I perdict that Palin will be unavailable for the next two months.

[Lochloosa]

She has a wedding to plan. :evilgrin:

[Bettie]

1. But....She's SUPERMOM! She can do EVERYTHING

And all at once, putting us mortal women to shame!

Of course, she can plan a wedding, campaign for VP, mother a disabled child, be the perfect fundie wife, all while spewing hatred and spite all over the place.

I hate that they chose a woman like her, she's so vile and horrid and that has NOTHING to do with her family or the fact that she's a woman, she's just a horrible human being who happens to be female.

[DangerDave921]

3. You are misjudging the mood

Did you watch last night? Do you really think she came off as a vile and horrible human being?

The RW is falling in love with this woman. I've already seen comparisons to Reagan in the RW press. Yesterday, Laura Ingram said on her show that she thinks Palin could be president some day.

This will be a love-fest. And Palin will be out and about across the country for the next 60 days trying to woo small-town voters and women.

[Bettie]

10. I think that the folks in that hall loved her because of the hate

she spewed.

I also think that the evangelicals will probably love her because of that. They live on hate.

The independents and fence-sitters will largely be turned off by her. She was hateful and vile.

I don't care what the freaky RW people think because they'd vote for a zucchini if someone told them it would outlaw abortion and not raise taxes on the rich.

But she did come across as a hateful (which in my mind is horrible and vile) person.

Then again, almost all neo-cons are that way, in my experience.

[DangerDave921]

11. Sorry, have to disagree

I watched last night and I didn't think she came across as hateful. If she did, I wouldn't think anything about her. The problem is that to a lot of america, she came across as warm and approachable and human. My wife, who is kind of a fence-sitter, loved her.

Are there specific parts of the speech you thought were hateful?

[Boz]

14. I have to agree with you Dave, but I think its feeling of Absolution that she brought to the table

She got up there, lied through her teeth, but said what they needed to hear, its not YOUR FAULT.

Your not really a republican(you didn't hear much of the word republican in her speech) those republicans that are bad we can get rid of( like I did in alaska )You just vote us in and we ll TAKE BACK the right from those bad republicans because your a good christian rebublican.

Denial is a very powerful justifier and leads to absolution very easily.

[Boz]

2. Closer to the truth than you know, they don't want to talk to the media, that allows contrasts,

So they wont, thats why the whole republican line of speakers each attacked the media, they get their cake and eat it too attack the media piss them off get no air time, get no air time answer no questions and just blame the media.

Thats the plan and that is bad for us, because we need the enemy to show contrast, with an enemy that LIES and says they are us we waste effort going no they are not.

That means the fight is out of the media, and there we have them beat, on the ground person to person.


Dont believe it, just look to Dick Cheney, the only reason he isn't in jail today is because he stayed away from the questioners.

Cant fight a street fight waiting for a bell, WE HAVE TO GET HE VOTE OUT.

[Lochloosa]

4. That was my point.

Where is the first interview with her? The first press conference?
The first *cough* *cough* tough question from the press?

Where is she?

[RTFirefly]

6. But she was in People magazine!

She's already made herself available to the press! :sarcasm:

[Darth_Kitten]

5. Planning the baby shower first.....and getting the baby daddy....

a job, maybe a plum one taken from a recently fired state employee? :shrug:

And getting his MySpace page, like, youknow, #$@#$ cleaned @#$#$ up. :)

[TexasLady]

7. She needs to be interviewed

and on the morning shows. But I guess you are probably right.

[krkaufman]

8. And the campaign has already begun to push back...

Nicole somebody just told a Time magazine guy, on Morning Joe, that he was irrelevant; and then started deriding the media's treatment of Palin. The McCain campaign is definitely setting it up for there to be no access to Palin. (And, most excellently, the Time guy later made a sarcastic comment that speeches are all you need to do, "you don't have to take questions... just give the speech.")

Biden and McCain have been in the national spotlight for decades and have been vetted repeatedly during their Presidential campaigns, and Obama's been on the national stage for 5 years and getting increasingly intense scrutiny, both during his Senatorial campaign and then during this unbelievably long Presidential campaign.

And then there's Palin. McCain has selected a complete unknown whom the public now has 60 days to learn about before they vote to potentially put her hand on the bible come January 20th, 2009. And the McCain campaign is doing everything they can to prevent the public from learning more about Palin.

[cali]

9. they'll try, but that's a really, really hard one to pull off.

if there's one thing the MSM doesn't like, it's being shut out.

[Boz]

13. Really???? One only needs to look to shrub and Cheesy to see that it isn't that hard

[cali]

15. really? don't be absurd. Both bushco and cheney appeared on the Sunday

morning talk shows when running for election and re-election.

[NewJeffCT]

12. Unavailable to the press? maybe?

she'll be out and about campaigning, though.

[1corona4u]

16. Nah, she'll be in class, learning about the world at large.

Things like foreign policy...

[DangerDave921]

17. and learning McCain's voting history

She won't know the first thing about his record, so she'll have to learn it. What he supported, what he didn't, why, etc.

Quite the learning curve.