Lucy Carrigan

OK.  I am officially scared.  Sarah Palin's speech did everything it was supposed to do.  Predictably light on specifics (solution for the economy--drill, solution for foreign affairs--kill), the "drill and kill" speech wowed 'em across the country.  Palin was poised, articulate, animated, and forceful.  I recognize that reading a speech that someone else wrote from a teleprompter is not exactly the Gettysburg address.  I know that it is not winning a debate, or answering questions from the press.  I realize that a single swallow doth not a summer make, etc.  But let's face it folks--she was good last night.  So some facts were wrong (well, many of them).  So she never mentioned the fact that she would ban abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.  She she bashed Michelle Obama by saying that Palin, at least, was "always proud of America," while omitting the fact that her husband spent 7 years registered to a political party that advocates Alaskan secession from the United States (also known as treason--google "Civil War").  These folks are not about content--they are about image. 

Lighter moments included the really uncomfortable baby-dad Levi chewing gum on stage (he forget to put in under the seat), and Romney's weird timewarp speech where he seemed to forget that Republicans have completely dominated every branch of government for 6 of the past 8 years.  Also--one name not mentioned:  Bush