Well, I have to admit, I was one of those 37 million people who tuned in to watch Gov. Palin give her speech last night. And I must say, I was underwhelmed. It was really not very good – long-winded, snarky, filled with empty boasts and outright lies and yet still managing to drag and lose focus.
If you have read all the stuff about Palin’s rise, you know that she got to where she is today by applying the republican formula: guns, abortion, oil, born-again Christianity, paint the other person as unpatriotic (thus also tarring anyone that votes for them with the same label).
Wedge politics – devoid of meaning. Empty, vacuous, petulant and cruel. It continues to stun me that so many people in such different parts of the land can apply that formula and be elected no matter how big a moron they are. But it happens over and over, again and again: people who really have no expertise at all, nothing to offer their constituents in the way of solutions, keep getting elected.
Palin is a perfect example. As far as I have seen, read and heard, Palin has not come up with a single interesting idea in her entire brief political career. She studied “communications” in college - widely seen as one of the less rigorous majors. No graduate work. No deep thought about anything. Just all surface. Typical gas-bag republican. Nothing really to see.
I am stymied as to why the media thought that was such a great speech. Do they feel obligated to say so? Chris Matthews statement that “The Republicans have found their Obama” strikes me as particularly tone deaf. Maybe they saw a different speech than I did. Or maybe (and this is more likely) substance and thoughtfulness do not matter at all to them (it seems not to matter to Matthews).
But all of this shows that we need to keep the pressure on, keep getting the message out, the race is going to be close, and we have a way to go. Keep up the good work.
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