"I sincerely hope that the American people will be smart enough to see through the Republicans' lies and amorality. I also sincerely hope that those who consider themselves Republicans will put country above party and call on their party to begin campaigning honestly on issues and ideas rather than on hate, contempt, and fearmongering. But mostly, I hope that those who have taken the Republican Party in this direction - including their presidential and vice-presidential candidates - go down to such ignominious defeat in November that their political philosophy is completely discredited and people of conscience retake the Republican Party."

You first. You folks had the first shot and all we heard was, " Evil George Bush and his buddy John McCain" from one speaker after another...including BHO, who really suprised me with how much time in his speech he took to take shots...below his dignity as a Presidential candidate, but I guess that comes with experience (oops, there's that word again). How many days until we get the good old morphing faces commercial from the Dems or Move On . org?
And now, the party of great platitudes and their minions in the press have nothing to say except to spout off half truths about the VP nominee. Harry Reid even referred to her as "shrill," not a word he has used about any man. And questioning whether she has the time to run with children at home...gimme a break, the gender police would skewer a Republican if he/she said that, but Dems get away with it. (Same way JoeB got away with his "clean and articulate" remark)
The Dems are scared to death, especially after she did so well last night and with the teleprompter operator continually screwing up. She actually did better than Rudy under similar circumstances and he's supposed to be a veteran.
They'll have a tough time connecting her to PRESIDENT (by the way) Bush as she has sued his administration numerous times over 10th Amendment issues.
Go, Sarah, Go. She is going to Washington to serve the people. Amen!
 

Did you hear a great deal about George Bush or John McCain's character at the Democratic National Convention? No. You just heard why their policies are running this country into the ground, which is a reality they are too intellectually and morally bankrupt to admit. In fact, the convention speakers continually praised McCain's service to his country, and Obama himself said that he wouldn't question McCain's motivations. Contrast this to Sarah "Coulter" Palin, who continually slandered Obama's motivations as well as his character.

And I think it's rather humorous that the Republicans have now become the Sexist Police after almost two decades of sexist attack after sexist attack on Hillary Clinton. It takes a lot of nerve to pretend that a party that is so blatantly and transparently sexist - personally, in the case of many of that party's leaders (including John McCain, he of the misogynist jokes and calling his wife a "c**t"), as well as politically, in their promulgation of a variety of anti-woman policies. It would be humorous if it wasn't so pathetic to see a party that has based itself on the oppression of women, people of color, and anyone who doesn't toe the line of masculinist heterosexuality, to all of a sudden pretend that they're opposed to sexism and always have been.

And it's not hard connecting Sarah Palin to President Bush at all... at least not if you look at her (scant) record as Governor Alaska and her brief stint before that in the five-room vinyl-sided building that is the Wasilla City Hall. She won her first election in Wasilla by appealing to Christian Right wedge issues, suggesting that she was the only true Christian in the race, and proceeded to run that city's budget into the ground, stopping along the way to fire her police chief (for being too hard on her campaign donors) and trying to fire the public librarian for not banning the books she wanted banned. In fact, Palin was such a failure as a mayor that the city council, facing an effort to recall her, chose to put a city manager in charge of the administration of the city to do the actual work of being mayor, leaving the "honorable" Ms. Palin free to go to Washington and lobby for all those Federal earmarks she so deplores now that it's politically convenient for her to do so. She won election partially because Frank Murkowski was wildly unpopular, and partly by promising more of those Federal earmarks (including the "bridge to nowhere" she now falsely claims she was opposed to) and serving on the board of champion earmarker and criminal Ted Stevens's 527. Even now, she's trying to claim that her executive privilege as Governor of Alaska shields her from any scrutiny of her illegal and unethical dismissal of the state's top public safety official for not firing her brother-in-law.

In short, she might not be from Washington, but Sarah Palin certainly got the corrupt Bush regime's modus operandi down pat.

Are we scared? Hardly. She might play well with the Christian Right, but among independents she's tanking. Focus group after focus group reveals that her speech last night was a bit off-putting to those who don't already share her backward and hateful view of the world, and did absolutely nothing to sell her as a person - to say nothing of her complete failure to tell Americans what exactly qualifies her to be an old man's heartbeat away from being leader of the free world.

Give her a few years and a little more seasoning - maybe some relevant experience in foreign affairs or economies not propped up by the oil industry - and we'll see. For now, she's an empty suit, and John McCain's choice of someone so completely unfit to be an old man's heartbeat away from the presidency casts a great deal of doubt upon his judgment and ability to make decisions for the good of the country.