As Jim Rockford once told Angel Martin who had been framed for a murder, "this frame was made for you, and you look good in it."

(Well if you can use Harper Valley PTA metaphors, I can use Rockford Files metaphors.  (Can't I?))

After Lieberman completed his speech, Reid let it be known Tuesday night that he thought Lieberman had gone over the line.

Ooh!  We're going to get tough and strip Lieberman of his chairmanship!  That's great, and gutsy to do before the election when we need his vote.  It's the right thing to do though.

Reality:

"The Democratic Caucus will reassess the situation with Sen. Lieberman after the election," Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said Wednesday.

Who would have thunk things would turn out like this when the Dems got the minority in 2006. We actually believed we could end the war for heavens sake. But then along came UNITY ....  

OH ... and Biden has his work cut out for him in the upcoming VP debate. From listening to Palin only once It won't be a walk in the park for him despite his thirtysomething years in Washington.

Hillary did not achieve what she did by being nasty, but by showing that she understood your issues and being a fighter for them.  Obama pivoted towards that at the convention.

Did anyone hear anything last night that would say to an undecided that Palin or McCain cared about their issues and fight for them?

No.  It was just the same character based attacks that haven't worked so far.

So what if it was for the base?  They already have 90+% of them.  That wasn't the place to go.

Why "probably"?  In what perceivable situation would you have used it, especially, when this was the word used to describe Hillary's voice.  What's next? Palin's cackle?

I do not support Palin's policy, nor ideology.  But keep this up, and I can't help but sympathize with her.  I am sure that I am not alone.

McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed Bush-Cheney policies

Palin was neither shrill mor nasty-just aggressive and blunt , with a loose hold pm the truth. Just what I expected from a traditional GOP VP candidate, except with more personality .

And please, DON'T suggest that Hillary do it for them. In January/09, she's not going to be sitting at the desk of the POTUS or VP. They can't be calling her at 3am to ask what to do about Appalachia.

she's against choice, *birth control, and believes in "abstinance-only" sex education, if there must be sex education at all.

*note: to be for "abstinance-only" sex education is, by definition, to be a foe of artificial contraception; you can't be one and not the other, they go hand-in-hand.

she's been a friend to the oil & gas industry, gladly seeks congressional earmarks, is involved in a legislative ethics investigation, and the fact that alaska is close to russia hardly qualifies her foreign affairs bona fides.

the last time i checked, gov's of states don't have the constitutional authority to enter into treaties with foreign powers; that's reserved for the president, with the advice and consent of congress.

where is there a smear in all this?

with regards to her personal life, it only matters when it negates her public personae. in the case of her daughter, she asked that her child's privacy be respected, then had the kid up on stage with her, along with the also unwed father. she abrogated any right to privacy at that point.

if, as is rumored, she also had an extra-marital affair, she's shot her religious right-wing evangelical creds also. aside from that, i really don't care who she bangs.

Last year, the Republican party failed to find a resolution with their entrenched nativism of their base. It was one of the important schisms that made it seem as if the Republicans (and John McCain) were drifting toward complete failure before the general election. Consequently, I am not sure they had a general election strategy until after the Democratic primary played itself out.

Palin may be a gimmicky or last minute choice, but maybe in its a larger sense than just one election. Hillary Clinton's voters were often ridiculed as older and working-class women. That demographic label though obscures maybe their brands of feminism. In the 1960s and 1970s, liberal feminism was, as wiki suggests and to my understanding, the mainstream feminism that referenced liberal political philosophy as its origins (and call to mind the "working girl" movies culminating in Melanie Griffith's movie of that name). These are today's voting bloc of older women.

Why the media should apologize
By ROGER SIMON | 9/4/08 12:15 AM EST

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.

hit gov. palin with? she's a liar, flat out, no contest, no question. it is fact. she claimed to have personally killed off the famed "bridge to nowhere", as part of her reformist, "i don't like earmarks." self proclaimed image. since she wasn't gov. at the time, this would have been impossible.

Yeah... you hit her with that!   Because there's a lot of people are going to look at timelines and see the lie in it.

I'm gonna lay it out for you:
She was a typical small town pol who worked in the good old boy network,  She asked for and got earmarks, meaning she was EFFECTIVE!

When term limit approached she ran for Lt Gov and lost. The machine rewarded her with a pat on the head and a spot on the Oil/Gas commission.

She took her job seriously and her real political career began.

Now DO NOT take that part lightly.  NOW she was ready to take on her new personna.  She got a lot of good ol boys kicked out.

She was no longer part of the machine.

The Bridge is nothing... she was for it, and then she looked at it. From 250M orig to 400M to serve 50,000 people!!!!!  What would you want her to do?  Even the articles cited had her explain to those people that they'd have to settle for something else.

The 'Abuse of Power' thing is likely going nowhere. The BIL is a redneck THUG, it's all on record. What 'influence' was exerted was what any concerned family member might have done./ But her version is that some family might have talked to this Moneghan guy, but he was reassigned and refused the reassignemnt.. he wasnt performing!!

She has political ENEMIES.  What do political ENEMIES do?

If there was anything to all this, I guarantee you she would not have 80% approval in her state.
I know... I live in Ohio, and the last Gov, {GOP} had a 40% approval among Rep voters BEFORE he got hit with scandal then it went to 20, overall in single digits.

So you guys just keep drinking that replicator kool-aid {see stargate tv series} and act like Obama-bots.

Put it this way... Obama had this election locked! none of us cared much for McCain, we didnt trust him.
HE kept saying he moved right but we dont believe him:
McCain/Feingold - handing George Soros the keys to campaign funding
McCain/Kennedy

yadayada

McCain did what he had to do to even have a chance. Now he does.
Obama's still ahead, though and I have no delusions on whether she can pull it out for him

WE DO hope you keep deluding yourself with  that flip-flop thing, though. Keep tellign yourself she's claiming International experience because AL is next to Russia... why not look that up?
Keep tellign yourself she's in Oil's pocket.

The more you do the more you push for a definitive response that bases on facts.

My favorite quote of the last week:
From unnamed dem:
"Putting Palin in a debate with Biden will be like backing Howdy Doody in a knifefight"

The Pentecostals are among the most fundamentalist Evangelicals.  They are principally known for "speaking in tongues."

Obama's "change," as outlined in his acceptance speech, sounds like a Clinton 3rd term plus a lot of repair work -- more cops, more teachers, more taxes on the rich, clean up the wars and mend relationships with allies. All necessary and good, but not the same thing as a positive, inspiring vision of a future America needs, deserves, and will be challenged and helped to achieve, in new and specific ways, by his administration. He didn't provide a unique vision or tell us why THESE SPECIFIC times call for, and allow for, persuing his vision. Except in terms of  biography, he is running as a generic Democrat, not a new kind of "Obama Democrat."

McCain's "reform" as expressed so far, is just the usual anti-Washington rant. I doubt if his speech tonight will change that. He is running for Bush's 3rd term -- but campaigning on his personal biography and as a Nixon/Goldwater/Reagan Westerner who will "shake up" the effete Eastern establishment. A story we certainly have all heard before. Palin's speech was a perfect, well-executed example of the genre.

With no new, positive ideas, with personal biography so important, this campaign can't help but be all about personal attacks and recycled partisan sniping.