Take her seriously

I could only watch part of Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC (had to put Jonah to bed), but I agree with James Love’s opinions: she’s got game. She’s a good orator and blew a lot of hot air that gave the RNC something to cheer for. That’s not to say that she’d make a good VP. She was picked afterall because she makes a great young, pretty, female, mother of five puppet. Rhetoric flew from her lips. The Great White Sea applauded.

But… take her and McCain seriously. Many people around the world didn’t think Bush would win his second term. And while some of it may have been due to tampering, the fact remains that the RNC knows how to mobilize its base and push an agenda of fear. Tonight, Palin puppeted the words that we’ve heard countless times over the past 30 years (at least) that the democrats would raise taxes, increase spending, blah, blah, blah fucking blah. While it may be a tired attack, FUD resonates with the American people.

An aside: all this makes me wonder if McCain would have picked a young African American man as his VP puppet candidate if his opponent had been Hillary?