Jennifer Rubin posts on something that’s a truly significant moment: The great Sally Quinn recants her position on Sarah Palin. Quinn had been one of Palin’s biggest critics in the days leading up to her speech (read her column here). But yesterday in an interview with Bill O’Reilly, she declared: “I was wrong about her.” I thought that she was amazing. in her speech. She | Read More »
I wrote about Andrew Sullivan’s descent into madness here. But Sullivan shows no signs of stopping even as his colleagues at The Atlantic recoil in horror. In fact, he keeps digging a deeper hole, now claiming that what happened to John Edwards was a different issue entirely because he wasn’t running for president any more, but Sullivan’s own baseless and profoundly insulting attacks on Sarah | Read More »
Yesterday Moe and I with his colleagues in respected corners of the news media who had disparaged Sarah Palin, relying on the rantings from the foulest corners of the blogosphere as the basis for their articles. Douthat’s disappointment – along with that of his colleagues McArdle and Goldberg – turned slowly into outrage over the course of the day, as it became clear that much | Read More »
The Nielsen numbers are out, and wow, they are good. Sarah Palin’s speech, despite being carried on only six channels compared to Obama’s ten, despite the lack of a huge venue or months of hype, was viewed by only a million fewer people than Barack Obama’s Speech o’ the Century. Via Clayton, a few notable facts: Palin beat Obama in Persons 55+ (reliable voters!) and | Read More »
So the best attacks the Democrats can muster against Sarah Palin’s epic speech is a twin version of the same spiel: 1) Sarah Palin did not write her speech. 2) Sarah Palin did not talk about education or health care in her speech. Ha-ha. /Nelson The first attack is just silly on its face. Every politician with national stature has speechwriters – every single one. | Read More »
Here’s tonight’s biopic video of Sarah Palin. It’s all right, I guess – but the voice seems off. I think it’s John Voight, who’s been around here a bit as a supporter of McCain. It’s funny: in the McCain set up, Robert Duvall is the patriotic video voice, Voight the inspirational video voice, and Powers Boothe is the “Be afraid. Be very afraid. Vote McCain. | Read More »
Hall of Fame Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs is addressing the GOP convention tonight. Apparently at 8:50 EDT. Now if only they’d been smart enough to save him for AFTER the Redskins game.
Jen Rubin nails it: It’s the media’s own dang fault that last night was such a huge success. Oh, and yes – even they have to admit it now.
Moe has already pointed out Ross Douthat’s creeping suspicion that these people who surround him are not particularly balanced or friendly to ideologies other than their own. But we shouldn’t leave it there – it’s actually gotten more pronounced in the hours since the initial revelations. Read Ross’s followups here, here,, and here. Ross, we love you as a wise brother. But it’s high time | Read More »
Gov. Palin’s speech was directed not just at the audience in the chamber, but at the Clinton primary voters across the Midwest who could hear much in this speech that they could agree with. It did so by reframing, in powerful terms, the conservative reaction to the political tide of the sexual revolution and liberal feminism. Where Hillary Clinton framed her cracking of the glass | Read More »
“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – [my campaign has] a budget of about three times that just for the month.” “This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the | Read More »
Over at PalinFacts.com, Mike Turk is encouraging everyone on Twitter and elsewhere to engage in some running Sarah Palin facts during tonight’s speech. Feel free to jump on in.
You know things are getting a little out of hand when even Lindsay Lohan notices. So, yeah – it’s out of hand. But be thankful at least that this hilarious overreach has led to what may be the smartest column Joe Trippi has ever written (I know, I didn’t think he had it in him either). It’s a fundamental rejection of the idea, popular in | Read More »
Matt Scully is a long time speechwriter for a vast horde of politicians on the right, and he’s a very talented one. I had the good fortune to work alongside him at the White House, and wrote a little about him and his relationship with Mike Gerson here. It’s somewhat amusing to me that Matt has been tasked with writing Sarah Palin’s convention speech, according | Read More »
Josh Trevino, Redstate co-founder, encounters President Roosevelt. “Colonel Roosevelt at your service, sir!” “Colonel Roosevelt, lovely to meet you.” “And where are you from, young man?” “I’m from Texas, Colonel Roosevelt.” “Texas! Why, I trained my Rough Riders at Fort Sam Houston!” “You certainly did, Colonel!” “And have you had a bully time at this convention?” “Except for the protestors, yes.” “Those anarchists! You know | Read More »
As the most people-hating extrovert you will ever meet, I dislike, nay, abhor conventions. They are useless except as meat markets for protesters to show off their oh so pretty bonnets, wealthy fortysomething Republican men to pitch drunken woo in the direction of the hordes of ambitious young pencil-skirted women, and Donna Brazile to inevitably get lost in the bowels of the convention center. But | Read More »
Well, that’s one way to rebut a rumor. The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant | Read More »
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