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ST. PAUL (CNN) – This speech is about mockery – and I wonder whether that’s appealing to voters. I really think this tone is going to turn a lot of voters off – it’s ugly, it’s bitter, it’s nasty. There is a bullying tone to this speech, and to Romney’s speech, and I just don’t [...]
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GOP Stages “Beauty and the Beast”
The Moderate Voice —
A Republican star was born tonight, but Sarah Palin’s success as a pit bull with lipstick, to use her own definition of a soccer mom, was greatly enhanced by following the smug, sarcastic Rudy Giuliani, who redefined the word “demagogue” with his ugly, leering attacks on Barack Obama. (If you have a strong stomach, read it here, but I won’t quote from it.)
America’s Mayor, who led the polls for months before being unmasked as a self-seeking, corner-cutting profiteer after 9/11, set the stage for making the Republican VP candidate look poised and plausible in her well-crafted, well-delivered speech that did little more than exalt McCain ...
Waaah! CNN's Schneider Whines Over Giuliani Speech
JammieWearingFool —
[image] Poor CNN relic Bill Schneider . He's upset Rudy Giuliani had the temerity to pick on poor little Barack Obama. This speech is about mockery – and I wonder whether that’s appealing to voters. I really think this tone is going to turn a lot of voters off – it’s ugly, it’s bitter, it’s nasty. There is a bullying tone to this speech , and to Romney’s speech, and I just don’t think it works. Even less appealing: “When they gave up on Iraq, they gave up on America”? Now that’s insulting . No, Bill, it's the truth. I knew watching Giuliani these media relics would whine like little bitches. They're so predictable. More whining here on how mean Giuliani and Mike ...
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ST. PAUL (CNN) — Romney opens by bashing the East — he was the governor of Massachusetts! You can’t get much more East than that. This is an ancient conservative bias, dating back to the Goldwater era.
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