Somebody Hand Me A Barf Bag

As I watched Sarah Palin last night, I became swiftly nauseated. The snarky nature of her prose proved yet again how zany the right is. They have selected a well-spoken intelligent woman to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency, who is vapid and trite. Sarah Palin is no reformer and her verbose about being mayor and governor did not prove that. That speech was conservative boilerplate. Pure and utter poppycock. 

Palin seemed to deliver on the bite as she threw globs of steak to the conservative dogs last night. They seemed to chow down ferociously on the line regarding bittergate. She also took on the energy issue by acknowledging the obvious that drilling won't solve anything, but touted it as a serious matter anyway. 

The speech, written by a Bush speechwriter, was the standard dull humdrum that continues to echo from the right. Palin seemed at home when talking about her family. She looked uneasy attacking Obama, whom she praised a few weeks ago before receiving the call to take on this enormous task. 

The post-speech analysis on MSNBC was a little bromidic. Chuck Todd said the conservatives have found their Obama. That was quite a stretch. Palin is drear and does not measure up to the oratorical skills he has. The teleprompter does not suit her well. Pat Buchanan said that she is a "rising star" in national politics. Most pollsters said that the speech probably did not play well to independents, who will decide this election. 

Palin has fired up the Republican base, but the jury is still out on whether she effectively has fired up the voting majority. I agree with Peggy Noonan though, when she made her off mic remarks(even though she tried to walk them back in the Wall Street Journal) that the race was over the minute Palin was selected to ride along the Straight Talk Express.