Boy I’d hate to get stuck in an elevator with Cindy McCain. She was working the talking points with Judy Woodruff and got very icy whenever she had to sell a point instead of having it accepted, or, if on Fox or CNN, expanded upon by the helpful reporter.
Yep, I’m now a bad guy for gossiping about what shouldn’ta hadn’a ever been talked about by no one no how anyway.
Which is why John McCain and his surrogates are busily running around debunking stuff much of which no one ever heard about until they brought it up. On top of the other stuff. Small fry like me are beneath them, but thanks to Daily Kos’s frickin’ giga-sized community of diarists and commenters, A-lister Kos has to eat the brunt of this, his backpages being the most prominent forum the early accusations had.
So, absolutely no prying into the Wasilla Hillbillies/Palin family escapades. No media allowed, except for the carefully staged photo opp showing John being a Dutch uncle to some knuckleheaded teen.
Bottom line? STFU and watch the show tonight for further talking points.
Catch all that? Well, here’s another list of non-bun-in-the-oven questions:
- Israel/AIPAC: wtf is up with that?
- Basic fitness for the office
- AIP [especially this video message]
- Vetoing funding for unwed mothers
- Stalling for time on TrooperGate? [more]
I always liked the concept of Meg Whitman, but I’m finding the reality of her a little less palatable. That and young self-made billionaires annoy me. Creating eBay should make someone a billionaire? Somehow I think the distribution of income at eBay is a bit skewed, or maybe their cut is a little too high. Whitman’s supposed to be worth $1.2 billion. eBay started up in ‘95, so that’s about $100 million a year for Meg.
If I were her, I’d be a Republican too. I would, however, love to know where someone with so much gets off being belligerent about her taxes getting raised.
More on the convention:
More on the protesters (and kudos to MnIndy for the great photos):
AP fotog says cops knew they fucked up
Demko [good pix]
Brauer has good links to local coverage
Ventura speaks [no media coverage to speak of]
Robson on the Ron Paul rally
“The” definining picture of the RNC protests
Guntzel [lots of pix]
Rage Against the Machine video
Concert goers stranded by police on all sides
Very boring speeches to start tonight, and the repeated talking points are already mindnumbing. [I hate when Dems script themselves. It sounds so clever in the strategy session, but on camera it makes us sound like Republican zombies except with more piercings]
It’s been pointed out by some bloggers, but still I just have to say that I have never heard so much talk about wealth and taxes. This is more like workshops at a prosperity gospel megachurch than it is a political campaign. Truth is scarce, and always contorted into Gumbi-esque positions at this convention.
Hmm. OK, just so wingnuts have something to get royally p.o.ed about, the oreo is speaking now, and doing a good impersonation of a male cheerleader (or what used to pass for presidential in the Republican party).
More links, unrelated to the convention but more interesting than a speech from a lt. governor.
Video of base jump gone awry in Norway (yes, you still need a parachute — even with a flying suit) [h/t Robert]
Gov. Babycakes (Tild)
Gonzales does a Sandy Berger, no biggie
More later, assuming something interesting happens.
OK, it was amusing when Mitt stuck the knife into W’s back, but now that he’s attacking Dems I feel pretty much obliged to say, fuck you too, you crummy dog abuser.
It’s always the pretty ones (yes, I’m looking at you Fred Thompson) who bring out the knives.
Straight talk? I’d be lying if I didn’t say I found that USA! USA! USA! chant just now to be frighteningly belligerent. This wasn’t yay for the swimming medals USA! USA! USA!, this was let’s kill some fucking Jews liberals USA! USA! USA!
The official media doesn’t like to talk about eliminationism, but that was vivid, gold-plated example of it.
Ha! David Brooks is mocking Romney for being so far right. He’s saying we won’t hear another speech this wingnuttish this convention, and then he meandered and expanded that to in recent years.
Lehrer is actually mentioning that Romney seemed a bit anti-liberal.
Sarah Palin got more votes running for Mayor of Wasilla than Joe Biden got running for President this year? Sorry Huckabee, but that’s just hucksterism on your part. Biden dropped out early but his Iowa Caucus turnout exceeded Palin’s vote total in Wasilla. Not, however, by enough to be worth bragging about.
Personally, I hope Palin knocks it out of the Xcel Center tonight. I want her welded to John McCain at the hip. The more America meets Sarah Palin, the more they’re going to grow to love Joe Biden.
Palin’s intro isn’t well thought out. Selling her as Grizzly Sarah only works with people who have never given birth, and who have no clue what that process is about.
I still think Palin’s lying about a lot of stuff. Knowingly, in that way that sales types have when they teach themselves the lie and come to believe it themselves. Reality is what she says it is.
I think reality is this: once you attract a nation’s attention in a sustained way, anything bad in your past will be found. This isn’t about typesetting, this is about abuse of office, both as Mayor and Governor.
The crap about mayors is just beyond belief. Being mayor of a small town is only as hard as you want it to be. Just because Palin used her office to try to change everything doesn’t mean that was the intended job description.
Executive experience? Like George W. Bush?
Republicans yelling ZERO ZERO ZERO sounds like sieg heil in a less than threatening way.
It’s arrogant to talk like this but more and more as I watch this RNC I’m beginning to feel like I’m watching an undiscovered episode from the original Star Trek, one in which they find a planet just like ours except their politicians always say the exact opposite of whatever is the truth, mixed in with cliched empty patriotic bravado.
Reduced to the America is so broken only we can fix it argument.
Another shameless speech from a shameless and corrupt former mayor who should be in prison for his shady business dealings.
Oh she is the real deal alright. Upright, full of Jesus and ready to tell you what. Under no circumstances would I stay in this country if she ever got elected to high office. Palin is the exact opposite of what we need in our leaders.
Never, with or without lipstick.
Never am I going to take anything this woman says at face value.
Never am I going to feel comfortable being around God fearing Republicans, some of the most bigoted people on earth. (Something about the RNC really brings out the Dixie in them.)
But the ticket does make sense. McCain is taller than Palin.
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You think that photo of pervy old John is bad, watch the video. He’s rubbin’ Levi’s arm like, well, I can’t think of an appropriate phrase. But it’s just plain disgusting! (Not because of the man-on-man action. I’m okay with that. It’s just all so damn creepy.)
I still can’t believe he picked a VP just ’cause she has a nice ass.
The RNC has certainly shown how hypocritical and unself-aware the the wingnuts are. If they didn’t have lies, they’d have nothing.
I was underwhelmed by the speech. Timing was terrible, and she was obviously reading talking points from the prompter.
Wait till they find out all her bragging points are not quite true…take back that money for the bridge becomes, we don’t need the bridge but thanks for the money. We will tell you what we did with it later, or not. Oink, oink.
I thought old McCain was going to kiss that baby’s head after the little girl had been licking her hand and rubbing the baby’s hair down. That scene almost did me in.
It was pretty damned awful, wasn’t it? I’m not sure which one of them pissed me off more, but I wish I’d kept score of the outright lies they told.
Still, I’m not very worried about things. I think Obama/Biden will come out strong and kick some teeth in. Should be an exciting two months.
I may be the last to know about the USS Forrestal fire, but I am confused why the link provided above makes no mention of it. The article wants records released on THREE of McCain’s 5 plane crashes (one of which is when he was shot down). It seems even the liberal media has its limits.
McCain challenged on military record
I know of nothing about the Forrestal that reflects badly on McCain. In fact, I can’t imagine how he could possibly be found at fault for any of it, his plane being the one hit by another plane’s missile.
Some say he “wet started” his engine and that cooked off the missle that then fired back at his plane.
Some say…
I ran into this and it seems as though it may have some validity.
Hmm, I hadn’t heard that, and in any event don’t understand wet starting or missile cookery.