Well, he sure the hell is intimidated by the lunatic fringe of the religious right.

Old Fred is simply making the case against McCain when says "This man, John McCain, is not intimidated by what the polls say or by what is politically safe or popular."

The country cries out for leadership in health care, energy, and the economy, and these ideas are very popular.

But let's not that stand in the way of now TWO bulls in the china shoppe. All we've gotten from McCain is his traler-drama of a veep pick.

Keith O is visibly itching to get started on her.

If Thompson manages to not take a nap on the podium or put his audience into a boredom-addled state of shock then I'll consider his speech a win. This guy had nothing on the campaign trail. He better reach deep if he wants to connect.

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It's fascinating to see how the Republicans are framing themselves to the right of Attila the Hun.

Thompson to claim that Obama is most 'Liberal' and most 'Inexperienced' candidate to EVER run for President.

I'm the worst political pessimist on earth and even I'm not worried about Fred Freaking Thompson boilerplating Obama tonight. And Lieberman? It's LIEBERMAN.

Klondike Barbie might put one over on the country whenever she gets up there, but so what? The die is cast, any effect will be fleeting.

I don't understand why you all are all so bullish on Palin imploding. I think the Orr piece The Case against the Case is exactly right. Palin is dangerous. She is galvanizing his base and all this negative press will slide right by them. Maybe the swing voters will come over to Obama and he will be able to beat that Republican majority, but it's going to be a close race now. I don't understand why everyone thinks he will dump her. I think dumping her would be admitting defeat and what's the point in that? The evangelicals would revolt and the swing vote might not counter that. Tell me why I'm wrong. I am really worried about Palin. If she's spun as lightweight by the Dems, they may just sail into the election with a huge underground advantage. After all the average voter DID vote in Bush 2 terms, despite all his incredible lack of foreign policy smarts and the war.

Remember when columns were what passed for a scandal?

Good times.

The press has a very short window open as to how long they will be patient for an interview. I hope reporters see this has chance to hone the long knives.

And she will sail through them all, at least according to her, but what it will reveal will make the rest of country grab their pearls. On no issue is either she or McCain any longer in the mainstream.

Let her stay as long as possible to cement a defeat to this nonsense.

Klondike Barbie if you want to call her that can only be covered like this, assuming she does well as expected:

1) Rousing speech by Klondike Barbie.

2) Talibangelical base loved it and you can really see it here tonight. Very excited.

3) Questions remain, though, as to whether it will be enough, though, to overcome so many issues that she's had in recent days such as a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j.

4) Her speaking skills aside, many people seeing her as a liability as John McCain's numbers dropping in polls, and some are asking was it wise to make the choice and is that the kind of decionmaking they're looking for, to use Hillary's phrase, in a 3am phone call.

5) Still, Talibangelicals here tonight representing one wing of the party roared their approval, blah-blah.

My Friends,

I didn't have access to a Showboat for five and a half years.

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McCAIN/FAILIN' 2008BC YUP! YUP!

What energized the evangelical base in 2004 were anti gay marriage ballot measures. You had them in 11 states including Michigan, Oregon and Ohio. They passed in all 11 states.

Putting Palin on the ticket isn't going to come close to providing that kind of energy for the evangelical base - especially since I'm guessing that there are lots of these folks that realize what a crap move this was on McCain's part.

Ok, if I hear these f*ckers say that mcbush and palin are from the teddy roosevelt wing of the party one more time, I am going to throw my tv out the window. Teddy roosevelt would hate the republican party of 2008 and he sure wouldn't back mcbush and pailin. He would probably hate the dems as well, because they have gone corporate, but he sure as sh*t wouldn't be a gd republican in 2008. These assholes have no shame. Why doesn't a gd journalist get an intern to pull one of tr's speeches about his policies and throw it in these jerk's faces. UGH! Republicans, the party of no shame.

Way out here among McCain's targeted countries (where are those borders again?), the BBC just came on with 5 minutes of Convention. It was withering and I was stunned. All Palin, all negative, interrupted by some countrified Stepford Wife representative from Oklahoma doing a bad Elizabeth Dole impresson.

BBC saying Palin has cancelled events and is basically in hiding. AIP running as a stripe on screen bottom. McCain expected to pay a price for this, explains Halperin in their interview. Really unbelievable.

Speaking of the uninspiring hacks that make-up the McCain entourage, what is it I'm supposed to find Carly Fiorina an expert on? Making HP completely suck? If she were good at being a CEO, wouldn't she be a CEO somewhere else now?

"McCain Isn't A Showboating Celeb" ... says the celebrity.

I'm an Obama supporter so please be gentle with me after I say this: By the time this GOP convention is over, Obama, bless his heart, will not have the same lead he has now.

Why? You might ask. Well, pretty much, the GOP is going to make him look like the Bambi they made him out to be pre-his Denver speech.

And Obama and Biden can't attack Palin because, yup, you guessed it, she's a woman. And after she gives her speech, all the women are gonna get all teary eyed and emotional (yes even female democrats) and throw their support behind the McCain ticket. Not all women, the smart women will be able to see right through it. But that George Bush part of the electorate...you know...the same type of voter that would actually vote for George Bush if he was allowed a third term.

(Oh, and I'm a woman by the way)

"John McCain will not take politically popular positions."

In other words. . . Vote for McCain because it takes courage to stick with Bush's failed policies even after they become terrifically unpopular.

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Oh yes she did! YUP! YUP!

Why didn't they nominate Laura?

I see a lot of smirking faces. The speakers can barely get the words out. It's as though they are choking on all the BS coming out. Laura's card reading put one veteran to sleep practically.

Holy crap! Ron Paul just literally ROCKED HIS HOUSE!

Oh ... shit; they just switched to the GOP convention. I'm not sure - but it seems like the Paul rally was bigger; it sure was louder.

Oh, now it's monkey-in-chief. Ron Paul was better honestly. He had some really good quotes, too bad nobody covered it. That's where the rest of the republicans were.

POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW POW .... gack!

Bush is giving a grade school level speech about Mr. McPOW. How these people get away with talking about human rights is beyond me. I also wonder what kind of meds they have Bush Sr. on for him to be sitting there dry eyed like that. He's there as Cindy's support. Ha there it is folks 9/11. Read em and weep.

Uh-oh...it's Dubya time!!!!

Watched Pickles and the Chimp-in-Charge spew BS.

I have never seen so many old white folks in any place at any time. Scary.

I guess we just learned "at the feet of the master" how to fuck up beyond recognition a fairly easy Veep choice..

Watched Pickles and the Chimp-in-Charge spew BS.

I have never seen so many old white folks in any place at any time. Scary.

Watched Pickles and the Chimp-in-Charge spew BS.

I have never seen so many old white folks in any place at any time. Scary.

They have an info commercial on the Reagan. lies....

"Largest state of the Union"

lololol

Ok, I am on delay because I dvr'd this crap. Everyone should watch a little of this nightmare. How do people buy this garbage? I just want to hurl. It is truly bizarre.

chicalifornia - I'm sorry - I don't mean to be mean - I just have always been opposed to the idea that the American Electorate is stupid. The idea got started when Bush won - even though he stole the election. And then he stole '04. And in Dallas, TExas, in '04, I wasn't the only person wandering around crying after that election - everybody I ran into was. Nobody could believe it.

Then in '06 - why do I have to keep reminding people? Off-year elections do count - especially when a party in power is thrown out and we threw them out in '06, right and left.

Doesn't that tell anyone about Americans? Or is it too much fun to stand up on a pedestal and remark on the stupidity of the people below? I'm sorry - it but I've been bugged by that attitude for a long time - I'm from Texas and that attitude bleeds all the way over into thinking all of us in Texas are idiots, and we aren't. So I'm on a crusade, I guess, to try to get liberals to stop thinking everyone else but liberals are stupid.

I'm not talking Repugs in power - they are stupid. I just mean Americans in general.

Old men telling old war stories. What does that have to do with the future of this country?

Oh, McCain is back to saying he gave his captors the names of the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers? Back in the spring he said it was the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm surprised he didn't say Minnesota Vikings considering the venue in St. Paul.

Well the pro-life statement finally got the crowd jazzed.

that throat clear of Thompson's has me a bit concerned about his health

Well, Thompson sucked, really bad. I think that he may be ill.

On the content, these people are totally delusional. If we had pols saying this kind of crap during wwII, we would have lost. It is really disturbing.

Yeah, this played well to the misinformed limbaugh types.. Please break down this speech in detail here soon... it had every right wing myth in the book.

According to IMDB, Fred Thompson has been an actor in 38 different roles. And if you ask me, his performance in Curly Sue as Bernie Oxbar was definitely showboating. Don't even get me started on Iron Eagle III...

McCain is not a showboating celebrity? As opposed to what? Fred Thompson, a genuine movie star?

Anyone who would believe Fred Thompson on the subject of celebrity would believe just about anything.