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Published Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 | 8:52 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
Winning the West - RNC
(A team of Sun reporters is at the Republican National Convention this week in St. Paul.)
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The speech is over. The balloons have fallen. “Barracuda,” in honor of Sarah “Barracuda” Palin blared from the sound system as Republican Sen. John McCain and his VP pick took a victory lap to the edge of the stage.
McCain didn’t chit chat here town- hall style as suggested by the platform built into the crowd for tonight. Mostly he ended up reading straight from the teleprompter, and he’s not at his best in a venue like this. But the speech played on his strengths, especially the well known but still compelling stories of his time as a prisoner of war.
The protesters that interrupted the party from the outset never re-emerged.
The crowd seemed pleased.
Definitely it’s a different kind of energy here than at Mile High stadium a week ago when fireworks exploded after Sen. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party nomination in Denver. Oddly, there’s just one or two American flags here, including the one on the big-screen TVs _ not the thousands we saw waving at the baseball stadium, as my colleague J. Patrick Coolican wrote about last week. But the stands were filled, the crowd is dancing to disco and classic rock. Gold streamers that look a little like fireworks are shot time to time from the stage.
The Republicans got their groove back.
And McCain — and Palin — sent them home tonight on a mission.
“Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight,” McCain said as the crowd drowned out the closing lines of his speech. “Nothing is inevitable here.”
God help us if somehow John McCain is elected and Sarah Palin is VP. Not that McCain is a bad person, but Sarah Palin would be a heartbeat away from the highest office.
I read a letter from a fellow Alaskan that knows her. Everyone should read it before they think of voting for the McCain/palin ticket.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/04...
We can not afford to gamble or take a chance on someone (like Gov. Palin) with so little experience or qualifications.
McCain did not energize anyone. If it wasnt for the protestors little bit of excitement, I would have fallen asleep. MORE OF THE SAME. Same old Bush Policies. Very Stinky. He was Stinky. His mysterious Assistant McBush was very sarcastic and hateful. Im not voting against John Bush and the Mystery Woman, Im voting for my childrens future with Obama.
God help us if somehow Obama is elected. Obama would be immediately in the highest office.
We can not afford to gamble or take a chance on someone (a 3 year part-time senator and a 7 year state senator) with so little experience or qualifications.
McCain has proven that his so called "moderate" approach is but an act. The crazy woman he thinks will make a good VP has too much of a bite. I think they will win because they are falling down the same road of the George Bush dirty political tricks. Palen should get herself fixed. She just had a kid with a disability, and will obviously spend no time with it after she gets elected.
I'm sick of these people who pump kids out like rabbits, and hire someone else to take care of them...and than try to force feed us their extreme rightwing view on family values. Use BIRTH CONTROL!!!
Jim Nance, a local political hack originally from the south, wrote "God help us if somehow Obama is elected". As a non believer in mythical gods of any kind I will bite. Your idiotic mythology says that the christian god knows all and sees all. In your fantasy land if Obama is elected it must be because your mythological god wants it to occur.
Since I don't buy any of this idiocy I don't subscribe to such childish nonsense but if that's how you want to waste your time go ahead.
God, I find it interesting that you are supposed to be a tolerant sort who does not believe in bearing false witness. Yet you attack one of your children, Barack Obama, as a Muslim when, first, he is not, meaning that you are violating those commandments you sent down to Moses, and, second, you are supposed to be tolerant of all faiths.
Sunlizard you stated "I'm sick of these people who pump kids out like rabbits, and hire someone else to take care of them...and than try to force feed us their extreme rightwing view on family values. Use BIRTH CONTROL" it sounds like 60% of the democratic party to me! Well at least the Republicans work and can afford day care. Dems just sit at home and collects a free pay check.
What 72 year old John McCain really needed to do was to pick a veep with a lot of experience so that voters would be reasured that things will be O.K. if something should happen to him. If he gets elected and dies 4 later-she would be the president. Its crazy. Given McCains age-it really was a politically dumb decision on his part to pick Palin-given all the other choices he had. I think he blew it.
Palin tried to have books banned when she was mayor and tried to fire a librarian who stood up to her. She made all her city managers sign letters of resignation to "show their loyalty" to her. She is currently being investigated for abuse of power by the Alaska legislature. The prosecutor has audiotapes, emails, and multiple witnesses. She abused her power as mayor, she abused her power as governor, and she will abuse her power if she ever gets to Washington. Hopefully, she will be indicted on Oct. 31st and that will be the end of her.
Obama for years had the most corrupt convicted South Chicago crook as his core fundraiser.
That same crook help buy him a house.
Obama never saw any crooks in South Chicago.
I am sure that he is keeping that practice in DC.
When McCain came back from Vietnam, he cheated repeatedly on his crippled wife, and then divorced her to marry Cindy Hensley. In the 1980's McCain lobbied for Charles Keating, the saving and loan felon who stole billions in pension money, and took numerous jet set vacations at Keating's expense. In the 1990's McCain had an affair with a lobbyist that so scared his staff, that they told her to stay away from him. His campaigns for the Senate were all financed with his wife Cindy's mob money. In 1994 Cindy McCain forged prescriptions in the names of her employees and stole drugs from her own charity. McCain's campaign this year is getting huge amounts of oil company money. His pick for vice president is under an ethics investigation and will probably be indicted on Oct 31st. McCain is 72 years old, has had cancer 5 times and is on 5 different medications. He is so out of it, that his staff will no longer let him talk to the press unscripted.
WOW, has Sarah Palin become the much needed wakeup call for the Republicans or what.
Thanks to the knee jerk reaction from the Left, for every half truth, mean spirited comment
or story published, equals another vote going to the Republicans. The vitriol spewing forth
from Hollywood, MSM, Daily Kos and Media Matters will help, not prevent the republicans’
from keeping the white house. Put the people first, not your party.
Today Obama says he might have to delay ending the Bush Tax Cuts. He says the economy might make him delay. Isn't this the last plank of his entire campaign. He now agrees taxing the rich more will hurt the economy. He was and is a joke. Vote out all the Democrats owned by MoveOn dot org. Tell Pelosi and Reid.. NO THANKS