Rudy's Speech Goes Long, Forces Cancellation Of Palin Introductory Video
Wow. Rudy, who was clearly enjoying his speech as much as he enjoyed his trips to his command-center love nest, ran so long that the GOP convention planners were forced to skip over the planned video introducing Sarah Palin.
As soon as Rudy left the stage, Palin came out to speak -- even though the schedule clearly said there would be a video tribute first.
Rudy!
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HAHAHA!
What a fucking cockbag.
September 3, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her family is off-limits, unless she's exploiting them.
Just disgusting.
September 3, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
We seemed to disagree earlier, but we really don't. Let us come together as Americans and agree that she is being a douchebag.
I can't believe they are making fun of him being a community organizer. That is insane.
September 3, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah, no hard feelings. I agreed with your main point.
September 3, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmmm. How sexist of Rudy.
How Rudy of Rudy, come to think of it.
September 3, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is just me or her voice is so fucking annoying?
September 3, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw her speech when she was introduced, and that's the first thing I thought, but I decided that I was just being too much like Rush Limbaugh.
September 3, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
She sounds like Mrs. Loopner on early SNL.
"Oh Todd!"
September 3, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's her husband's name. "Don't be a clod, Todd!"
September 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've thought so since I heard her sportscasting and her first speech after getting the VP nod. Didn't want to say so before coz I thought that would just sound mean-spirited but after hearing the vitriol spewed by Romney and Giuliani et al, I'm in no mood to be pleasant. I would rather listen to nails on a chalkboard than Sarah Palin speak.
On a superficial level, I'm glad that the McCain/Palin is Titanic 08 in motion coz the thought of hearing that voice for the next 4 years is KILLING me.
September 3, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rudy you sexist!
September 3, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
ANOTHER FUCKING SLAM ON MICHELLE! These people are disgusting!
September 3, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's actually using the PTA argument! Go figure!
September 3, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her Voice! Make it stop -
September 3, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it me, or could this backfire to the point where she is a bigger name than McCain?
September 3, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thats the nightmare the McCain campaign wants to end now. They dont want the referendum to be about them.
September 3, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Code Pink in the house! Just taken out.
September 3, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
She failed to deliver on the Community Organizer so-called joke. The crowd didn't care.
September 3, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I disagree. They cheered over it but they loved it. And the bitter jab too.
September 3, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin...
THE CHURCH LADY LIVES....
ISN'T THAT SPECIAL....
September 3, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
You notice how she did exploit her son's military service and Joe Biden did not.
September 3, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't it bad practice to state the name of an individual and the date they'll be deployed?
Loose lips sink ships, anyone?
September 3, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
If I were in a position that is risky enough to require secret service (e.g. being nominated for VP) and my son were being deployed to Iraq like a walking target, the last thing I'd want is to draw international attention to this fact, actually. It makes me uncomfortable when politicians do it - Republicans OR Dems. Especially when details like their date of deployment and other security-risk details are given out like candy.
September 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
To McCain's credit, he stayed mum about his own sons' deployments until they got back.
On another note, at least one phrase, about going to the White House with "a servant's heart," is a classic evangelical-to-evangelical term.
September 3, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin's speech is maddening! Oh my god this is insanity... She is so disgusting. Barf.
September 3, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
That baby is 5 months old. Why isn't he at home in his crib? Seriously. The only reason they have for dragging him out is to use him as a political prop. That's disgusting.
September 3, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. A 4 month old baby shouldn't be out at 11pm in a crowded arena.
September 3, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bullshit.
A four month old baby in good health will be fine just about anywhere as long as he's being held by someone who knows and loves him. I seriously doubt that even if the baby starting fussing he would have disturbed anyone in the hall. Of all the stupid things to criticize Palin for this has got to be the stupidest. Jonze, weren't you the one telling everyone to back off of the baby stuff? Now you are complaining about how other people take care of their kids. Geez.
September 4, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
its not a great speech, her delivery isnt the best, but she is doing enough to get by.
September 3, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree - she's getting by - barely.
September 3, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe the realized the intro video was a stinkeroo and asked Rudy to blabber on to fill up the time.
September 3, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
She sounds like Lily Tomlin doing Earnestine, the telephone lady -
September 3, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
WOW!
That totally nails it!
She is Earnestine from the telephone company.
We don't care
We don't have to
We're the GOP
September 3, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey all - I just contributed another $25 to Obama...after watching Rudy the snide jerk..I felt I had to do something !!
I also have a new drinking game - everytime you hear 'average hockey mom' do a shot!
September 3, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
She sounds like Earnestine giving a high school address -
September 3, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
SHE LIED ON THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
September 3, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even the partisan crowd knew. Muted clapping and cheers.
September 3, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
She got rid of a chef! Well, that changes everything.
(But she lied about the bridge).
September 3, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her accent is annoying, the sppech is flat, but you can bet the Republican pundits will make it seem like she gave the best speech in the world.
September 3, 2008 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
My roommate summed it up succinctly:
"Really?"
This woman is awful. She's biting off more than she can chew. Klondike Barbie doesn't know how to work with applause, and is dependent on the teleprompter like a motherfucker. Her words are going to get her kneecapped by Obama and Biden, hardcore.
Very awkward. Very stupid. Very Republican.
September 3, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR BEING A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO??? HOW LOW CAN YOU GET???
September 3, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, plus, she called herself a "girl". Just what we need to face Kim Jong. A fucking girl. Not a woman. How...quaint.
September 3, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know I'm biased, but this is a terrible speech. The crowd is just responding like robots.
September 3, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Started weak, got stronger, and now going back down.
September 3, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's been cutting and pasting too much. I's not hearing anything new hear.
September 3, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know... I think she is looking quite comfortable on the podium, but am I alone? She just comes across being really nasty.
September 3, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
drill now is not going win a single vote at this point.
September 3, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ultimately, "we're not him"
September 3, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is disgusting. are these people living in another world? my head feels like its going to explode.
really just a sick joke.
September 3, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is going over with the independents like a lead ballon. What are you going to do?
September 3, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're not alone.
September 3, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey...I have a real question.
I just read over Palin's speech instead of listening to it, and there's something weird.
She has a line about having more nuclear energy, and the word is spelled out like this: "new-clear".
Was that a joke by somebody at TPM, or was that a real attempt to get her not to say "noo-kyoo-ler"?
Because if you just say new and then clear, you're close to the right pronunciation.
I thought Republicans LIKED "noo-kyuh-lur". Go figure.
September 3, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
ooh, it worked though. Nailed it!
September 3, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
my mother has a son in the military shes half as qualified as sarah palin to be vp.
September 3, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it is a mistake to make her go nasty from the get go. She'll just look mean. Not a great first impression.
Greg is totally wrong. You can't be ruthless eecutive and folksy nice mom.
September 3, 2008 11:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ummm... wasn't she supposed to not be insulting Obama tonight???
September 3, 2008 11:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
rudi's speech could be a gift. it once again showed the ugliness of the underbelly of this party (i.e., community service to those who are not empowered equals zero!) abe should be rolling over in his grave
September 3, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget Sarah... I think she did Rudy one better.
September 3, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
And wasn't yesterday's theme "Service Before Self" or some such bullshit? And now they're mocking it?
September 3, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hats off to Harry Reid!!!
September 3, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is so classless. these people have nothing significant to offer so they continue to belittle barack obama.
regardless of what you think of his politics barack obama has been a great example of class and integrity.
not just a great canditate but an exceptional person. he will never sink to their level as much as others have called for him to do so. thats a point that too often goes unnoticed.
September 3, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is an incredibly nasty piece of work. Big mistake on their part. Bye bye, independents and middle. I'm an indy liberal, and I would NEVER vote for such an awful woman.
September 3, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is not going to get rave reviews over her "recycled" sound bites.
Absolutely nothing new here, same old attacks, same old, same old.
She's a hack.
September 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
among other lies, rudi stated that ms. pallin lowered taxes. alaska has not personal income tax. the corporate income tax has not been reduced. true, the gas tax was suspended and residents received a one time rebate check. but, that's not reducing taxes in terms of long term relief. alaska residents are the least taxed residents in the nation. don't be fooled again!
September 3, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
among other lies, rudi stated that ms. pallin lowered taxes. alaska has not personal income tax. the corporate income tax has not been reduced. true, the gas tax was suspended and residents received a one time rebate check. but, that's not reducing taxes in terms of long term relief. alaska residents are the least taxed residents in the nation. don't be fooled again!
September 3, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interestingly, none of the Republican crowd seems disturbed by the idea of McCain making love to the Alaska Pipeline.
September 3, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Weird delivery. Strange pauses. Flat tone.
Robotic pauses:
"Help. Me. Elect. A. Great. Man. ..."
And way too angry. Instead of tough or confident, it's just shrill and angry.
September 3, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
you know i was worried that we may have underestimated this woman.
i thought to myself "yeah she was mayor of a town of only 5500 but she did become governor maybe there is something to be concerned about."
well now you can throw that out the window she is awful.
thank you john mccain for single handedly destroying your own campaign.
this was a tremendous gift. nothign special about her let the crazy right swoon over her. that will not attract independents to their cause.
September 3, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was more concerned about her presentation skill, how well she would portray herself as a likable and capable hockey mom and gov executive. But it turned out she was a god-awful speaker even with the help of the prompter. Too rehearsed, too choreographed, too mean, too nasty, and no real reformer image.
And from that speech, I don't expect her to ace either press conference or debate.
September 3, 2008 11:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, I'm not impressed at all (and, honestly, to my great relief).
September 3, 2008 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
can these people do anything original. nice surprise john mccain. did you see barack do this last week.
tired.
September 3, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow the lies we heard tonight. These two need to go down in flames fast before the rest of America becomes RETARDED! Obama, you had better get out your MOOSE hunting gun quick, I smelled alot of Karl Rove the robot leader here tonight!
September 3, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow the lies we heard tonight. These two need to go down in flames fast before the rest of America becomes RETARDED! Obama, you had better get out your MOOSE hunting gun quick, I smelled alot of Karl Rove the robot leader here tonight!
September 3, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought she came off okay, she had the pauses down, decent eye contact and read her speech well. It was mostly attacks and the scan to the crowds were creepy, but that wasn't her, that's her base.
Her test will be the debates.
She came off better than Guiliani or Romney.
September 3, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
sorry fellow bloggers for the double entry about the tax reduction claim. i fell into the rudi mind set of repeating myself...remember 911, remeber 911...what a tool! i can't believe the bs about the media reporting on pallin's daughter pregnancy. like most, it's no big deal. it just shows the moral hypocrisy of the consertive base, like gary bauer, who would be trashing obama if it was his daughter.
September 3, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
sorry fellow bloggers for the double entry about the tax reduction claim. i fell into the rudi mind set of repeating myself...remember 911, remeber 911...what a tool! i can't believe the bs about the media reporting on pallin's daughter pregnancy. like most, it's no big deal. it just shows the moral hypocrisy of the consertive base, like gary bauer, who would be trashing obama if it was his daughter.
September 3, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
SOMEBODY SLAP RUDI WITH A SHOVEL TO MAKE THAT DAMN LISP STOP!
September 3, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
crap, i did it again...tax and spend liberals...tax and spend liberals...they will not keep you, your money, or the nation safe...they hate families and children...brought to you by the republican party.
September 3, 2008 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought she came off okay, she had the pauses down, decent eye contact and read her speech well. It was mostly attacks and the scan to the crowds were creepy, but that wasn't her, that's her base.
Her test will be the debates.
She came off better than Guiliani or Romney.
September 3, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought she came off okay, she had the pauses down, decent eye contact and read her speech well. It was mostly attacks and the scan to the crowds were creepy, but that wasn't her, that's her base.
Her test will be the debates.
She came off better than Guiliani or Romney.
September 3, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I loved the song by that red-neck band at the end "We're all just raisin' McCain". Horrific!
I feel sick after watching that hate-fest.
September 3, 2008 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks to all of you for the updates! I'm watching Murder She Wrote nd drinking Carolina Sweet Wine! It's my Birthday!
September 3, 2008 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mine, too. The speech was and was not a birthday present. I suspect she will get eaten up the press when she has to go off print...especially when confronted by the fact of her record. Can't wait until she gets asked about the line-item veto of over $1 million for the Covenant House, a program in Alaska for unwed mothers. She ain't no "compassionate conservative." And she ain't on fiscal conservative...given the fact that the Alaska state budget is funded by oil revenues and Federal dollars. The citizens GET money from their government. That approach prepares her to make hard choices of the President? It was tough to listen to the speech, but I think she will eventually get chewed up for it...especially the outright lies she told after the contradictions were pointed out already (re bridge to nowhere...) Let the games begin...
September 4, 2008 6:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rudy tonight was the perfect embodiment of the ugly American. I hung my head in shame and got very motivated to see to it that Obama is elected.
September 4, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
So it's great to be from a small town, but somehow dishonorable to work in the inner-city. Thanks, Ms. Flick. Got it.
Can someone tell Mitt that his party was in control of Congress for twelve years and that his party controlled everything for six. If he has a problem with the way things have gone recently he can point his finger right at his coiffed, robotic face. And who is he to call anyone an East-coast elitist?
Rudy...Rudy. You diseased little man. So in love with your own Sylvesterian voice that you fuck up the evening for the VP nominee. You love those personal insults, don't you, little man? Boy, elementary school must have been rough on you.
I'm sure the night whipped up the base. Palin overall handled herself well. But it was slime from one end to the other and made me hate people. I hate feeling like that. They must be defeated.
September 4, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
What's the chance that there was no video? That they simply didn't have time to put together a decent piece of work since up to a week ago they had no idea who she was or what she'd done?
September 4, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Democrats have to love small towns, but Republicans get to viciously attack cities.
When Rudy was badmouthing Chicago and San Fransisco, I was just bursting to hear him say..."But NOT New York."
I'm a big city mayor, and I HATE cities.
September 4, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink