As a new Redstater, and as my first Presidential contribution, I have to say – McCain/Palin ’08!

What a woman. What a great pick by McCain.

And I love it when I’m right!

best to all, Kay

exhibited the kind of courage that Ernest Hemingway described as “grace under pressure”.

In my opinion, her presence was a rare moment in American politics.

I guess Senator McCain won’t be removing her from the ticket.

two hits right out of the ball park.

The Democrat attack against Palin’s speech is going to be that she didn’t write all of it?

That sounds like a joke, but it’s not.

for about the first two minutes. I was very impressed with her speech. I guess we will not hear about any more ‘Eagleton’ scenarios.

Bravo Sarah Palin!!!!!

I loved the styrofoam columns comment.

…that was a life changing speech. I feel honored to have witnessed history.

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McCain/Palin 08!!*

an exaggeration.

Jimmy Carter and his running mate Joe Biden will unfortunately be there tomorrow peddling their same big government garbage.

Wow.

Just…wow.

OUCH!!!!!! Miss Congeniality my @$$!!!!!!

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Bravo Palin, Bravo McCain.

She shook the hornets nest and she knows it. The attacks will get more vicious from here but it is clear they don’t know who they are dealing with.

First time I ever saw a bull dog with lipstick.

I have never been prouder to be a republican woman in the great state of GA. As a disability advocate fighting for the rights of disabled children in public schools, Sarah Palin’s statement that she would be an advocate in the white house for disabled children resonated strongly with me.

God Bless America

It’s worth every policy disagreement with McCain to get her next in line for the White House.

there was momentary coverage of someone (looked like a woman, but it was from the back so I’m not sure) being escorted up the stairs out of the hall by men in suits (possibly Secret Service, but couldn’t tell). Since it was on CSPAN, I heard no commentary and haven’t seen any stories pop up on the news.

Anyone who was there or has inside information shed any light on this for me?

nt

trying to downplay the speech when talking about women… “I don’t know how this will play outside this hall”

Wolf: “Good Point”

Dream on MSM… this one was out of the park.

She made it look easy. The great ones make whatever they do look easy. It was a great, great speech but she made it look like it was something she could do every week. It may not have been the speech of a lifetime only because she may spend a lifetime giving great speeches.

is going to get even nastier against Palin, if that is even possible.

The bias is going to get worse and worse as they get more and more desparate.

Be ready for political war.

Let’s just have her back from here on out…

I suppose I have to give credit where credit is due. Rick Davis and McCain played the media like a harp. the tabloid press Palin and her trash family received probably tripled the viewership tonight. Just in time to watch her slice this country in half between the Us’s and Them’s, again, just like in 2004.

Obama was FAR to nice with McCain.

Nice job guys.

They showed this blog post and talked about how conservatives were fired up.

I’m a pretty even keeled guy. Most often, with politics, the emotion that I usually find myself expressing forcefully is anger
and disappointment. Seems like that’s been it for too long now.
But tonight, tonight I am excited, I AM EXCITED about this election! I am EXCITED about John McCain’s nomination! And I am VERY EXCITED about the energy and vitality
that Sarah Palin brings to this election and to the Republican Party!
I have not been excited about an election or any nominees since Ronald Reagan! She is a strong conservative woman! She is an articulate and commanding conservative politician!
She’s a loving and compassionate pro-life
mother!
She is, most of all, one of us!

God Bless America
God Bless John McCain
and
God Bless Sarah Palin!

I’m an independent who was leaning towards McCain, but I’m still shaking my head at his choice of running mate.

It seems that both parties are guilty of drinking their own kool-aid and being caught in their own reality distortion fields. So, I can’t blame the Republicans for seeing what they want to see.

But for someone who is outside of both parties, I saw a speech that was being delivered by someone who came off as an actress… someone who was speaking someone else’s words rather than her own.

God help us if we ever woke up to the terrible news that McCain has passed away during his presidency and Palin has been made the leader of the free world. I truly believe that she would not have a clue on how to carry out the duties of her office and I would be very concerned about who was pulling her puppet strings.

I was hoping to hear a speech where she could demonstrate leadership qualities and independent thought. But what I saw was someone who seemed to be focused more on her delivery rather than on sharing her deep thoughts on what this country should be and where it should go.

I don’t know. I’m still up in the air. For me, McCain’s choice has made me re-think my support for him. The Obama camp, with Obama’s lack of experience and the threat of crippling taxes, is hard to get behind completely. But I can’t imagine this woman having to deal with the likes of Vladmir Putin if she was ever thrust into the role of President.

Right there ladies & Gentlemen NOT Hilliary Not Condi Rice SarahCUDA Palin, God the more I hear & see of her the More I am in LOVE!!! A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ on the speech

I’m a pretty even keeled guy. Most often, with politics, the emotion that I usually find myself expressing forcefully is anger
and disappointment. Seems like that’s been it for too long now.
But tonight, tonight I am excited, I AM EXCITED about this election! I am EXCITED about John McCain’s nomination! And I am VERY EXCITED about the energy and vitality
that Sarah Palin brings to this election and to the Republican Party!
I have not been excited about an election or any nominees since Ronald Reagan! She is a strong conservative woman! She is an articulate and commanding conservative politician!
She’s a loving and compassionate pro-life
mother!
She is, most of all, one of us!

God Bless America
God Bless John McCain
and
God Bless Sarah Palin!

in Kristol’s eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5TrD0mHws

You are worried about Palin’s inexperience? She is the Vice-President candidate. Your other choice is a man who wants to be PRESDIDENT on Jan 20th. He has NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE. What that means, Indie, is he has NEVER been in charge of anything before. NEVER handled a budget, never had to make a decision that had any serious ramifications. How can you be afraid of Palin’s inexperience when the most inexperienced candidate is Obama BY FAR. Indie, I think you have been desensitized by all the rhetoric that you have read and heard. And now you can’t recognize the genuine article when you see it. I live in Illinois. We are almost dead last in job creation, have the highest sales tax in the country (Cook county, home of Chicago), and a reputation for having the most inept and crooked state and city governments in the country (All Democratically controlled). This is where Obama served and this is his legacy of accomplishment. Choose wisely!

Eugene Robinson is nearly as obnoxious as Keith Olbermann on MSDNC. Tonight he argued that it’s a bad idea for the McCain campaign to attack the press because they are going to “need” the press if they want to have a chance of winning.

After the Palin speech, Olbermann pointed out that some Ted somebody is reporting for the AP that Palin is a hypocrite because she introduced her family after telling the press they were off limits. No doubt he’d be reporting that she was so crass as to be hiding her family had she not introduced them.

Robinson added that tomorrow the WaPo is featuring a troopergate story, and that it’s just one step forward of many to come. He sounded really proud of their planned “death by 1,000 cuts” approach.

I sure hope the average person is seeing through this crap and tiring of it.

Fox still can’t pronounce her hast name consistently.. Can someone slip ‘em a memo? Hannity doesn’t seem to know if it’s a long or short – a in ‘Palin’.

McCain proved tonight that he picked the right VP for his ticket. Obama, with his community organizing experience, is outmatched, not only by McCain, but also by his VP, Gov. Sarah Palin.

In 2000 I supported McCain. I supported Clinton this year and have made clear I’d vote for McCain and never for Obama. I’m glad he’s got a good VP candidate–a great ticket.

Matthew
http://www.theproblemwithobama.com

I’m sorry I can’t agree with you all. I am a Republican and was supporting McCain. I found her speech boring and scarily mean-spirited, slow-witted and reflective of evil genius neo-cons. Her speech alone has convinced me to vote for either Bob Barr or maybe even Obama.

JUST KIDDING–playing the “concern” troll a la Indie above. Honestly, I was quietly cheering as my kids were sleeping. AWESOME. For the first time, I think that McCain-Palin can win this thing by 7 points or more. But can McCain PLEASE pledge to serve only one term–I don’t wanna wait until 2017 for President Palin!

Why are Republicans happy?

They haven’t seen this kind of person, this kind of commitment to Conservatism, since Reagan left us.

She is uncompromising, and her conservatism is the kind that is without exclusion. She adds to the Party, she doesn’t subtract from it.

I predict that the discovery of Sarah Palin by John McCain will be as important to this era of conservatism as the Speech by Reagan given in 1964 was to the Foundational Era. Reagan’s speech was far more thematic and principled, but her speech carried many of the same principles forward.

There will come a time when we will tell each other that we all know where we were when Sarah Palin made her Speech. We were there At the Beginning. When we got to start all over again, and recommit ourselves to the principles of Ronald Reagan with a new leader.

She’s that important. She proved that to me tonight.

Sarah delivered well and all politicians have script writers. But the essence comes from the person. I write scripts for CEO’s and most don’t have a clue what they are saying. Sarah knows what she is talking about. Let’s wait and see the fireworks when she rips Biden a new one. I think Joe is having another aneurysm right now.

On pMS-NBC, Kieth “Obama is my lover” Olberman suggested that because GOVERNOR Sarah Palin questioned whether being a community organizer is a qualification for President, she is looking down on ‘community organizers’ and therefore is an ELITIST.

Ok, so she’s a small-town-yodle who has no business playing with the big dogs, and now she’s an ELITIST? HAHAHAHAHA

These clowns don’t know what to say to stop the Palin train!

(Go easy on me, first post here…)

I was not sure if I wanted to vote for McCain – he was not conservative enough for me. There was no way I was going to vote for Barry, but I was not sure about McCain. He was not my first choice.

With the MSM in the bag for Barry, and the left’s actions over the past few months (how either of them have acted was not unexpected), I started to be swayed, and was firmly going to vote for McCain. Even though it would not make a difference here in the People’s Republic State of Washington.

After her speech tonight, now I am not sure I want to vote for McCain…

I want to vote Palin for President, and McCain the VP.

She came out swinging and really showed that she is able and unafraid and confident and tougher than the effeminate Dem ticket. She was funny and classy and on target. A real homerun.

Well, I was impressed with her literacy. Finally the GOP parades someone out there who can read from a teleprompter. I thought for a while there the strategy was to play to illiterates by BEING illiterate (Bush and McCain certainly fit the bill).

So as far as that goes. Job well done, tiger.

I didn’t see it myself but I’m hearing that MSDNC reported that the teleprompter broke halfway through the speech, and that she finished it with the notes at her podium. I do recall her flipping through notes at one point, and she did seem to be staring straight ahead into the camera more than the other speakers.

Can anyone confirm whether the teleprompter broke or not? Because if that happened and she gave the speech so well nobody noticed, my respect and admiration for her went up another 300% or so.

Man, now I see where she got her nick.

My first reaction when I started hearing all the “coverage” out of the liberal blogosphere and media, I wanted to look into things myself.

I spent 4 hours last night researching Palin. What was all the fuss about?

By two in the morning, I had to force myself to sleep. The more I read the more excited I got!

Man oh man I think the choice of Palin is quite possibly the best political move in 40 years.

She stands up, and delivers.

It’s funny to hear bashing coming from two senators working (or, supposedly working) in the congress with the lowest approval rating in the history of the country.

Sara’s got a comfortable 86% approval rating in Alaska.

I look forward to the next 2 months.

MSNBC and CNN keep using the words “sarcastic” and “bragging” in their analysis of her speech. They have plants in Alaska already talking about her high approval ratings. I wonder if they plan on framing her as an elitist in some way.

MSNBC and Matthews already want a piece of her. They believe the McCain camp will hide her away now that the speech is over.

The next few days are crucial in determining where they go. If they go down the route of her being arrogant they risk of missing the mark. She is a new beast and I suspect it will take them more time than they have to figure her out. She’s no Hillary so they won’t be able to use those tricks.

McCain and Palin will be a huge draw at rallies. I gave another donation tonight.

And yes, a Palin/Jindal ticket would be awesome. I live here in Louisiana and he has done alot to bring the state notoriety and stability.

Call your Republican offices tomorrow and get your yard signs before they sell out.

MSNBC and CNN keep using the words “sarcastic” and “bragging” in their analysis of her speech. They have plants in Alaska already talking about her high approval ratings. I wonder if they plan on framing her as an elitist in some way.

MSNBC and Matthews already want a piece of her. They believe the McCain camp will hide her away now that the speech is over.

The next few days are crucial in determining where they go. If they go down the route of her being arrogant they risk of missing the mark. She is a new beast and I suspect it will take them more time than they have to figure her out. She’s no Hillary so they won’t be able to use those tricks.

McCain and Palin will be a huge draw at rallies. I gave another donation tonight.

And yes, a Palin/Jindal ticket would be awesome. I live here in Louisiana and he has done alot to bring the state notoriety and stability.

Call your Republican offices tomorrow and get your yard signs before they sell out.

MSNBC and CNN keep using the words “sarcastic” and “bragging” in their analysis of her speech. They have plants in Alaska already talking about her high approval ratings. I wonder if they plan on framing her as an elitist in some way.

MSNBC and Matthews already want a piece of her. They believe the McCain camp will hide her away now that the speech is over.

The next few days are crucial in determining where they go. If they go down the route of her being arrogant they risk of missing the mark. She is a new beast and I suspect it will take them more time than they have to figure her out. She’s no Hillary so they won’t be able to use those tricks.

McCain and Palin will be a huge draw at rallies. I gave another donation tonight.

And yes, a Palin/Jindal ticket would be awesome. I live here in Louisiana and he has done alot to bring the state notoriety and stability.

Call your Republican offices tomorrow and get your yard signs before they sell out.

better be more worried about being utterly eviscerated like one of Palin’s Moose kills.

After a segment with NBC’s Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mike ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin.

“It’s over,” said Noonan, who then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen.

“The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives,” she said. “Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.”

Murphy chimed in:

“The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.”

Noonan’s blunt call contrasted with her conflicted column today saying Palin “could become a transformative political presence.”

Good one liners! She should go on the road with that comedy show. Now what will she do? Hum, I guess sell Air Force Two. No content. When will they start talking about what they are going to do for us and stop talking about what they think others can’t do. At least no she will not need to hire a lobbyist for her home town.

…and an enchanted tongue of weasel pwnag3.

She made my wife cry (in a good way).

She made my cheeks hurt (from sustained cheesy grinning)

Epic win? Indeed. Epic W00t!

Why is the Obama camp continuing to point to a mayorial budget of only 12 million and not to Gov Palin’s current budget in Alaska of 12 BILLION and over 25,000 employees? Is Obama afraid to address this figure and management history since its will show his inexperience with that kind of Budget and resources?

Did you see the 3 democrat women that were on MSNBC tonight? Talk about unattractive, depressed, “I haven’t taken my Prozac for 3 months” looking liberals!

It was hilarious! The look of fans whose team is behind 48 points in the final 3 minutes of a football game.

They were sulking and upset and just plain miserable.

And I loved it!

Such a lame pick by McCain! And this is possibly his first. He should have chosen Romney!!

She is quite attractive.

Ok Im drunk..the things we do!

Trying to forget about how successful our convention is, guys? Given up attacking Gov. Palin’s young daughter?

It’s funny how they brought the little rat that did it too her on tour! Hhahahha..Hilarious…you guise are ridiculous..You keep believing you’re own hype! Brown shirt stratagys and dissention not allowed..I will be banned shortley..dont worry!

Maybe it wasnt a fake…Ahh that crazy media…

Then there is the faux pregnancy. Yes, it was faked. Daily Kos made the whole thing up. It doesn’t matter. There are still trolls all over the internet spreading the word and arguing the point. One commenter here stated that the baby that the daughter is carrying around is really a doll because Sarah Palin is covering up for the fact that her daughter is pregnant and when the baby is born they are going to switch the doll for the baby. I’m not at all sure how Palin knew her daughter would get pregnant and was able to plan the whole fake pregnancy thing or how they’ll be able to switch out the baby without anyone noticing. What I am sure of is that there is undoubtedly a devious and evil plan afoot that only Daily Kos and the far left will be able to untangle and attempt to explain.

Yeah man…beeeeg success! hahahaaha

Oh, we won’t even go to the two very real issues of Sarah Palins obvious ineptitude as a parent. She FLEW in an AIRPLANE while she was pregnant. I think that should be investigated by child and family services! Then, her teenaged daughter got pregnant. These breeders need to be stopped

Now that we have them crying and on the run, I’m personally ecstatic about tomorrow.

You Reich Wing Repugnicans are gonna lose so bad…get used to it! You dont have a prayer! Palin..hahahaahaha..good one numbskulls

n/p

is you had Romney!! You had him. No brainer. Case Closed! and…out comes this little weirdo from Alaska..You guys drink you’re own Kool-Aid to the hilt. Put down the Kool-Aid…whatever it takes to gett you fired up I guess…First Loser in Miss Alaska to First Loser as VP…hahahaha..reminds me of Ferraro!

It’s like..you are on the Target..zero’ed in..all you have to do is squeeze the trigger…and..locked on..and…Hey whats that over there…cutie pie..Hi there (pulls trigger)…Ahhh You missed! hahaahaahaha

Go on day time talk shows that women watch and speak in a few churches during the daytime for a women’s brunch.

Do you remember when Jenna Bush was on Ellen? So many women who hated Bush all of a sudden had a kind word to say about him.

The entire world fell in love with her tonight.

I don’t get paid to love McCain, Palin, and Conservatism, so I’m off to bed and work tomorrow.

A Grand evening indeed.

Kick Butt, All.

Guess a bunch of now-banned twerps are going to have readjust their talking points.

Again.

From a fiscal conservative and a little left of center social policy guy [other words I don’t like gov’t/people restricting (pvt/personal) liberties] her speech wasn’t a Home Run but it was good. She is likable, folksy, and well-spoken. I don’t like the fact that her daughter and beau are being dragged into the public eye over something that a few years ago [and if they were a minority] would’ve triggered hoots and howls of “welfare mommas” and derisive comments about premarital sex. I like her feisty style and its one of the reasons I have liked McCain, plus he is more “centered” than the supposed “conservative base” of the RNC. He is running to the right to energize the base and get out the vote, he is shrewed enough to know that breaking the mold [with Palin] was smart move that appeals directly to voters Obama has trouble connecting with. However, don’t fool yourself, his track record is the way he will govern and many in the RNC didn’t like it then and you probably aren’t gonna like it when/if he gets in the White House.

Really, our country needs to reshape our political party’s in to 3 new ones: the crazy left liberals, the crazy right conservatives [who for the moment have accepted the reality of premarital sex] and a CENTRIST party for the rest of us [and majority of us]. See I’ve pissed off everyone, I’m sure, on this board but that is how many of us independent-minded people think and we’d take the centrist part of RNC and DNC with us. I vote – still just not sure for who I will cast my ballot. I urge everyone to look at non-partisan analyses of our candidates economic, foreign policy, and social/societal plans. Reread the Constitution and see who is upholding it. Forget the Hannity’s and Olbermann’s of the world and decide for yourself.

After three days of detestable PUKES running her family name through the MUD, Governor Sarah Palin gave the best political speech I’ve heard in a long, long time at the RNC in St. Paul.

Angry leftist journalists and Kos bloggers are bending over BACKWARDS to try and discredit her, because she basically represents everything the New York cocktail party circuit finds beneath them.

Too bad for the elitists. She’s hard as nails, unapologetically pro-family, and just made history on national television. And the leftist attacks against her daughter are going to backfire, because moms of teenagers aren’t going to like what they’ve done one bit (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, try to listen to Keith Olbermann talk for five minutes. You’ll get it.)

For the first time since 2000, I’m actually excited by our political prospects.

Great pick, Senator McCain. Now try to match her tomorrow.

I felt Sarah Palin could have been less sarcastic. Her attacks came off as insults and they left me with a negative impression of her.

I am sure some people like that sort of negative/in your face politics, but as a Christian I found her distasteful and divisive.

I will now be voting for Obama.

only fools rush in, but I can’t help falling in love with Sarah Palin.

Just think, last week at this time I was arguing with people here that Tim Pawlenty would be a disastrous choice, and I was getting reamed for saying so. We needed a game changer, and Sarah is it.

As a conservative, I am very happy with Sarah Palin and it is clear that McCain picked her and her Policy views to appeal to the conservative base he has trouble connecting with, but at the end of the day, Palin is only the VP and McCain is making the policy decisions. So does it matter that she shares our views if McCain doesn’t?

As a conservative, I am very happy with Sarah Palin and it is clear that McCain picked her and her Policy views to appeal to the conservative base he has trouble connecting with, but at the end of the day, Palin is only the VP and McCain is making the policy decisions. So does it matter that she shares our views if McCain doesn’t?

I have been getting nautious over the CNN coverage of this election. I nearly threw my computer out of my office this morning, threw up in my mouth as I read liberal article after liberal article. When did it become ok to say that the news is what your personal beleif is? Oh yeah, when the liberals starting spewing their venom and the masses (sheep) readily ran with it. I was starting to think the entire nation was all for handing out more welfare checks to the meth heads…and then, I found this site.
I am from a very liberal state, though I don’t understand how, we still beleive in working for a living, but somehow, the bleeding heart liberals have taken over.
Mostly, I just wanted to say thank you for this site. I am a very even keeled person myself, unless poked. Last night as I watch Sarah take a stand against the machine, I was moved. I was deeply moved to watch an American woman take a stand against a liberal media, take a stand to protect and support her family which is under fire, for being an American family. Watching them squirm and continue to plaster the internet with their venom shows that they are scared. I personally am scared that the masses don’t understand what political lines stand for what. I consider myself conservative, though I do not stand hardline on some of the Republican issues, my right to do so as an American…but some of the things I’ve heard lately from the sheep makes me ill. I have some friends who swear up and down to me that the Republicans raise taxes and the Dems are looking out for us. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? Don’t worry, I am working on one sheep at a time.
I am rambling, but seems my comments will actually make this site, so I am exercising my frustration.

Sarah’s speech made a 33 year old man tear up last night, I am proud of my next Vice President and am honored to be a Republican.