Slog - Comments on What Sarah Palin Needs to Say During Her Speech Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her "I decline." Sarah Palin's speech tonight is, technically speaking, an acceptance speech. She's here to accept her party's nomination for vice president. Of course, her party didn't nominate her; McCain choose her name out of hat late last week when the religious right made it clear that there would be blood in the streets of St. Paul if McCain dared to nominate either of his pro-choice first picks, Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge. And we all know how well that's worked out. While the McCainiacs are putting on a brave face, and while Republican wanking heads are saying one... Copyright 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:48:10 -0800 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:46:24 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe I have a feeling she will. Then he can nominate Larry Craig.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122031 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122031 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:51:10 -0800 Comment by matt http://thepage.time.com/excerpts-from-sarah-palins-convention-speech/

]]> matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122043 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122043 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:55:01 -0800 Comment by adrian for the love of christ! stop giving the enemy good ideas!

]]> adrian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122058 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:58:41 -0800 Comment by Will You, fuck, is what's wrong with this country right now. You can't put aside your lefty, homo, partisan, bullshit and analyze the situation for what it is.

]]> Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122059 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:58:44 -0800 Comment by Hannah Please God. If you're there.
Tell her to stop.

]]> Hannah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122061 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122061 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:59:17 -0800 Comment by banjoboy No, no, no! She needs to hang around McCain's neck like a rotting albatross and drag the whole party into the bottomless depths of oblivion. Like a... a really heavy dead albatross-anchor-type thingy.

]]> banjoboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122062 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:59:41 -0800 Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber I think there's a lot of fuel remaining in the tank of the Palin Clown Car.

]]> Karlheinz Arschbomber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122063 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:00:54 -0800 Comment by mnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfPVaZb9ipA

]]> mnm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122064 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122064 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:01:13 -0800 Comment by elenchos In reality, it will look exactly like Britney Spears' MTV Video Music Awards performance.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122071 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122071 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:04:06 -0800 Comment by Gurldoggie I would really like Will@4's help in analyzing the situation for what it is, quite aside from all my lefty, homo, partisan, bullshit.

Correct me if my analysis is wrong Will: The "situation" is that only a moose-hunting Jew-hating nation-seceding earmark-grabbing political newcomer who has an infant with birth defects and an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter can save this country from the mess we're in.

Am I close?

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122084 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122084 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:09:30 -0800 Comment by John Bailo The only error McCain made was not picking her sooner -- like at least a month ago.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122097 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122097 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:14:23 -0800 Comment by Greg For once, John, you and I agree. This is too good! I wish it had started sooner as well.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122120 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:24:46 -0800 Comment by joe
Speaking as Democrats, I think most of us would agree the best thing Palin could say is "I accept".

]]> joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122129 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122129 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:27:20 -0800 Comment by east coaster We don't want her to be resurrected. We want her OUT. This woman tried to ban books for crying out loud.

]]> east coaster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122133 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122133 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:41 -0800 Comment by Drawmark Dan, Here. Here. I only wish Caribou Barbie had the balls to do what's right, dare I say it, like Harriet Miers and decline the position.

Unfortunately, like George W, the bar for Sarah P is set rather low. She need do nothing other than not fall down for her speech to be considered a home run, slap shot and slam dunk all rolled into one.

]]> Drawmark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122136 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122136 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:53 -0800 Comment by wench Is there a betting pool going? I'm with Dan on this one.

]]> wench http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122144 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122144 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:32:43 -0800 Comment by Fnarf She needs to say "I accept", followed by "Godless Communists want to harvest the organs of your children to power their spaceships! To the hills!"

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122149 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122149 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:35:31 -0800 Comment by mkyorai That'd be nice.

But what I REALLY want to see is Levi get drunk and carted out of the convention by cops. And we're almost due for another Palin related revelation. It's been, what? 4 hours?

]]> mkyorai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122181 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122181 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:48:05 -0800 Comment by whatevernevermind No! I can't imagine an election without Sarah "Hooker Heels" Palin in it! Isn't it enough that McCain will lose no matter who his VP nominee is? Can't it at least be entertaining while he's going down?

]]> whatevernevermind http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122192 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122192 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:54:04 -0800 Comment by mreddiefather Regardless of what happens to Gov. Palin this entire episode is a huge stain on McCain. His first major decision as a Presidential nominee and he fumbled the ball big time. He is not qualified to be president of the United States of American. He lacks the judgement and temprament necessary when one has the potential to annihilate the world at your fingertips.

No way, no how, No McCain.

]]> mreddiefather http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122193 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122193 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:54:24 -0800 Comment by Dean P Dan--you're on crack. If that happens, they'll nominate some moderate (her saying it was only the hounding of her personal life that made her quit, not that she is crazy), the base will be all energized and enraged that Their Princess Sara was driven out, and all the pissed off Republicans (hello, Peggy Noonan?) will sigh and open their wallets and come out to vote.

]]> Dean P http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122202 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122202 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:56:37 -0800 Comment by John Clearly she won't decline, because that would indicate that McCain made an error, and we've all learned in the last eight years that Republican's don't make mistakes.

]]> John http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122207 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:58:13 -0800 Comment by Demolator Not in a million years will she decline. If she had even the tiniest amount of class and humility, she would have declined in private. Let's wait and see what the Enquirer digs up on her and her husband's business partner.

]]> Demolator http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122219 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:05:54 -0800 Comment by Drawmark mkyorai, Levi throwin' down the gloves would be awesome! That sumbitch ain't going down without a fight.

]]> Drawmark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122220 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122220 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:06:08 -0800 Comment by torrentprime man, the enquirer (Dirt Now?) must be seeking some hot pics of these kids for the next issue. Alaskan redneck pics never went for such a high price, I'll bet...

]]> torrentprime http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122227 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:11:18 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Goddamnit. I am listening to Mike Huckabee and I want to blow my brains out. The GOP is still putting up the front that Democrats will raise taxes, take away freedom, and try to make us into Europe.

They talk about how dems are all government,government,government.

WHY HAVE THE DEMS NOT ACCURATELY SHOT BACK AND SAID "THIS IS BULLSHIT! THIS IS NOT CORRECT! GODDAMNIT"

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122261 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122261 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:34:01 -0800 Comment by Mrs. Lucky Does anyone see how sexist this post is? She is a competent, working, MOTHER. We invented multitasking, people. Don't make me drop the woman-hating card...I will.

]]> Mrs. Lucky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122354 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:05:45 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle oh, and Will @4 - there are about 10 of us Will's on here - you have to choose a nickname - like Will HA or Will STL (St Louis) or Will in Florida or Will in Seattle or Will in 98103.

Comprende?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122358 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:06:40 -0800 Comment by Mrs. Lucky Doesn't anyone realize how sexist this post really is? She is a capable, working, mother. Don't make me pull out the woman-hating card...because I will!

]]> Mrs. Lucky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122362 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122362 2008 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:08:35 -0800 Comment by Amelia Speaking of Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania breathed a sigh of relief when he was called to D.C. for federal goodness. All that able Department of Homeland Security creation he's done. He was an incompetent governor.

]]> Amelia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122955 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1122955 2008 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:36:56 -0800 Comment by jbenson2 How stupid must Democrats feel right now?
Who decided it would be a good strategy to kick a Mama Bear?

Sarah Barracuda devoured her prey.
http://flickr.com/photos/jbenson2/2828205386/

]]> jbenson2 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1126585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_sarah_palin_needs_to_say_during_her#c1126585 2008 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:46:24 -0800