8:04 CDT: [Sean] Michael Steele: "Drill, baby, drill, and drill now!"
8:03 CDT: [Nate] Chuck Todd says that Palin's speech is going to be "longer than anyone expected". They're definitely not following my less-is-more philosophy; I think she can accomplish what she needs to in about 15-20 minutes, and that if the speech is 30 minutes long instead, she's more likely to run herself into some trouble.
7:57 CDT: [Sean] Michael Steele: "Are you ready to party in this house tonight?"
7:55 CDT: [Nate] A friend says: "from watching this convention, you almost wouldn't realize that the Republicans had been in power for the past eight years".
7:45 CDT: [Sean] Joe Klein wrote today about the McCain campaign’s war against the press. Steve Schmidt’s war has picked up in the Xcel Center press filing area among furious Republican bloggers as well. Nate noted during last week’s liveblog that he found the cheering in the Big Tent off-putting, but this is equally bad. Citing the RedState and Townhall pushback against the media and the terrible reign of “liberal bloggers,” Sean Hackbarth, the Online Specialist for the Senate Republican Conference, told a sympathetic fellow Republican friend from Wisconsin in the seat next to me, “The Democratic talking points are the DailyKos talking points,” and “I realized today that these liberal bloggers have no soul.”
7:25 PM. [Nate] Whitman's not bad. Not a dynamic speaker, but she comes across as earnest and credible.
7:15 CDT: [Sean] Coincidentally, moments after Peggy Noonan left the MSNBC set, we found ourselves in line together waiting at the River Center press entrance. Nice, smart, gracious woman. She was unaware her private comments had just been aired (as was I, though it was clear something unintended had gotten on air). Noonan told me that if going for a woman was the decision they wanted, Kay Bailey Hutchinson would have been the wiser pick. We also discussed eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who will address the convention this hour and is a likely candidate for California governor in 2010. Noonan was very impressed (by Whitman, and yes, I am using the tongs tonight).
7:10 CDT: [Sean] Welcome back to St. Paul for Ladies' Night. Former HP exec Carly Fiorina and current eBay CEO Meg Whitman (a strong candidate for California's governor seat in 2010) speak early, and with Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and VP nominee Sarah Palin speaking late. It's also a night for the runner-ups, with Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani sandwiched in between. In fact, there is an excellent chance that Giuliani will be speaking at 9:11 local time. Christy Swanson just finished speaking... not to be confused with the erstwhile movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
9.03.2008
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Why aren't they the VP then?
If he speaks at 9:11, I am going to cry with laughter.
Tongs, remember.
I'll make sure I'm sitting next to you, on your website again.
That 9:11 comment made me laugh.
Also, watching on MSNBC, every time they interview one of the Republicans they continue to say things along the lines of "She is incredibly qualified. Beyond that I won't say anything about her because I don't know anything about her and have never met her or heard her name before, but she is incredibly qualified. She is a mother with 5 kids. 9/11."
I'm curious what the critical thinking level of the viewing audience is during this convention.
And Christopher hasn't laughed since... 9/11?
I'm wondering if anyone else gets the sense that the Palin pick might have been not just for the christian right, but so the repubs can claim they are being marginalized again (sexism) which works quite well despite the fact that they claim it when they are in control.
Peggy Noonan was impressed by Sean or Meg Whitman?
BEST PALIN SCANDALS.
AFFAIRS WITH HER HUSBANDS FRIENDS, STOLEN TAX PAYERS MONEY, TROOPERGATE, BANKRUPCY OF DAIRY FARMS, FIRING PEOPLE, ANTISEMITIC CHURCH, SAYS SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE IRAK IS, BELONGS TO THE FLAT EARTH ASSOCIATION, TRIES TO BAN BOOKS FROM SCHOOL LIBRARY HER OUTRAGEOUS SALARY,BABYGATE, ETC, ETC...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13084.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,2482434.story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0SFERgx6JE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/3/19210/88226/643/585143
http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dwzk3g-lB0
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/todd-palins-dui.html
hurb, that's a load of crap. remove, please.
Dude, you're being an Assmole.
lol Indian's for McCain. Is that meant to be ironic or just confusing?
Romney 2012?
I am not going to watch her speak in fairness to her, every time I look at her I wonder that if McPOW and Buffy win how long it will be before they have a stripper pole installed in the oval office..............
weav,
I think they may very well get that kind of benefit. But I highly doubt they planned to pick a vp with a veritable Pandora's box of scandals just on the chance they might be able to get some kind of backlash support.
"Indian's for McCain. Is that meant to be ironic or just confusing?"
Better than "intellectuals" for McCain?
lol
eponymous,
thats probably true, I guess i just figured that a lot of this stuff could have been figured out with a single phone call, not even needing a real full vetting which i doubt could have been done in the time frame they are presenting.
Whitman sucks, sounds nervous, flat and lacks any fire
Replacemant for sleep meds?
Whitman sucks, sounds nervous, flat and lacks any fire
Replacemant for sleep meds?
If this affair thing is true, how can it not be the straw that breaks the back?
Her prepared comments are impressive. I'm getting that sinking feeling.
Why doesn't anyone come out with the spin that if Governor trumps Senator in the experience pecking order then Palin is more experienced than McCain. Or am I missing something?
Apart from that i feel the dems would do well to leave Palin well alone - she's sucking the oxygen out of Obama's campaign and making us look petty
Becky-
Palin has more executive experience than McCain, I hope she moves to the top of the ticket.
moondancer -
isn't the spine already mush?
Whitman is very impressive: more self-government is a good idea.
Becky,
do you real think trashing community organizers is going to play well?
I doubt it.
The Convention yesterday was very boring.
Becky-
Huffington Post took out Palin while BO took the high road. Absolute political perfection.
THIS JUST IN: http://perezhilton.com/2008-09-02-this-photo-is-real
Palin pregnant before married as well. Looks like no one in the family takes sex ed class. of course palin thinks birth control is a sin and should be illegal so that may have allot to do with it as well.
Can we agree on one thing John McCain has done right...
Not choosing Meg Whitman
I wouldn't worry about Palin making the Obama campaign look petty, they have really just been sitting on the sidelines this week. It appers she will rip Obama tonight in her speech so that will open her up for a direct hit back and then it is on.
I still say she will drop out or get dropped withint he next 10 days...
assmole-
compare whitman to clinton, she sucks. compare whitman to lieberman (the lowest bar) and she still sucks.
Becky
Don't get that sinking feeling.
When Obama isn't in the spotlight, he runs away with the race.
If Palin tweaks Obama and touts her family, it will give the media permission to dig into that "private" corner of her life.
You can't have it both ways - either your family is private or they're not. You don't get to trot them out and claim them as your experience and then not answer questions about them.
Not to mention that ratings for this convention look lower than '04.
Frankly, other than Carvel the other night, I haven't seen a Dem surrogate knock Palin yet.
Meg Whitman has the Hillary edge to her. She seems a bit mundane, but I think she would have been effective at picking off some of the Hillary supporters.
pordem-
whitman sucked, but at least she is not on her high horse telling us all what to do, while do everything wrong. What the hell was Palin thinking? I have a clean record compared to her and vetting would worry me. IDIOT!!!!
What's funny is how Palin is now a Full Fledged Celebrity - TMZ.com, National Enquirer and everything!
this lokks SOOO BOORRRING!
Even the people in the audience look terribly bored.
"You can't have it both ways - either your family is private or they're not. You don't get to trot them out and claim them as your experience and then not answer questions about them."
Exactly. Just said something similar on another thread here: you can't cry for pity about how you're being unfairly attacked while you yourself take cheap shots.
People are finally waking up and seeing through this freak show.
Carly Fiorina is coming! Can she ruin the U.S. the way she wrecked HP?
yawn.
Brad-
I have to agree with you. This is just become sad and fast. With John McCain getting 90% from the Republican base already, what is left for them to gain after this convention? Maybe im speaking from high hopes but it seems McCain's polling may go down after polarizing the republican base. It's now a culture war between moderates and the religious right.
Whitman's speech was garbage. She really needs to go to Toastmasters and work on her delivery.
One thing I don't get is the whole 'Obama will raise your taxes' crap. Hasn't the media, factcheck.org and the campaign rebuffed these general claims time and again?
Unless of course, Whiteman is talking to an audience where everyone makes $250,000 - then she's right. But isn't the convention for everyone and not just the top percent of the country? Sounds to me that they are out of touch with the regular American.
sorry if someone posted this already but the Trooper Gate stuff is hitting the fan over at WashPo. It shows Palin was NOT truthful at all in her characterization of her involvement (ie she lied). Once again, is not the crime it's the cover up.
Check it out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303210_pf.html
After the convention you are going to see what happens when you back a rabid dog into a corner.
The Karl Rove kitchen sink is coming out. It is going to be ugly.
Or, McCain could put COUNTRY FIRST and withdraw.
Thanks for the reassurance guys.
True the Obama campaign has not attacked her much (so far) but repubs apaprently don't distinguish between Obama, the media or the blogosphere (e.g. check out Palin's remarks)
I wonder if Palin's TV audience will be comparable with Obama's?
I´m sure that in this country moderates are more than religiuos fundamentalist.
Fundamentalism destroyed countries.
I love it when these speakers like Whitman and Fiorina deliver lines... and the applause is delayed by 1 second and slowly builds as if they are clapping just to be nice. The Republicans don't seem very excited.
lat: ?? 'cos you expect politicians to tell the truth!
I really try to keep things positive, but now I know why Carly Fiorina was not picked. She's just not a good speaker at all. In fact, she's really bad. Too many pauses, too monotone, very disappointing.
Carly has a nice smile.
Fiorina is better than whitman, but the audience is COMPLETELY dead
And the Schwartzeneger speech?.
I want to see Terminator.
"Fiorina is better than whitman, but the audience is COMPLETELY dead"
Yep. The crowd sounds like it did at the DNC for the third-tier speakers.
look in the mirror, dario.
Yeah, Fiorina stinks. She sounds so memorized, as if she's reading. You'd think they'd actually work on their public speaking skills. Really, this is very amateurish stuff. Anyone can learn to be a somewhat competent speaker in just a few months if they really wanted to. These speakers really suck.
Of course.
the DNC ws better than this to the dog catcher
Arnold came? I thought he blew it off
This crowd is just waiting for Palin to speak. They will cheer for anything when she comes out. Blunders and all. Because, reading some her excerpts from her speech it looks like she is an attack mode and defensive. Turns off to independents. Repeating the lines of McCain's stump speech with a women voice doesn't make it any more appealing.
THIS JUST IN:
PALIN 7 MONTHS PREGNANT WITH YOUNGEST DAUGHTER AND 7 MONTHS PREGNANT? WITH NEW SON - - YOU BE THE JUDGE:
http://www.giftsandfreeadvice.com/free_advice/sarah-palin-old-pregnant-photo-and-her-2008-pregnant-7-months-photo-lets-get-real/
"Yep. The crowd sounds like it did at the DNC for the third-tier speakers."
Not this bad. I would suspect though that Fiorina and Whitman are not 3rd-tier, but 2nd tier. They are certainly much higher profile than the wife of a military family or a high school chick.
Half the people aren't even paying attention to her.
This is painful.
ken, 'country first', ability to speak later. Know your priorities, as the terminator would say.
That Michael Williams guy (some Texas Railroad Commissioner) gave a pretty good speech. I hope he goes places - we need more politicians with bow-ties.
I think we need some analysis of bow-tie wearing presidents versus tie-wearers.
LAT... everything you post is worthwhile and interesting.
Thank you! :-)
This is horrendous
The american people are tuning this out faster than Iron Chef
Wow, they must know a depression is coming. They do not want to win
"Let us pray" - the best opening line to really warm up to a new speaker and get the audience's attention after the drivel we've been hearing.
Carly Fiorina sounds like explaining a PowerPoint presentation - very business-like, but not political. Meg Whitman was a little better, but she also suffers from a little "hollowness", but that could be my prejudiced attitude.
Two observations:
1. First read the chyron during Fiorina's speech as saying "Failed CEO" instead of "Former CEO." Oh but for truth in advertising...
2. Love the "Raisin McCain" sign. The raisin-prune subtext is brilliant subversion. Librul inful-traitors!
"Carly Fiorina sounds like explaining a PowerPoint presentation - very business-like, but not political. Meg Whitman was a little better, but she also suffers from a little "hollowness", but that could be my prejudiced attitude. "
Even power-point presentations shouldn't be that boring. Good speaking is the same in any field - business or politics. She's just a crappy speaker.
Good speaking engages the audience, makes them laugh, touches the heart, makes them think and affects them emotionally.
The stuff we're hearing is just pure drivel.
Both these ladies sucked. glad they are repubs.
Hey, today is diversity day!
We see the black Republican and all of the lady Republicans. Can't wait for the Asian Republican and the Deaf Mute Republican.
All women and the African American potential governor, all in one day. I guess they figured that if they pack them all into one day, they don't have to deal with it again.
Noonan claims she didn't mean that the McCain campaign was over, but rather that 1984 and 1988 is over.
Campaign first.
Country second.
Happy diversity day!.
the issue is not that she lied (all politicians do that) but that she lied in an ethics investigation about abuse of power. two different kettle of fish.
Drill baby drill?! this is what they're chanting?
becky-
if she gets 1/3 of obama's audience i will be shocked.
the other issue for her is this arrogane crap crowd. They suck.
I love the way this Michael Steele guy implies that voting for McCain puts the country first when some of the problems he's mentioning were actually created by the republicans (bad education, dependency foreign sources of oil, etc.)
His "drill baby drill" line might be liked, but it's just ignorant. They've already shown that it will make pennies of a difference and will take 18-30 years to take affect. I don't know why the audience is so worked up about it, and I don't know why 77% of Americans think we should be drilling as the main source.
I swear, in order to vote, you should prove that you put at least 10 hours of research into the candidates and the issues.
Becky et al.,
The Republicans have revealed their playbook on Palin.
They will lie and say it is Obama and the MSM villifying her and as such being sexist.
You can't combat a lie unless you can convince people not to believe it.
The people attacking Palin are the blogosphere and the National Enquirer.
Obama congratulated her and defended her family.
The MSM is just trying to keep up with the blogosphere and the NE. They are not leading the charge.
I heard about Bristol's pregancy Saturday night when I was Googling Palin and found an Alaska blog.
The poster stated that she was from Wisalla and knew the Palin's and the Heath's (?). Anyway she flatout stated that Trig was Sarah's son but that Bristol was pregnant out of wedlock.
We all found out the fact about Bristol Monday. The blogs were ahead by at least 2 days.
How can the MSM and the Obama campaign control the blogs and the NE, let alone take the blame.
This race is over. McCain just threw away the experience card, the qualification card, its the only thing he had left.
Obama 297, McCain 241
"Country second."
You're being generous.
"Noonan claims she didn't mean that the McCain campaign was over, but rather that 1984 and 1988 is over."
What did you expect her to say? 'Oops!'? Hehe.
noonan is lying. Keep it up Peggy, you will lose your cred right along with McCan't
Obama was pretty good on The Factor.
vc
Noonan claims she didn't mean that the McCain campaign was over, but rather that 1984 and 1988 is over.
where are you reading this?
VC, i feel like you are this board's adopted troll.
Awwww, cute little troll!
Bash Democrats for 10 minutes.
Then call for bipartisanship.
*Boggle*.
V.C.
Obama was on the Factor? Tonight?
Is there a link out yet?
Trig is Bristol's kid? can't wait....
I had read about the preggo stuff on blogs DAYS before the M$M caught on.
FWIW
Gosh Golly, it's Mitt!
Swell. We've entered the Bologna free zone.
What else could Noonan do? Stand by the off hand comment or what she wrote this morning for the WSJ?
She has no credibility to lose it was lost long ago.
Sarah Palin is Lois Griffin and John McCain is the Old Man Herbert.
Vote, we´re in September now.
Here's guessing ole mittin's is our attack dog for the night.
Ooooooo he's pushing against the media.
I honestly don't think I'll be able to sit through Palin's speech. Even looking past its inevitable lack of substance, her voice is so incredibly irritating I just cringe in embarrassment for her every time she speaks. When you combine the two factors, quite frankly she sounds strikingly like an elementary school teacher.
There's nothing political about it - it's just a matter of basic public speaking ability.
Romney is throwin red meat for 2012. At least he can deliver a speech.
This is driving away moderates.
Yep. Good Job Mitt Romney. Let's bring up Elitism. There's an argument you can win. Oh, good job ranking on the East Coast as well. Oh, snap! You're from the East Coast too!
Oooh, wait - now you're explaining that the Bush government is liberal.
I miss Mitt Romney. He was always good for some bullshit.
Is the Enquirer going to be right again? I wonder why the McCain campaign is responding so early. I actually learned about the Enquirer story by reading the campaign denying it. That seems like a mistake.
Go Mittens! Why aren't you VP?
The sun rises in the West?!
This really is the anti-science party.
Mitt: "The sun is about to shine from Arizona to Alaska" ?
Seems to me that Mccain being only 5 points ahead in his own state and still closing... and with losing in Alaska by 3 points even though Palin was selected... that the only sun shining is a BLUE one.
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
Which brings me back to the affair story is a Republican plant to create a "poor persecuted Palin family" image.
"Throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain"?
WTF?
Does Romney know what job McCain is running for?
Is Bush THAT bad?
thanks filistro!
Hey Brad--I love Iron Chef! I still think this is worse than watching paint dry (republican paint drying)
I am watching CNN, and they are staying out of the way, they don't want talking heads tonight. Guess they dontwant to piss off the right.
HAHAHAHSA
Failed families, like the Palin's?
Apparently, our nation's schools are riddled with... pornography.
Mitt Romney is finally giving an excellent speech. He should have been the VP for the Republicans. He's also painting Washington as a beacon of liberalism rather than a bastion of conservatism. It's a subtle way of blunting the change argument.
Romney's speech is bizarre. And stupid. Throw out the big government liberals in Washington? The republicans?
"Apparently, our nation's schools are riddled with... pornography."
LOL, yeah. I thought the same thing.
It's actually shown that healthy view of pornography before 18 actually improves health when a person is 17/18 and becomes sexually active. It's also been shown that stunting sexual growth and receiving anti-sex messages and shame causes adults to be unhealthy towards sexuality and have problems. I hate the right.
Mitt wouldn't know good porn from the amateur stuff. Keep wearin' the undies!!!!
Heh, Romney´s argument is good - but it´s against everything the republican eternal-campaign-mode-regime has been preaching for the past 8, no 28 years.
Andrew: It would be a smart approach, except:
1. The political climate we are in is so anti-Rep.
2. He's being SO ham-handed about it.
The crack about Gore's jet was good though. LOL
I don't get Mitt Romney. I mean, 5 years ago, all he would need would be a record opposing the iraq war, and then he'd be a perfect liberal, the kind of guy I'D vote for in a second.
This is the guy who said he'd be a better friend to gays and lesbians than TED KENNEDY. This is the guy who brought health care reform to Massachusetts.
And now he's the guy they hire to throw red meat to the republican base? Has the real Mitt Romney been kidnapped and placed in a dungeon somewhere, and now we're seeing his body double?
Romney 2012.
Here it comes from Mitt... praising Ronald Reagan. Someone forgot to tell him that Ronald Reagan would get kicked out of today's Republican Party.
This is so flat compared to the dems. The speakers are flat and feel like they lack passion, and the crowd is full of zombies.
Andrew: It would be a smart approach, except:
1. The political climate we are in is so anti-Rep.
2. He's being SO ham-handed about it.
The crack about Gore's jet was good though. LOL
I did not know that our schools are filled with pornography. What is Mittens talking about.
I was thinking about the Hail Mary sports analogy for the Palin pick and it is not a good one.
Hail Mary's usually end up incomplete and even iof they are intercepted they are more like a punt.
A better football analogy would be a fake punt inside your own 30 down by ten early in the 2nd half. If not succesful, it can really put you in a hole.
However, for all the hockey moms out there the absolute best sports analogy I came up with was pulling your goalie with 15 minutes to play in the 3rd period. Sure you get the extra attacker, but you leave your net wide open.
Completely, hair brained pick for McCain without vetting. I feel bad for VC.
If Obama had made a crazy pick like Palin (Say R. Byrd from WV), I'd be beside myself. I am not sure if I would post anymore but I wouldn't spin it into a positive.
I know nate mentioned it, but jeebus: did they tell all the speaker to talk like the dems owned the white house for the last 8 years?
"This is so flat compared to the dems. The speakers are flat and feel like they lack passion, and the crowd is full of zombies."
The crowd does have a funerary look to it.
LOL. The Gore comment was absolutely hilarious.
"The hope of the earth as it's always been." You got to be kidding me.
"Vice President Palin"
*shudder*
nathan-
dont confuse vc with facts....just because Mitt instituted a more draconian health care policy than hillary shouldn't make you liberal, should it?
Well, Romeny or Jindal.
"I honestly don't think I'll be able to sit through Palin's speech. Even looking past its inevitable lack of substance, her voice is so incredibly irritating I just cringe in embarrassment for her every time she speaks. When you combine the two factors, quite frankly she sounds strikingly like an elementary school teacher."
As I read those words, I imagined you speaking them. I saw in my mind William Kristol's "I think it was kind of generic" response to Michelle Obama's speech (which was a good speech). I thought of Chris Matthew's "take out the garbage" line on Hillary Clinton.
You know, the daily kos fucktards on here really amaze me. Now the Bush '04 internet smear campaign
doesn't entirely surprise me - I have long known that you morons care so much about winning that you are willing to let your candidate drift to the centre without abandon. I do find the swarm of fake accounts with their personal stories of how Sarah Palin pissed in their backyard a tad worthy of eye-rolling.
But that you sir have decided a speech was horrid before you heard it, really encapsulates for me that the American left truly is just as bad as the American right. You don't ask questions of your own politicians, and then you wonder when they fuck you in the ass. That is why America - a country blessed with considerable riches - is the worst governed country in the developed world. Apart from Italy. Italy sucks.
This is the most mind-bogglingly backwards, lying piece of shit speech I have ever, ever heard.
And, not to too belabor the point, but CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THE PORNOGRAPHY IN OUR SCHOOLS?
Not Jindal yet. The country needs time to move right, or he needs time to become more moderate. He has the same positions as P{alin and that will not fly.
ks-
This isn't about reality, this is about their scary view of reality. Black men lurk in every big city waiting to kill these people, they are worried if they don't pray hourly God will take them home.
baz744 said...
"The crowd does have a funerary look to it."
that's probably because they are all half dead old white people, quite like their candidate. D.L. Hughley said last night that you're either voting "for a dude who's half black or a dude who's half alive."
Romney's speech was odd. Although I did have a sneaking suspicion that my chem teacher last year was a porn star. I guess now it's confirmed.
Reagan again. Please, someone tell the republicans what century this is.
Do they have any idea how many voters either weren't born when he was first elected prez or were too young to care?
Never mind. Don't tell them. Let them continue to party like it's 1980!
Oh come on Eve the Dems were still worshipping FDR and panning Hoover well into the 80s.
Gergen just said Romney's speech sucked because it is not liberal Washington, nice!
Hell, you guys STILL haven't gotten over JFK!
Who mentioned JFK?
CNN is eating McCain alive for his press hatred. Don't piss them off!!!!!!!!
I saw a post earlier, incidentally, suggesting that Sarah Palin is a sociopath. One thing sociopaths do very well is play the victim card. It's their forte.
Does McCain have a psychological profile of Palin, and is putting her to use in her best role? Just a thought. = D
JFK got shot, we are over it.
Romney lying about BO! Nice work repub liar!
Obama tries to be just like JFK in talking right up to the "ahhs" and "umms".
Come on Huck give such a good speech they put you into nomination as veep!
baz-
that is whole play. the question is does she play victim and then resign?
Huck-
Good job! Play the media hate card. Piss them off more!!! Keep it up !!!!
Mittens was good. I bet alot of Republicans are pulling their hair out over why he wasn't picked.
I am sure Huck will do a good job too.
The schadenfreud of all this will be transcendent.
I like Huckabee alot speaking...but I think he just made a major mistake implying that Obama is just a symbolic candidate "the Presidency is not a symbolic job"...shades of Bill Clinton's comment during the primaries and we see how well that worked out.
Huckabee is not only give a good speech, but he's good at throwing in some humor as well.
"We don't want to change our freedom, security and prosperity?"
Are you kidding me? Is Huckabee saying Obama doesn't support those ideals? What bullsh*t.
I like Huckabee. He was hilarious on the campaign trail. But I hate these kind of lines.
Whatever you think about Huckabee he grew up in real dirt-poor poverty. Like, no indoor plumbing poverty.
Huckabee is not only *giving a good speech, but he's good at throwing in some humor as well.
McCain et al are laughable with their lawsuit threats against the National Enquirer.
Quite honestly I was ready to ignore it as more tabloid drivel until they started getting all uptight about it.
Now I'm starting to wonder...after all they *were* right about John Edwards, wern't they?
Of course I'm above all this...really...just...research!
I don't like Huck for prez, but I think he would have run a better campaign than McCain. McCain never had to work very hard to be elected because his political career was practically handed to him. Huck learned how to run a campaign.
Huck having been a governor would probably have given him a leg up on Obama. Governors usually do better in prez race than senators.
I have no idea how Huck would have done with independents, though.
Ha! Biden just got destroyed.
Someone should tell Huckabee that Obama doesn't want to change the definition of Marriage either.
And the tire line is tiring. It actually will make a bigger difference than drilling! MORE THAN DRILLING!
Just ignorant.
I have to hand it to Mike Huckabee. He's the only modern Republican who speaks in such a way that I can disagree with him and not feel attacked. I like Huckabee. I'm glad he's not the Republican candidate. He is far and away the most likable of this year's Republican field.
Guys, To judge a speech at the RNC you need to suck out half your brain with an industrial vacuum.
Then just sit their and think about how a low info voter or a Republican will perceive it.
Mittens did well and Huck is doing better.
I am sure Sarah will do a good job too. How good is the question.
I think Biden got more than the 100 some-odd votes that Palin got in her mayoral race.
Look at the huckster go! Wow, best speech of convention so far!
VC - it is hard to see that joke as destroying Binden coming from a man who lost in the primary to McCain...maybe ironically destroying Biden?;)
I agree. Huckabee is a natural. Always funny too.
Huckabee for Press Secretary.
I don't agree with much that Huckabee says, but he's awfully likeable.
Is there something in the water in Hope, AR, that gives you charisma?
What a strange story. Still likeable, but weird.
Dems, this is how we repubs felt last week listening to the DNC.
His "candidate of change" line to Mittens pretty much killed him off in the primaries.
To be honest I had him as an early lock for VP
underwealmed and confused at the message?
I never thought Mittens would be picked, McCain fucking hates the guy.
"that is whole play. the question is does she play victim and then resign?"
I don't think so. Too many shots at the media tonight. I'm convinced the affair story is a Republican plant to cultivate the "poor persecuted Palin family" image. That's why McCain drew attention to it right away.
I think they're going to keep her on the ticket because they know getting rid of her is worse. It's admitting she was a poorly vetted pick, and that McCain is a reckless idiot. Which of course he is. But that's besides the point.
Maybe its payback time. Treat the press like shit for 8 years...
"Drill, baby, drill, and drill now!"
Did someone accidentally slip a porn script into the teleprompter?
I guess, as a (very peripheral) member of the Daily Kos community, I am one of the soulless ones (makes me feel like an extra from a bad remake of "The Mummy"). Blaming Palin's many woes on the lefty blogs may score political points with the chorus on the right, but it really holds no water. I can only speak for Daily Kos as I don't haunt many other blogs, and I can't even really speak FOR them - only OF them.
There were some diaries posted with the wacky conspiracy theories about Sarah, Bristol, and Trig, most by short term members of the blog. Response to them seemed to be at least 95% negative. Typical comments ranged from the practical: "Seriously, who cares?", "This diary is an embarrassment.", "please for the love of god, STOP these...." to the predictably snarky: "I heard it (the baby) looks like John Edwards", "I heard the baby won't wear a flag lapel pin." and my favorite, "anybody check the font on that kids birth certificate?". This would have quietly faded into deserved oblivion if the McCain campaign hadn't spent so much time being outraged about it.
In fact, all the juicy tidbits of gossip (Bristol's pregnancy, allegations of an affair) came from the McCain campaign as outraged denunciations before I ever saw them on Daily Kos.
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