Comments open for your reactions while we wait for the Palin speech to come up on Youtube. (bumped)
Video here and text.
(Plus a transcript of Rudy Giuliani’s great barnburner here).
They love her in Hillary Land
“I love, love, love this!! We are going to kick Obama’s butt all the way back to Kenya!!!!!!” …
Yeah. It’s really easy to see now what they were so afraid of. I have to watch that again…..if no other reason but to catch that joke about the greek columns again.
It’s midnight on the east coast and SDA has just registered 900 Sitemeter visits in the last hour. That’s how big this story is.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just called her “shrill”. That’ll win the women back!
And is CNN rattled? You be the judge…. “McCain Wins Democratic Nomination”
(thanks to Paul C.)
Now we know why they pay Keith Olbermann the big bucks – “People who like this sort of thing will find this… the sort of thing they like.”
Fire and Nice,I like that.I wrote a few comments on reader tips before I realized that there was this thread. To sum up what I think is that ,if anyone cares,is that she is a force..Who would you rather be in a dangerous situation with,say a bear in a cave, Barack and Biden,or McCain and Palin,or maybe even Stefffi and Garth? MY choice is obvious,people with guts. Obama would tell them to stand back,”Don’t you know who I am?”. MCCain and Palin would fight back. The other two would turn their back and bribe the bear with your money,just before they were eaten.
bluetech, I think this is the line you’re thinking of–one of the best of the night (amongst a whole lot of really good ones):
“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.”
Country Stars Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy and John Rich of Big and Rich, gave a great performance tonight at the RNC.
It helped me understand why the Republicans put Country First then Rock, Blues, Jazz and R & B in that order. More here
Best political speech I’ve seen in my life.
She turned her prurient critics into toads simply by letting the voters see who she is.
What a force. A star is born.
My first glimpse at Sarah Palin. Wow! Great speech, well delivered.A star is born.
I guess I am a wimp but the dedication of her vice presidency to children of special needs brought a tear to my eye.
Obama may represent the aspirations of people of colour but women have found a true champion in Sarah.
It was pointed out earlier that Sarah Palin can field dress a moose.
After watching her speech it may have been overlooked that she likely killed said moose with her bare hands.
My arch-liberal brother in Toronto is in hysterical high dudgeon. I have never seem him ever lose his composure, ever, until Hurricane Palin hit!
You go girl. I love ya.
Sarah has a new nickname: PitBull with Lipstick.
I could only imagine the pain her young, pregnant daughter has been feeling the last few days. I wondered if she somehow was blaming her mother for thrusting her into the spotlight in such a negative way. Thus, when Sara Palin started her speech the camera panning in on her daughter and it was very interesting to see the look on her face.She was absolutely beaming as if to say “go get em mom, WE are all in this together and WE can git er done.
Awsome!
Horny Toad
Hey look everybody, the village idiot New stopped by to disperse his vacous thoughts:
“blah, blah, blah……..”
Move on New – your comments are as empty as Obama’s sermons.
A 17 year oldkid who don’tknow nothin’ about nothin’ gets pregnant and mom forces her into international scrutiny? Weird.
And a babe too!
Sarah has a new nickname: PitBull with Lipstick.
Richard Norton Smith (on PBS) said, before the speech, that she was a “woman in the Ronald Reagan mould.” She proved that in both the delivery and the content of the speech. And no, Ace, not anybody can make a 36 minute speech before a large, raucous crowd with the pressure on and the cameras rolling.
I had to howl when Mark Shields took issue with Palin belittling Obama — or “Zero” as he will now undoubtedly be known — with the line about how the presidency should not be a journey of personal discovery. I’m sure Americans will breathe a sigh of relief that Obama won’t be turning the Lincoln bedroom into an ashram or some blasted Dervish whirl-a-tron any time soon.
Jeffery Toobin of CNN also commented that the community organizer digs were going to hurt because it smacks all community organizers, the ones helping those caught in the sub-prime loans/hurricane disasters etc. But her point was taking a dig at B.O. for using his comm. org. skills as experience. It was a ‘back at ya’ to B.O. for his belittling her experience yesterday. Come on Jeff… wake up!
real, could you provide some proof for your allegation of “mom forces her into international scrutiny’. Thanks.
Oh, and also some proof that she ‘knows nothing about nothing’.
A key problem with your remarks, real, is that they have no basis in facticity or logic. Why do you bother to post such emptiness?
On Harry Reid:
“You are a vague, translucent, living shade who barely matters, and if you really want to serve the country that affords a trifle like you the opportunity to delude himself into thinking that he matters, you must never ever speak out loud in public again!”
Comments from Democrats Hillary group … they love Sarah:
Glass ceiling ? Sara palin isn’t going to shatter it – she’s gonna shoot it like it’s a f***n MOOSE !
ET…those are the ones Obama’s counting on. Emptiness!!!
That body language, btw, wasn’t nervousness (a little at the beginning until she found her stride), she was reading the crowd, watching the timing (and I’ll bet watching her kids) and waiting for the roving camera guys to get in position and watching for the camera record lights to come on on the ENGs She’s being doing this for a lot of years, just a bit bigger crowd – but you know, big crowds are easier than small ones.
WOW, I am impressed and proud of the woman.The USA can be very proud of this Vice President candidate.The media in the USA look very small minded.
She’ll be the first female president of the U.S.
McCain surprises (and makes his critics look like boobs) once again.
Brilliant.
Palin does very well in unscripted interviews. All her facts at her fingertips, no hemming and hawing, nor searching for the precise phrasing like Obama, and no bloviation like Biden is so given to. I’m looking forward to seeing her in debate.
She reminds me of Sally Fields as the flying nun. Except as a ninja.
The American blogs I visit that allow comments have attracted 10 X the usual number of commenters. They’re coming out of the woodwork, wetting themselves, contriving every attack imaginable no matter how ridiculous, truly, at their most vicious hurling anything and everything, hoping something will stick.
I saw and listened to the speech Sarah gave. She gave it with all her heart. Bill and Hillary Clinton’s speech pales in comparison.
To stand up front of millions of people with less than -6 months notice was awesome. She threw so many curve balls out there for the MSM, they will never figure her out by the time election date rolls around.
After the MSM slammed her family and anybody that disagreed with them, she comes up with the all timer bases loaded out of the park grand slam.
Asked my niece to watch the speeches with me to show her that we were watching history in the making. I listened to JFK and MLK with family and friends on the old transistor radio because parents said that history was in the making. Nothing truer could be said.
Fantastic speech, just fantastic. I remember reading the news last Friday morning and I was elated, and even with all the mud the media slung at her over the next few days, I knew she’d soldier on.
Go Sarah. She kicked ass and took names, and I can’t wait to see her hit the Sunday talk show circuit and rip Biden a new one in their debate.
You only need to look at the reaction from the libs on CNN and MSNBC to know that she hit it out of the park tonight. And wow, MSNBC now reporting that her prompter messed up a few times and rolled over her speech, and she ad-libbed/improvised a few transitions and did it without missing a beat.
She will be President one day.
Not a great orator but, boy does she know how to press the buttons!
I’ve been surfing the net to see the reaction of the Obama side. Nothing but really vile and obscene comments, sexist put-downs and outright lies that were put to rest a couple of days ago.
I don’t have a dog in this fight but, on the strength of the Democrat responses, I’d vote for McCain just to support her. She’s my kind of politician.
Overheard:
“New Sarah Palin Topic: Is Air Force One safe from E-bay?”
Here’s a great line posted over at instapundit, just after the speech.
“New Sarah Palin Topic: Is Air Force One safe from E-bay?”
This lady rocks and is the game changer/winner the “fighter pilot” intended to have hit Obama’s 6 out of the sun.
Enjoy the sudden stop at the end of your “Palin” induced fall Obama.
The shot heard around the [liberal] world.
Clue for sale to Barack: never, ever underestimate a woman with a cause. And never, ever, under any circumstance, f**k with her young.
This is going to get REAL interesting.
Thanks batb…that pretty well defines her.
Can’t add anymore to this reaction. ..looking forward to the debates! Gov. Palin was not afraid to take on the establishment in Alaska, and she certainly will not be intimidated by the media.Real reformer with backbone, and a she-bear.
I really hope we don’t get distracted by an election here in Canada. This is going to be a great campaign to follow.
On a lighter note…Piper will forever be in my heart for her loving lick-spittle hairdo for Trig.Precious!
Speech transcript released to press —
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/09/remarks_by_alaska_governor_sar.php
An excerpt —
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines … build more new-clear plants … create jobs with clean coal … and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.
Guesss they wanted to get that pronunciation right. I see she has declared “victory within sight” in Eye-wrack.
The MSM and the Democratic Party will be throwing every smear they can imagine in the next two months. To all the American readers, be prepared to fight, fight and fight. This is going to be Clarence Thomas times a billion.
Not only can Sarah Palin field dress a moose. She just field dressed Obama tonight
as Dr. Johnson said of a dog walking on its hind legs: “it is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”
Overall, a well read speech. She’s good off a teleprompter. Much, much better, for example, than she is at unscripted interviews and press conferences (indeed, if the Republicans’ campaign managers are bright, they will restrict her exposure to and interaction with the press – much like they have her boss). Infrequently she came across as running for student counsel and at other times verged on being . . . let’s say it . . . shrill. The latter is kryptonite for female candidates – ask Hillary – so she’ll have to be careful about being too much of an attack dog on the campaign trail.
The most disappointing thing about the speech tonight, however, was its author – Matthew Scully, a George W. Bush writer (and, more ominously, a Dan Quayle writer). Hence, the speech was filled with divisive rhetoric and bereft of policy. Does the McCain team really want to remind Americans of the Rove-wedge issue-driven Presidential style of the past eight years? Explaining the reasoning behind McCain’s policies would have been more efffective than mere sloganeering, to my mind.
(I’ll give Obama credit for one thing. He does write his own speeches. A lost art among many politicians.)
There is one sin, however, that Palin may have committed tonight. She may have outperformed tomorrow acceptance speech by her party’s Presidential nominee. And that, would be a bone for her opponents.
On the subject of speeches, I was thinking about this one the other day, after some talking head on one of the liberal networks in the US referred to Obama’s speech as “probably the best in the history of the world”.
Nauseating, to say the least, but much more so when juxtaposed with the former – and the words still ring very true today – 44 years later.
“And no, Ace, not anybody can make a 36 minute speech before a large, raucous crowd with the pressure on and the cameras rolling.”
Anybody running for VP should be able to make a great Convention speech (except for Biden who is probably the worst in my living memory). Thankfully a speech doesn’t make a president or a vice-president. If it did, the Obama-messiah would already be president.
“Palin does very well in unscripted interviews.”
She’s silenced the most extreme critics for now, but I think most swing voters will remain unconvinced until we see some interviews and debates.
I predict the GOP will likely restore the status quo ante after the convention(level pegging).
Re: Meerschaum post
seems like Obama campaign is writing posts for SDA..heh
One thing for sure, Sarah has more testicles than Dion.
A vision has been stuck in my head all evening: It’s John McCain giving a State of the Union Address with with Palin sitting behind him in the VP’s seat in the Senate. The Democrats only hope is to treat Palin like she doesn’t exist. Every anti-woman, anti-mother, anti-ordinary American, anti-gun, anti-small-town, anti-Alaska, shot they take makes them look more hypocritical. It also feeds her and her admirers with more ammuniton (and the last thing they want to give Sarah Palin is more ammunition!) But Democrats don’t roll that way. Democrats, when backed into a corner tend to become snippy and graceless, like Michael Dukakis in the final debate with GHW Bush in ’88. I am certain they will instead relentlessly attack Palin without shame or thought and they will show themselves for the hypocrites that they are. And if the world turns the way it should, this will cost Obama the election.
What was the name of the Democratic VP nominee again?
Sarah is Hillary’s revenge on Obama.
What was the name of the Democratic VP nominee again?
Oh, just some Joe.
Wow! I just wish we had politicians like her and many of the Republican leaders here in Canada. sigh. Our politically-correct sanitized shamelessly liberal society won’t allow anything more tasty than bland vanilla, I’m afraid. Men can’t act like real men or they are called bullies. They have to emasculate themselves so as not to offend. Women politicians who attend pro-life rallies are shunned and ridiculed. So we’re stuck with politicians who have to whisper, “I’m pro-life, but don’t tell anyone because if it gets out, I’m ruined!” And we REWARD professional abortionists with medals. Very sad.
I wish I had been in St. Paul tonite in that stadium. And I wish I could vote in THEIR election. Sigh.
Sarah is Hillary’s revenge on Obama.
Sarah is Conservatives’ revenge on Hillary.
Sarah’s story is the one Hillary has been trying to make up for the last 20 years.
I find Sarah refreshingly honest for a politician these days I think we are all sick of politically correct and over polished politic-speak. Who says being a politician forever qualifies you to be a great leader? I am glad to see a young, MOTHER, with a fresh perspective – removed from playing games in washington. She seems like one heck of a person to me! I am also appalled how much harder a ride she’s getting just for being a woman. I can’t wait for the debates!
Meerschaum:”Explaining the reasoning behind McCain’s policies would have been more efffective than mere sloganeering” I disagree — it’s McCain’s job to explain the reasoning behind his policies. Her job is to rally the troups. I think tonight people were more interested in getting a sense of Palin as a person. I liked her. She came across as very feminine (not something you see in most women politicians — primarily because they have been conditioned to take on a male persona to succeed in politics . . . Palin is a refreshing change.) She also seemed solid. I think the experience thing is a bit of a toss up between Obama and Palin — since neither has a lot, who they are becomes important.
This woman is, as others have said, a force to be reckoned with. What grace, what charm, what intelligence, what wit. And a voice that will be a pleasure to listen to.
Her husband and children obviously adore her, and daughter Bristol appears to have her mother’s strengths. Regardless of the media’s attacks, this is a strong family unit.
With millions of others, I’m looking forward to the debates. I hope Biden resists the temptation to take a drink or two beforehand. He’ll need all his wits to hold his own with Wonder Woman, the future President of the U.S. of A.
Some dog. Some dance.
She kinda sounds like a Canadian, eh?