Some random and incomplete musings from Sarah Palin's speech, below the fold:

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How does Obama's community experience have any relevance to Palin's time as a mayor? Obama was a State Senator by that time.

"Wherever he goes and whoever is listening John McCain is always the same man." Huh? Does she know anything about John McCain and all of his flip flops?

I love that she is talking about how she cut costs so that tax payers did not have to pay for certain things, yet the State is paying for her legal fees in the investigation into her actions in "TrooperGate."

Wow... she just flat out lied about the "bridge to nowhere." She very, very clearly supported the "bridge to nowhere" until it was clear that the federal money was not going to come, and then she flipped around and made it appear that she opposed it.

Huh? Dems want to do not "nothing at all" about the energy issues? Another blatant lie.

Another lie about Obama's lack of accomplishments and laws.

Seriously? Bashing the columns? After George W. Bush spoke in front of columns this week? Classy.

What a distortion of Obama's tax policies.

WTF? What change has John McCain promoted over his career? He has not been a man of change.

Her digs at Obama are, at least to me, coming across as really un-classy. There are good ways to draw contrasts, and bad ways to draw contrasts, and she is doing her best to draw such contrasts in the worst possible, low brow ways.

Sarah Palin is talking about "personal discovery?" Seriously? This is the same person who the McCain campaign has said will have to learn from McCain on foreign policy?

Hey - did you know that John McCain was a POW?

Well... if there is any doubt that Sarah Palin is VERY conservative, it should be ended after tonight. But, of course, all she did was repeat the McCain campaign talking points, so who knows what she really believes. Or maybe she believes the talking points? We do not really know, do we?

I was not impressed. It did not seem natural to me; it felt more than a bit forced. It feels like a comedy routine that was not very funny. There were a lot of lines that were supposed to be funny, and the crowd enjoyed them, but they felt quite flat to me. I did not find this speech to be at all convincing to anyone who is undecided. Maybe I am wrong, as I clearly have decided, but I did not see anything in this speech that was convincing. Of course, her main job is probably to shore up the conservative base, but at the same time will be shoring up the liberal base for Obama. Thanks for that!

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