I really wish y'all would remember that when y'all start the fire breathing and spewing sulfur and brimstone.

There's lot of talk about civility and argumentation and lecturing from the other quarter, and yet...

Then again, maybe the unnamed source was correct. As of now, I stand corrected.

anjin, funny how you can continuously accuse the GOP od having no plan despite years of being proven wrong, yet still thow your support to a man who has never done a damn thing but run his mouth.

But not surprising when you consider A. The train wreck results of 8 years of GOP leadership. B. The fact that they have no plan beyond more of the same.

I guess you're calling that person a liar, right?"

Who, exactly, would that be? Would they be in a position to know? Does this person, in fact, exist?

I will take the word of 2 different media sources over some annonymous source from Politico.

so she gave a majority of the speech from memory.

Is that why she was staring at the teleprompter thru the whole speech? I don't know that I have ever seen someone eyeball it quite that hard.

I guess you're calling that person a liar, right?

But, MSNBC and Fox both report that there were problems with the teleprompter. They were, as I described them, that the teleprompter kept scrolling past Governor Palin's stopping point during applause, forcing her to rely on notes and memory."

Wow, how quickly the meme spreads. Unfortunately for you, we have an eyewitness that states otherwise.

Perhaps there were moments where it scrolled slightly past her exact point in the speech. But I was sitting in the press section next to the stage, within easy eyeshot of the teleprompter. I frequently looked up at the machine, and there was no serious malfunction. A top convention-planner confirms this morning that there were no major problems.

2 points:

1) The teleprompter was erroneously not stopped for applause lines, so she gave a majority of the speech from memory.

2) Obama can't string 2 coherent sentances together without a teleprompter.

That's one of the great thing about Palin- she's unnerved the left so much that they're damaging their own nominee while flopping around looking for an attack that will stick on her.

WRT small town/ small state experience vis a vis the overwhelmingly urban and multi-cultural reality it's again playing to the maverick meme. There's nothing the right seems to like better than the idea that the small town outsider can take those city folk to task and bring them to heel. It's straight out of Disney or something similar, but it's all basically narrative building - masterfully done, I must say.

The question, of course, is whether it will all do more than just fire up the base. Firing up the base is a big deal and as I said, they seem to have gotten their second wind and seem ready to go out and knock heads and beat up the liberals again like they used to feel like doing all the time. But the question remains as to whether they can win this election purely on a base play or do they actually need disaffected democrats and independents.

If it's the latter, it's difficult to see how Palin does anything for that scenario. I guess on some level, they're counting on her in the attack dog role to start knocking Obama down to size which gets them.... I'm not sure what because they still have to get the disaffected dems and independents which would seem unlikely to be swayed by just savage attacking - again, red meat for the base is not milk for the middle.

But, game on! Going to be interesting to see what tone McCain strikes and what path he charts tonight.

Given the fact that close to 75% of the US population lives in urban areas how is it that the small town \ small state, homogeneous life experience of Palin is relevant to leading a nation that is demographically large and urban? The “community” that Obama organized was Chicago’s south side, a place with more people then the entire state of Alaska and a demographic more in line with a majority of people who live in the US. Tell me exactly how Palin’s experience will serve her in governing a country that is overwhelmingly urban and multi-cultural.