Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Palin brings it
The crowd at the Republican Convention last night was primed and pumped. After being yelled at by Mitt Romney (is anyone going to miss this guy?), told a few jokes by Mike Huckabee and ego stroked by good ol’ Rudy Giuliani, the Republican faithful were ready to be wowed. And Sarah Palin did not disappoint.
The self-described hockey mom (give her props for her joke about the difference between hockey mothers and pit-bulls), gave a perfect pitch speech last night. She introduced herself, her family, politics, and relished her role as attack dog. And attack she did.
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,” Palin said bringing the crowd to its feet.
Her speech was filled with these little digs, all delivered with a smile; the happy warrior stance Republicans love.
The only false note was how much the speech was about her. Sure there were the obligatory nods to the guy who took her from Alaska, John McCain, but the speech had a presidential nominee feel. Sure Republicans are in the glow of their Palin love, but McCain is on the top of the ticket.
The bottom line is this: Democrats be scared because Palin is going to be a formidable opponent.
Palin brings It – The “It” being homophobia.
Palin Brings It – The “It” being homophobia.
Shameful title guys….
Who is the idiot that wrote this article? She did not “bring it”. She came across as a raving lunitic and is in good company with McCain. She isn’t a “formidable opponent” – anyone with a brain will see right through her lies and decit. She has not experience, no concept of true America, and is about as hypocritical as they come. I am terrified that Americans are just so stupid they will believe the rhetoric (obvisouly the contributor did). They haven’t addressed any issues – only made personal attacks. How are they (the Reps) going to give us anything different from the last 8 years of misery. Have you forgotten that the state our our economy, the cost to our reputation in the world, our environment, our constitution that has been eroded and will continue to erode with the hate mongering Palin and McCain? The list goes on and on. I would like ANYONE to give me 1, just 1 thing that Bush has given us in the last 8 years that has made our lives better and how they could possibly justify 4 more years of the same, if not worse McCain/Palin?
Your censorship is shocking, revealing, & disappointing.
You really thought that was good? I had the opposite reaction of her calling herself a dog, a pitbull no less. Only in Alaska is that cute. Real women take offense if you compare them to bitches. And the crack about community organizers was bang on? What do you think of MLK, or Susan B. Anthony, or Frederick Douglas? Yep, community organizers are certainly worth a good laugh. Come on, James, you can’t think this bitter, hate-filled, barb-ridden stuff is really what we need in this country, can you?
Like that “Palin comparison”. Very good! Also, “Palin loose cannon”. The democrates better come out strong. I’m not thrilled with Obama’s cowardness.
Ian : People such as Ms. Palin, whom I believe is seriously mentally is – can feel VERY persuasive because they themselves actually believe what they are saying – therein lies their illness. Mentally ill people rarely BELIEVE they are mentally ill. People like Palin who actually believe their own dangerous nonsense are far more engaging and persuasive. Look at Hitler. WE all know he was a classic NUT JOB – but then look at all the scores of people who were buying into his psycho speeches. He WAS charismatic and those PEOPLE did buy into what he was saying. Palin is a potentially very dangerous woman. Ignorant, arrogant, exceedingly divisive and she really BELIEVES her own B.S. – which makes her somewhat fearless. Some will mistake her fearless, tell-it-like-it-is approach for honesty and intelligence. It is neither. It is pathology. People who believe her are just as dangerous as she is.
Withers wrote “The only false note was how much the speech was about her.”
Yeah — that and the fact that she offered nothing, absolutely nothing of substance that would reveal that she has any ideas on solving the crises the country faces or even a clear grasp of the the problem. Has anybody explained to her yet just what the VP does or are they just going to let her guess?
She was good at the “Washington is broken” message, but seemed to suggest that the way to fix it was to re-elect the Republicans who were major contributors to breaking it in the first place. Her disdain for community organizing only demonstrates how little respect she has for the power of the electorate unless they are voting for her. She (or her speechwriters) seem to have no more respect for factual information than the Bushies — ‘if the facts don’t fit your message, make-up new ones’
I, for one, am sick and tired of politicians deriding people who are educated (as Palin happily did) and espousing that somehow “dumb is better’ and ‘ignorance is patriotic.’
Listen — we tried ‘dumb’ for the last 8 years and look where it got us. Time for a change — and I don’t just mean the nameplate on the oval office.
She’s “Palin comparison…”
Victoria – This is James’ writing style. He attempts to appear neutral but can never really obscure his inherent point of view. Its a classic writing style of “having it both ways” – appearing to be objective on the surface (or in the title as it were), but not really being so. Vitrually all of his writing and responses take this same approach. It’s annoying because it ostensibly reeks of “fence sitting” – seemingly wanting to express a definite point of view but not having enough guts to clearly state what he really feels. To genuinely come across as balanced and neutral requires a far greater level of nuance. Columns that attempt to “have it both ways” merely come across as insulting to the intelligence of the reader.
What really scares me is she came off as feeling like someone I could actually trust. Her deception runs so deep you can read it off of her. It’s scary, she seems like so many conservative soccer-moms I’ve known who were completely fine with me being gay. Now I wonder just how horrible and rotten to the core those women are, deep down inside. I know they all had horrible, horrible skeletons in their closet but the idea of them actually being as bad as Palin is terrifying. I just hope we don’t get deceived by her. I hope that I’m some how out of touch with the rest of the world and nobody else thought her speech was great. I know I thought it was fantastic, but I also know I can’t trust her. What we should be doing is holding her accountable. If they did it to the Kennedy’s for being Catholic she should undergo the same scrutiny for being Pentecostal and be reminded that her duty is to uphold the constitution not try to edit it so it works like another testament to her book of superstitions she calls a holy text.
Palin did not bring it…she maybe delivered it. The speechwriters brought it. I would like to see this little twirp really talk, without written snipes and handy little quips on her cuff, in front of a camera with real questions. I think at that point her idiotic personality will then really come out. What happened to the money for the bridge to nowhere that she kept; or the over the top estimate of $40 billion for the oil pipeline she’s so fond of that will never see the light of day (where’s the excess $10 billion going to go–in her pockets?). She reminds me too much of a cross between Karen Walker and Anita Bryant. Both beauty queens, both vapid and mean spirited.
Mr. Withers, first you sought to shield Palin earlier this week from entirely just criticism about her daughter getting pregnant, now you spout this painfully hackneyed MSM-style “perfect pitch” nonsense, even if you ostensibly disagree with her.
Are you trying to come across as some negative stereotype of a gay man, being suckered in by ‘glamour,’ ignoring that this woman is an enemy of LGBT people?
Palin is a shallow, ignorant, corrupt, right-wing showpiece and all the Democrats have to do is expose her actions and attitudes. It chills me to think that a woman like this could even be considered for high national office.
There’s a big difference between taking someone seriously and being “scared” of her. I think that the Democrats should take her seriously.
She did a great job of delivering a speech written by Bush’s speechwriter. So, anyone who diminished Obama’s qualifications as being “pretty speech-ifying” should be suspicious of this speech, as well.
Good luck, McCain, you’ve got yourself a loose cannon. She showed no respect for the other male republicans in her home state, why the hell would she show any for McCain. Ha, Ha, Ha!
Yes, she is a rather deranged woman isn’t she? Rather like Ann Coulter. Motivational? I suppose – but it isn’t difficult to motivate stupid people (and in the case of “gay republicans” – self-loathing people). Heck, Hitler gave motivational speeches but it didn’t mean he wasn’t a whack job.