One of my favorite things from coverage of the conventions is references to the vice president as #2.
"What does he want out of his #2?"
"Minimal wiping?"
And man, having Michele Bachman come on and say 'welcome to the land of Minnesota nice' is not a good thing. Does she NOT understand that 'Minnesota nice' is a bad thing?
And Norm Coleman referred to McCain as 'the man whose face says yes' (part of some likely apocryphal story about Thomas Jefferson). To me McCain is the man whose face says 'you've had enough novocaine'.
Updated - can't listen to most of this, no matter how hard I try....for as bogus as most of the filler at the DNC, significantly less of it was empty stupid platitudes.
Of course, 80% of the folks in attendance think W is just peachy.
Fred Thompson describing McCain being 'tortured', something I'm not sure Bush/Cheney/et al would describe as other than harsh interrogations. Give Fred some credit, despite what might charitably be called a lackadaisical campaign, he's feeding raw, red meat to the small crowd in attendance.
more update...Droopy Dog Joe Lieberman seems unaware that he's speaking to a rabidly partisan Republican crowd. Bringing up things like McCain's views on campaign finance (hated by R's), immigration (beaten down by brown hating R's), climate change (what climate change?) and to top it off, mentioning Bill Clinton in any positive way. I'll be surprised if he's not beaten senseless backstage. We certainly won't see him again the rest of the week.
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The Star-Tribune headline "McCain introduces his Number Two" summed it up.
Okay, the Republican talking points on Palin:
1. She's more qualified than Obama, because she "runs the Alaska National Gaurd". This is b.s., but everyone interviewed is saying it.
2. She's ready to be president because she's got more experience, if you include her city council work. Okay, why wasn't I asked to be president? I sat on a couple of local non-profit boards in the last few years.
Dear God, keep smiling to the cameras and pray nobody notices...
Like all of us, I could go on and on...
But the nuts & bolts of it is: they've got NOTHING.
They spent about a decade and a half making hay while couching an extremist agenda behind folksy aphorisms and catchy, jingoistic trademark talking points.
They overplayed their hand something terrible and now they're left with a party that has absolutely squeezed out dissenting voices and represents a very small percentage of the population and can't address issues that touch real people. The chickens are coming home to roost and I LOVE IT.
This has all got to be somewhat obvious to the viewing public, who is watching a convention filled with odd contradicitions. I really hope they see that GOP speakers can't get a cheer out of their own convention delegates with anything other than references to wedge issues upon which their presumptive nominee has spent a lifetime equivocating.
For the first time in my modern political life, I see a Democratic party that dynamic and hitting on all cylinders and a Republican Party that looks lost. And I LOVE IT.
At his age, getting a solid #2 is quite an accomplishment!
Having sat through the better part of both conventions (yes with most of the R one to go) several things strike me:
1 - the enthusiasm gap is almost immeasurable, requiring parsecs or lightyears to define.
2 - the party that defined bi-partisanship as 'date rape' holding forth on 'Country First' takes their already staggering level of hypocrisy to new uncharted territory.
3 - do all delegates receive packets of talking points? They all seem like they're auditioning for a regular spot on Meet The Press. There's almost no sense of authenticity from anyone, in either party. The things they say come across as painfully scripted.
ooh Pat - Novocain McCaine
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