Wolf Blitzer: "Sarah Palin Hit it out of the Park!"

[Chuckiechan]

That was a great speech!

I think the Dem's are going to have a part time standing up to her message of change!

Any converts?

[Atomic Rooster]

Nope.

Originally Posted by MTAtech

I think you were listening to Guilini and Palin's speech. Those were the most bitter, mean-spirited, condescending speeches ever heard at a convention.

But then, did you expect anything less from the left?

[Chuckiechan]

MTA doesn't count. He's a Democrat through and through, and nothing will ever change his mind.

Middle America is a different story, tho!

Plus, she's a damn fine looking woman! (I hope my wife isn't reading this! )

The CNN crew is absoutely gushing! I never thought I'd live to see it!

[Toadman]

I'm watching it incredulously also. CNN? Wait......how... what.... CNN?!!
Even stalwart neo-con FoxNews can't keep up!

Still just a bunch of talking heads of course. Anderson 180's got his back-pedal perfected.

[nickslick74]

Originally Posted by Chuckiechan

Chuckiechan doesn't count. He's a Republican through and through, and nothing will ever change his mind.

[Chuckiechan]

Blitzer said basically, "Whether you agree or disagree with what she said, a star has been born". That's quite a compliment from Blitzer.

The sound is out on Fox at my hotel, so I've been watching the other networks.

I really don't care to hear from party hack as to their opinions - they are too predictable.

[MTAtech]

Originally Posted by Chuckiechan

That was a great speech!

If you like smugness, sarcasm and misinformation.

Misinformation - she was against earmarks, like the Bridge to Nowhere. Oh really? Except that she was for it before Congress killed it and then she was against it. Then she took the money anyway to spend on something else. Palin said that she lowered taxes, except that she raised taxes and even put a tax on food.

[Chuckiechan]

I think you missed the point MTA - To paraphrase Oberman, "The Republicans have found their Obama!"

It's the message of reform of government coming from Mc Cain and Palin, backed up with credentials.

BTW, nice touch having one of your minions steal my comment about you!

BTW2 - MTA did you listen to her speech?

[Pexster]

Here is some of what two top Republican strategists had to say about the choice of Palin --

Prominent Republican analysts Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy became the latest victims of an open microphone Wednesday, caught after a segment on MSNBC trashing John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, and Murphy, a campaign strategist and onetime aide to John McCain, can both be heard expressing disbelief with the pick of Palin after they apparently thought they were in a commercial break.

“I come out of the blue swing-state governor world, Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney,” Murphy said during the mishap which has since been posted on YouTube. Murphy later flatly says of the pick, "It's not going to work."

Noonan is heard going even further, saying of the presidential race, "It's over."

"I think they went for this — excuse me– political bulls–t about narratives," Noonan also 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, who was a senior adviser to John McCain's 2000 presidential bid, also adds, "You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."

UPDATE: Writing on the Wall Street Journal Web site, Noonan apologizes for using profanity and says she was not claiming McCain's campaign was "over."

"In our off-air conversation, I got on the subject of the leaders of the Republican party assuming, now, that whatever the base of the Republican party thinks is what America thinks. I made the case that this is no longer true, that party leaders seem to me stuck in the assumptions of 1988 and 1994, the assumptions that reigned when they were young and coming up," she writes. "The first lesson they learned is the one they remember," I said to [MSNBC's Chuck] Todd — and I'm pretty certain that is a direct quote. But, I argued, that's over, those assumptions are yesterday, the party can no longer assume that its base is utterly in line with the thinking of the American people. And when I said, "It's over!" — and I said it more than once — that is what I was referring to."

[Chuckiechan]

"The bigger the threat, the harder they will come at you!"