GOP convention, night two: Thompson and Lieberman
posted at 7:21 pm on September 2, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Here’s your comment thread. 7 p.m. ET on C-SPAN; watch online if you’re not near a TV. Bush will speak via satellite at some point and then it’s Fred plating bleeding chunks of red meat and Joementum reprising Zell Miller — but kinder and gentler! — in primetime.
How intense is public interest in Palin? Judging by online activity, more intense than it’s ever been even for The One. Our heroine’s lying low for now, but if you’re hungry for more, here’s tomorrow’s “scandal” today: HuffPo video of her addressing a Pentecostal church and asking for prayers that the task of U.S. troops be “a task that is from God” and “that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.” NBC has already picked it up and is naturally very, very concerned. Too early to tell yet which stereotype of evangelicals the left will try to demagogue her with, the idea that they want to wage a holy war on Muslims or the idea that they’re trying to bring about the Rapture and the U.S. military is the fastest path to Armageddon. But it sounds to me like all she’s really saying here is that she hopes God approves of what we’re doing, which must be the most rudimentary prayer in all of Christendom. Am I right or has my benighted atheism clouded my judgment once again. Weigh in!
While you mull that, here’s video from CNN of Sally Quinn telling Christians how they’re supposed to feel about a working mom neglecting her kids by going off gallivanting to shop or get her hair done or run for vice president of the United States. Like Andy McCarthy says, it’s downright heartwarming to see the left take such an interest in the Palin children’s well-being after so cruelly ignoring the effect on the Obama girls of having daddy away for such long stretches at a time. (Barney Frank not included!) Exit quotation: “Sarah was a touchdown, but I feel like we’re looking at it on the video replay for a final call.”
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My questions yesterday were:
“Will Fred be seated or standing when his mouth moves, tonight…?
“Did Fred find a way to quote or invoke Ronnie [during] his speech…?
“Did he do a good job of “defending” Sarah’s Alaskan political intrigues and foibles even though he had a cold and apparently wasn’t totally on top of his game…?
“She who must be obeyed” had me cleaning the living room carpet and I couldn’t see or hear the TV, darn it…!
J_Gocht on September 3, 2008 at 9:27 AM
I loved Fred’s! speech, have Joe’s Tivo’d. Have to gloss over it. We need more firebrand speeches from here on out.
Almost to 1,000 posts…
Darksean on September 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Is Fred’s on Youtube yet…?
I missed it, darnit…!
J_Gocht on September 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Yeah like this “region”
ronsfi on September 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Obama is an elitist…
I LOVE The Onion!
cannonball on September 3, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Fred’s speech was inspirational. When Fred is fired up the fire quickly spreads. A cabinet position perhaps?
tedibear on September 3, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Got an email from Fred! about this today.
peski on September 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM
http://www.fredpac.com/
Fred is fighting back!
upinak on September 3, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Your capacity for reason overwhelms me.
2nd Amendment? Gun Owners of America’s assessment.
Judges? McCain voted to confirm Breyer and Ginsburg, the former political director for the ACLU.
Illegal Immigration/Border Security? There’s a half-beaten, but not yet dead horse.
Free speech? Yeah, that McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform is really working out well…
Abortion? Supports embryonic stem cell research. This is somewhat strange for a guy who believes that life begins at conception.
No doubt. Reagan made many mistakes as well, but I’m sure if I were to make the case for how he messed up and should have known better would be met with derision. While, yes, I believe Reagan was the best President of the 20th century, he had his flaws. McCain, however, given what I’ve listed above, has far too many flaws for me to vote for him in good conscience. As they say, “the best indicator of future performance is past and present performance.”
And? He has a record that I cannot support in good conscience. A choice between a bad record (McCain) and no record (Obama) is no choice at all. I’m choosing option 3: voting my conscience, rather than ingratiating myself to the Republican party. I mean, really, what has either party done in the last 35 years in terms of energy? Welfare’s woes? Medicare/Medicaid? The national debt and the deficit? Illegal immigration/border security? Our failing public education system? I hear a great deal of talking, but the actions on both sides fail to impress.
They sure do. I tend to avoid the ones that continually make them, too.
Send_Me on September 3, 2008 at 4:28 PM
It’s on cspan.
Spirit of 1776 on September 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM
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