Palin hit it out of the park
Wow. Just wow. Last week, I was impressed by Barack Obama's speech. He's a fine orator and it was elegant rhetoric. Tonight, I was blown away by Sarah Palin. No, she wasn't an elegant orator. She was something better. She was poised, strong, smart, charismatic, funny -- and genuine.
If you missed it, the video is here.
My favorite line (out of many great ones): "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
I have an idea for John McCain's nomination acceptance speech tomorrow night. It goes something like this:
My friends, some people have tried to make an issue of my age. I submit that the examples of Ronald Reagan and my 92-year-old mother, who's here with us tonight, demonstrate that I'm not. I'm strong and healthy and ready to serve as your president.
But by the time we meet again to select a presidential nominee, I will have served my country for almost 60 years. I think that's enough. I will have earned the right to retire.
Four years from now, I plan to ask you to accept Vice President Sarah Palin as your candidate for President. <thunderous applause>
I can see the ticket now:
Jindal? Aw, hell no. Unlike Palin, his creationist idiocy
<i>does</i> show up in his public policy.
Does it really? I'm not up to speed on that.
In any case, I believe that a Palin/Jindal ticket is so strategically and
tactically appealing, so compelling on so many levels, that unless one of
the two screws up in the meantime, we're likely to see it regardless of
what you or I think. I'm just prognosticating...
Then are you saying the ID should be taught as a scienticfic theory in a
public school or university, if the local school board or state law
approves it.
Jindal on Creationism: In June he signed a bill that was trumpeted by the
Discovery Institute as part of their wedge strategy to put creationism in
schools ( to "teach the controversy" as if there were one, don'cha know).
He had previously, on many occasions, declared this to be his intent.And he
has used too many Discovery Institute talking points for this to be a
coincidence.