McCain's VP:

I can't believe how negative and condescending she was. I know she had lots of meat in there for the right-wing - lots of things that you guys want to hear people saying on TV - but there was little that would attract a voter on the fence.

Lots of gushing praise for Sen. McCain, though. And did you know that he was a POW?

Not terrible, but not great.

Cycloptichorn

No, words are cheap, I am looking at her reality...

(Think she wrote it, Junior???)

No, but she delivered it, schist for brains.

Tis early, and she practiced a lot.

according to the McCain people (and mindlessly parroted is some media) Palin "educated" the speech writers on her leadership experience.....I loved that we are supposed to be so stupid that we would believe that statement

Betcha dollars to donuts she didn't write her own speech. Why should she? The powers that be that wants to win this election isn't going to gamble on a housewife with no national or international experience writing the most important speech of this convention. Simple.

Do I need to separate you boys?

He grew up wise...

Well, since pretty much everyone all night has been commenting on the fact that she didn't write her speech, I doubt you find any takers.

Didn't bother listening to her speech that the convention members will eat up like chocolate cake. There must've also been some tears in their eyes; all PR stuff with no substance.

Thank God for whiskey.

And I'm quite sure that I'm not the first citizen of any stripe to express such emotion.

<snort>

for LTX...

On that we can agree.

News to me.

Palin did a fine job. Her speech was short on substance, it's true, but then the entire GOP convention has been short on substance, so that's no surprise. In any event, Palin's job wasn't to deliver a major policy speech, it was to introduce herself to the voters and to reassure them that she wasn't an airheaded surrogate third wife for McCain or a wild-eyed mountain woman who lived under the bridge to Nowhere, Alaska. In that, I think she succeeded quite admirably. She came across as personable, feisty, and devoted to her ever-increasing family. In fact, on the crucial "who would you want to have a beer with" scale, Palin's acceptance speech may have very easily catapulted her to the top.

Of course, her biggest challenge in this campaign won't be to give a prepared speech (which, I've heard, she did not even write herself!) to an adoring bunch of Republicans. After the party is over tomorrow, it will be back to the reality-based world, which has not been a terribly friendly environment for the GOP lately.

Are you holding what they did to Clinton up as an example of behavior to emulate? I thought it was wrong when they did it to him, writing to him twice to wish him well, although I had voted against him, and I haven't alterred that opinion.

You mean like Obama is the sole author of all his speeches?

Palin is my kind of woman!

Awesome speech with many jabs pointed directly at the elite media and Obama.
McCain picked a winner!

Holy Hell. Sarah Palin kicked ass.

C'mon Lash... I know you to be smarter than that.