And she worked to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, too. Good job!
Does she realize the VP doesn't have a Veto?
And speaking of wasteful spending - why hasn't she sent the money back from the funds for the Bridge to Nowhere yet?
It may be the Republican drinking game, but I just have to say that Palin's politics make me want to vomit, but I'd shag her six ways from Sunday and leave late the next day. No, it's definitely the drinking game. I should have never chosen the word "liberal". But I'd still do her.
Oh god, Frizzelle. This is like the first trans-Atlantic cable...
Didja see the protester being escorted out? Anyone know if she did anything (except maybe being disruptive)?
Wow, they've really given up on the 'community organizer' vote.
She does that Bill Clinton thumb point thing, when she says words that start with the letter S she sounds like a s-s-snake, and her jokes are really, really bad.
I said it in another thread that doesn't seem to exist any more:
It may be the Republican drinking game, but I just have to say that Palin's politics make me want to vomit, but I'd shag her six ways from Sunday and leave late the next day. No, it's definitely the drinking game. I should have never chosen the word "liberal". But I'd still do her.
I'm worried. I think she's working that that approachability and down-home factor that made people like Dubya... which is exactly where Obama can fall down on the job. I hope I'm wrong, though.
I don't like her but she's a fighter and willing and able to challenge the Dems. She obviously has lots of weak spots but the Republicans know how to lie and cheat when it comes down to the wire so she might actually be able to strenghthen the ticket. On the other hand, it could be considered a terrible mistake adding credibility to the argument that McCain has poor judgment. The main point is to turn on the heat and make sure this is not a close race in early November.
She repeated the bridge to nowhere lie!
You're all over-thinking this. This woman has just won McCain the presidency. The conservative base is in love right now.
She's so fucking BAD.
The Obama attack was disgusting and unnecessary, also.
Mayor of 8000 people has actual responsibility, community organizer doesn't?
She should work on her strengths instead of trying to show she's better than Obama. At anything.
Man, she's landing solid punches on Obama--unlike a community organizer, serving in Alaska actually had "responsibilities." But I wonder how her hits and the crowd's hoots will stick after he graciously let her off the hook. She seems desperately bloodthirsty.
wow, i don't think palin could come across as more inexperienced or unpolished. its like when you're just out of college and you try to make being the secretary of your sorority sound important during your first grown-up job interview. jesus.
She is dangerously charismatic
I'm worried. I think she's working that approachability and down-home factor that made people like Dubya... which is exactly where Obama can fall down on the job. I hope I'm wrong, though.
Oh, and Stranger? Spring for the premium package from your host for the debates next time, k? Your current server seems to be having a meltdown.
Actually, what we need to do is work for renewable energy so we don't rely on anyone's oil and gas...
I wonder if she speaks for people like me, who have kids with "special needs" like a good education, some jobs left in America, freedom from crippling health-care costs, affordable housing, civil rights, etc?
I was expecting her to be more fiery...its abit meh for me.....she was made out to be a better speaker
Did she just say "using energy as a weapon"?
I was expecting her to be more fiery...its abit meh for me.....she was made out to be a better speaker
She's doing extremely well...for a valedictorian.
@5: They found out that the woman wasn't a hockey mom.
I wanna know what the deal is with that lady PBS just panned to being escorted out by the secret service.
Will the real Tom Moe please stand up? I don't think I've ever seen a bigger closet case.
all i hear is fear and hate... man the republicans are so good at this
What a fucking bitch.
She hasn't said a word of substance this entire time. It's all smug pandering and bullshit nationalist rhetoric. The crowd is just eating it up.
Words cannot describe how much I want to butcher this woman like a moose right now.
also, what's with all the fake Terrible Towels?
Ugh... please no more close-ups of Repubican faces cut in with the speech. Those people just look... evil.
OMFG DID ANYONE ELSE CATCH THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER LICKING HER HAND AND GLUING DOWN THE DOWNS COWLICK?!?!?!?!?!
is that baby DEAD, anyone??
I hate her and her political beliefs. And she's done a great job of attacking Obama and building up McCain. It's hard to watch the opponents do well.
She just stole, or is attempting to steal, Change.
fuck
The maverick is a gelding. With everyone's crazy ex-girlfriend by his side.
Hahah this speech is great and funny to boot. You liberals are screwed, ooo-oo-ooo. Mark my words: 5 days from now, McCain will be breaking 50% in Gallup polls.
she reads a good speech, but i'm not sure i see much intelligence behind those (kinda sexy!) glasses. god, watching this makes me hate republicans.
I hate her and her political beliefs. And she's done a great job of attacking Obama and building up McCain. It's hard to watch the opponents do well.
She just stole, or is attempting to steal, Change.
fuck
She seems frighteningly comfortable.
How could any almost republican now not fall in love with her?
She's got that 'lipstick', alright.
the real difference between being a community organizer and the mayor of a small alaskan town is that being a community organizer is a full time job.
@31, yes, I saw that, and was mystified and appalled.
I'm only sorry she didn't bend down and lick the baby's head. These people are NOT LIKE US.
Oh god, it was like a big Republigasm when McC walked on the stage.
Is Levi chewing gum?!?!?!
not the home-run she needed at all. she'll be replaced by monday...and they are into overtime
Hahah this speech is great and funny to boot. You liberals are screwed, ooo-oo-ooo. Mark my words: 5 days from now, McCain will be breaking 50% in Gallup polls.
None of my comments went through.
But we are going to lose.
this is going long. McSAME!!!
TV everywhere is being pre-empted. Revenue streams of the Networks are now being disrupted. There will be much fallout.
She seems frighteningly comfortable.
How could any almost republican now not fall in love with her?
She's got that 'lipstick', alright.
@38 the real difference is communities in chicago have more than 8000 people.
And Mary Cheney couldn't bring her partner of a dozen-plus years to the stage?
Selecting Palin was a cynical move and a gratuitous act of pandering. But it's proving to be very shrewd. Most of the right is madly in love with her, and she has given his campaign a formidible boost.
We can slag her up and down the bstreet all we want, but we must not underestimate her or him.
The media reaction is fawning. They love her.
I would have though that under the circumstances she would have wanted to set a higher tone.
Just wondering, are you running slog off of someone's blackberry? because my laptop does a better job serving pages.
OH LORD! SP is a Parselmouth like Harry Potter!
She's done a really good job attacking Obama with blatant lies! What the hell? I hope the media tears this speech apart.
CNN said she hit it out of the park. Really? All I heard was snark. If that's the criteria then the majority of SLOG commentators are qualified to be VP.
I had to switch to Tyra- I needed some sanity.
@38,
I'm stealing that. I hope you don't mind.
The first half of her speech was a rehash of her speech from last Friday. Weak.
And the boyfriend looked absolutely terrified.
@31:
What is your fucking problem? Do you really think it is okay to refer to a baby as "the downs"?
It's not about the republican base. It's about the swing voter, the undecided. Some of you are worried the Republicans love her? So what? They are supposed to. They are not the point. It's whether she can appeal to the independent, the swing voter, and the Hillary hold out.
Selecting Palin was a cynical move and a gratuitous act of pandering. But it's proving to be very shrewd. Most of the right is madly in love with her, and she has given his campaign a formidible boost.
We can slag her up and down the bstreet all we want, but we must not underestimate her or him.
I agree with 44: we're gonna lose. Again. The 'Obama has no experience' and 'Obama is hot air, no action' will stick, and people will vote on that.
Sheesh. What a load of crap. Mayberry mixed with good old-fashioned GOP crap.
A dottering old man with everyone's bitchy ex-girlfriend. It may play in some small towns - but small towns aren't the majority of the vote.
I feel pretty good about this. I think she will appeal to the people who already liked her, but that's about it.
Selecting Palin was a cynical move and a gratuitous act of pandering. But it's proving to be very shrewd. Most of the right is madly in love with her, and she has given his campaign a formidible boost.
We can slag her up and down the bstreet all we want, but we must not underestimate her or him.
JJ: Are your stupid? We are going to lose. No one cares about her scandals. They didn't care about Bushs' scandals and they wont care about hers.
Goddamnit. GODDAMNIT. She is going to grab this and I am going to vomit.
I can't wait for the first Palin-Biden debeate.
@44: i'll assume you are a republican.
I would have though that under the circumstances she would have wanted to set a higher tone.
Selecting Palin was a cynical move and a gratuitous act of pandering. But it's proving to be very shrewd. Most of the right is madly in love with her, and she has given his campaign a formidible boost.
We can slag her up and down the bstreet all we want, but we must not underestimate her or him.
Since she has implied that she is a pitbull with lipstick,(7:42pm) can we call her a self-described "female dog with lipstick," along with her future son-in-law the self-described "f***ing redneck?"
All in all, solid speech... vicious, unforgiving... Looks like they're going to make this interesting after all. Wonder if McCain can hold up his end...
And yeah... what's up with the eating comments and slow loading, huh?
Original Monique, I am scared too. But let's keep our heads and remember that this is still up in the air. Obama can still forcefully define his opponent as more of the same, can still impress independents, is still the man who has run the best campaign for President in decades.
Don't underestimate the power of this woman to rally the ReligioRight and Conservative Base, that until now has been very tepid about McCain.
Once we're done being snarky, let's wash out our ears and get back to work and elect Obama/Biden. It's gonna take a lot of hard work. From everyone.
OH LORD! SP is a Parselmouth like Harry Potter!
I'm told by our Technical HQ that the slow loading on your end (and the slow loading on my end!) is due to spammers and the anti-spam software. So: blame spam.
Fine. I'll go donate to Obama now.
@44,
Just relax. We still don't know how she'll hold up on the spot. Considering her complete lack of knowledge about EVERYTHING, she's going to need a steep learning curve to keep from coming off as an idiot.
@75.spammers...our own versions of Terrorists! eeek!
anyone else need a drink? oh wait... you've all been drinking this whole time to cushion the blow. I shoulda done that.
i hope people realize that fear only brings us down and backwards.
@57 go for it, except i should warn you, i just looked it up - wasilla, ak's mayor is actually a full time position. how a city of 8000 can afford a full time mayor is beyond me.
@80 - because 75 percent of the Alaskan State Budget - and most city budgets there - is OUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS!!!!
They are welfare queens.
The Republicans' reaction to something Republican is that it's the best thing ever and the Democrats' reaction to something Republican is surrender? What a shock.
Sorry, but I couldn't watch five minutes of that speech. And she's coming out of the gate with, what, about 5,000 scandals? So far?
The Republicans who knew her knew it was over all week long. They were right. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just suffering from Sudden Surrender Democrat Syndrome.
My god some of you are such pussies. She's fired up the base? So fucking what? They were voting for McCain anyway. Since when was McCain in some deep hole with Repubs? Just because Dobson wasn't voting doesn't mean everyone else isn't. She's snarky, smartass, kinda bitchy, so were doomed? Dems deserve to lose if this is the reaction. A party of wimps.
The party continues over at HuffingtonPost for anybody else like me who needs to confirm 3,000 times that this tits on a stick is political bullshit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/03/palin-to-jab-obama-cast-h_n_123741.html
Lotta one-liners.
I would have though that under the circumstances she would have wanted to set a higher tone.
The youngest daughter licking her hand to pat the baby's hair down was the best part of the show! HA HA. The whole family almost fell to the floor laughing..
Seriously, before that happened our thoughts were all about the shock that we were in seeing them parade that poor baby through all of this. The baby much rather be sleeping in a crib at home. NOT in a loud stadium way past his bed time!!! Terrible what people will do to their children to to be elected in to office. :-(
Revolting. Hard to watch. Vaguely frightening. Just like every other Republican convention I can remember in my lifetime.
@80,
Dammit. I guess I'll have to steal/come up with something else.
Wow! Gotta love you liberal bloggers out in Seattle. The sad part is that very few of the 85 posts here had more substance than that figmant of a candidate you support. Palin is a TRUE REFORMER, now, I can understand your angst as you libs have never seen someone who can shake things up and actually support the voice of America as opposed to the voice of you lunatic fringe nut jobs. She's going to tank Biden, I mean, I know the guy and I could take him in a debate, and then she's going to torpedo Obama. You can all now submit to a McCain/Palin presidency. McCain/Palin '08
Yes, she hit it out of thepark.
Yes, most Sloggers are in denial about this.
Example: hostile reactions to the little kid holding and caring for the baby, patting the baby's head lovingly, wetting her hand and slicking down the infant's hair.
This you find gross? WTF?
Get a clue.
OH LORD! SP is a Parselmouth like Harry Potter!
Yes, a TRUE REORMER, except when she's having people fired for not obeying her orders to fire someone she doesn't like, except when she's taking hundreds of millions of dollars for a bridge to nowhere, except when she takes federal earmark after earmark and earns a spot on Mcsame's might list of porkers. She will reform the constitution to ban abortion for rape victims, reform the evil jews so they don't burn in hell. In other words, she's not a reformer, she's full of shit, just like the Republican Party. You will lose in Nov and she will be blamed. Wait for the turn, when she suddenly becomes the subject of the Republican ire and McCain is sent back to AZ in shame.
I think someone should ask her if she plans to neglect her infant special needs child while wrestling for the presidency? I don't mean to imply that women who have babies have to choose between a career and a child, but running for vice-president certainly seems to be quite the time-consuming choice for someone so concerned with family and babies. Sick, sick, sick.
@89 You've convinced me. Obviously, the country has fallen in love with Sarah "Hooker Heels" Palin tonight and will, in fact, demand that John McCain abdicate right now and let her be our President!
Or not.
I don't spend any time trolling Republican boards because why would I? So the question is why are you doing it here? Oh, of course, it's because you're so confident. Confident that you all you have is trolling.
See you on the other side of this nightmare after the Obama/Biden landslide, weirdo.
Sort of like a female Hitler ... charasmatic fear and hate monger.
What the fuck is wrong with the human race?
I'd invite her to make her speech on the South Side of Chicago, where there are more unemployed people than who live in the town she was Mayor of. You know, the place where Barack Obama tried to help a disaffected population without the benefit of a money pipeline from Washington, courtesy of Ted Stevens, or where the citizenry didn't get $1,000 checks each year courtesy of oil companies.
Let's see the Ice Weasel belittle community organization in Pittsburgh, or Baltimore, or Oakland, or Atlanta, or DC, Atlanta, Tallahassee, New Orleans, or any major metropolitan area suffering from industrial decay, unemployment and massive foreclosures.
The Democrats--I hope, deliciously, in the person of Joe Biden with an assist from Obama--are going to disassemble this reactionary hack and ship her back to Anchorage in a box.
We haven't lost a goddamn thing. Not by a long shot. If you think we've lost it because of this ratty, vagina sporting carbon copy of Dick Cheney, shut your fucking mouth an open your checkbook.
@ 93, 94 - do you really need to go after her kids or her appearance when she's already established that she's prone to abuse of power and just as corrupt as any other Alaskan politician?
@ 95 - Hitler? Seriously? Like, I understand this is the internet, and that it's Slog, and half the point of both is to be a stupid, anonymous asshole, but Hitler?
@89. World leaders have Biden on speed-dial, dude. Foreign policy is not like a suntan. Palin can't lay on a Russian-facing Alaskan beach and just soak up the foreign policy.
to those few McCainiacs that chime in from time to time, it's this moral high ground that kicks the dems ass! The extemists can't be psychotic on both sides, but only in the Republican party do these extemists get such weight.
I will stand by my claim about her being kind of a Hitler ... and I mean a pre-final solution Hitler.
The person who won Time's man of the year and really didn't say much in substance, but had the power of charisma to really stir people's nationalism.
Maybe I pulled a Ted Turner on this one ... I don't see her gassing any Jews any time soon. But if this is how she rises to power ... ouch.
McCain/Palin represent the tramp stamp of America's lower back.
This woman is good, and not in the best way. She has made the McCain candidacy formidible.
It's a brand new ballgame, folks.
and 101 what do you have against tramp stamps ... I resent that remark :-P
She did well, no doubt, and I am fucking terrified of her, but not because I think she could win. She won't. They won't. She offers nothing but hate and fear in a new sexier package, and people will watch and enjoy the show, but then remember they still don't have health insurance and still can't get a job and the environment is still going downhill and, and and AND. They won't win, but man she, they, all of them are so damn scary.
you know what the problem with libs is? they are chicken little babies. monique, you need to chill out and understand this isn't anything to freak out about. she isn't anything to worry about and we aren't gonna lose shit. shes played her role and that's that.
confidence is a republican monopoly.
Chris,
Your comment "Whoever wrote her comments from the rally in Ohio last week has clearly been taken out back and shot" made me roar with laughter. Great stuff.
Just because you'd fuck her doesn't mean she's right.
"Our family has the same ups and downs as any other..." Without blinking.
Chants of 'hockey mom' followed.
Hey Stephen in Chicago--you said:
If you think we've lost it because of this ratty, vagina sporting carbon copy of Dick Cheney, shut your fucking mouth an open your checkbook.
leek @109,
You're right, your approach is better. Well done!
Great, so the Laughing Man @86 has his post go through, but all of mine get stopped somewhere in transit.
Palin may have had some tough zingers, but she's going to need a lot more than that for the debates. I predict she will greatly regret all those hits about "experience" sometime during the VP debates.
Everything she said tonight is prime fodder for attack ads, ESPECIALLY all her hot air about saying "no thanks" to the Gravina Island bridge. Lies said with a straight face are still lies, and I will cherish watching each one of them get thrown back in her teeth.
Huh. Despite what others are saying, I didn't think she was that good. She sounded stiff and rehearsed, and it definitely looked like she was reading off a teleprompter.
Whoever said that the baby Trig should be home in bed, right on. Poor little guy looks tired!
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