The GOP's Natural

I am sick of people debating on a stupid redneck and her family matters!! this does not affect my life or yours!! health care does, global warming does or will, the economy etc etc.
The republicans are selling you wind!!! All they do is attack , and offer NO solution to all the problems facing this country and the world. We have lost 8 years with those right wing religious fanatics who can only talk about dead issues!! Europe is doing all it can to curve global warming and what are we doing??? debating those people morals?? THIS IS
INSANE!! IF MC CAIN IS ELECTED, THE COUNTRY WILL EVENTUALLY COLLAPES!!

Yeah...except Obama hasn't had a chance to respond yet. Sarah Palin and John McSAME are in way over their heads, and hey don't even know it. Palin is an intellectual lightweight compared to Obama, and this will become more evident as the weeks progress. Obama is the leader of an extremely large political movement. Palin is nothing more than a puppet for the GOP agenda. The only people who are impressed by Palin, are the voters who were already committed to McCain. I saw her speech, it was full of personal attacks with no serious focus on the issues, as was most of the snoozefest called the RNC. After tonight, the gloves are off. First we'll destroy the GOP, then we're going to prosecute members of the Bush administration for various crimes, including Palin's specialty, ABUSE OF POWER.

So McCain hires a woman to do his fighting for him? Just wait and see how this backfires - her sarcasm and hubris will not play well with independetns.

How do we get the solutions our politicians have been avoiding while they instead have been playing the politics of polarization? We have two very different approaches being offered to us. It is clear McCain is not the usual republican and that his message of reform is real and something he has been practicing all of his political career. It is clear that Obama says he too wants to bring change.

The "wierdness" isn't about the way they campaign; both are very much into the hard ball "old style politics." The "wierdness" is that we all get the impression that actual change will happen for the good of all of us, except for the extremists in both parties, regardless of which candidate wins. The solutions have become the meat of both candidates messages, not the ideology of the right or the left.

This might end up being very good for our nation even if the media will have to change their formats from forums between the far right and far left and obnoxious behavior and replace it with thoughtful and honest discussions about how we actually will solve our problems rather than just argue about them.

Hillary thats how you DO IT! Sarah showed you how to be smart, tought AND lady like. If you were even 1 / 10th as smart, cool, and hip as Sarah you'd have been the Democratic candidate.

She's so much MORE than Hillary ever was or COULD be. Go Sarah Go !!!

Do we need another tough talking REPUBLICAN Govenor from an energy state? We have one Now and where has it gotten us.

Larry Watson

In the dog-world, America need not "pit bulls" , but, Cocker Spaniels -- with lumpy ears and teary eyes. Leadership is marked by short-stick carriers, not volcanic tempers. Looking through WalMart-Sarah's glasses, last night, I saw her pushing the NUCLEAR BOMB, president. Woosh, I hope I was only day dreaming. A Toy-R-Us model and actress I believe!

I found her mocking sarcastic tone very annoying. She went way overboard with that angle of the speech. But, let's admit it, the GOP faithful may have found their new star. How she played to the other 70% of America is to be determined.

They purposely kept her from taking stands on any issues (unless you can call being for America and for Smalltown USA, and against the media taking a stand!) because they knew almost all of her positions on the most important issues to most women are the opposite of where most of them stand.

The minute she truly has to go on the record on specific issues, she will lose half of her support with the 70% of America that counts.

So what's new? Palin is now the Cheney of the McCain campaign. Mr. "Straight Talk" McCain has given the go ahead for the Rove underlings to run a campaign with a pack of snarlilng Pit Bulls and Rotweilers. No need to talk issues or policies here, just growl and spit, and keep the voters distracted and fearful. Why not, it worked for Bush-Cheney, no reason to think it won't work for McCain-Palin. Just more of the same. rwethryet

How dare these Republicans accuse Democrats of being unpatriotic. Last week, I saw 80,000 well-behaved spectators fill a football stadium to hear Obama speak. Last night, I saw a bunch of bigots trying to pull the wool over American eyes. Palin and her family have turned a political convention into a Jerry Springer event.
The fact is, the U.S. government has spent $608 Billion taxpayer dollars on Iraq, when the real threat was in Afghanistan and in dozens of terrorist cells worldwide. With $608 Billion taxpayer dollars spent on the country of Iraq, is this what the Republicans mean by "Country First"? Let's put Americans first, and have government spend our tax dollars right here in this country.

I sensed the ghost of Rosanne Rosanadana channelling theuogh this woman last night. Maybe it was that goofy nasal face she made or something about the accent. What exactly was it? Also. why is it that family is so off limits, but it's all the cameras focused on and a large part of what she talked about? I pity that poor boy who obviously had no idea a few days ago that he was committed to marriage. Now he's been paraded before national TV as some hero because he is "doing the right thing", presumably we ignore that he did the "wrong thing" because nobody told us where babies come from. Don't be mean to her , national media. Only she can be mean, I shudder at the thought of her sitting down to talk to Putin.

I'm a wife and mom working two jobs and still facing forclosure. The cost of fuel and healthcare are staggering. I also face trying to send my kids to college in this uncertain economy. I was watching and nothing she said spoke to my issues and what I care about. OK, she has a pregnant teen daughter... and she's against safe sex education. that frightens me in a world where AIDS is still a killer and the incidents among African American teens is rising at a rate that rivals Third World countries. Oh yeah, not to mention WAR and its costs (bot monetarily and in lives. All of this "pit bull" talk doesn't move me. We KNOW the Republicans are good in the attack... but not in the follow through. I'm just not willing to put my kid future in the hands of another "shoot firts and ask questions later" candidate. Answer the REAL questions first.