Last night had to be her high water mark, and if it was a wash with undecided women, that's a positive in my book.  

FWIW, I thought she came off as a fruitcake.
Christina was losing her shit, and she NEVER gets angry.  She's personally offended by the Palin candidacy.

Like I said last night, I think most of it came off as a parody. The lecture about "community organizer" versus "PTA" is ripe for SNL to tear to shreds.  I'm seeing a lot of cruel sketches.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

...adding holy shit, Simon comes out swinging:

On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.

We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.

We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn't be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.

...and from there he stomps all over Sarah Palin's speech.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

After the snippets of her Ohio speech I couldn't listen  to her speech last night.  Can't tolerate her voice.

From what I've read so far she pretty much did what I expected, avoided the issues and served up a nice hot steaming plate of hate, all with a smile.

fortunately, l didn't have to endure the visuals...no tv...but l listened to the live stream from Pacifica Radio...patched through the stereo...so l had good sound quality at least.

l thought she came off shrill and condescending, and definitely out of her league. she sounded like a small town, bigoted, politico with a side of nasty. it was, imo, cliquish hackery of the highest order.

l think the RATs are going to regret this on nov 5, if not sooner.

she's an empty skirt.

the revolution will not be televised...Peace

Forget it, she sounds too much like my ex-wife.  Who needs another smug harpy in their lives?

I confess I could only watch it in bits and pieces, and so was beyond being swept up in any narrative arc. My impression was that it was a professionally crafted speech and performance that managed to arouse the otherwise somnolent audience -- no mean feat, given the sleepy resentment that characterized this whole convention.

Today, though, even that small accomplishment seemed overwhelmed by a bad taste like the kind you get after indulging in deep-fried Twinkies or especially exploitative porn. It was a taste of pettiness, mean-spiritedness, crude emotional manipulation. There was no hint of the expansiveness that a great speech inspires. Instead Palin delivered the kind of excitement that comes from being part of an angry, self-pitying mob, and my bet is that anyone outside the base who fell for it felt kind of dirty this morning. In the end, all Palin accomplished was to show what a small and embarrassing artifact the Republican Party has become.

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

My response to her speech is exactly the same as yours.

The Republicans have become caricatures of themselves and are ideologically exhausted. All I can say is that if they try to steal the election again, Obama will put up more of a fight than Gore and Kerry did.

"Israel is a good friend of Israel." -- Barack Obama. Is that a Freudian slip indicating that Obama suspects that Israel is not a good friend of the US?

   My mother is a Republican, and she reacted strongly against both the Giuliani and Palin speeches.

  I had been primed to expect a polished speech from a "nice person".    I agree that Palin did not come across as an amateur.  But, I also think that she was condescending, snide and nasty in tone.   What's not to like?

I would really like to see a poll of women's reactions to this speech.  I think the pundits are wrong and this speech is going to backfire big time with moderates and independents, especially women.

Thinks that Obama is poised to raise $10M online today because of Palin's speech. I don't know that the haul will be that big, I know most of my social media friends kicked in.  Such as shame at the near total silence in the liberal blogosphere in urging people to donate to Obama.

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