Palin delivers star-turning performance for GOP

[almaty 19]

i thought, Palin did a very good job and made a fine speech..better than liberman ..thompson...etc..she was polished and articulate..not a fan of hers, but for a first timer on the national stage..it was a shining moment in politics

i think we know what's on your mind.

[Jenn! 918]

She's like the female version of JC, ahem, I mean Obama!

[symbiosis 0]

You might notice that this was an AP story taken from Yahoo. It isn't some right wing blog's OpEd piece. This is a very good sign. The press has just fell in love with Palin. McCain has skunked the dems with this pick. Bravo!!!

It doesn't change that she's got no experience beyond abusing power in her rinky dink offices. and that she's a religious kook. All big PLUSES in the GOP, though, I readily admit.

[sly_wolf 199]

You might notice that this was an AP story taken from Yahoo. It isn't some right wing blog's OpEd piece. This is a very good sign. The press has just fell in love with Palin. McCain has skunked the dems with this pick. Bravo!!!

It doesn't change that she's got no experience beyond abusing power in her rinky dink offices. and that she's a religious kook. All big PLUSES in the GOP, though, I readily admit.

I have to say her shrill voice really hurts my ears. Reminds me of my x-wife

I would really prefer to see a live debate instead of something previously scripted. A debate shows how well a person can think on their feet.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

You might notice that this was an AP story taken from Yahoo. It isn't some right wing blog's OpEd piece. This is a very good sign. The press has just fell in love with Palin. McCain has skunked the dems with this pick. Bravo!!!

It doesn't change that she's got no experience beyond abusing power in her rinky dink offices. and that she's a religious kook. All big PLUSES in the GOP, though, I readily admit.

yeah, if we'd have to take all of that away for her to be a plus for the dems

[chri'stina 190]

You might notice that this was an AP story taken from Yahoo. It isn't some right wing blog's OpEd piece. This is a very good sign. The press has just fell in love with Palin. McCain has skunked the dems with this pick. Bravo!!!

It doesn't change that she's got no experience beyond abusing power in her rinky dink offices. and that she's a religious kook. All big PLUSES in the GOP, though, I readily admit.

I have to say her shrill voice really hurts my ears. Reminds me of my x-wife

I would really prefer to see a live debate instead of something previously scripted. A debate shows how well a person can think on their feet.

I agree with that part.

As for Palin, I am just getting to know her so I don't love or dislike her I am just ok with her. She is feisty! I don't know why her experience is getting insulted so much though while Obama has little experience as well. Neither of them are very experienced. At least she is just in the VP slot and not the front runner.

[almaty 19]

Just witness the success of Palin, who, as mayor of the hamlet of Wasilla, hired a big-time lobbying firm intimately connected with the state's now-indicted Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and thus obtained $27 million in federal earmarks during her tenure. As The Washington Post calculated in a devastating report on Mayor Palin's assault on the federal treasury, her home town of Wasilla (with about 6,000 inhabitants in 2002 when she was mayor) received $6.1 million, or $1,000 per resident in earmarks, almost as much as Boise, Idaho, got this year with a population that is 30 times larger.

It obviously helped to have Alaska's now-indicted senator as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. And despite McCain's claims that Palin distinguished herself by breaking with Alaska's discredited Republican establishment in February, the governor sent Stevens a request for $200 million to support various state projects. With representatives like that, it's no wonder that Alaska, despite its oil boom, is still at the top of states subsidized by federal dollars, receiving $1.84 back from Washington for every $1 that Alaskans pay in federal taxes. (California receives 78 cents for every $1.)

Unfortunately, looking to Palin for advice on helping the rest of us during the oil crunch, as McCain has promised, is a bit like asking a Saudi oil minister or Russia's Vladimir Putin to provide a model for our nation's economic woes. They hardly feel our pain at the pump.

[symbiosis 0]

You might notice that this was an AP story taken from Yahoo. It isn't some right wing blog's OpEd piece. This is a very good sign. The press has just fell in love with Palin. McCain has skunked the dems with this pick. Bravo!!!

It doesn't change that she's got no experience beyond abusing power in her rinky dink offices. and that she's a religious kook. All big PLUSES in the GOP, though, I readily admit.

yeah, if we'd have to take all of that away for her to be a plus for the dems

Yeah, the dems don't care much for abuse of power or religious zealotry! Guilty as charged!

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

You might notice that this was an AP story taken from Yahoo. It isn't some right wing blog's OpEd piece. This is a very good sign. The press has just fell in love with Palin. McCain has skunked the dems with this pick. Bravo!!!

It doesn't change that she's got no experience beyond abusing power in her rinky dink offices. and that she's a religious kook. All big PLUSES in the GOP, though, I readily admit.

yeah, if we'd have to take all of that away for her to be a plus for the dems

Yeah, the dems don't care much for abuse of power or religious zealotry! Guilty as charged!

correct again. not much time for that when one is busy lightening someone's wallet

[almaty 19]

Palin does a good job with the lower 49 states.....lighten the tax-payors pockets

With representatives like that, it's no wonder that Alaska, despite its oil boom, is still at the top of states subsidized by federal dollars, receiving $1.84 back from Washington for every $1 that Alaskans pay in federal taxes. (California receives 78 cents for every $1.)

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Palin does a good job with the lower 49 states.....lighten the tax-payors pockets

With representatives like that, it's no wonder that Alaska, despite its oil boom, is still at the top of states subsidized by federal dollars, receiving $1.84 back from Washington for every $1 that Alaskans pay in federal taxes. (California receives 78 cents for every $1.)

given the amount of time it's been a state, don't you think that the infrastructure is still being created there?

[natty bumppo 297]

Palin does a good job with the lower 49 states.....lighten the tax-payors pockets

With representatives like that, it's no wonder that Alaska, despite its oil boom, is still at the top of states subsidized by federal dollars, receiving $1.84 back from Washington for every $1 that Alaskans pay in federal taxes. (California receives 78 cents for every $1.)

given the amount of time it's been a state, don't you think that the infrastructure is still being created there?

dog sleds aren't a year round mode of transportation in alaska ...

[ready4ONE 5,400]

This should irritate the Obama supporters.

The Rebumplican Party!

[rebeccajo 14]

Why is the reference to a 'stiletto' even made by the writer of the article?

And why does Palin reference her lipstick in her speech?

Unless the media, the GOP, and Palin want it kept uppermost in our minds that she is female.

Which - really - shouldn't matter.

Other than the fact that if she WERE a man, she would never have been selected.

Edited September 4, 2008 by rebeccajo

[symbiosis 0]

This should irritate the Obama supporters.

The Rebumplican Party!

That one black woman in the audience must have a lot of stamina. She seems to be in every shot.