I thought her speech was full of Schmidt.

She is the Lipstick on the Pig

Sarah Palin did inspire me -- I just donated another $100 to Obama/Biden.

Good!

The more the merrier. Bring em all on - I want everyone to see what the Repugs think is a Vice President.

Reposted from last thread:

OT: Obama just responded to the Big Speech (paraphrased):

"Why aren't you responding more to Palin?"

OBAMA: Because I'm campaigning against John McCain, and her policies are the same as his.

Reaction to comments about his experience as a community organizer:

OBAMA: How can they think that is not relevant? Who are THEY fighting for if they think fighting for workers in the community is not important?

Regarding the scrutiny Palin has received

OBAMA: This is nothing new. I expect that she wants to receive the same scrutiny as any male candidate, which includes questioning experience. I've been going through this for 19 months, she's been going through it for 4 days.

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Laughed off Palin's slams, saying he'd been called worse on the basketball court.

Pitch-perfect, if you ask me.

That's great news... 37 million got to see this smug Republican woman read a Karl Rove script.

If she had done some heart to heart interviews before this, that might've swayed people.

Not anymore.

Told ya...

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/sarah-palin-1-josh-marshall-0.php

Curiosity and celebrity factor, nothing more.

Obama's been campaigning all year, you'd think people might be sick of hearing him. And yet he still outdraws (barely) a novelty act and potential car wreck.

Good, she sucked. Two republicans who can't give a speech against two eloquent dems. Game on!

I'm sure the conversion to TPM Palin Central helped.

Then there's the Palinton Post.

And DailyPalin.

And PalinLeft.

And The Palin Report.

And Time's PalinLand with Joe Klein and Ana Marie Cox.

Im actually pleased about this, as its always great news when that many people are interested in american politics. Its about time political speeches get watched by more people than American Idol.

Also, If I were a republican, id be worried having that many viewers tune into that nasty display. That was a speech for the converted, not for people yet to decide. It was tacky and contemptuous, which is a weird tone to have in a speech geared towards convincing the unconvinced. Best of luck to them with that. Makes me even happier to have Obama and the educated elite demeanor he brings to the office.

Palin isn't bright enough to write her own speech. The words from Palin's speech was Schmidt and Roves words.

Good, that means 37 million people saw that ugliness firsthand.

So basically we've now got a very large crowd of people who've had the Republican and Democratic cases made to them very directly. I wonder what the jury reaction after all that is.

What I would like to know is how many people watching the Palin speech were aware the speech given was written before Palin was chosen and retooled with some Palin references afterward, and how it would change their perceptions of the speech if they did know.

PALIN RAISES MONEY -- FOR OBAMA! **Exclusive** Obama scores $8 million since Palin's speech from over 130,000 donors - on pace to hit $10 million by the time John McCain hits stage, campaign says... Developing...

Works for me. Liberals, stop wringing your hands and DO SOME WORK!

Good, 37 million viewers got to watch a very tired-looking and very old-looking McCain at the end of her speech. . .Was it just me or did he look like the "Old Biff" in Back to the Future II.

PALIN RAISES MONEY -- FOR OBAMA! **Exclusive** Obama scores $8 million since Palin's speech from over 130,000 donors - on pace to hit $10 million by the time John McCain hits stage, campaign says... Developing...

Works for me. Liberals, stop wringing your hands and DO SOME WORK for OBAMA!

Well, at my house during the Obama speech there were two TV's with 25 people watching. I don't know how many house parties there were for Obama,but I know there were a lot. I doubt there were very many last night. So, while this is a huge viewership for a vp speech, my guess is that a lot more people gathered to watch the Obama speech. Also, from the blogs I can see that there were a lot of curious Obama supporters watching Palin's speech. Let's see how many people tune into John McCain's speech tonight. Hopefully, he'll talk about the issues. It's their last chance.

She really is looking like an answer to the Dems' Hillary - a polarizing figure that the base loves.

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You guys have to read this smack down of Rudy and Sarah Palin speech by Joe Klien, that he posted on his blog.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html

You guys have to read this smack down of Rudy and Sarah Palin speech by Joe Klien, that he posted on his blog.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html

You guys have to read this smack down of Rudy and Sarah Palin speech by Joe Klien, that he posted on his blog.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html

I'm thrilled that we all got to see the Anita Bryant re-run. I watched the eager reader and it's hardly because she has a chance in hell of getting my vote. Rather I was interested in whether she would repeat the same falsehoods she has already spouted; like she told the feds if Alaskan's wanted a bridge [to nowhere] they'd build it themselves. She did reiterate such B.S. time and again.
In reality she told the folks on the slope they were "somewhere" to her. The dough came through and she spent it on other stuff more to her liking. That doesn't sound as 'reformist' as the B.S. line, though.
Who will illustrate reality in the Robber Baron media, now, that is the question.

Check the comments to Gloria Steinem's article. I'm not being a chicken little, but there is an unusual amount of support for Palin after her speech last night.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/comments_blog/2008/09/gloria-steinem.html?cid=129136694#comments

There is no way I could have watched her.

Okay so my TV is broken, but still . . .

Al Hunt made an excellent point on Charlie Rose the other night. In 1984, when Mondale nominated Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President, there was unprecedented excitment and energy for the first couple of weeks, then it began to fell apart like a stage show of amatuers in Poughkeepsie.

Honestly, Obama is in the best position today to win this race then ever before. She hasn't faced single serious national interview since her nomination.

Al Hunt made an excellent point on Charlie Rose the other night. In 1984, when Mondale nominated Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President, there was unprecedented excitment and energy for the first couple of weeks, then it began to fell apart like a stage show of amatuers in Poughkeepsie.

Honestly, Obama is in the best position today to win this race then ever before. She hasn't faced single serious national interview since her nomination.

Participation in democracy is always good news. Low information viewers seeing the thinly disguised klan rally called the republican convention: priceless. If people saw this and decided to vote FOR her because of it, I need to get out of this country.

A fabricated candidate holed away from the press and prepped to spew the same repug garbage we've been hearing for 8 years. She's not fit to be thrust on the national stage and is a gimmick being trained to be another GOP pit bull with lipstick.Has anyone heard anything from her or this convention that relates to the everyday struggles that people face day after day? Struggles created by the same people that will be there if McCain is successful. Pardon my french but it's all just lipstick on a pig from a GOP creation. Since they can't compete debating the issues, belittle your opponent and attack with sarcasm and lies. I'm thoroughly disgusted by the repeated slimey tactics and if there truly was a time for change it is now!

As Ross Douthat says: Do not attack her ... Behave as though Sarah Palin does not exist.

Anything you have to say about Sarah Palin will carry just as much weight if aimed at McCain, his platform, or his campaign.

Don't mention her.
Ignore her.
Behave as though she doesn't exist.
Behave as though she is of so little importance that she's not worth the effort.
Behave as though she is not newsworthy.

It would be so discouraging for the GOP if she just dropped off the face of the (media) map. Attacking her will achieve nothing. Don't let them make an issue out of her. That's what she's there for. They want her to be THE issue. Cuz other than the liberal attack on her, they aint got any other issue.

Attack McCain
Attack McCain
Attack McCain

Keith Olbermann, please listen!

Really makes you glad they didn't get a chance to run that Bio video.

Even when they're on, they're off. Let's hope they maintain this level of execution for the rest of the election. It's another blizzard of new stuff today.(while Obama is plugging away, still on message).

I don't believe McCain expected everyone in the media to pretend he didn't do what he just did. If they let him pull back the curtain too far, it will expose the Wizard of Oz ...

A fabricated candidate holed away from the press and prepped to spew the same repug garbage we've been hearing for 8 years. She's not fit to be thrust on the national stage and is a gimmick being trained to be another GOP pit bull with lipstick.Has anyone heard anything from her or this convention that relates to the everyday struggles that people face day after day? Struggles created by the same people that will be there if McCain is successful. Pardon my french but it's all just lipstick on a pig from a GOP creation. Since they can't compete debating the issues, belittle your opponent and attack with sarcasm and lies. I'm thoroughly disgusted by the repeated slimey tactics and if there truly was a time for change it is now!

Having blogged about the come-hither charms of Sarah Palin, based only on her reputation and the raft of carefully-chosen still photos presented by the McCain campaign to the media, I felt I had to watch her convention speech last night and see what she is really like in motion.

I came away disappointed and very uneasy. No more steamy fantasies about her for me. She seemed creepy -- sassy and yet intolerantly provincial at the same time, with about as much gravitas as a high school student council candidate. Imagining her as our chief executive, or even as our number-one ambassador to the world, made me feel cold all over. If anyone could possibly garner less credibility on the world stage than George W. Bush, here she was.

As an effete east-coast intellectual, I almost choked on my latte as I watched the video of the audience ("crowd" would be too generous, given all the empty seats).

The GOP has clearly abandoned their pretense of inclusiveness, their attempts to make their party look like the real America. Amid an ocean of pale skin, neck wattles, receding hairlines, odd hats and ill-fitting clothes, and seemingly finger-painted "Hockey Moms 4 Palin" signs, I counted fewer than five blacks, and almost as few young people. Compared to the crowd at Obama's convention, the RNC seemed to proclaim that the future belongs to... the past?

But creepier still was the constant return to the image of various members of the Palin family holding and caressing the famous Down's Syndrome infant the candidate courageously decided not to abort, or so goes the heavy-as-lead narrative. I'm not sure why, if her campaign wants her family left out of the public eye, they would insist on inflicting the image of the baby being passed around like a plate of nachos.

I also want to be first on the record in saying that the hapless high-school kid that knocked up Palin's daughter Bristol is NOT a member of the Palin family, no matter how many anti-reality spells the Republicans try to cast over the arena.

What the hell was this Young Stud of the Klondike doing onstage?! Whose idea was that?! Over here we have Obama, his wife and daughters, and over here... Palin, her family, and... a kid who got laid!

See hypocrisy's genitals! See family re-defined! See the vice-presidential statutory baby-daddy!

Look, if Bristol were my daughter, impregnated in an illegal, premarital, underage booty-call, I would be chasing that kid off the stage with my beloved lightweight aluminum Smith & Wesson .38 Special, not foisting him at the septuagenarian McCain for the Least-Comfortable Hug Ever. (Or was it a handshake? By that time I was so numb McCain could have sunk his incisors into the kid's neck and drank his blood and it would have failed to shock me.)

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I GURANTEE she gets more viewers than John McCain. A risk of overshadowing him and making this race a referendum on Palin? Interesting...

McCain/Palin 08

They shall bring change to Washington:)

She DIDNT sell that plane on EBAY. Is this woman a compulsive liar?

Sarah Palin DIDNT sell that plane on EBAY. Is this woman a compulsive liar?

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You will receive your McCain action points in six to eight weeks.

Has any of you heard about the big speech they're supposed to run tonight? This guy, supposed to be running for an even HIGHER office than what Palin is running for? That's going to get a BILLION viewers!

Here's an interesting piece I saw on a political blog here in Ohio.

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http://blogs.citybeat.com/porkopolis/2008/09/the-gops-one-ni.html

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The GOP's One-Night Stand

Many Republicans are having a love affair with Sarah Palin — or perhaps infatuation is a better word, as most don't know much about her beyond her charming demeanor and twinkling eyes that leave them feeling swept away.

The GOP faithful were jealous about the "enthusiasm gap" their party was suffering due to the young, charismatic and handsome Barack Obama. Now they have the young, charismatic and beautiful Palin to call their own.

But as the afterglow begins fading from Palin's Wednesday night speech at the GOP national convention in St. Paul, some party members are waking up to face sobering truths about her in the harsh daylight of the morning after.

No, I’m not referring to the fact that the Alaskan governor opposes abortion under almost any circumstance, vigorously supports gun ownership or doesn’t believe humans are responsible for global warming. Those are views she shares with most of her newfound followers.

I am referring to her views on more obscure topics that place her squarely on the loopy, far-right fringe of American politics, views that she carefully avoided in St. Paul.

These include her membership in The Alaska Independence Party, where she has advocated that Alaska should secede from the United States and form its own nation.

It also includes her frightening statement during a sermon she once gave at her Pentecostal church: “War in Iraq is a messianic affair in which the U.S. could act out the will of the Lord.” Depending on whose “lord” she’s referring to, that phrase could just as easily come out of the mouth of a radical Islamic jihadist.

Just a few months ago Palin said she didn’t know enough about the U.S. troop surge to determine if it was working. She’s obviously studied up enough since last week to declare at the GOP convention Wednesday that “victory is in sight” in the war.

More disturbingly, though, while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, she asked the town librarian if she “could live with censorship of library books.”

And with a straight face Wednesday night, she told the crowd in St. Paul that she opposed the so-called “bridge to nowhere,” a $398 million boondoggle pushed by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). But she initially supported the project and, as the Associated Press reports, “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.”

Yet none of these disturbing items give many Republican faithful a whit of concern. Their response shows they value style over substance.

Like most conservative Republicans, Palin relishes playing the role of martyr and placing the blame for her problems on the Big Bad Media. Except when Palin zealously courts media exposure that will benefit her.

As Politico.com columnist Roger Simon wrote, “Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teen-age son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq. Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teen-age daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried. Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign.”

But, hey, the governor's a spirited little firecracker, so we can ignore all of that, right?

— Kevin Osborne

With his tabloid heroine having exited the stage McCain's ratings will drop significantly tonight. The trash-TV audience will all switch over to watch that nice Irish boy, Barry O'Bama make his debut with Bill "Oh-Really".

Listen:

The Uglicans like Palin over McCain. He didn't get his pick and they don't like him anyway.

Rove doesn't like him. Gingrich doesn't like him. Lambone doesn't like him. Coulter. Hannity. etc.

Palin, however, is the new and improved Bush - like the next incarnation of the Terminator.

She will gut you like a fish. GW just burns brush.

McCain's already dead even if he wins and manages to stay alive.

THEREFORE the angle is not on WOMEN, but on MEN.

She's the great emasculator. The sum of all men's fears.

The ball buster in chief.

Make McNuts seem like he has none and the game is over.

I bet a majority of that 37 mil were the same democrats that watched Obama. But with Palin, sadly, they don't know anymore than they did on Tuesday--she's a pittbull with lipstick, shameful waste of lipstick.

Shouldn't we be calling this the Palin/McCain ticket by now? It's pretty obvious that she's stolen the spotlight from him.

I am a PROUD AMERICAN and a republican! I do not agree with McCain's selection for VP but after learning more about her I think that she will be ok. I have read all the comments above and must of the posting are insulting to the female gender and it is clear that most of the people do not have an education! It is easy to throw out insults out there about Palin because she has accomplished more in her life then most of the poster above. Educated dialog is health in politics but the personal attacks on minor children that did not make the decision to get into politics. Here are some tips for the people that have posted on this site: 1. Learn about the government and find out what a Senator does and what a Governor does. One makes executive decisions and one does not. 2. Stop making personal attacks and talk about the facts... but please find out about the facts before you post them. 3. If you wouldn't want people talking about your kids in the way that people talk about Palin's daughter... then don't lower yourself to be in the group that is doing it. 4. When doing your research, be bias! Know where you are getting your information and make sure that they are not reporting from a bias opinion! 5. Debate and have dialog on issues not childish comments like "She is the Lipstick on the Pig". Think about it, do you really think a comment like that makes you look educated. Folks, I will end with this. My pick for the president of the United States of America will be based on one thing and only one thing.... Which candidate is going to protect our country better! And not allow Islamic radicalism that have have such a hatred for our country to attempt to try to do any harm to us. I love this country and in the times that we face today, what is more important? Free health care and cheap gas.... I don't think so. My vote is going to the one that I know is going to stand up for my country and protect what I have grown to love!!! I don't want to have conversations with bullies because all they will do is sucker punch you!!! This country has given everyone a great honor and this is the opportunity to vote. Do not vote based on what you see in the news or what is best for you personally... Do what is right for the country!!

I am Tony Whitman and I approve this messege.

I am a PROUD AMERICAN and a republican! I do not agree with McCain's selection for VP but after learning more about her I think that she will be ok. I have read all the comments above and must of the posting are insulting to the female gender and it is clear that most of the people do not have an education! It is easy to throw out insults out there about Palin because she has accomplished more in her life then most of the poster above. Educated dialog is health in politics but the personal attacks on minor children that did not make the decision to get into politics. Here are some tips for the people that have posted on this site: 1. Learn about the government and find out what a Senator does and what a Governor does. One makes executive decisions and one does not. 2. Stop making personal attacks and talk about the facts... but please find out about the facts before you post them. 3. If you wouldn't want people talking about your kids in the way that people talk about Palin's daughter... then don't lower yourself to be in the group that is doing it. 4. When doing your research, be bias! Know where you are getting your information and make sure that they are not reporting from a bias opinion! 5. Debate and have dialog on issues not childish comments like "She is the Lipstick on the Pig". Think about it, do you really think a comment like that makes you look educated. Folks, I will end with this. My pick for the president of the United States of America will be based on one thing and only one thing.... Which candidate is going to protect our country better! And not allow Islamic radicalism that have have such a hatred for our country to attempt to try to do any harm to us. I love this country and in the times that we face today, what is more important? Free health care and cheap gas.... I don't think so. My vote is going to the one that I know is going to stand up for my country and protect what I have grown to love!!! I don't want to have conversations with bullies because all they will do is sucker punch you!!! This country has given everyone a great honor and this is the opportunity to vote. Do not vote based on what you see in the news or what is best for you personally... Do what is right for the country!!

I am Tony Whitman and I approve this messege.

I am a PROUD AMERICAN and a republican! I do not agree with McCain's selection for VP but after learning more about her I think that she will be ok. I have read all the comments above and must of the posting are insulting to the female gender and it is clear that most of the people do not have an education! It is easy to throw out insults out there about Palin because she has accomplished more in her life then most of the poster above. Educated dialog is health in politics but the personal attacks on minor children that did not make the decision to get into politics. Here are some tips for the people that have posted on this site: 1. Learn about the government and find out what a Senator does and what a Governor does. One makes executive decisions and one does not. 2. Stop making personal attacks and talk about the facts... but please find out about the facts before you post them. 3. If you wouldn't want people talking about your kids in the way that people talk about Palin's daughter... then don't lower yourself to be in the group that is doing it. 4. When doing your research, be bias! Know where you are getting your information and make sure that they are not reporting from a bias opinion! 5. Debate and have dialog on issues not childish comments like "She is the Lipstick on the Pig". Think about it, do you really think a comment like that makes you look educated. Folks, I will end with this. My pick for the president of the United States of America will be based on one thing and only one thing.... Which candidate is going to protect our country better! And not allow Islamic radicalism that have have such a hatred for our country to attempt to try to do any harm to us. I love this country and in the times that we face today, what is more important? Free health care and cheap gas.... I don't think so. My vote is going to the one that I know is going to stand up for my country and protect what I have grown to love!!! I don't want to have conversations with bullies because all they will do is sucker punch you!!! This country has given everyone a great honor and this is the opportunity to vote. Do not vote based on what you see in the news or what is best for you personally... Do what is right for the country!!

I am Tony Whitman and I approve this messege.