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  • #46
    I like the line she said, and I'm paraphrasing, "I come from people that have ALWAYS been proud of America".

    It's a damn shame McCain doesn't have a chance at winning. Dems didn't like the commercial, but Obama is the Fad-Of-The-Moment, and it'll last long enough to get him into office.
    Last edited by EternalSpark; September 4, 2008, 01:01.
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    • #47
      She can give a decent speech, which will help the McCain campaign to a fair degree. Still not convinced, though. It's still a long way to the White House, and she still has plenty of opportunity to stumble.
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      • #48
        Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
        pray that the turn out isn't the tsunami of young and Hispanic voters that it looks like it could be.
        Young people don't vote.
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        • #49
          Nothing beats a political party whose hopes lie in shrinking the electorate.
          If you don't like reality, change it! me
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          • #50
            And interestingly, I found out that John Edwards in 2004 had as much experience in the Senate as Palin has as Governor of Alaska today.
            Edwards was elected to the Senate in 1998. He retired in 2004.
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            • #51
              I thought it was a reasonably well delivered speech, and I'm sure conservatives will be impressed. She has a real future in the party. It wasn't a speech designed to appeal to the middle (an appeal that McCain desperately needs atm), and it wasn't a speech that established familiarized Palin's set of policy preferences to the American people (drill baby, drill ain't enough).

              Specifically, she also made a couple major mistakes: going after Obama's experience (belittling community organizing), and lying, again, about the Bridge to Nowhere.
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              • #52
                Originally posted by GePap
                Nothing beats a political party whose hopes lie in shrinking the electorate.
                I prefer to deal with reality or are you still wearing those stupid "Vote or Die!" shirts from the movement that was gonna get the youth to get off its ass in '04 and failed. I'm not gonna deny that this is likely gonna be a Democratic year but promoting a mythical youth vote is just silly.
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #53
                  The problem is that it doesn't matter if she lies or not. The right has created an alternate reality with Fox, talk radio, and the Internet that will repeat the lies until they become truth. They've created their own victim culture where any attack, with or without merit, can be countered just by saying it's coming from 'liberal media' or 'elites'. It's ridiculous, but there really isn't a way to fight it right now because too many people have bought in.
                  "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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                  • #54
                    Incidentally, I think that Huck's a significantly stronger speaker. But he was given a more disjointed speech than Palin was given. I stand by what I said earlier, I'm glad that neither he, nor Romney, is the nominee.
                    Last edited by Ramo; September 4, 2008, 01:43.
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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
                      They've created their own victim culture where any attack, with or without merit, can be countered just by saying it's coming from 'liberal media' or 'elites'.
                      I'm curious, was the "she's actually the grandmother of Trig rather than the mother" with or without merit?
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #56
                        ...which is why I added 'with or without merit'.

                        And I don't remember too much coverage of that in teh eeeeeeevil mainstream media.
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                        • #57
                          They've created their own victim culture where any attack, with or without merit, can be countered just by saying it's coming from 'liberal media' or 'elites'. It's ridiculous, but there really isn't a way to fight it right now because too many people have bought in.
                          Hmm, let's see. There's that Civ4 quote (Fascism tech). It's easier to get people to believe a big lie than a small one
                          ... or thereabouts.

                          Then again, one of the "great" things about good ol' U.S. of A. politics is the demagoguery involved. I tell you, it will lead to the country's decline.

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                          • #58
                            OK, how about the affair that was spun up out of the media's netherregions? With or without merit?
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #59
                              Like random commentators on the internets, I'm pretty sure that the National Enquirer doesn't count as the "mainstream media."
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                              • #60
                                The mainstream media definitely picked up on it.
                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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