This is an excerpt from the RNCC via HotAir:
“I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better. When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too. Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities. :
“I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion – I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country. :
“Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines:build more nuclear plants:create jobs with clean coal:and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers. :
“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.”
Full speech available here
Here you go:
Sen. Harry Reid isn’t about to back away from a fight, even with the VP pick. This response comes from Reid’s spokesman Jim Manley after Sarah Palin attacked the senator in her speech tonight:
“Anyone who knows Senator Reid knows he never backs down when he’s fighting for what’s right and that he always stands up to John McCain when he is wrong,” Reid’s spokesman said.
“Shrill and sarcastic political attacks may fire up the Republican base, but they don’t change the fact that a McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed bush-Cheney policies.”
Palin delivers star-turning performance at RNC, take a look at this load of garbage! You should read it in its entirety!
Indeed, the family was on display for the TV cameras ” five children, including a 17-year-old unmarried daughter who is pregnant. Their mother lacked the soaring oratory skills of Obama ” a man she attacked as a tax-raising, terrorist-coddling, self-indulgent liberal. But the former TV sportscaster spoke in calm, TV-friendly tones reminiscent of Ronald Reagan. Like the former GOP president, Palin warmed the crowd with quips and jokes.
Michelle is doing live coverage
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MSM Talking Point: Repeated endlessly, “Someone wrote her speech!”
Someone wrote Obambi’s speech, too, Hoss. Didn’t see you pointing that out then.
BROKAW: Is explaining to Keith Olbermann what just ran over him.
“Well, as we’ve all been saying, or at least I’ve been saying, this is a very competent woman…”
Or words to that effect at the end. The point is Brokaw had to correct “we” to “I” as he realized that the people he’s talking to have done nothing but belittle Palin since she was announced.
TNR: A “focus group” — really just the guy sitting around with some moderate friends as well as liberal friends — concludes Palin’s speech was “alarmingly” strong.
Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing–few if any would ever vote for McCain–but all agree that Palin was very strong. The more liberal among them are a little panicked.I completely misjudged how negative she would be. Her lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. But she’s a far better messenger than an angry white man.
The Obama campaign responds:
The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years. Â If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that’s their choice, but we don’t think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change,” said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.
Brokaw, Chuck Todd pretty much laughing at Troopergate “scandal”
Karl Rove You know, Palin might just help this ticket
Cut the “someone wrote the speech for her” crap
Holy Moley
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“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
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Best line of the convention IMO.
That was my favorite zinger..this is my favorite point that I have tried to convey to NY-David and others:
“Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.”
I bust out laughing every time I see that commercial telling me to get ahold of Congress and demand they give me clean energy..in 10 flipping years!
When I demand something, I am thinking more about now…not 10 years from now!
“…build more nuclear plants:” =d>=d>=d>=d>=d> FINALLY! Somebody says the “N” word!
And Spidey Terry, you’re right, that line was totally awesome…put the condescending Community Organizer right in his (low place).
I’m already thinking Palin for President in 2012! Take that Pelosi, Reid, and the Dopeacrats!
For the first time in this election, I am looking forward to voting!
Watching the speech….this lady is good
What’s with the orange flags…what am I missing over here?
Wow…. I would say, she hit this one out of the ballpark, and beyond!
Can we say scripted to the max???
Actually, her Energy Independence part is right out of Al Gore’s playbook, including nuclear.
NY-David
..because Obama wasn’t scripted? Please.
That was a brilliant speech and her delivery was….. just amazing. I think we just heard the first (future) female President speak. Hillary, who? :-\”
She is the one!
Good presentation and one-liners, but let’s see what evolves when she doesn’t have days to prep and practice; or speech writers to carve her every word. On the stump, and facing ad hoc material, may tell a different story.
I suspect on the stump – she’ll be even better.
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NY-David,
You loved that speech, I know you did
Hispana,
With a mother like you, your daughter is already on the path to success and empowerment
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OK, Pam. You got me. For a brief moment, I wished she was a Democrat. Then she trotted out the usual Republican lines:
They will raise your taxes (if you make more the $250K)
They don’t know how to defend America (and JM does? Please!!)
We stand for the morals of America (not going further with that one…)
We will bring Bret back to Green Bay (had to throw that in).
NY-David
Well they were the usual lines because they are the truth. The income tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are scheduled to end in 2010. If this is allowed to happen, it would amount to the largest income tax increase in the post-World War II period. Where does Obama stand on that? In April, Obama unveiled his health care plan that was estimated to cost between $50 billion to $65 billion a year – financed largely of course by eliminating the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which is essentially a tax increase.
Obama is so blinded by a class-warfare view of the economy that he misses the fact that the income of small and medium-size businesses (proprietorships, partnerships and limited shareholder companies) are subject to taxation under the income tax, not the corporate tax. His income tax increase would hit these businesses hard.
Cutting the income tax can work much like reducing the corporate tax to encourage economic activity and job creation. Researchers have found that smaller businesses, like corporations, respond to lower income tax rates by expanding employment and paying higher wages. Higher income tax rates will reduce employment and wages, harming the middle class.
Obama said during the debate in Pennsylvania that he is willing to nearly double the capital-gains tax rate from the current 15 percent to 28 percent.
Obama wants a higher capital-gains tax rate to punish high-paid managers of hedge funds. While hedge fund managers might pay more, so would the other 100 million owners of stocks. According to IRS data, 80 percent of recent tax returns that declared capital-gains were from households with income less than $100,000.
As other countries cut corporate taxes, the United States’ 39.3 percent corporate tax rate is the second-highest in the industrialized world. Obama wants to tax corporations more while McCain wants to cut the rate to 25 percent.
Obama’s logic is that corporations that are shifting jobs overseas don’t deserve tax breaks. What he fails to understand is that the high U.S. corporate tax rate is an important cause of corporate efforts to relocate production outside the United States.
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Are you suggesting Democrats do know how to defend America? Some do, but not the ones that are running the party and certainly not Obama or Biden. Did Reid say the war was lost or didn’t he? Biden and Obama are both still saying(as of Monday) that McCain was wrong wrong on the surge…The surge worked and according to General Petraeus, the troops will more than likely be home next summer.
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NY-David? Gore’s Playbook? Huh? Is that supposed to be some kind of a joke? Gore is an anti-nuke superfreak! HE won’t even utter the N word!
Ellis, something tells me she’s gonna do just fine!
Pam, I’ll agree with you on two things.
One, the surge did what it was supposed to do. Now its becoming a political football. We need to get out in very short order. Instead of sidestep the words or substituting “time horizon” Bush should be using this opportunity to draw down and get out. The Iraqi’s shouldn’t have beaten him to this one.
I don’t believe either party holds the case for being able to defend America, but I’m not given to flag-waving to sway my decision.
Palin did get me to laugh at her “hockey mom” joke -
“What’s the difference between a pit bull and a Hockey Mom?”
“Lipstick.”
Robert, actually in a recent speech, Gore did include nuclear as part of the solution. I was watching for this one specifically.
My fear has always been that if massive drilling were to start and the price would drop, all conservation efforts would (as has done before) grind to a halt.
NY-David
Seriously, if they brought Brett back to Green Bay – I would re-register as a Republican. ^:)^
I have never heard Gore utter the word, but if you did I believe you. But he says it in a recent speech—and that translates into her taking it out of his playbook. Not by any stretch! More like Gore taking it out of the Conservative/Republican playbook!
David-NY, I agree with you about a huge oil price drop. The high prices are very painful, but the Silver lining in that cloud is that it will hasten the end of oil’s dominance. That is something that we cannot forget about this time.
I ventured over to Daily Kos and Huffington Post earlier – read through all their comments. Ok…maybe not ALL of them (whew!) – but a good many of them. The folks over there have things like this to say about Palin and her speech:
“Yes, she did a wondrous job reading the speech the McCain speechwriter gave her!”
“She’s good. Yes, even with a teleprompter”
“..smug delivery of a speech clearly written for her and read off the teleprompter”
And on and on…..
These people act as if Obama and Biden write their own speeches and never use a teleprompter. Seriously, if this is the worst the critics can bring this evening – - then this is more of a race than I thought it was! :d/
Robert – Roger that!!
Gore’s problem is that his cause gets hijacked by a militant environmental crowd. Some have a rightful distrust of large business and previous polution activities. If he moved it over to an energy security issue, he’d have more success, I think.
(here’s where NY-David briefly contemplates his career as a political strategist before heading to bed in his Jimmy Carter jammies).
NY-David
I’ll bet Palin does better without the teleprompter that Gaffemeister Obama. Gawd! Have you heard some of his gaffes? Makes Bush sound gifted!
Wanna read some serious bunghole’s reactions to Palin’s speech?
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More Leftist hate remarks about Palin’s speech:
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