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At least that’s been the charge against the McCain campaign for picking Sarah Palin for VP. And it stood there basically unchallenged until she personally destroyed that argument Wednesday night with her speech. Suddenly, women who weren’t really necessary or important to the ticket (see Dem VP pick and the dissing of 18 million votes) […]

After a rousing Night 3 of the convention, Night 4 didn’t look to have the most promising array of speakers. Let’s see: Mike Huckabee, Linda Lingle, Rudy Guiliani, and Sarah Palin vs. Lindsey Graham, Tom Ridge, Cindy McCain, and John McCain. That’s not exactly the crew of speakers, besides McCain, that you want to end […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Spengler: How Obama lost the election Ace of Spades HQ: How in the tank for Obama is the Politico? Just look at these quotes. Banned in Hollywood: The 15 strangest moments in anti-theft devices Cracked: 7 great sports moments (that might have […]

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Watch for updates below to read my comments throughout the speech and immediately following it. Twitter Updates

You’re getting used to this aren’t you? Well, don’t. Dang, I’m tired. My hits are slowing a bit because Google and the guys (probably girls, too) searching have ostensibly figured out that there aren’t naked pictures of Sarah Palin here (and by here, I mean my blog MelissaClouthier.com, or anywhere. Believe me, when they show […]

Huffington Post offers a thoughtful service: individual pages for members of the Palin family, where its moonbat readers can deposit gobs of stinking guano. From Todd Palin’s page: interesting point raised by other posters here. not suggesting anything, but why is todd palin never seen holding his child? sorry, maybe it’s just the general vibe, […]

We can’t judge Obama on his record, because he doesn’t have one. Most people won’t judge him on his associations, alarming as these are, because his enablers in the media refuse to report on them. But we can still judge him on his judgment. For example, he dismissed the remarkable Sarah Palin as the uh […]

I know everybody’s already talking (and raving) about it, but I figure I’d capture some of my favorite highlights from Sarah Palin’s blow-out acceptance speech last night. With the whole country watching to see if she, as a newcomer to Washington, would pass the test, Palin exceeded expectations and left her audience and even the […]

My new friend and Blogher Diva, Anne of Backyard Conservative was kind enough to interview me for Blogher video:

Meet Ratwan. A Kurdish born forester who was drafted into saddam’s army during the Iran/Iraq war. He was lucky to have another skill, fluent English, which landed him work outside the army as translator for UN workers. His contacts with UN employees lead him to forming a friendship with a family in Minneapolis-St.Paul. With help […]

At 4:07 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

I had the opportunity this morning to get an early look at the stage being set up for McCain’s acceptance speech as the RNC Presidential Nominee. Below are more details regarding the design of the stage and how it reflects the personality of the future President of the United States: SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Today, […]

Two Democrats and one Republican. Can you guess which one is the Republican? I told Alan that it is nice to see a fellow democrat here at the RNC Convention. He laughed and offered to pose for a photo with myself and Marathon Pundit. I was still reeling from having Karl Rove say hello to […]

A disgruntled lefty comments here: By Will Bartlett on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply | Edit This That hurts right? How about when you guys and girls called Hillary Clinton a Nut Cracker and all those obscene things, and even John McCain did not even spare her daughter – pimping? Face it, republicans have said […]

Some reaction to Palin’s speech from the left. Here’s Michael Crowley at TNR’s “The Stump”: Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing–few if any would ever vote for McCain–but all agree that Palin was very strong. The more liberal among them are a little panicked. I completely misjudged how negative she would be. Her […]

A friend emailed me yesterday to talk shop about Sarah Palin. Among other things, he said, “I still think she’s laughably unqualified. If McCain’s health falters, do I really want her to be president? It would look like a bad 80’s sitcom.” When I replied that I was excited that Sarah Palin was energizing the […]

From Fred Kaplan at Slate, “At times like these, I’m relieved that I don’t cover elections. There’s bum DNA in my heart, and the agita might send me keeling over. How else to react to the sight of sophisticated people saying, with impressively straight faces, that Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president–even president–because […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: The best man turned out to be a woman David Kahane: I hate you Sarah Palin Cracked: The 8 most obnoxious internet commenters Egotastic!: Christina Ricci bikini pics You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. […]

When George Bush came into office, there were plenty of conservatives who wanted him to go after Clinton. But Bush, being Bush, wanted to strike “a new tone.” Did he get any credit for bucking a lot of people in his party and trying to avoid partisan strife? No, not one iota. In fact, to […]

Since no one seems to pay much attention to the 8-9 time slot, I’m going to ignore it as well and just focus on the key speeches in the 9-11 timeslot. Michael Steele: He gave a short, enthusiastic, serviceable “B-” speech that may have helped shore up a few conservatives who were soft on McCain […]

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I’ve been blogging since 2001 and the reaction to last night’s speech was the most positive I have ever seen from righty bloggers in that entire time. It was a huge speech with a lot on the line and conservative bloggers seemed to believe that Palin delivered everything people could have hoped for — and […]

Sarah America destroyed everything in her path last night. You just gotta watch this…

Follow my thoughts on the convention, particularly on Sarah Palin’s speech, by reading my Twitter posts below or signing up to “follow me” via Twitter. Twitter Updates

I’m very excited to hear what Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin has to say to the crowd at the GOP Convention–and to America as a whole–later this evening. Some food for though, before the speech begins, from New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser: HOLY hoop skirts: When did the clock tick back to 1958? When Joe […]

Do ya (getting ready for the Alaskan accent) really think I’d miss this? Come on now! Be here or be square! The party starts in less than an hour. Go get yer beer and moose burger and get comfy in your Lazy-Boy. It’s going to be fun. 7:54 CST Other people live blogging The Anchoress […]

How badly might all of this negativity about Gov. Palin backfire on the media and the Democrats? Well first look at the “sampler” of what passes for objective media analysis this week: Here is a sampler of media comment on Governor Palin this week: – Eleanor Clift, the McLaughlin Group: “If the media reaction is […]

A local affiliate of CBS is suggesting just that: Lieberman could lose his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship. Right now the Democrats need him to hold the majority, but if they pick up seats in the fall all bets are off. It’s most unusual for a Democrat to get the prime speaking spot at a Republican […]

Let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we? The press’ job is to get Barack Obama elected and who is Barack to stop them? Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com where it’s the Palin Nation today. Yes, I just coined that.