The convention thing will pass… for both sides. Rah Rah. The bases are engaged. The GOP has declared its desperation and that it is working out of weakness – that it has no positive direction, only negative attacks. Fine. But not the time to sit back, my friends. This ticket seems smugly satisfied to be declare itself as one step away from an American theocracy.

Moose and Squirrel, indeed.

No hoop earrings, no artificial nails, denim pantsuit – with studs, matching do-rag, polished grill, boots [albeit the $500 pair] and a KICK-BUTT ATTITUDE!!!! :>) :>)

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/09/vetting…

Surrogates can talk but they can't get you elected. Most people aren't stupid; after a while they start asking, “What's wrong with her; can't she speak for herself?”

Of course the answer is a resounding “hell, NO!”, but you get my meaning.

People heard Sarah Palin's speech and said to themselves, “My God, if that's who's running on McCain'ts ticket, I'd better do my part to make sure Obama wins!”, as they ran to their ATMs and credit cards and went online to PayPal.

Let her talk. Every time she opens her yap, Obama gets cheddar.

Hillary is set to campaign in Florida for Obama on Monday, a source familiar with her schedule tells me.

Though the details of the trip have yet to be worked out, and the trip's message hasn't been settled on yet, her planned campaigning suggests that the Obama team may start reaching out to Hillary more aggressively in the days ahead to counter whatever effects Palin has.

Carrie Budoff Brown has Obama's response, from York, Pa., to a question about whether treatment of Palin has been sexist or dismissive:

Listen, if they want to work the refs, they are free to do so. I think the public can make their judgments about this. The notion that any questions about her work in Alaska is somehow not relevant to her potentially being vice president of the United States doesn't make too much sense to me. I think she has got a compelling story, but I assume that she wants to be treated the same way that guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutiny. I have been through this for 19 months. She has been through it, what, four days so far.

He was also asked about engaging her directly:

John McCain is running for president. I am running against John McCain. As far as I can tell I don't get a sense that Gov. Palin has ideas that are different from John McCain. And that speech she delivered was on behalf of John McCain.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Oba…

Gibbs was good here. Looks like Scarborough, Mika and Gibbs were setting up Nichole. There's 8 weeks to go, and you've had the insertion of an unknown(Palin). The McCain campaign hopes to keep Sarah away from the media that whole time, while trotting out surrogates to talk her up. All her appearances will be carefully scripted.

There will be tight information control. This is a crime occurring right before your eyes. Oceans Eleven. Iraq all over again, where the media is embedded with the campaign, becoming part of the propaganda machinery.

The media appears to be untroubled by this. Toobin was the only person on CNN I heard say they should begin fact checking her speech. Other than that, they're talking about how “historic” this is, and how great the speech was. That message has replaced the anxiety that Palin is an unknown, and hasn't been vetted by the party that selected her.

It's almost enough to make a person lose hope. Almost.

check this out from corrente.blogspot.com

“Thursday, September 04, 2008
Nasty, Brutish and Smug – and – The Rise of the Palindrones
Same old Grand Old Party.

Expect a fleshy body wave of newly hatched zombie lies to stumble from the fever swamps of the Republican Convention in St Paul. Each one accompanied by a smug Palindrone media pundit grinning like a fat oil man with a belly full of baked Alaska and Christmas pudding.

[above photo: Republican convention attendee at lower left prepares to drill for natural resources on her own property.]

Joe Klein (TIME) got it right this time:

…it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is “a task from God.” The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.

Pit Bull with Lipstick. Palin, your classic corporate boardroom barracuda. And a smooth talking professional liar too. If I hadn't know otherwise I would have sworn I was listening to Rudy Giuliani, in drag, delivering the VP nomination speech. She's a perfect fit for the Republican party. Fits to the T.

Bridge to No-wear

And speaking of T's… here's Palin in 2006 displaying a t-shirt advertising the Bridge To Nowhere. The same Bridge to Nowhere that she claims she opposed:

“Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge as part of a package deal and that she ‘would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge.'” – Ketchikan Daily News 9/2006

Sarah lipstick on a fish McSame. She's just more of the Bu$h/Cheney/McSame. Four more years of the same stinking fish rotting from the same stinking head. Same old same old anyway you turn it.

The Jet to Nowhere

“That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.” – Sarah Palin.

Anchorage Daily News:
The state has tried selling its unwanted jet online four times and failed. So last week, the Palin administration signed a contract with an Anchorage aircraft broker who thinks he can succeed where eBay couldn't. The eBay thing didn't work out very well, said Dan Spencer, director of administrative services for the Department of Public Safety. He's the person charged with trying to get rid of the infamous Westwind II.

The administration made a deal last week with Turbo North Aviation, promising the broker a 1.49 percent cut of the selling price.

Didn't work out very well did it. Well, chalk it up to “executive experience”. Palin should fit right in with the last eight years of “executive experience”. That hasn't worked out very well either.

To be fair, Senator McCain has no executive experience (aside from commanding a mavericky backyard baby-back BBQ smokeout with rustic small town tire swing media sway in tow). John McCain has never been the Mayor of a town with enough people in it to draw a NAHL Junior A League Hockey team or a Gov… and doesn't even know how to use a friggin' god damed computer… let alone know how to try to sell Cindy's beer jet and 7-8-9-10 houses online at the worlds largest yard sale. So maybe the Maverick ticket should read Palin/McCain. Yes? Or, wait no… Palin/Huckabee! Yes, that's the ticket! Sooper-double reverse mavericky flip out! Whoo-hoo!

Afterall, Gov Mike Huckabee knows how to fry dead squirrels in a popcorn popper and Mayor/Gov Sarah Palin knows how to field dress a dead cow Moose. That's a whole lotta tasty 'sperience.

Moose and Squirrel 2008 2012 16…sooner or later. Whatever. Praise. Let us eat.

The convention thing will pass… for both sides. Rah Rah. The bases are engaged. The GOP has declared its desperation and that it is working out of weakness – that it has no positive direction, only negative attacks. Fine. But not the time to sit back, my friends. This ticket seems smugly satisfied to be declare itself as one step away from an American theocracy.

Moose and Squirrel, indeed.

No hoop earrings, no artificial nails, denim pantsuit – with studs, matching do-rag, polished grill, boots [albeit the $500 pair] and a KICK-BUTT ATTITUDE!!!! :>) :>)