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Live From St. Paul: Palin's Night
The Caucus — ... , Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee. ST. PAUL — Hi everybody. We’ve got early excerpts from Gov. Sarah Palin ’s big speech tonight, and she takes a few whacks at Senator Barack Obama and, of course, the media. If this is a taste of things to come, hold off on dinner because a lot of red meat is about to be served up: On Mr. Obama: Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is ...

GOP Stages “Beauty and the Beast”
The Moderate Voice — ... 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 and ...

Ready To Guest Host The Rush Limbaugh Show on Day 1
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... She did not articulate a foreign policy vision and plan to restore our moral authority and strengthen our global alliances. She did not articulate a vision and a plan for revitalizing the economy. ...

David Quigg: Cheering Deceit in St. Paul
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... even going to type her name here. Instead, let's shift to something that has nothing to do with her: all those words a former Bush speechwriter crafted for her to read to the convention delegates. The speech-writing betrayed a fundamental contempt for Americans -- contempt for our common sense, for our reading and comprehension, for our ability to do basic math. It's the same brand of mushroom-cloud-smoking-gun rhetoric that bamboozled us into Iraq. Take this bit of Wednesday's staged reading: "I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents ...

“That’s how it is with us.”
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by. He’’s a man who wore the uniform of his country for 22 years and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who now have brought victory within sight. ...

"Sort of like a community organizer, except you have actual responsibilities"
Hit & Run — ... Liberty & Power blog, historian David Beito has some very sharp comments on the ongoing controversy over Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) work as a community organizer. The trouble started last week at the Republican National Convention, when speakers including former New York Gov. George Pataki and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani poked fun at Obama's grassroots efforts, contrasting them with the "actual" executive experience of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who earned a big laugh with the following zinger: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ...

Seven Years After 9/11, A Failed Republican War In Afghanistan
Firedoglake — ... Why were both McCain and Palin afraid to mention Afghanistan in their speeches at the RNC? Because they're ashamed. And they should be. The Republicans must be held accountable for this in November.

Palin admiringly quotes writer who called for Kennedy assassination
HorsesAss.Org — ... This was made clear in the most chilling passage of Palin’s acceptance speech. Aligning herself with “a young farmer and a haberdasher from Missouri” who “followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency,” she read a quote from an unidentified writer who, she claimed, had praised Truman: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” ...

Palin praised racist writer who called for RFK’s assassination
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding Why does this not surprise me? Frank Rich in the NYT, commenting on Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech: Aligning herself with “a young farmer and a haberdasher from Missouri” who “followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency,” she read a quote from an unidentified writer who, she claimed, had praised Truman: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Then Palin added a snide observation of her own: Such small-town Americans, she said, “run our factories” and “fight ...

Frank Rich: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are 'Re-enacting Stalinism'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom have what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. ...

From Marxists to Stalinists in the Morning -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review Online — ... The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true. ...

The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
Commondreams.org Views — ... William Kristol and Newt Gingrich, is a premise out of a Depression-era screwball comedy. But such farces have become the norm for the conservative movement — whether the participants are dressing up in full “tea party” drag or not. The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party ...

Political Cannibalism
The Moderate Voice — ... The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true. ...

Frank Rich on GOP Stalinist Purges
Blog For Arizona — ... The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true. ...

Frank Schaeffer: The Loony Right Eats Its Own
The BRAD BLOG — ... The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement's undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the "actual responsibilities" of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true. ...

Will the media’s PDS never end?
GayPatriot — ... Sorry, Dana, in that speech, Palin never said she sold the plane on eBay. She said, “I put it on eBay.” If Miss Chivvis were interested in reporting honestly on this good woman, instead of looking for excuses to attack her, she might have checked the speech online to make sure she was quoting the Republican accurately.  (Or maybe she did and doesn’t understand the difference between putting something on ebay and selling it there.) ...