Palin

[inspectorzutto]

So!  Anyone watch the RNC last night?

No kidding, folks.  I almost threw up in my mouth.  Sarah Palin had nothing but platitudes and emotionally charged "me-too" rhetoric that I swore at times was on the brink of "four legs good, two legs bad."  I watched to the very end because I wanted to see anything about actual policy plans or concrete evidence

Comments

[gnomeofsol]

I'd heard that Wasilla had approximately 9,000 people, but I hadn't realized that that made it the 4th most populous city in Alaska. That's insane! That's pretty much the size of the student body at my undergrad university, and it's way the heck smaller than Cornell--or even tiny, little Ithaca!

I'm impressed that you managed to sit all the way through her. I couldn't take it and left my roommate to it. I've tried, but my open-mindedness about her takes a hard hit knowing that McCain and Co. are hoping women are more likely to vote with their vaginas than with their brains.

[inspectorzutto]

Aye. All I'm hoping now is that her speech was much more alienating than it was tempting to undecided voters. It was overwhelmingly pandering to a neocon mentality, which isn't exactly close to the middle of any spectrum.

Regardless of the other candidates on the table, I have a hard time seeing how a well-reasoned and intelligent person of ANY persuasion could watch a speech like that and say, "GGGULP! Yep, she's bringing some real firepower to the team."

C and I were debating whether we should host an Obama campaign supporter in our house, since Michigan is a battleground state. Palin decided that one - we're hosting two!

[gnomeofsol]

C and I were debating whether we should host an Obama campaign supporter in our house, since Michigan is a battleground state. Palin decided that one - we're hosting two!

Good for you! Unfortunately my place is not equipped for such things, nor do I expect NY to be much of a battleground--hence keeping my North Carolina voter registration active! I'm certainly going to do my bit to help, though ;-)

It's possible that Palin was picked more to appeal to the Republican bases that weren't excited by McCain (i.e. neocons, religious conservatives, etc.), in which case, she'll do well. But I really think her only hope of pulling in independents and such is by the fact that she's female, and I sincerely hope that people are smart enough to look at what she's about before voting. Then again, I frequently wish people would show some sense in this respect.

[shigalaura]

How do you volunteer to host an Obama supporter?

[aelfscine]

Sadly, whether I voted in Arizona or Oklahoma, my vote is dust in the wind. (McCain's home state is AZ)
One thing I guess that's fortunate about Ms. Palin is that HER home state won't exactly be raking in electoral votes.
I used to think she was the death knell for Obama, but I'm rapidly of the opinion that she's just making McCain look like the cynical, misogynist jackass. More importantly, I think a lot of people are seeing through it, and not just liberals.

[shigalaura]

Amen, Brother!