Can't believe she just said that she said no thanks to the Bridge to Nowhere. Argh.

she's an idiot. where is a hacker when you need one to fuck up her teleprompter

She makes me sick. I hope there's something out there (besides the lies and scandals already unearthed) that can get her kicked from this friggin' ticket. Gahd she's gross.

Honestly, I expected better.

At the risk of being incredibly offensive and sexist, she looks like she's ready to walk on the set of a secretary porn shoot.

Levi -- I need a drink.

Bristol -- Get me outta here.

Todd -- Piper, take the baby.

Piper -- Here, let me fix your hair, Trig.

I'm biased, of course, but I wasn't buying it. Her speech seemed kind of boring to me. Nothing fresh and rather long about her family. No substance to it, imho. But sadly, you're probably right. It'll get rave reviews because she managed to not throw up in the middle of it or something.

She is a fucking c**t. The Dems were SO respectful of McCain. All she can offer is silly mocking throw away lines.

Don't be foolish, people. This gal is good. Do I agree with her? Heck, no. But she's good and that makes her dangerous--still beatable but certainly not to be underestimated at all.

Want Obama? Hit the phones and the streets.

I watched half of it and then just started reading Sullivan's live blogging. Much more entertaining.

same ole tired lies...just more of the same..just substitute POW POW POW AND BOMB BOMB BOMB for DRILL DRILL DRILL and hockey Mom and you have Palin in a nutshell....match made in heaven indeed! she will be a hit with the talking heads and her base.....

i wonder how much this lady knows of the world--like the capital of venezuela for instance?

This convention represents what everyone hates about the Republicans.

This election is a WRAP!

This is the first time I've heard her speak. God I cannot listen to this accent for several months.

Who do you think wrote her speech? Obama writes a lot of his own speeches, right? This sounds soooo canned, so just written by the campaign. I can't wait to hear her in a debate without a teleprompter- but I hope it doesn't get that far.

Give the girl credit, she looks ready to take off her glasses, pull down her hair, and make you vote for her. She's so F'in incompetent and scary that BHO better be scared. Should have picked Hillary, she'd would slap Palin around.

how long with obama campaign allow palin to walk all over the dem prez nominee? they better start calling her bluff on her lies or media will be so far up palin's tootie patootie, obama and company wont know what hit them.....breast and legs do make the world go 'round....and let's not forget a beehive and naughty secretarial appeal...

Give some actual changes, please, beyond "smaller government lower taxes"

Can she be both the sainted mother and Ann Coulter?

From Romney to Huckabee to Giuliani to Palin, this has to be the meanest, nastiest, most sarcastic convention night I've ever witnessed. Well, that didn't involve Zell Miller.

"There's little doubt that Palin's speech, particularly her undeniably skill-full ability to play a tough, brash, ambitious executive and a small-town every-mom at the same time, will get very good press reviews."

wtf?

Oooo a POW reference!

Blew the Hanio to WH line.

Palin = piñata.

In one speech she has successfully given permission for half the country and the majority of the world to hate her.

Code word: Evil - pause - [psssst he's the anti-Christ]

POW card
Bob Dole '96 speech.

Epic Failure, Mondale/Ferraro 2

And on and on and on she goes.

Well, she'll make a fortune on Fox.

This is impossible to watch. I've been reduced to watching "Friends". I HATE friends. But this bullshit coming from Giuliani and Palin is just such a huge truckload of horse manure, it was starting to make me physically ill. I'll tune in when it's all over to hear if the pundits fawn or call their bluff. If these people were to somehow be elected, we'd be looking at four more years of the same division and hate we've seen for the past eight. And that--more than anything--is a kind of more of the same I'm not willing to deal with.

My wife has already said we're moving to France if these hillbillies of hate win the White House. They aren't going to win, but it's going to be completely sickening and depressing watching them try.

Obama and Biden had better come out with guns blazing tomorrow. They have to CRUSH this woman. She opened it up and they have to BRING IT!

Sullivan sums it up perfectly:

"It seems to me that Palin doesn't quite have the stature to be puttng down someone who has won millions of people's votes. "

The POW is in the house.

Glad I'm not the only one....

Maybe a joke from Gramps?

OMG, with McCain standing next to her, it accentuates his age. He really looks OLD.

My God - She looks just like Tina Fey!! It won't take much to do great SNL stuff!

Dear America,

Don't worry about if someone gives a shit about people going through hard times, they are poor for a reason...

Watching McCain and Palin together, I can definitely see the chemistry.

She is not fit TO EVEN READ THE LIES FROM THE TELEPROMPTER, SHE IS NO REFORMER SHE'S A TRANSFORMER, SHE CAN'T EVEN REFORMER MCCAINS LIES, SHE IS WHAT THEY ALL ARE LIERS...PERIOD AND IT SHAMEFUL!

They are letting her attack Obama because they want him to attack her back so the can say it sextist.

I am bitter that she might be my Commander in Chief, and she too does not no what victory is in the wrong darn war...

We just turned it on then turn it off and started praying since we will be returning to war soon.

Please pray for us and don't forget us.

Her brother in law - he was at Hanio Hilton and that is all they need to know. And people want to know how Bush won twice?

O man The Daily Show is pretty badass today.

Condescending. Amateurish. Nasally. Full of lies. I hope Keith Olbermann was joking when he called her "great." I thought she bombed. Big in the hall but it will fall flat with undecideds and independents.

Anyone watching this rendition of the anthem?

This is Carl Lewis bad.

Someone needs to crack open her quotes from just a few weeks ago saying how she thought it was great that Obama was doing well in Alaska.

Sadly MSNBC has not changed their views, they are so infatuated with McPalin...
Chris Matthews should be ashame as how quickly he move from praising him by bashing now, and endorsing McPalin, the same goes with Gregory...

I think I am done with watching them.

I will watch KO because I think he is the only one decent...

Palin exceeded expectations tonight. That's all she had to do, and she did it. But this is only the beginning for her.

I don't see them crafting a good image out of this. She's a rightwing partisan. She's a rabid shrill a--hole. What's post-partisan or maverick about that???

Once again, the McCain camp can't help itself. It only has a hammer and sees every problem as a nail. They attack, attack, attack -- no thought, no strategy.

Which is weird, because she's young enough to be his daughter/wife.

Tena, I know we disagreed earlier, but Palin is a douche. Can we not vote on this???

The raising mccain bit just reinforced every sterotype of the repub party.

Looks like those two days of foreign policy flash cards in a suite at the Minneapolis Hilton have really paid off.

I hope you guys are watching the Daily Show, John Stewart is once again proving to be the best journalist in America.
He just completely eviscerated Rove, O'Lielly, Dickhead Morris, whoever McCain's senior policy advisor is, and Palin--all with their own words, then and now.
Their attacks on Hillary supposedly whining about sexism vs. their own whining about sexism was particularly hilarious.

Now he's got Newt Gingrich on..

I keep hearing "sarcastic" over and over.

Gee Sarah, why don't you crank up the catty just a teense more?

100% rhetoric
0% substance

I don't think that'll carry her too far in a debate. It's nice to know that nobody will be expected to treat her with kid gloves now. Let the ripping begin.

Just interviewed someone in the Alaska delegation who said that he's known her for a dozen years and this is the best speech he's ever heard her give. Oh, joy. ---- I know the official commentators can't say it but I was surprisingly UNDERwhelmed. Really surprised. But, then ... I guess neither McCain nor his search committee ever saw her give a speech......

And the lies - the flat lies. I just can't deal with them.

Anybody else catch the phonetic spelling of "nuclear" in the prepared remarks? I have to give her credit, at least she's trying to say it correctly, unlike our current President...

please stop it...it is all about winning an election with mccain...if obama chose hillary, he would been in a bigger fix...do you really think palin would have been on the ticket with mccain if obama had chosen hillary? heck no! we have to be fair here--foreign policy experience is a biggie this time around and obama and hillary on the same ticket is a disaster no matter how you look at it....biden was the right choice..now they need to cut biden loose to slap palin around...she just proved she can hang with the boys...take the gloves off and nail that sucker to hell or heaven in her Godly case...

I'm sorry people. I gotta vent.

What RIGHT does the Governor of Alaska have to pile such vile contempt on our democratic candidate? I mean REALLY. When did "community organizer" become a byword for trailer trash?

I'm sooooo fucking pissed right now at Tracy Flick's speech for High School Class President.

She doesn't have the stature to assail a man who has won the votes of 18 million people!

God, I'm pissed!

What's amazing is that she has clearly greatly insulted community organizers, doing legitimate work, who are also REPUBLICANS. She is nothing. She is complete fair game to attack. If she wants to play in the big leagues then have at her Obama/Biden or whomever. She clearly has an ego, as demonstrated by her saying 'yes' to McCain, even as she knew her experience was underwhelming for the VP job. I always despised Harriet Miers for saying yes to Bush, but never got a comeuppance for her arrogance. Perhaps Ms Palin will get that instead. I want to see her completely slammed by the Press. I'm tired beyond reason with these Evangelicals and the sorrows they've wrought on this country. They shoved Bush on us, and his failings are their fault. They don't deserve to keep the WH. And if they have to go down in flames, with the Press' help, then God's will be done. I have no use for them.

Just interviewed someone in the Alaska delegation who said that he's known her for a dozen years and this is the best speech he's ever heard her give. Oh, joy. ---- I know the official commentators can't say it but I was surprisingly UNDERwhelmed.

Really surprised. But, then ... I guess neither McCain nor his search committee ever saw her give a speech...... among other things they didn't find out. (Do you suppose McCain has found out yet that she DID support the Bridge to Nowhere? Does he care?)

It is absolutely pathetic, and saddening. But she may also become President; that's where it becomes particularly frightening, and no longer simply indicative of ignorance.

This freak show will soon be done.

They just interviewed someone in the Alaska delegation who said that he's known her for a dozen years and this is the best speech he's ever heard her give. Oh, joy. ---- I know the official commentators can't say it but I was surprisingly UNDERwhelmed.

Really surprised. But, then ... I guess neither McCain nor his search committee ever saw her give a speech...... among other things they didn't find out. (Do you suppose McCain has found out yet that she DID support the Bridge to Nowhere? Does he care?)

This freak show will soon be done.

McCain, Bush, Economy.

Those camera cuts to Willow and Trig reminded me of seeing my clients' families sitting in courtrooms.

I mean - lord love it - Tonya Harding Land.

I can see it now, the ads with Hillary taking down Gov Plain.

Obama's 15-minutes is up. Even going into the evening a quick glance at a broad selection of news sites found no mention of Obama. After Palin's extraordinary performance Obama is so, so finished.

All of the cult and media hysteria during the past week was for not, except to cheapen Obama and his campaign. They proved to all that Obama can only succeed with trash. Well, Palin showed him what a real candidate is.

Message to Obama: It's Over.

Matthew
http://www.theproblemwithobama.com

She done good. It was all lies, and hate and war/famine/pestilence/death -- but it was effective at rallying the Kill-A-Pagan-Baby-For-Christ base.

I hope (and almost kinda believe) that the voting public will notice that "victory in sight" = "light at the end of the tunnel" -- but who knows?

The real news is that the McWar campaign has chosen to turn hard-right and -- as Mittens ranted -- throw them LIBRUL Bushies out of D.C.

...Only in America! If it works, we fucking well deserve it,

LK

I can see it now, the ads with Hillary taking down Gov Plain.

"Community organizer" is the new dogwhistle.

Judging from Tracy...er...Sarah's condescending tone, it's apparent that she and all her adoring little ideologues look down on the notion of public service, volunteerism, and the desire to help inner city communities stand up for themselves.

They sneer at someone who achieves great things on merit and then volunteers his time to help those who are deeply disadvantaged. They applaud one who is given much due to his family's wealth and status and who blows it time and again.

just donated $50 to obama...please show your contempt for this hit job and follow my lead!

Okay, let's all take a deep breath and remember: SHE DIDN'T WRITE IT. We all know that Republican speechwriters have been honing this screed for weeks. So these are the Republican talking points, folks. Study them well, since they'll be be repeated ad nauseum for the next two months. The good news is: THIS IS THE BEST THEY'VE GOT.

Now for a little quiz:
Based on the headlines below, which would you say is the more traditional, objectively "journalistic" newspaper? And which is the shameless right-wing-pandering rag?

The Los Angeles Times?
"Sarah Palin addresses GOP convention: VP candidate positions herself as an outsider"

Or...The New York Times?
"Palin Defies Critics and Electrifies Party"

Hmmmm......so much for the "eastern elite"!

The speech was remarkably smug, petty, and sarcastic. It played well with the Republican base at the convention, but how well will it play with the general public?

Compare the more level headed speeches at the DNC with the those at the RNC. The Republicans are very angry. Angry at the media. Angry at the left. Angry at the government. But they're the ones who have been in power for the last 8 years...

Bush himself spoke of "the angry left," but comparing the two conventions, it's the republicans who are angry while the Democrats are happy and celebrating.

The DEMs need to quash this myth of "executive experience" that the GOP harped on last night. Lots of great presidents and vice presidents in our history had no executive experience prior to taking major office (pretty much all our founding fathers had no executive experience before becoming president or vice president, and in the 20th century neither JFK nor Truman had any executive experience). Besides, Palin is a (less than) one-term governor, is that really much experience? Bush2 was a full-term governor, and his "executive experience" didn't help him very much, as far as I can tell.

Palin seems like a nice person, but when I picture her taking the reigns if McCain falls ill I feel very concerned. Hell, I can picture Cheney taking over if Bush falls ill, but Palin? (OK Maybe that's not a good example, as Cheney pretty much took over from day one). The things they tout as her "experience" sure seem like little more than county fair ribbons (diplomatic experience with Russia? oh please, who do you think you're fooling? That's like claiming you were a "major league catcher" because you grabbed a foul ball in the crowd at Fenway.)

"We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

Really?

I found this passage to be particularly telling. Keith had a clip a few weeks back about McCain telling the story of his time in a POW camp, and being tortured to give up names, so he gives up the names of the starting line-up of an NFL team as his squadron members.

Only he was in Pittsburgh, and he claimed he named the line-up of the Pittsburgh Steelers, when every other mention (including by Fred Thompson at the RNC the night before Palin's speech) the story involves the Packers.

We tend to prefer candidates who don't pander to us one way in Green Bay and another way in Pittsburgh.

Someone should get those clips and run them back-to-back all over Pennsylvania.

Ignore her, focus on McCain. She's the VP candidate for Christ's sake. McCain desperately wants this to be about Palin and he's got an outside shot if it is.

McCain is running for President, not Palin. Let's not lose perspective here...

"We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

Really?

I found this passage to be particularly telling. Keith had a clip a few weeks back about McCain telling the story of his time in a POW camp, and being tortured to give up names, so he gives up the names of the starting line-up of an NFL team as his squadron members.

Only he was in Pittsburgh, and he claimed he named the line-up of the Pittsburgh Steelers, when every other mention (including by Fred Thompson at the RNC the night before Palin's speech) the story involves the Packers.

We tend to prefer candidates who don't pander to us one way in Green Bay and another way in Pittsburgh.

Someone should get those clips and run them back-to-back all over Pennsylvania.

"We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

Really?

I found this passage to be particularly telling. Keith had a clip a few weeks back about McCain telling the story of his time in a POW camp, and being tortured to give up names, so he gives up the names of the starting line-up of an NFL team as his squadron members.

Only he was in Pittsburgh, and he claimed he named the line-up of the Pittsburgh Steelers, when every other mention (including by Fred Thompson at the RNC the night before Palin's speech) the story involves the Packers.

We tend to prefer candidates who don't pander to us one way in Green Bay and another way in Pittsburgh.

Someone should get those clips and run them back-to-back all over Pennsylvania.