Big night tonight for the Republicans. McCain's acceptance speech. How will it match up with Obama's in Denver? The Palin travesty unfolds....
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Update: I almost feel bad for McCain. He faces this election alone. Biden will be a source of strength and advise for Obama in the coming months, and his experience in both Congress and on the world stage will be a effective response to the Right's "inexperience" arguments. But Palin is a millstone. She is half a candidate. The campaign itself has decided she will have no interaction with the public except through prewritten speeches, no Q&A. They are claiming that she will fill in her considerate policy and experience gaps under the wing of McBush over the next 4 years, but until then, she will require that McCain spend his political capital on her validity as a candidate for VP. That is capital McCain can ill afford in the face of the Obama/Biden ticket.
Update: I hate to admit it, but I'm watching Billo, he's showing his interview with Obama. Bill is an asshat. Surprise surprise. Trying to tell Obama that he wont go after Bin Laden in Pakistan. Who the hell is he to tell the future President what he will or wont do?
Update: I think MSNBC just reported that the teleprompter isn't working. McCain is gonna fall apart. This will be ugly, either way.
Update: Lindsey Graham is a douche. Claims Obama somehow advocates defeat for our forces in the Middle East by not throwing around empty rhetoric about some ill defined "victory."
Update: I must admit, Cindy McCain is pretty amazing. She is a perfect example of using wealth correctly. Presentation was very well done as well.
Cindy is killing me, that monotone is brutal. She talks about McCain making a better world for our children and her families hardships in the same tone of voice.
RNC 2008: Only the Finest Canned Speeches!
Update: Ok, McCain has started, so I need to pour a drink, we'll see if I can stand to be in the same room with a television for the next 50 minutes.
I'll see you in an hour...
Ok, I lied, protester just held up a sign saying "McCain Votes Against Vets." /salute and well said.
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Sarah Palin is an amazing choice for John McCain's running mate. Incredibly stupid, as has been noted. An inexcusable blunder of judgement and politics by McCain on paper, but there's more going on here. This could be the dumbest luck in history or a move of considerable genius, in that we have talked of little else since the announcement. McCain's name has been all over the news show banners for something like 48 straight hours. Obama's historic speech be damned. If you believe "there is no such thing as bad press," Sarah Palin is a freakin' homerun.
The RNC is hilarious.
McGrumpy struck again.
Fred Thompson needs a cough drop.
26 minutes, 72 throat clearings (phlegm count courtesy of Keith Olbermann) and a whole lotta yawns.
From
Nicole Belle at C&L.
Mitt Romney is a jackass of epic proportions.
So I've been looking for a little more substance on Gov. Palin, and TP has come though again. Great "Sarah Palin Digest" from
Thinkprogress.org.
9iu
11ani and then Palin on deck, so thoughts to follow.
Update: Alright, Giuliani is at it again, he's stroked off into another 9/11 rant. Its just hard to watch this train wreck. But it does have this pack of RNC clowns howling, these people are thirsting for blood tonight.
Update: Rudy is out of his damn mind. Claiming Palin's few years as mayor make her more experienced than Senators Obama and Biden. Madness and lies. A dark night in St. Paul.
Update: Palin is killing me. I think she might cry before the speech is over. She just claimed she said "Thanks but no thanks," to the
Bridge to Nowhere funding. This pic from
Kos says otherwise.
Teh stupid, it hurts...
Update: The Man Himself makes an appearance. Reminds me of a game show host. Says hi and then...its over...weird.
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This list is amazing. It shows every official Republican Party member who has been convicted of a crime since 1998, what crime it was, etc. Its a pretty amazing snapshot of the modern G.O.P. Lots of pedophiles, which (sadly) isn't that surprising, but the "Espionage & Terrorist" list is way longer than I expected.
So there you go, your Monday Morning Chuckle.
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Will the Republicans ever actually focus on an issue that matters? Some baseball player's steroid use, a Florida family's private medical decisions, and now this. Apparently some yahoo from Kentucky, Tim Couch R-KY, wants to make it illegal to post anonymously online. Not only is this an unnecessary restriction of free speech, how in the hell does Tim think this is going to be enforced? Every website which allows posting would have to be restructured to disallow unnamed posts, which is a monumental task by any standards, or they could move overseas, which would make our silly little law irrelevant, I believe.
Sounds like someone is a little grumpy. Maybe upset because of the progressive dominance of the blog movement. Too many people saying mean things about Republicans? Or maybe he just needs a nap.
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