Palin's Big Strikeout

Sarah Palin gave a riveting and devastating nomination speech on Wednesday night. She shared her inspiring story and brave family, while savaging and ridiculing the celebrated life story of Barack Obama, a fellow barrier-breaking candidate, with whithering attacks on his work as a community organizer, senator, and author. She misrepresented his record and simply lied about her own, claiming to oppose earmarks that she supported, and dissembling on her $1.5 billion tax hike and record of raising sales taxes by 25 percent in Wasilla. Reviewing the McCain Campaign's bullying, "unprofessional" onslaught against anyone who notes Palin's extreme positions and dishonest claims, Time's Joe Klein urged reporters to face facts:

I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God."

By all accounts, Palin faced a huge task in St Paul. She had to prove she was up to the job of commander in chief.

She struck out big-time -- in a biting speech that showed the only job she was ready for is RNC Chair, another ruthless soldier in Karl Rove's army.

Comments (88)

1. Palin Owns the Hall, But What About the Country?

   posted by JOHN NICHOLS on 09/03/2008 @ 10:26pm

   man, i didn't watch her.

   just too "too".

   would you like some overcooked broccoli with your schlock?

   and now i don't know.

   was she the queen of everybody's leaveittobeaver jihad crushing dream,

   or just another...?

   Posted by frosty zoom at 09/03/2008 @ 11:55pm

2. If this is the best the Republicans can muster, Obama might as well take the oath of office on O'Reilly's show.

   Posted by onthehelm at 09/03/2008 @ 11:56pm

3. I'm fairly certain "bipartisan" is not in her vocabulary.

   Posted by Benchrest at 09/03/2008 @ 11:56pm

4. "She misrepresented his record and lied about her own."

   SUCCESS!

   and down we go.....

   Posted by frosty zoom at 09/03/2008 @ 11:56pm

5. I don't think this was her voice. I think she is capable of better than this. I think she was told what to say and was only given a short period to try to inject some of her voice in the message. I want to hear her voice.

   Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

6. Wow. I smell fear.

   Posted by freiheit1 at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

7. freiheit-What are you afraid of?

   Posted by i'm nobody at 09/03/2008 @ 11:58pm

8. Posted by frosty zoom at 09/03/2008 @ 11:55pm

   She is a "pit bull with lipstick."

   Her words.

   Posted by Benchrest at 09/03/2008 @ 11:58pm

9. I don't blame her for the speech she gave. Whoever was her speech writer was obviously the cookie cutter type. She couldn't speak passionately because I don't think she believed what she was saying. I think much of mud slinging and the misrepresentations were things that bothered her and therefore could not speak passionately about. I just want to hear her voice. I don't want to see the potential first female VP trampled under the boots of a cookie cutter campaign message.

   Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:00am

10. redriver-The person who you are energized by spells her name Sarah and not Sara.

    Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 12:01am

11. Posted by RedRiver_. at 09/03/2008 @ 11:59p

    She wasn't truthful about his record. She told repeated lies. That's the funny part.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:01am

12. How does one prove being ready for the CIC job?

    Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

    You can't anyone who thinks you are ready to be President of a country has no true respect for the nature of the job and what it entails.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:03am

13. Surprise, surprise, surprise .....

    (as Gomer Pyle would say)

    The intellectuals at "The Nation" disapproved of Palin's speech....

    Now that was UNEXPECTED......

    Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008 @ 12:09am

14. You can't anyone who thinks you are ready to be President of a country has no true respect for the nature of the job and what it entails.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:03am | ignore this person | warn this person

    What? You mean the VP has to do something? Maybe John McCain should have picked some random nurse, at least he would have someone to check his vitals everyday. I doubt if he needs a moose dressed on the White House lawn.

    Posted by jane3246 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:12am

15. Wow. I smell fear.

    Posted by freiheit1 at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

    damn straight.

    it's all so stupid,

    all so panderawfullish,

    that it should make YOU worry

    the biggest of the biggest times.

    for, if mr mccain becomes president,

    (and obama, too but to a lesser extent)

    then,

    like his republican't antecedents,

    the rubber money debt machine will go into overdrive.

    and there i will stop 'cause i like visiting the u.s..

    people are nice.

    food's good.

    <<<<<>>>>>

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    C'mon People, Don't Let 'Em Treat You Like Morons!

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 12:19am

16. How does one prove being ready for the CIC job? Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

    You want proof of my point. A single decision by an American President alone can be responsible for the destruction of the entire human race. No decision that Senator Obama, McCain, Biden or Governor Palin has ever made carries that much weight.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:20am

17. The intellectuals at "The Nation" disapproved of Palin's speech...

    Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008

    yes,

    every one knows dumb* is the key to success!

    *pandering b.s.

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 12:20am

18. A single decision by an American President alone can be responsible for the destruction of the entire human race.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:20am

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    Damn! What's So Hard About That?

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 12:22am

19. Damn! What's So Hard About That?

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 12:22am

    Alot.

    I only have one vote.

    Posted by Benchrest at 09/04/2008 @ 12:24am

20. When someone of Joe Biden's stature says that John McCain is his friend, but that he disagrees profoundly about how to govern this country, it is an honest and fair fight.

    But when the lady from nowhere gets up and gives a speech making jab after jab at her opponent, waxing all sarcastic and cynical about how much better small-town people are than those elites in Washington, it really is unseemly

    But it's typical of Republicans, because they somehow manage to run for high office, even for the presidency on a platform of hating government and despising the very place they're stepping over their own kids to get to.

    Posted by EvelynU at 09/04/2008 @ 12:29am

21. Alot [sic].

    I only have one vote.

    [not if you live in rural ohio!]

    Posted by Benchrest at 09/04/2008 @ 12:24am

    oh yeah.

    but you've got a big mouth*!!!!!

    use it to save america from this nonsense.

    *:+]

    please.

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 12:43am

22. Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

    HAP,

    I hope this means that McCain keeps Palin around long enough to sink the ticket.

    McCain can't run from Palin's woes:

    1. Palin and her husband flirts with succession from the United States.

    2. Palin attempts to ban library books she doesn't like and fire the city librarian if she doesn't go along.

    3. Palin fires police chief of Wassila because he wants the bars to close at 2am rather than 5am and this upset Palin's bar owner campaign contributors.

    4. Palin fires her chief public safety officer, the former police chief of Anchorage, because he doesn't want to be used in her family feud in firing the ex-husband of her sister.

    5. Palin skipped out of paying her taxes and fees on her car wash that she owned, and failed to file required financial statements.

    6. Palin's pastor of 30 years thinks political opponents of Bush won't go to heaven and that Jesus is some kind of war general that kills people that don't believe in him.

    7. Palin voted to strip funds from a group that helps teen moms, LIKE HER DAUGHTER, get skills and lead productive lives after pregnancy.

    8. Palin hired an Abramoff lobbyist to get earmarks that even McCain objected to

    9. Palin inflates her foreign policy experience by claiming a refueling stop as a "visit to Ireland".

    Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 12:46am

23. BWAHahahahahah

    I kept flipping channels back and forth between the new con repub convection to continue dic'tatorship and the movie "Idiocracy". Yep, eerily, it all seemed rather tooo seamless....

    Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 12:54am

24. Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 12:43am

    Deal.

    Most likely to just delay the inevitable.

    I'm probably gonna lose a tooth doin this ya know.

    Small price, I know.

    Posted by Benchrest at 09/04/2008 @ 12:55am

25. Here the dittoheads go again, repeating their new favorite word "executive" in combination with their old favorite word, "experience."

    Executive executive executive... the morons will be repeating this lame argument for the next three months.

    I'm imagining her executive experience:

    "As your mayor and chief executive, I hereby raise the price of the parking meters from 5 cents an hour to 10 cents. I hereby forbid librarians from stocking copies of novels by J.D. Salinger. I hereby proclaim that our local hockey coach go from part-time to full-time. These are my life-altering decisions!"

    This kind of dittohead repetition and "strategery" pose the question: are Republicans just DUMBER than the rest of us?

    Posted by redemma at 09/04/2008 @ 01:01am

26. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:04am

27. I kept flipping channels back and forth between the new con repub convection to continue dic'tatorship and the movie "Idiocracy". Yep, eerily, it all seemed rather tooo seamless....

    Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 12:54am

    you understand the power of this imagery.

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    Why Do These People Know About Monetary Policy?

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:06am

28. Deal.

    Posted by Benchrest at 09/04/2008 @ 12:55am

    thank you, so much.

    i will rest easier.

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    I Mean WTF?!?!??!?

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:07am

29. ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.

    Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.

    Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing.

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:10am

30. if strangers meet life begins- not poor not rich (only aware) kind neither nor cruel (only complete) i not not you not possible; only truthful -truthfully,once if strangers(who deep our most are selves)touch: forever

    (and so to dark)

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:11am

31. Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans You know I love you so

    Before I be your dog Before I be your dog Before I be your dog I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone

    Turn your lamp down low Turn your lamp down low Turn your lamp down low I beg you all night long, baby, please don't go

    You brought me way down here You brought me way down here You brought me way down here 'bout to Rolling Forks, you treat me like a dog

    Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go, back the New Orleans I beg you all night long

    Before I be your dog Before I be your dog Before I be your dog I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone

    You know your man down gone You know your man down gone You know your man down gone To the country farm, with all the shackles on

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:12am

32. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:13am

33. Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

    Jonah--John--if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still--not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there.

    Listen:

    When I was a younger man--two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago. . .

    When I was a much younger man, I began to collect material for a book to be called The Day the World Ended.

    The book was to be factual.

    The book was to be an account of what important Americans had done on the day when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

    It was to be a Christian book. I was a Christian then.

    I am a Bokononist now.

    FACTS - TRUTH '08

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:14am

34. please.

    Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 01:16am

35. Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 12:46am

    WITH OBAMA NOW RUNNING FAR RIGHT:::

    Although Sarah Palin is qualified but not suited to be VP, think about who was elected the last 8 years. Do not hastily assume that the McCain-Palin ticket can not win because if Bush-Cheney can be put into the top posts not once but twice that should tell you to never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter............

    Posted by POSEIDON at 09/04/2008 @ 01:19am

36. ignore palin she is a pawn.

    there are many legitimate reasons why Obama should be elected:

    healthcare for all lower taxes for the middle class a levelheaded foreign policy etc...

    who cares about sarah palin?

    Posted by tskinner at 09/04/2008 @ 01:20am

37. Posted by tskinner at 09/04/2008 @ 01:20am

    DON'T WAKE ME, I'M DREAMININININ:

    Surely you don't believe that a healthcare plan will come to fruition as long as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rage on, do you? Tell me you are smarter than that? The only differnce between Barack Obama and John McCain is about TEN MILES PER HOUR...........

    Meaning he and McCain have the same policies as Bush, but as a Democrat, Obama will get to the same place as the GOP but at a slightly slower pace........

    Posted by POSEIDON at 09/04/2008 @ 01:25am

38. The most blatant misdirection in Palin's speech is her statement about returning money generated by oil and gas to the taxpayers. This is not something that started under Palin's watch. The State of Alaska has been doing this for years.

    Posted by marvistagirl at 09/04/2008 @ 01:57am

39. <i>what I saw tonight was a dynamic human being give an extrordinary and confident speech </i>

    I heard and read the same culture war and character nonsense that I saw in the last 2 Presidential elections.

    Posted by piniella at 09/04/2008 @ 02:21am

40. Posted by JOMAMMA at 09/04/2008 @ 02:31am

    Does it really matter who gets knocked off of what news cycle? All of you are supporting genocidal, maniacs who are doing nothing but continuing America's downhill slide into oblivion.......

    Posted by POSEIDON at 09/04/2008 @ 03:27am

41. "Not once did I hear the chant USA at the democratic convention. Not once did I hear Obama use the word victory when talking about Iraq."

    Right, because we all know that chanting "USA" is the true measure of patriotism. Incidentally, Obama didn't mention victory regarding Iraq because that is as much of a myth as Vietnam's proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel".

    Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 04:47am

42. "every one knows dumb* is the key to success!

    *pandering b.s".

    (It's worked for Obama so far)

    Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008 @ 05:46am

43. Interesting to note the differences between Palin and Obama.

    Both have a certain star appeal, but that's where the similarity ends.

    Palin - by virtue of her words last night - is divisive and exclusionary.

    Obama - by virtue of his words a week ago - is a unifying figure and inclusive.

    Interesting that both have moved their parties rightward - Obama to the mean, Palin more than 2 standard deviations from the mean.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 05:47am

44. (It's worked for Obama so far)

    Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008 @ 05:46am

    This post is 10 pounds of pandering BS shoved into a 5 pound sack.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 05:48am

45. Well I didn't see/hear the speech. I was switching the channels between the Williams sisters(Serena won) and "Bones"(great show). I think I made the right and definitely more entertaining choice. Besides after watching a parts of a speech given by some older woman, I knew what Palin's speech was gonna be about. I didn't think she'd lie as much though. Oh well, no surprise there.

    Posted by k330k at 09/04/2008 @ 07:33am

46. I want to hear her voice. Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/03/2008 @ 11:57pm

    Wait till the debate with Biden. She'll have her chance then. Not that it will matter.

    Meanwhile, catch Obama on Fox ... as Murdoch sucks up to the next president regulating his News Corp empire.

    Murdoch didn't become a billionaire by being dumb.

    Posted by sloper at 09/04/2008 @ 07:59am

47. Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 01:11am

    So after 4 years as Veep, FRANK...if McCain choses not to run and she gets the GOP nomination...

    she'd be a better and more experienced candidate than Hillary, wouldn't she?

    (Yes, I know he may have me on Ignore...but anybody asking this question of FRANK will see HIM dissemble rather quickly!)

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 08:56am

48. Sorry, but she reminds me of and sounds too much like Stifler's mom in American Pie, the actress Jennifer Coolidge.

    Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 09:21am

49. A character actor.

    Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 09:24am

50. how about Mcsames' anti-pac pork banter???

    doesn't pal satan go against everything mcbush says, such as stealing $50,000,000 from taxpayers for pork projects for her small unknown town in alaska, now she just signed a bill for thousands of miles of new oil/gas pipelines in alaska, the pipeline to nowhere...we expect canada and russia to just roll over and give up their territorial claims in our grand klan, I mean empire, vision....

    WHERE IN THE HELL IS OBJECTIVE REPORTING?????? WHY THE PUKE ABOUT PALIN SPEECH WITH HER HEIL BUSH SALUTE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF COMMIE NEWS NETWORK (CNN)???? puke puke POW POW puke Palin puke vomit

    Posted by jrs112 at 09/04/2008 @ 09:25am

51. Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 01:17am

    I heard both of those things. Maybe you should clean your ears out Frank.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 09:33am

52. Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 01:17am

    Stop hearing what you WANT to hear and start hearing what actually happened. Getting yur talking points from Sarah's speech is pretty funny.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 09:34am

53. Also on top of that he has said it so many times in the past that's why this point is moot.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 09:38am

54. "Obama - by virtue of his words a week ago - is a unifying figure and inclusive."

    Actually when Obama talks about raising my taxes.... I find him being "divisive and exclusionary."

    Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008 @ 09:38am

55. This gal is going to be sharing the nuclear button. So we have gone from a born again "amener" to a crew that wants to turn the entire middle east over to Israel, ship the rest of the jobs off shore, and overturn Roe v. Wade. Executive experience? 9/11 Rudi and I'm a mommy Sarah shared the same speech. She was just cuter. Executive experience!, gimme a break.

    Posted by lachatte at 09/04/2008 @ 09:48am

56. Actually when Obama talks about raising my taxes.... I find him being "divisive and exclusionary."

    Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008 @ 09:38am

    The good of the "common-wealth" is a wholly foreign concept to you and people like you isn't it?

    For the record, Obama will raise my taxes, too. Life has been good to me and I can afford to pay my fair share.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 09:52am

57. She gave a great speech. She showed she has more experience than Obama and is not as flippant as Biden. You guys should stop trying to divide the country with class warfare. You should also try to be a little less sexist. I mean you got rid of Hillary and you ask if she is able to handle the job because she is a mother of five. Shame on you.

    Posted by abell12ct at 09/04/2008 @ 10:03am

58. A note about framing:

    Too many progressives have accepted the right-wing frame, and continue to fall into the trap of referring to the president as the "commander in chief".

    That's fine for right wing cowboys and camo'd wanna-be's, but if you're tired of our incessant militarism, and resent the fact that those who "represent" us would advocate endless war in the service of their agendas, then you would be well served to remember that we need to elect a PRESIDENT; a leader and diplomat who would have the vision and skill to restore our once-great nation without constantly threatening to blow shit up.

    Posted by drhammer at 09/04/2008 @ 10:06am

59. Read Thomas Frank's new book on the neo-con / christian rights idea of 'government' service. Essentially, you nominate public officials who are absolutely rotten, and you weaken the parts of the government that you don't want strong, and privatize the parts you do.

    It is part of the plan to destroy the part of the government responsive to ordinary people. Palin fits perfectly - a loud-mouthed light-weight, who bilks the tax payers for money as mayor and governor, while advocating secession from the U.S., and being in the pocket of the oil industry.

    An incredible farce.

    Posted by ElyDog at 09/04/2008 @ 10:13am

60. So after 4 years as Veep, FRANK...if McCain choses not to run and she gets the GOP nomination...

    she'd be a better and more experienced candidate than Hillary, wouldn't she?

    (Yes, I know he may have me on Ignore...but anybody asking this question of FRANK will see HIM dissemble rather quickly!)

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 08:56am | ignore this person | warn this person

    He's so predictable Mask, he'd simply respond with the nonsense about Hillary having been co-president for eight years.

    Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 10:19am

61. "Obama - by virtue of his words a week ago - is a unifying figure and inclusive." Actually when Obama talks about raising my taxes.... I find him being "divisive and exclusionary."

    wrote Bleeding Heart

    SO, Mr Heart, how much do you make? If you earn less than 200K per year (and that is after deductions) Obama won't be raising your taxes. The average American in the 50-60K range will get a tax cut.

    If you have a net pre-tax of over 200K you're doing just fine.

    Posted by ohsotired at 09/04/2008 @ 10:24am

62. Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 09:52am

    A review of the candidates' respective tax plans shows that John McCain's family would benefit from his proposed tax breaks, to the tune of a couple of hundred grand.

    The Obama family, on the other hand, would see an increase in their tax liability by something like $120k, as a result of trying to make the system more equitable for working-class Americans.

    Spin this...

    Posted by drhammer at 09/04/2008 @ 10:28am

63. Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 10:19am

    Sorry, bruno, apparently FRANK has YOU "on Ignore" too.

    But you're right...the mythical office of "Co-President" would emerge and "amazingly" be "more important" than the office the Vice-President.

    If that scenario played out (McCain wins, then Palin gets the nom in '12)...

    watch FRANK to contradict everything HE's said for nearly a week (and WILL say) about Sarah Palin if it becomes "Palin v. Clinton" in '12.

    Guarenteed.

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 10:46am

64. Oh, and me and FROSTY will be here to save the posts!

    LOL

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 10:47am

65. Actually when Obama talks about raising my taxes.... I find him being "divisive and exclusionary." Posted by bleedingheart at 09/04/2008 @ 09:38am

    If you heard him say he is going to raise your taxes then I don't know what speech you are listening to. He said more than once in his speech that he was going to lower taxes for 95% of Americans. Of course you believe the red meat thrown to you instead of actually examining the claim. I have looked at the percentage on the tax plans. Obama's tax plan actually cuts taxes to 95% of the US if you look at the percentages.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 11:24am

66. What really frightens me is that the so called liberal media went all gushy about this right wing zealot, never once counting the number of lies she and 9/11 Rudie spouted, let alone good ol' Mit. I'm never going to let one of those characters back into my living room.

    Posted by lachatte at 09/04/2008 @ 11:25am

67. I think the response from Jom and Frank are very typical. They attack any concerns that the left has to mount by saying it's just panicing. Then they attack Obama for the left being concerned. They talk about how amazing the speech was and how this is evidence that the left has already lost, something they have been saying for months now yet here we still are, and that Palin is the nail in the coffin.

    The response of partisan fools who can't take off their Republican glasses for two seconds to look at reality objectively.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 11:28am

68. Four straight days inside the minds of the Republican party is not good for my health.

    Posted by gillian at 09/04/2008 @ 11:29am

69. Here's a piece of advice for the leftwing media. Don't mention Sarah Palin again until November. Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 10:40am

    I thin the exact opposite. I think they should keep her talking. I think the longer people listen to her the more they will realize she is happier in Alaska and doesn't really want to do this job. I think they will also realize that nothing in her speech is about reform. Her entire speech was all about business as usual.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 11:30am

70. "These questions are not for the black community. We all know why you all are voting for Barry. They're for the rest." Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 10:31am

    WTF??!! Damn, Frank. I'd appreciate it if you'd stop insulting me and my family. At first I was for Hillary until she and Bill started talking like petulant, spoiled brats. Condescencion and entitlements don't become them. Not all black folk think alike, Frank. Clarence Thomes or Alan Keyes will never get my support because their views are not congruent with mine. I hope you're saying this same shit to the black folks you know. Have you shared these views with your black friends? Since you seem to have a tight grasp on the views, thoughts, and feelings of black folks, I'm sure you have some black friends. Otherwise, how the hell would you know? Man, you are not the Frank from nine months ago. Bitter does not become you Frank. Ignorance and stereotyping doesn't either.

    Posted by k330k at 09/04/2008 @ 11:49am

71. Do not forget to look in the mirror. Posted by JOMAMMA at 09/04/2008 @ 11:42am

    If I was responding partisanly you would know it. Read my responses about her speech. I tried to stay as objective as possible. I don't rail against her. I acknowledged that she sold me. then I addressed the downfalls. I think I did a good job of staying objective. You and Frank on the other hand gave the telegraphed responses that I could have written for you based on talking points. Hell Frank actually used talking points from her speech.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 12:26pm

72. This is the republicans time and Barack as usual is playing dirty. Shame.

    Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 1:41pm

    Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!

    It's been the republic-ers' time, they have and continue to play dirty (when that's all you know how to do, you go with what you got), and shame on you for falling for their divisive BS.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 1:47pm

73. This is the republicans time and Barack as usual is playing dirty. Shame. Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 1:41pm

    This is indicative of Franks mindset. It was Hillary's time and it was stolen from her. Now it's the Republican's time and Obama is trying to steal it from them. HE is a kool-aid drinker if there ever was one.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 1:52pm

74. Hey Sarah -

    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

    - Margaret Mead

    Put that in your military-industrial complex pipe and smoke it.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 2:03pm

75. Waaaaaaaaaaa Sarah Palin represented everything the feminist movement claims to strive for: a successful working woman with a happy family life and a husband who helps raise the children. Yet, rather than hailing her accomplishment, the feminist establishment has sat by silently as she's savaged for being a working mother. This article is a desperate move and shows that Feminism is not about woman, but about being ultra-left. Had Sarah been a Democrat and for abortion you would now be praising her. This is the death nil of Feminism and Liberal lies.

    Posted by Exton1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:09pm

76. Posted by Exton1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:09pm

    Huh?

    I thought that the article was suggesting that though the delivery was good, the content was crap.

    As far as savaging poor Sarah for being a working mother, what's coming her way is no worse than what came Hillary's way 16 years ago.

    Is there a double standard?

    Without question.

    Is it a vast left wing conspiracy?

    Please. We are the people that brought you the weekend.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 2:13pm

77. Posted by JOMAMMA at 09/04/2008 @ 1:14pm

    And you know FRANK will immediately (within 6 months) TURN on McCain and Palin...to start building his case for Hillary in '12?

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:31pm

78. Posted by Exton1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:09pm

    BTW, maybe I missed them...

    could you QUOTE some of that "savaging of Sarah for being a workig mother"?

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:32pm

79. And you know FRANK will immediately (within 6 months) TURN on McCain and Palin...to start building his case for Hillary in '12?

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:31pm

    As sure as there is stink on shit.

    Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 2:33pm

80. From a purely political standpoint, her speech was probably a limited success. Of course Palin launched into personal and unwarranted criticisms of Obama and the Democrats. What else could she have talked about? On the issues, the Republicans have nothing--I repeat--nothing on which to run. On competence, they also have NOTHING. So, personal, vicious attacks are what is left for them, and they have long experience with that kind of politics.

    Palin will be a bottomless well of scandal and controversy. We have only just begun to learn about her. There will be much more to come. But the biggest scandal of all is that John McCain saw fit to choose someone so unqualified and unprepared for the second highest office in the land.

    Posted by robgo2 at 09/04/2008 @ 3:24pm

81. Posted by skeletonman at 09/04/2008 @ 2:33pm

    Of course, he's ALMOST admitted it with lines like "Of course, if McCain fails to be the man of reform and experience that I THOUGHT, I'll see to it that Hillary defeats him in 2012!"

    when WE ALL KNOW that McCain could end the deficit, bring peace to the Middle East, solve world hunger, and cure cancer....and FRANK would still be supporting Hillary in 4 years, while even some of the "Nation" writers would be voting for McCain!

    Just one thing to keep in mind with FG....it's all about Hillary and all about getting 2012 (her last shot) open for her.

    To do that, he'll mimic HAPPY, LVLIB, PONTI, even Limbaugh (who are happy to use FG for what he's worth)...and try to come back AFTER November 4th and claim that he's "still the same ol' FRANK you knew and loved from before January '08 who hates Republicans and always supported the progressive agenda"

    Guarenteed.

    What'll be interesting is to see how TRULY insane he becomes if Obama wins and he knows it's over for any chance of a "President Hillary" (she'll be McCainish age by 2016).

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 4:40pm

82. Ms. Palin took a state in surplus and will leave it with a debt and a new sales tax to boot. Wow what an executive. By the way sales taxes are regressive and hurt the working poor the most. We have one of those characters here in Maine. I don't dislike Ms. Palin because she is a woman. I just don't like her politics. She wants to overturn Roe v. Wade incinerate all the Muslims and give whatever we have left in sweat equity to the top 10 percent. We elected one "amener" and look what that got us. Shouldn't we try something else? Remember, her, McCain and Lieberman are going to have their finger on the nuclear trigger. These zealots are apocalyptic.

    Posted by lachatte at 09/04/2008 @ 5:53pm

83. Random note. Most applauded part of the Convention last night? "Drill, baby, drill." *sigh*

    Posted by Thrawn at 09/04/2008 @ 7:27pm

84. Folks, Obama said he would invest $150B over 10 years on new clean-energy programs. First off, why didn't he mention it is OUR money, not his to invest? Never mind. Some of you get it, but too many here might be confused by that concept.

    Let me ask you this instead. Why doesn't he say he will use tax cuts to the tune of $150B to stimulate private sector investment, research and competition? Know why? Because he could care less about energy independence. He's all about power and the redistribution of wealth to his template and that of his fellow travelers.

    I do hope that something is done with healthcare though. I don't know how the libberal bloggers here will afford the therapy they'll need letting after watching yet another certain victory turn into defeat.

    Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 7:45pm

85. First off, why didn't he mention it is OUR money, not his to invest?----Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 7:45pm

    Because he thinks people are smarter than YOU think they are, and are fully aware where governmental money comes from?!??!!?

    also....

    "Let me ask you this instead. Why doesn't he say he will use tax cuts to the tune of $150B to stimulate private sector investment, research and competition?"-----Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 7:45pm

    Because we TRIED that....when Bush and the GOP Congress controlled EVERYTHING and not a damn thing was done to promote energy independence?!??!?!

    Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 9:16pm

86. onthehelm: Dream on. Palin did a masterful job last night, and has nerves of steel. She is a force to be reckoned with.

    Posted by pyeatte at 09/04/2008 @ 10:35pm

87. Executive experience?

    JFK? Nixon?

    Palin beats them all. For dog catcher.

    Posted by datadave at 09/04/2008 @ 11:46pm

88. Nothing has been more amusing in the last few days than watching right wing talking heads squirm when asked if Sarah Palin is the best and most qualified person that John McCain could come up with in the entire Republican Party for his Vice President. To a man (and woman) the best that they can answer with is "she's qualified". When pressed with "the most qualified?" they wriggle in their seat and repeat "she's qualified." When asked "Even more qualified than-insert any name here?". More squirming and "she's qualified." I think that most of them are incredulous themselves.

    Posted by mrredrover at 09/05/2008 @ 01:30am