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You got it right Rosemary......

How weird is this----Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have the McCain speech the same night as opening night of Football!!!   Looks like a genius decision---Its all about the judgement!! LOL

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Nielsen Media Research reported this afternoon that an estimated 38.9 million watched McCain's acceptance speech Thursday night on the three broadcast networks, plus CNN, FOX News Channel, and MSNBC, compared to 38.4 million who watched Obama's speech last week, which was carried on four other cable networks as well.

McCain even drew a bigger audience than his running mate, Sarah Palin, who drew about 37 million for her speech Wednesday night.

The usual gender and racial gap in elections showed up in the figures. Significantly more men (17.9 million) watched McCain than Obama (16.2 million), while more women watched Obama (19.9 million) than McCain (19.2 million), Nielsen said. Also, more whites watched McCain (32.2 million) than Obama (27 million), while the opposite held among African Americans with 7.5 million watching Obama and 3.1 million watching McCain.

Separately, PBS said that about 2.7 million tuned in for its coverage Thursday night -- down from 3.2 million for Palin and 3.5 million for Obama's acceptance speech.

Suz,

Yes, that was the news.  Since McCain picked Sarah the crowds have doubled and maybe tripled.  Too bad you couldn't get inside.  I'll look forward to the photo's.

McCain chased a guy to his car after one town hall because he thought he didn't answer his question fully.  Can we only imagine what the Secret Service has to go through.  I would have loved to see the face of the man when he turned around and saw John McCain standing there wanting to talk with him some more.

I want you all to feel sorry for me.  My son sent me an email from the Huffington site. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/john-mccain-speech-reacti_n_124115.html

And I'm suppose to watch the video.  He's trying to kill me. He's out of the will.

This is from the Timesonline in London:

Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism

Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that

Gerard Baker

The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.

"What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?"

"One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

"The other kills her own food."

   

Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.

There's a powerful danger in the sheer thrill that has followed her astonishing performance that we could get carried away with John McCain's running-mate. Some of the coverage has a hyperbolic tone to it. Not since Paris handed that apple to Aphrodite has a man's selection of a woman had such implications for the future of our civilisation.

So let's stipulate one obvious and important piece of wisdom about US elections. The choice of a vice-presidential candidate rarely makes much of a difference. The pundit class waxes historical in the excitement of the moment but usually the vice-presidential choices go back to playing second banana. However mawkishly we dwell on the mortality of the presidential contenders, it is they who determine the voters' decision.

This one, to be fair, could be different. For at least the next few weeks the press will follow Mrs Palin's present and dig deeper into her past, still hoping for some morsel of stupidity or evidence of cupidity to doom her. But in the end, barring such a discovery, this is still an Obama-McCain contest.

But let me try to explain why Mrs Palin, whatever impact she might have in November, may be a figure of real consequence in our lives.

It's partly about what she represents and partly about what she has already done, but mostly about where she and her ilk might take the Republicans - and possibly America.

It never ceases to amaze me how the Left falls again and again into the old trap of underestimating politicians whom they don't understand. From Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to George Bush and Mrs Palin, they do it every time. Because these characters talk a bit funny and have ridiculously antiquated views about faith, family and nation, because they haven't spent time bending the knee to the intellectual metropolitan elites, they can't be taken seriously.

So the general expectation was that Mrs Palin would stumble on to the stage in high heels, clutching her sprawling, slightly odd family (five children! how weird), mispronounce the name of the Russian Prime Minister, mutter a few platitudes about God, and disappear for ever to a deafening chorus of sniggers.

No one paid much attention to the fact that she had been elected governor of a state. Or that she got to that office not because, unlike some politicians I could mention, her husband had been there before her, or because she bleated continuously about glass ceilings, but by challenging the entrenched interests in her own party and beating them. In almost two years as Governor she has cleaned out the Augean stables of Alaskan Government. You don't win a statewide election and enjoy approval ratings of more than 80 per cent without real political talent.

Never mind all that. She didn't have a passport! She was a former beauty queen! It was so axiomatic that she was a disaster that I was told by lots of savvy men - with deliciously unconscious sexism - that the real problem was what the choice said about Mr McCain and his judgment: cynical, irresponsible, clueless. It was as if Mrs Palin wasn't really a human being at all, but an article of Mr McCain's clothing that showed his poor taste, like wearing brown shoes with a charcoal suit.

So here's why she matters.

First of all she offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party to reconnect with ordinary Americans. She's conservative, but her conservatism is not that of the intolerant, uncomprehending white male sort that has so hurt the party in recent years. She is much closer to a model of the lives of ordinary Americans - working mother, plainspoken everywoman juggling home and office - than any Republican leader in memory.

The contrast with Mr Obama is especially powerful. The very fact that Mrs Palin didn't go to elite schools but succeeded nonetheless - the very ordinariness with which she so piquantly jabbed Mr Obama on Wednesday - is what will make her so appealing to Americans. And as a pro-life conservative she debunks in one swoop the enduring myth that all women subscribe to the obligatory nostrums of radical feminism.

But there's more to it than that.

The Republicans have decided that they are not going to make the mistake Hillary Clinton made and run against the effervescent Mr Obama on the premise of experience.

Experience hasn't got Americans into a very comfortable place. They want change. Before he signed up to some of the less attractive Republican attitudes this year, Mr McCain's career had embodied that change - the anti-establishment candidate running against his own party. Now he is joined by a woman who, in her short career, has done the same thing.

Democrats think that Mr McCain, with the social conservative Mrs Palin, will launch an old-fashioned culture war at them, using her appealing manner to drive a populist assault on the familiar Republican issues of God, guns and gays.

Perhaps this Manichean interpretation will prove true. But I suspect that it misses the real appeal of the Republican team. The opportunity for McCain-Palin is not reaction, but reform - a reform rooted in a distant conservatism that could be due for a comeback

Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They like their guns out there (some still kill their own food) and they are pro-life and deeply pro-America, of course. But at a time of grave challenges, the themes of economic freedom and opportunity, the resistance to the idea that government holds all the answers, could resonate with voters.

This is an election, as the Democrats have realised all along, about an America on the cusp of change. With the moose-hunting, establishment-taunting Mrs Palin at his side, Mr McCain might represent a bigger change than the one that his opponents are offering.

Okay---Here is the new Palin yard sign......and these guys have been suppliers to the last six Republican campaigns........

Here is the website:

http://www.mccainstore.com/M650-1004.htm

I love it - just put in my order - Go Sarah! Go McCain-Palin Washington won't know what hit them!

CNN can't seem to get enough of Sarah.  They'll be having a show later about the State Trooper who denies everything.  I mean why bother?  What should he say, yes I assaulted my step-son.  I should go directly to jail.

Blood pressure has been bad today especially after that NYT article and that email so I have to stay calm---but that wasn't the only thing that was making me furious-----

The left wing Kos loons were now demanding because of the anonymous source in the National Enquirer that suggested an affair between Sarah and her husbands business partner--- ---that the husband have a paternity test because the partner asked for his divorce records to be sealed---------

Well this is why he asked them to be sealed----this is all so unconscionable!-----Sick..............

From HotAir

Another Palin smear bites the dust

posted at 8:59 pm on September 5, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again.  Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed?  Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin — that vixen! — must have had an affair and broken up the marriage.  Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records?

As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed — to protect himself from conspiracy theorists (h/t: William Amos):

So when the blogosphere discovered today (via an online court docket) that Scott Richter, a Palin associate, personally filed a sealing motion in Alaska Superior Court, well, conclusions were jumped to. Was Sarah Palin named as the other woman in a messy divorce action? Well, since Richter’s September 3 motion, a copy of which you’ll find below, was denied yesterday, his divorce filings remain open to the public. And a TSG review of the 98-page file shows that the Palins are only mentioned in Richter’s sealing request.

According to the filing, Richter wanted the documents deemed confidential in a bid to cloak details about his home, workplace, and phone numbers because “reporters and news agencies” were using that information to contact him. Richter, a 39-year-old contractor, noted that he is “friends and land owners in a remote cabin” with the Palins and, as a result, journalists were intruding on the “cabin life and private life” of him and his 11-year-old son.

Isn’t that an extra dollop of irony?  Mr. Richter wants to protect his son from lunatics.  What happens?  The lunatics use that as “evidence” that Palin had an affair with Richter and descend on him to get the dirt.

The desperation of Obama supporters keeps becoming ever more clear.  We’ve now had them smear Palin and her daughter as sluts, notably Conan O’Brien and his crude “crease” reference on his show last night.  Palin’s mothering quality has also been slandered, and her decision to have a successful career derided by those who would normally sneer at stay-at-home moms.

Keep it up — please.  Keep informing the public that women have to stay on the ideological reservation or they have to stay in the kitchen, and that they’re not really free to have their own minds.  Keep punishing those who express their own opinions and defy the media with despicable slurs and innuendo and by all means keep attacking their children.  None of that will have any effect on Palin’s credibility — but it will strip her critics of theirs.

Update: Charles Martin at Explorations has the list of debunked slurs and innuendo, and it’s getting pretty lengthy.  Coming up next: Sarah Palin is an extraterrestrial looking to infiltrate human society!  Where’s the Weekly World News when you need it?

Update II: Just spitballing here, but what stereotypes of naughty women have the media and the lunatics missed?  So far, they’ve made her out to be a slut, a b***h, a beauty-queen airhead, and an unfit mother.  She’s obviously not frigid, so that smear won’t work.  How many other demeaning gender-based slurs can they throw her way?

 As I said earlier, desperate democrats doing desperate things.  Hey, how about a riot anyone?

The Canadian rock band has never seen so much publicity in years.  I quit buying tickets for their concerts and buying their cd's starting today.  Anyone elso on board?

Susie, I read the opinion piece from the NYT.  That's exactly was it is..AN OPINION..and you know what that means, dont'cha.  I need a pill!

Pansy...I love the way Cindy McCain dresses, style is an awesome thing to have. She is very elegant and feminine...I think she is as stylish as J. Kennedy was...sine J. Kennedy there has been no real stylish first lady, Reagan dressed nice but was strange and B. Bush well I loved her pearls but she was matronly and Hill...well she dressed like a man and when she wore an evening gown she still looked masculine and very uncomfortable and Mo looks like her clothes come from a thrift shop...C. McCain is refreshing in the elegance dept.

Forgot Carter and Nixon...Matronly as well...I think, when thinking about the former first ladies and their particular brand of style it goes without saying, the old addage about class, you either have it or you don't. C. McCain has it! Looking back over that list a lot of first ladies were very masculine in nature...just occured to me. 

Good morning Republican girls...............Shirley you do realize that it is only the liberal Democrat woman that can do both a job and take care of a family.............after all I am sure that there will be someone from MSNBC that will ask Obama which he will choose.............Michelle and their girls or our country first.............so just get over it.........well last night I went to a meeting of our local GOP and we were discussing among other things now that we have pretty much won the war in Iraq were shall we go next?.........so the Chairman pulled out her Nazi handbook and we did spend some time on how we should present to the general population on our next invasion.............Since we did decide that McCain will win because we all know that even if he doesn't get the majority of the popular vote we will just steal the election anyway we are suppose to get invasion proposals together to send to the National headquarters at the GOP............I think we came up with some pretty good suggestions............Everyone thinks its going to be Iran............oh such foolish people..............won't they be surprise..............sometime we don't need to go any farther then our own backyard..........anyway girls looking forward to the Sunday talk shows.......of course the Dems don't realize that we have the media eating out of our hands.........as long as we keep Palin away from them they will concentrate on that and we don't have to talk about all those pesky issues like the economy..........ha...........Shokk

Hi!

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far.  Shirley, I hope you are all are ok down there in beautiful Wilmington and didn't sustain too much damage.  I pray that Ike stays away and fizzles out!

I haven't had time to read a lot of your posts, but what I have seen, I'm even more excited about the election-- and I don't think I have ever been excited about a Presidential election.  But I have to tell you about the surprise I got when I read yesterday's edition of our local small-town newspaper.  There were two letters about Sarah Palin-- both very positive and supportive!!  That may not sound like much, but you would have to be born and raised here like me to really appreciate the impact of the letters, and more surprisingly is that the paper even printed them. This is a huge Democrat area if you haven't guessed yet... full of folks that thought Jimmy Carter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. (and I love Jimmy Carter-- but he was a terrible president-- too nice a guy)  Without going into great details, one letter is headed "Palin is a great choice; press needs to lay off" and the other letter states "I might have to consider being a proud Republican after years of being a proud Democrat".  These letters were both written by ordinary people who appreciate the real deal that Sarah Palin demonstrates and are endeared by the fact that she has guts and grace at the same time. I am very encouraged to see these letters printed in our newspaper and I would bet there will be lots more like them.

Have a great day! 

 Go McC/P!!!

Mary Jo