After Action Report

So how did you love Sarah's speech?  And did anyone catch Olberfool and Matthews to learn why the speech was a non-tingly miserable failure?

MORE:  Not as cool as shooting hoops with the troops, of course, but still pretty cool.  For a Republican.

Comments

[Prospector]

We have a saying in Alaska: "Alaska Girls Kick Ass!"

Sarah kicked some sorry democratic butt tonight!

[Danube of Thought]

It was absolutely magnificent. Absolutely. She is formidable, and extremely engaging. I think the guy with the two autobiographies and no legislation has walked into the propellor blade.

[GMax]

If I were Biden I might start admitting to electroshock in the hope I get thrown off the ticket. This lady takes no prisoners. Gasbags are not likely to standup well to a stiletto.

[smitch]

She sliced and diced Obama, with wit, grace, and pinpoint accuracy. Loved it when the camera caught Piper spit-shining Trig's hair..

[Sue]

Juan Williams is impressed.

[GMax]

Well now we know why the Democrats went deep down the bench to find their candidate. Sometimes even in small towns, there are folks with incredible talents. I dont know yet if this lady can be a Maggie Thatcher, but I have lots of jack to bet that she will ultimately get the opportunity to try.

[MikeB]

First thing on MSNBC after Palin's speech... the sound of Keith Olberman stammering... then Chris Mathews shocked at the speech and saying "a star is born"... then David Gregory looking gloomy and acknowledging that it looks like Mathews was right...

Most hilarious line of the MSNBC commentary after Palin's speech... "This was her chance to introduce herself to America. But parts of the speech were very pointed and strong and didn't sound like her... or, uh, what I think her to be."

[MikeB]

"It's not clear to me that America is in a place where they want an angry ticket."

By that measure Palin should be hugely popular at MyDD.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/3/231334/7106

[Barry Dauphin]

One of the laughers of the night came from Mark Shields, who glumly said that Palin was belittling of Obama. He says this, after what she went through for the last several days--if only the Dems were simply belittling of her. And folks like Shields make these kinds of remarks so unselfconsciously.

[Lightwave]

You know that six point lead Obama has right now?

It's the last lead he'll have. By this time next week McCain/Palin will be ahead by 5-10, and won't look back.

This woman just ended the Democratic Party. The backbiting after Obama's collapse will be the only thing history recalls about him.

[glasater]

I was so afraid for her and shouldn't have been. The line "grace under pressure" surely describes this courageous woman.

[section9]

This was the Republican equivalent of the Obama 2004 rollout speech.

Only she did it with grace and familiarity mixed with cutting humor. She used Obama's charicature against Obama the man.

Through it all she maintained her insistent femininity.

Homerun. Out of the freaking park, over the wall at old Comiskey Park (before they tore it down) and into the well of the bar at McCuddy's!

[Antimedia]

I read something today that really struck me. According to Carly Fiorina, she is working with several people very highly placed in the Hillary organization to get Hillary supporters to vote for McCain-Obama. Again, according to Fiorina, some of those people will be in a box tomorrow night for McCain's acceptance speech.

I wouldn't put it past Hillary to sabotage Obama so she can run again in 2012.

So, could we see a Palin-Clinton contest in 2012?

[invernessie]

Some of Palin's remarks were sharper (and totally on point) than I thought she'd dare, but I will say that she got a standing O from me for every one. I loved her before, but I "LURVE" her even more now.

I also dropped some additional coin in the Palin/McCain box for the election. Go Sarah!!!!

[GMax]

Here is the best comment of the night that I could find. From a commenter over at Ann Althouse:

From now on, when a Democrat says "But what if McCain drops dead on his first day in office?!?!?!" I'm going to say "dude -- don't tease me like that."

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Ask yourself, if you had to walk through the toughest neighborhood in Chicago at midnight, would you rather have Sarah or Barack at your side?

[TCO]

Don't tease me either. I'm actually feeling warm to the old Anchor Man for a change. Still...a little duckhunt with Dick would not be evil woiuld it?

[bad]

sarah is the new Chuck...

[Joan]

One of the best laughs I've had during this past week was listening to Glenn Beck discussing Palin and how the media was going crazy, dissing her, etc. Beck was outraged about the horrible comments. Then somehow there was a comment re her being a 'hottie', and he said, "I know I'm not supposed to say that, but it's true." Then the banter went on re the pictures of her hunting and being a member of the NRA, and he said, "I really like the one of her holding that AK47." He laughed real loud at himself, and then said, 'a picture of a woman holding a gun, I guess that's Republican porn.' He really cracked me up -- and, that's what I need with the big media and left being so vicious.

[JM Hanes]

It's hard to believe what picayune "avenues of attack" MSNBC is selling as the potential new Dem talking points over the next few days -- aside from worrying that she's too tough an act for McCain to follow. Winning over the "Republican base" is not enough to win an election. Disdaining community organizers is elitism. No, really, I'm not making this up.

[PrestoPundit]

Guess this will quiet the talk of Thomas Eagleton.

[Bill in AZ]

C-SPAN caller whining after the speech: "She was so Nasty!"

My poor ACME Irono-Meter spun wildy for a few minutes and melted into a puddle.

[hit and run]

OK, watched it twice now. Maybe once more.

Really.

As objectively as I love it so, love her so, love the speech so, and no matter how much I would no matter anything else -- the thought that Sarah Palin delivered this speech under this pressure with this amount of sickening vitriol from the left, the media and the Dems has given me a respect for her that cannot be shaken.

And the thought of the shaking going on among Obama, Biden and their teams means that tomorrow (hey, that's today, look at the time!) will be happy no matter how big the bags under my eyes.

From the tears.

Of joy.

[bad]

Disdaining community organizers is elitism.

What if all three of them vote against her?

[JM Hanes]

Is it just me, or have the Democrat's talking points ever sounded more stale?

[SukieTawdry]

Ya know, I think that little gal just might have a future in politics.

Today's Democratic counter-programing: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Oh, I hope they talk up that one. Wonder what's up--are they losing hold of their nutroot base?

[Topsecretk9]

I said earlier there were like 500 lines to take away from this speech -- but

• drag the columns back to Hollywood

And taxes

• tax small business, tax big business, tax your mother and father when they die, tax the consumer, tax you just because, tax, tax, and tax, the crap out of everyone

to pay for ACORN!

[bad]

Is it just me, or have the Democrat's talking points ever sounded more stale?

Or stupid....

[CorgiMom]

And Olberman's take on Sarah's speech weaknesses?
1. She mentioned son Track would be deploying for Iraq on 9/11. According to some liberal Vets for Obama source that is FORBIDDEN info (unto treason for instance).
2. Track may NOT be deployed on 9/11. SHE'S LYING!!!
I am not kidding.

[JM Hanes]

Hollywood squares without the Hollywood on Larry King.

Wasserman-Whatever thinks any high school kid could have delivered that speech.

Ed Schultz says, OK so she can read a teleprompter. He apparently has no idea that the teleprompter scroll went screwy.

Can I have any more fun tonight? Yes, I can!

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I'm still in awe that she lost the teleprompter and never missed a beat. Although someone in the other thread asked if she was using a paper copy.

[TCO]

The 9-11 deploymnet has been news for weeks. It is almost eerie though. Like Palin's dad literally being off hunting when his daughter was announced.

[Topsecretk9]

Is it just me, or have the Democrat's talking points ever sounded more stale?

JMH

They don't even sound stale, they sound clownish, they sound scripted, they sound vetted by the "respectable" press, they sound what Sally Quinn needs to hear.

remember when David Gregory had a shit fit because the Cheney c
amp went to the local paper vs have personal massage with the "dc press pool" They lost their shit over the slight?

Ha the flipping HA

Eat it Gregory. You are NOT our Proxy and Sally Quinn and Andrea Mitchell - eat my dirt sister. Cuz I am a WAAAAAy better judge than you Cocktail Mavens!

Ha the flipping HA

[Bill in AZ]

Hey, weren't the dems supposed to have a convention too?

[Topsecretk9]

Hey --- can we ALL give Meghan Kelley of Fox a way big shout out for being a BIG TIME PIT BULL WITH LIPSTICK for being pissed of and doing her job going after the big shots?

Give Meghan a PRIME TIME show FOX!

[bad]

Meghan Kelley rocks!!

[Topsecretk9]

I guarantee that Joe Biden is telling the "Man of Steel" --- we're a little screwed here junior.

[Elliott]

the thought that Sarah Palin delivered this speech under this pressure with this amount of sickening vitriol from the left, the media and the Dems has given me a respect for her that cannot be shaken.

Absolutely beautifully stated. I am slightly surprised, but quite pleased, to see that the speech has been received so well.

Now, time to make sure the Democrats can't get away with any "just words" framing.

[PaulL]

Sarah's timing is just about perfect.

[Topsecretk9]

Just what I thought earlier - I saw a paper speech and wondered if she wasn't using a Obamaprompter

Palin & the Teleprompter [Rich Lowry]

I’m told by a McCain aide that the teleprompter operator mistakenly rolled through the applause lines throughout the speech. So he rolled over the first two lines of the next paragraph after applause. But she was unfazed by it.

09/04 12:58 AM

[Caro]

Hmmm. For the fashion mavens...There was a comment on the other thread about Sarah's glasses. I bet she wears them to make her look as serious and smart as she is. She is just so yummy looking that it would be a distraction just talking to her. As evidenced by comments here at JOM.

[Elliott]

I agree: Megyn Kelly is awesome. If I may be allowed to revise and extend my remarks in that comment, I would say that after Alexander Britton Hume, Kelly and Bret Baier are the two best anchors Fox has.

[Topsecretk9]

Sarah might wear glasses to stave off the sexists...hmmmm

[Topsecretk9]

When Sarah said:

They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America — who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars. They love their country, in good times and bad, and they’re always proud of America.”

I think this was a moment when people in American households high fived - households Peggy Noonan, Mort Konderwhatever, Olbermann, Mathews, Campbell Brown et. al. have NO CLUE about but just pretend they do on Tee Vee.

[Elliott]

The Democrats are Sarahfied!

[paul]

the democrat/media plan for Palin, PRE- convention speech?

make the debate about her. keep her at the top of the fold-obama does poorly when the press actually has to report about him, and mccain will suffer if the stories are all about his less experienced veep.

media/dem plan POST convention? run as far and as fast as they can away from her.

That was the disappointment I was reading in their(msnbc) faces. She shot off enough comparisons of her experience v. obama, and they realized it is not a good debate to hold in public.

they might take another swipe at her over foreign policy, but if they gamble wrong, the whole 'she'-bang will collapse on them.

The media set up the match on experience, palin v. obama, and to borrow from zell miller, sent barry out with spitballs against an ar-15 wielding huntress.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Fight the Palin Smears

[JM Hanes]

This wins the prize as the lamest response to Palin of all:

The speech that Gov. Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds like exactly the same divisive partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last 8 years. If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define change as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that's their choice, but we don't think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change.

Sent out by Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.

[paul]

I was flipping around, working the tivo in two rooms, in a desperate search for ANY media/obama supporter who could provide the eventual talking points for why palin is less experienced than obama...

I couldn't find one willing to offer argument.

The funniest dem?
Wolfson, with a sh*t eating grin on fox. He was a guy who lost to obama, despite making the very argument that obama has 'zero' experience for hillary's campaign. He had the look on his face that reeked of vindication.

simple demographics?
400k watch olberdud, 40 million plus just watched palin decimate a 'community coordinator'.

That's 100 to 1 in viewership.
40 to 1 versus the nyt, or wapo.

Limbaugh will slap another 20 million onto her 40+.

Obama better come up with 65 million votes if he wants to keep it close.

McCain/Palin will break 70 million.

[Topsecretk9]

JMH

weak tea...they are very, very, very nervous.

The media didn't nip it in the bud like hoped.

Hence the Fox interview.

Desperation.