Pit Bull With Lipstick

Many commenters are talking about how confident and aggressive Gov. Palin was during her speech last night. I could not help seeing the image of Gov. Palin standing on the deck of an offshore oil rig in her Alaskan National Guard flight jacket with a large MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner slung up behind her.
There is fine line between confidence and hubris.

IF YOU (DAVE) HATE ALL THE GRANDSTANDING AT POLITICAL CONVENTIONS, THEN YOU MUST HAVE HATED OBAMA'S. THE FAR LEFT LIBS HAVE NO SHAME, NOW THEY ARE GOING AFTER BRISTOL'S FIANCEE - WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO W/BEING V.P.? THAT'S WHY SO MANY DEMS ARE LEAVING, WE ARE SICK TO DEATH OF THE FAR LEFT. PALIN HIT A HOME RUN LAST NIGHT AND THE GLOVES ARE OFF. SHE HAS CHALLENGED OBAMA - HE CAN NO LONGER JUST RUN ON CHANGE AND HOPE, HE NEEDS TO COME UP WITH REAL ANS TO HOW HE IS GOING TO IMPLEMENT ALL HIS HANDOUTS. PALIN IS A REFORMER, OBAMA IS A TALKER JUST LIKE BIDEN. THERE IS A NEW GAME IN TOWN AND SHE IS CAUSING QUITE A STIR. THE GOP IS ENERGIZED AND SO ARE A LOT OF WOMEN OF ALL PARTYS. IT IS OBVIOUS TO A LOT OF US THAT HILLARY WAS PUSHED OUT AND OBAMA PUSHED IN - WE ARE NOT GOING TO "FALL IN LINE" AND THERE IS NO KUMBIA MOMENT. GET OVER IT!

FOADA Knowles

Palin has a few things in common with Obama. (1) She can read a teleprompter well. (2) She does have great physical presence and charisma (without the Obama posings). (3) And, though she did mention oil drilling and alternative energies as part of an overall energy plan, no specific policy changes were ever mentioned in detail.

I am a Democrat, but have to admit that she gave a great speech ... far better even than Obama's break-out speech at the Democratic convention in 2004.

I can understand why YOU did not like it, David.

What's up with AOL lately?. The message boards are showing a blank ad page or a page with Obama Ads and 0 comments on the stories and you can't post?...Anyway,.....all I have been trying to post on the boards for her story is the following: One word...."WOW" ...McCain / Palin 2008...enough said!

Palin I think is the best breath of FRESH AIR that we have had for a long time, WOMEN HAVE HAD TO LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES TO HELP MAKE ENDS MEET. bUT THEY SEEM TO MANAGE ALL VERY WELL, THIS WOMAN IS A FIGHTER,I ADMIRED ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT SPOKE AT THE RNC LAST NIGHT, SHE IS A SMART WOMAN.
SHE DIDN'T JUST HIT A HOME RUN.. MAN SHE CLEARED THE BASES//

Simply put: McCain chose the right candidate and the democrats did not. Like Palin stated, "Biden better make sure he has secured the V.P. nomination in writing."

i saw where joe biden was pointing out that palin had not talked about too many issues last night-----well you know what? that was not her job last night--last night her job was to introduce herself to america--and at that job she succeeded---TOMORROW she can start talking about issues---

Dumbed down right wing morons have this nation in the mess its in by enabling right wing criminals like bush and cheney to do their dirty work. To many Americans buy into the right wing lies and nonstop misrepresentations. Want more of the same America? Want more outsourcing, record fuel costs, record health care costs? endless war? lies? misrepresentations? corruption? the selling out of America and destruction from the inside out? Job loss, wage loss, benefits loss? Good paying job loss? just vote for McSame and his joke of a nominee who is nothing more than a distraction from the abysmal republican failures and corruption. Notice that the republicans cant talk about the issues? Its because they cant, they cant govern. Go Obama, change we can believe in, not more right wing lies and failed policies.

I think that we should all consider, very seriously, the following: Senator McCain, acted quickly and, on short notice, to pick Gov. Palin. As has been said, he acted on "his guts", without properly vetting her. Question: Is this the manner in which he is going to react if he is President, to put us into another war--acting "on his guts"! And, as for her, candidate of the "family values" party. She has on the stage, her daughter's teenage, high school drop out, boy friend ,who impregnated her, waiving to the audience, who responded, by clapping! Unbelieveable!--glorifying a teenage kid whose only accomplishment for world recognition, is, that he, irresponsibly, got a teenage girl pregnant! I shudder to think of all those teenage girls out there who are going to use this young, irresponsible couple, to emulate them! Many years ago, a family would have been ashamed of their young, unmarried child, getting pregnant. Now, they are cheered--will probably write a book and become millionaires! So much for "family values". As for Gov. Palin's speech--first--it was written for her by McCain's people, and she, read it beautifully. Of course, she totally misrepresented her past record and that of Obama's. But, that doesn't matter--she got the Republicans, enthused. Everything was negative--nothing said about what she and McCain would do about our economy--keeping us safe, etc. etc.. She's just an attack dog in skirts--and--lipstick! I hope the Americans are not taken in by her personality and give us another four years of the horrid Republicans. There is no question that if she and McCain, are elected, the country will continue to be divided and engaged in one hostile controversy after another. She and McCain, seem to enjoy engaging in warfare! They would do nothing to bring the country together. It would just be 4 more years of Bush--but--even worse--we would have a Vice-President who seems to enjoy attacking, attacking, attacking!. Bottom line--I did not like her. She is too vicious for me--but--she does read well--the speech that McCain's people gave her and she follows their instructions! She's just another negative Republican--attack-ridicule-mock-insult, and, nothing positive--nothing to show how she and McCain would help the American people! God help us, if she and McCain, ever get elected--because--they certainly would not! Thank you.

Gov. Palin has stolen Obama's thunder........
Many think that McCain has lost his mind but be not fooled. Over the next several weeks the republicans / McCain / Palin will launch a well orchestrated campaign in which Obama's past of shady dealings, his record of indecissiveness (come on even I could vote present 130 + times), and all the other truths about him that he is trying to get quashed through the courts will be exposed.
The media is whinning about her attacking Obama(just like he did McCain). This lady is the real deal and the american public hasnt seen nor heard the last of her.
It is time for the american public to tell the media they will not let them pick the president as they are so intent on doing.
As the weeks go on Gov. Palin will endear herself to the american public and suprise all with her knowledge of what is right and what is wrong and how to fix it.
Look out Washington....there's a storm of "TRUE CHANGE" on the way in the form of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

David,
Obama/Biden have been making attacks on this woman-and you know what? If you think that she was snarling and mean-that is YOUR issue. What she did do was make it clear she is not a weeping woman who is going to run and cry because of the hate being brought forth by the obama camp. She had every right to respond. She did GREAT! She stood tall, proud and got her point across-she is not going to take crap. She had great ideas about the issues we face and she told the truth about the issues regarding obama/biden.
I was so pleased with her and Rudy-Rudy brought down the damn house! I was so impressed!
McCain/Palin

So community Organizers don't really do anything and are less than a Mayor of a town of 9000. Hell a school board president in most places is responsible for more kids than she had people. But I digress. Where is the beef? where is the difference you and McCain are going to make? The economy was not even mentioned. What are you going to do about health Care, school systems (obviouily not teach sex education or counsel kids w/o jobs againest teenage marriage, job outsourceing. All of this type of stuff was addressed by Biden and Obama in their speeches but Palin just talked about canidate bashing. Hell I could sell a jet on e-bay if I had one. Yea she's cute and can deliver a speech but where's the beef what kind of difference are they going to make over the next 4yrs vs. the last 8yrs? Protect the country from terroists, remember 9/11 do you really think that anyone has forgot? What we need is for us to protect ourselves from ourselves. History has shown that every great society collapses not because of external forces but internal forces disease, poverty, natural diaster, people losing trust in their government. The signs are all there and the seige is not from just the outside its from inside and its not about just putting back prayer in the damn schools. Country first is the theme well by fear mongering and isolationist attitudes all you are doing is trying to shut out the world when in fact the cancer is eating us from the inside out too

IS THIS ELECTION ABOUT JUDGMENT?
What I saw yesterday was a woman who used her poor judgment as a prop to win the sympathy of the American voters. Sarah Pahin uses poor judgment and the GOP makes her out to be a hero! The issue should not be about Sarah Pahin not having an abortion; the issue is that she did not have the good judgment to use birth control. Any intelligent person knows that when you choose to have unprotected sex at 43 you have a very high probability of having a child with Downs Syndrome. The republicans are making her out to be a hero because she used the bad judgment not to prevent the pregnancy in the first place. I'm a mother of three, quite well educated, and moderately politically active. I am also a registered Arizona Republican. I do not have the experience, judgment and intelligence to have my finger on the nuclear button and I do not feel that Sarah Palin does either.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZER = SOCIALIST GOVERMENT

Palin speech was ok, not earth shaking. When Obama and Biden slams her do not cry sexism. She is now fair game.

I agree!
Seethetruth
Look out Washington....there's a storm of "TRUE CHANGE" on the way in the form of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

You are so funny and so partisan that you can"t see th forest for the trees. You start out by attacking everything personal about her and her family and her qualifications. Then when she answers those you say she doesn't spend enough time on policy. You are really a partisan joke. I smell the fear. Go McCain-Palin. She knocked it out of the park.

lulu9:16AMSep 4th 2008

Simply put: McCain chose the right candidate and the democrats did not. Like Palin stated, "Biden better make sure he has secured the V.P. nomination in writing."
------------------------------------------------------lulu, you may be a turncoat democrate like liberman, no doubt biden is secure. Just do not cry sexism when biden puts her in check. Easy to run an empty mouth "Palin", ability to say it and back it up "Biden".

I was unmoved and unimpressed by her speech. Clearly it was written for her. Where was the substance? What would she do for my working class family? Quite frankly it all seemed staged to me.