It's nowhere near a full house inside the stadium, but it will certainly fill up with delegates as "prime time" nears.
It doesn't look like they will be disappointed with the speech of John McCain's designated No. 2 Sarah Palin.
For sure, Sarah will not come quietly into this great convention hall. Excerpts include the following:
"Here's how I look at the choice Americans face in this election. In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change."
And this:
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."
Team McCain has called this a night to "more sharply define the differences" - that's political speak for "go after the other team."
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I'm ready to vote and end this Jerry Springer show!
McCain should go home and retire, and Palin should go home and raise her kids.
What an exciting day for politics, a first for the republican party, a smart, experienced governor to rock the house tonight with more americans watching to find out who she is – Go Sarah
She's a phoney, mccains a phoney and the GOP is a phoney. No body will be fooled by this – no body.
Interesting line of attack – the McCain camp was trying to preserve "victim" status for her, and she will cede that as she comes out swinging. Perhaps that's for the better.
It's similar message or narrative inconsistency to the "experience/freshness" shift.
It also is subtly telling about the ad hoc leadership style of the candidate and his organization – that IS the one thing that has been utterly consistent here.
"Get [em]? That was your plan? Get 'em?" – Ghost Busters
Thanks for censoring me, CNN, why don't you put it through this time?
So will this be considered "racist" just like Obama's comments on Palin drew "sexist" cries from the G(reed)OP?
Yes indeed, no matter what, truth prevails. This whole debacle is why republicans did not want to choose John McCain as the presidential nominee in the first place. Soon everyone will catch up to the real facts of why Sarah Palin has been thrust into the VP nominee spot. For all the talk about Obama being an empty suit with no plans, McCain is sure going all out to steal these "non-plans".
Everyone ask yourselves...what was Barack Obama doing in Alaska at the beginning of August? What was Alaska, Gov Palin included thinking about Sen Obama in July? Look it up. Hurry up before the truth gets burried in propaganda...
If she is trying to parley her experience as mayor as a position of responsibility she is a bold face liar. Her duties amounted to presiding over city council meetings, leading the annual holiday parades, ribbon cutting at the new convenience store and rubber stamping whatever staff and the city manager put in front of her nose. Her job was solely a figurehead position usually filled by someone who thinks they are important. What a doofus.
Crowley,
How much is the McCain camp paying you? Did John promise you a secretary of defense position?
Don't belittle a man for choosing to make 15 k a year (with a Columbia degree) to help a depressed area: 1) open a job center; 2) fight city hall over asbestos contamination in public housing; 3) give people who had lost their jobs some dignity back. Oh yeah, he followed that up by getting over 100,000 new voters in Chicago in 1992. By comparison, Palin paid over 40k a year to lobbyists to get pork spending (yep, that very thing she's against) for Wasilla.
Also, her "business" experience is in seasonal fishing and sportscasting. Obama was a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, helping to mold a generation of bright attorneys. That is, he was exposed to problems and injustices that effect all Americans, not just the population of a tiny corner of Alaska.
ALWAYS HITTING HARD, ALWAYS FIGHTING!!!!
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sure is fun reading how scared the Dems are over Palin.
why is no one covering Biden's and Biden's sons' ties to the credit card and banking industry?
She just needs to hit us once and then all glove will come off. She will have to take like a woman. Don't cry fault.
IF she attacks, vice versa is NOT sexist. I would never let anyone denigrate or belittle me without giving right back.
She'd better be VERY careful !!!!!!
Palin and McCain both have resorted to trying to tear down for they do not have a plan to reduce the deficit, solve social security, bring our troops home instead of keeping them in Iraq for a hundred years.
Neither has any forsight to solve the problems of education, clean air and water, decrease global warming, or have a viable plan to get a fair price for the oil leases. In fact they are for giving the oil companies a 4 billion dollar tax cut while the oil companies profits are biggest in history and still rising.
McCain does not have a plan to fix the failed health system in this country.
McCain and Palin believe if they concentrate on tearing down Obama and Biden they will rise above them, but they will find that does not work, we want to knwo what their plans for the country are, we know what Obama's plan is let McCain tell us his. He has already said he knows nothing about the economy. He is running on wars and it necessary for him to win, Bush and Cheney will start a war with Iran or with the breakaway provinces of Georgia.
Its about issues and Repubs will loose on issues. Don't take the focus from the issues.
""I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."" – that's SOOO sexist against a guy!
JK – so what's the difference between that and calling Obama sexist by pointing out that he's managed a team of 2500 and $30m monthly and her around 50 and $12m annually... and left in 20m debt?
careful how you bark, Biden's has the worst bite, he hasn't even drew his sword, when he does America be prepared they are going to paint those attacks as sexist, how dare he verbally attack a woman, well politics is the only arena where attacks on either sex is acceptable, These two are going to get torn apart