaska last night and came up with, what was to me, a startling fact. Alaska encompasses over 656,000 square miles of territory - bigger than many countries. Compare that with the size of Delaware: 2,490 square miles. I can’t imagine the difficulties that vastness imposes on a govenor in managing education, healthcare, law enforcement and fire services. Incredible task, really.

In some ways, governing Alaska is more daunting than managing the U.S. Fewer resources to serve a dispersed population. I’m certain Alaskans have taken up the slack by being a bit more independent-minded and self-reliant. You can tell Gov. Palin’s got that same independent “western” mindset.

Very appealing.

By The Way

September 4, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Was is statutory rape? Has anyone thought of that? Was this underaged sex?

Fred Flintstone is right! I demand all those involved be tried in criminal courts. Otherwise, we make a mockery of our justice system. Oh, right, this is the USA and laws and taxes only apply to the little black poor people and their white trash counterparts. Capitalism doesn’t work without a war, so that’s where the little black poor people and their white trash counterparts come in: cannon fodder. (Capitalism sells the enemy the cannons). Hey, they worked theirasses off to get those arms deals, only in america, you know, and who knows how many commies are out there, come on.

Obama 08: America takes over.

By bart

September 4, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

I know someone with a child with down’s syndrome, it is 24-7, is Sarah Palin a fit mother dragging that child all over the place. None of you media hacks have interviewed parents with down syndrome children. Why didn’t she discuss the special care that the child will need, the special education, nope that is off limits. Those delegates have not even inquired about the special needs of that child, the special schooling, the health issues. Nope we have Sarah Palin, pitbull, with a child carrying a baby who is unmarried. Funny the Dobsons and Perkins are defending teen pregnancies. what a bunch of Harper Valley PTA hyocrites, remember that song? The McCain-Palin theme.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 4, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

Here is the template Sarah will use to destroy Joe Biden at the VP debate: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122049148440397625.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

Dan Heninger explains why our moonbats have gone over the edge on Sarah Palin: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122048635407597177.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

By fearless fosdik

September 4, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan caught off the air on Palin pick…

you’ll need to page down!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

By Goldie

September 4, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

The Repugs have always whined that the media is “unfair” to them — and that scheme really worked so well for Richard Nixon back in 1973, hmmm?

When McBush does a one-day meet-n-greet before selecting his VP candidate, he has left the hard work to the media to fill-in the blanks for the American voters. That’s their job— that’s what they’re supposed to do: report the facts no matter how hurtful it may be to one political party. The media serves the interests of the American people, not solely your political biases.

Get over it, Repugs!

By marko

September 4, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Now that grandpa Munster has elisted the aid of the girl wonder, you guys can saddle up, ride out of the wild west and kick a little liberal butt; right? Maybe not, I think Mr luckovich spotted a fatal flaw, in today’s cartoon, The Republicans are too old, too white, too wierd and too few. you guys are good soldiers; you will not back down from a fight, but you are’nt any more moral than the rest of us and you’re sure as hell not the majority.

By The Man

September 4, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

So Ragnar Danneskjöld

Let me get this straight…

Are you saying that Sarah Barracuda was NOT reading from a Teleprompter last night???

Are you suggesting that all political candidates DO NOT read their speeches from a telemprompter when they are speaking at events??

Are you that brainwashed in TALKING POINTS, or just smoking that “good” s—-???

It’ll show REAL soon , just you wait (LOL).

By Ray

September 4, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

bushgirl<