Military service does not qualify you to be president. Good night.
All You Need To Know About Joe Lieberman
He enthusiatically endorsed Sarah Palin – someone he agrees with on, well, nearly zero issues.
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Shorter Joe Lieberman
No candidate in recent history will infuriate his party’s base like John McCain.
Seriously, he hit on every hot button that has pissed off hardline Republicans in the last ten years. It wouldn’t be my first choice to spend valuable convention time emphatically reminding the faithful of McCain’s heterodoxy on global warming, campaign finance and judicial nominations.
***Update***
I forgot to mention free trade and immigration. And oh yeah, Joementum made a major applause line out of praising Bill Clinton. That should play well with the dittoheads.
New Convention Open Thread
Old one was stale.
Deep thought- Has it occurred to the GOP that it is hardly a compliment that after eight years of uninterrupted Republican rule, they need to run as reformers in order to have a shot at getting elected. I guess they plan on reforming themselves.
9:51 pm- I guess they decided to have Laura Bush open for W. to make him appear like a dynamic speaker.
BTW, for some comedy gold, go watch Red State get openly mocked by the Politico.
9:53 pm- Bush should get more credit for the Africa Aids stuff. A legitimately good thing.
9:57 pm- OMG, John McCain was a POW! I did not know this, and it is truly new and exciting information.
10:01 pm- Off topic, but this is funny:
Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced [David] Brickner, [the founder of Jews for Jesus] on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website. “He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism,” Kroon said.
Obligatory video.
11:12 pm- Really not sure what they are trying to accomplish, to be completely honest. They seem to be trying to run this as a reform ticket, when this is the party that has been in charge for eight years, and all the people advocating from reform are the same tired faces we have seen since Clinton was President. I mean, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay? Shouldn’t they avoid cameras? Tom DeLay trumpeting reform? Is the public really this stupid?
Brokeback Mountain
My highly scientific survey has determined that listening to the GOP convention on NPR has a thousand times fewer irritating windbags getting in the way of interesting discussion among delegates and ordinary voters. Public radio doesn’t have the commercial drive to constantly be PUNCHY! and IN YOUR FACE! so I find myself thinking more than when the same topic is covered by a commercial shouter.
One thing that just popped into my mind: after fifteen minutes of talk about Joe Lieberman I have the unshakeable feeling that I’ve seen this movie before. From now until forever whenever I see Sarah “soul mate” Palin my mind’s eye will flash to Anne Hathaway’s (to my knowledge) one nude scene. He made a commitment to please the powers that be but you can tell that his heart is somewhere else.
The GOP Used To Be Good At Message Discipline
Problem: Like large majorities of the American public, the press has expressed concern that McCain’s VP pick Sarah Palin is not ready for prime time.
Solution: Shield Sarah Palin from the press until they promise to only pitch softballs.
That’ll show them!
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Family is Not Off Limits
Barack Obama may think family is off limits as far as Sarah Palin is concerned. I disagree. Republicans have made traditional family values the centerpiece of every election for the past decade or more.
Here’s what’s happening. Bristol Palin gets knocked up. Her family announces she is keeping the baby and marrying the father. Bristol Palin is 17 years old. She is not getting married because she is in love with the father – someone who “don’t want kids“. She is getting married because the “values” she was brought up to believe in tell her that she must marry the father.
When I was growing up, getting pregnant out of wedlock was called getting “knocked up.” Not to get too personal, but my brother had a child out of wedlock, as did my two sisters. My oldest sister married the father. It didn’t work out. Neither my brother nor my younger sister made that decision, thankfully. My younger sister might decide to marry the father, and fine. Her decision. She’s also 30+ years old and has been with him for several years anyway. But no one in my family would say you have to marry the father just because you’re knocked up. That usually ends up to be a disaster. It’s marrying someone, not for love, but because the sex didn’t quite work out how you expected. That’s not what marriage is supposed to be about. And shame on Republicans for celebrating this.
It’s also worth noting that these same people who are rallying around the Palin family and expressing their happiness that she is marrying the father, not for love, but because the sex didn’t quite work out as planned, are the same people who would deny me the right to marry someone precisely because I am in love.
Dear Sarah Palin: That abstinence education you imposed on your daughter and that you’d impose on the rest of the country given the chance, hasn’t worked out quite that well for you, has it?
Over the past decade, the Republicans have made “family values” the centerpiece of their campaigning. It’s not off limits. A 17 year old is going to get married because she was taught that it was the right thing to do – even if love has nothing to do with it.
Family values, Republican style.
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