The Great White Hope delivers
I had to put on my sun glasses as I looked out across the GOP convention. That Sea of White hurt my eyes!
Compare it to the Democratic convention...which showed the REAL America...a melting pot of lovely diversity.
Okay, the speech. I expected Sarah Palin to give a good speech. After all, she's a former TV newscaster who knows how to read from a TelePrompter... and she had three days of round-the-clock rehearsal.
She was professional, cutesy, but not at all empathetic. Given all the warnings about not underestimating her, I was expecting a lot more.
You could tell the speech was written by the Bush/McCain gang -- peppered with a lot of "pause for applause." Of course, the R's at the convention loved it, she fires up the ever-shrinking base of the GOP. But I don't think she's going to sway many moderate, Independent voters...especially women.
They should've had her come out a fringed cowboy jacket and skirt like Annie Oakley, cracking a whip to the tune of “Mariah.” Now THAT would be a showstopper.
Seriously, they can dress it up with a pretty face, but it was all just more smears, lies and distortions from the Bush/McCain campaign. Where were the new ideas on how to fix all of the major problems and disasters caused by eight years of Bush/McCain policies and failures?
When centrist women voters learn that Palin opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest, opposes stem cell research and, as governor, opposed funding for state pre-kindergarten programs...the moderates and Independents will feel less favorable toward her.
Here's more "Compassionate Conservatism"...
ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.[..]
She tells parents of special needs children that they will have a friend in the White House...but in reality Palin slashed funding for schools for special needs kids by 62%.
The Annual budget for 2007, which preceded Gov. Palin was $8,265,300.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/08_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
The Annual budget for 2008, enacted by Gov. Palin is $3,156,000.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/08_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
The Annual budget for 2009, enacted by Gov. Palin is $3,156,000.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
This is a cut in special needs services to children in Alaska of 5,109,300 , or 62%.
In other words, she threw them under the short yellow bus.
Anyway, these parents are such a small constituency that she probably thinks she can safely make promises to them, then betray them without suffering any political consequences.
Her speech was filled with sarcasm, no facts, definitely no empathy for anyone outside her base ... I didn't hear any economic policy other than "Drill Here, Drill Now"
Dems need to blast past all that noise and sparkle, and not worry about being soft on her because she's new or a woman...or that it's sexist to attack her. After last night's performance, she will never again be seen as soft or a novice.
Those easily-disproved lies about Obama's record just don't seem all that savvy to me...or clever. She came across as self-righteous...almost bullying. Hopefully some "undecideds" are getting the same impression.
She didn't sound like a reformer at all, she sounded like the other angry old white men.
So...that's it? This is what the G0P has to offer after 8 long years under the worst President ever? Two narrow-minded, flip-floppers who preach do as we say not as we do?
