Three Political Rallies Today
posted by yturks
I watched three political rallies on CNN this morning.
First, Sarah Palin in Colorado. These events are called rallies because they are designed to "rally" people to the candidate. This is exactly what Sarah Palin did. She's good. She began the rally, of course, referring to the Wall Street crisis and sounding like a Democrat. She talked about regulation, regulatory reform, excessive CEO compensation etc. It's unbelievable. These Republicans do nothing but talk about smaller, limited government and mythical free markets, but when there is a crisis, they rush to claim how they will use the government to fix it. The point is that the Democrats are right in their approach, and everybody knows that, but Republicans are masters of rhetoric to trick people into voting for them instead of Democrats.
Next, Palin moved to her cheerleading best, talking about all the Alaska natives who play professional sports for Colorado teams. Are you kidding me man? Is that the issue here? But it works; the crowd was going wild. Palin continued on to praise her husband, who is a member of the Steelworkers Union. Wait - is that a good thing all of a sudden? I can't keep up with Republican hypocrisy. She then lied again about rejecting the Bridge to Nowhere. She is shameless. This past weekend the press hammered her for that repeated lie, but she is undaunted.
I think Colorado is lost. Palin is going to carry it for McCain.
Next up was Joe Biden. Snooze fest. He started off on such a downer, with low energy, and talking about the death of Rep. Sander Levin's wife. To make matters worse, the audio was messed up on CNN and a rather loud continuous buzz could be heard over all of Biden's comments. Finally, after several minutes of talking about what a great guy John McCain was, Biden woke up and hit McCain fairly hard on some of his proposals and idea. Too little, too late.
Later CNN cut to John McCain in Florida. Like many of McCain's appearances, there was something strange about this. The setting appeared to have the candidate at the center of a 360 degree crowd, so on TV, McCain was showing the back of his head half the time. He spent the first part of his rally talking about the only thing in his campaign that is working - Sarah Palin. He talked about how Palin's husband is a four-time dog sledding race champion, and how that makes him ready for Washington. I'm not even kidding. But McCain knows that is ridiculous, so he kind of cut himself short and moved on to something else. He's really a very awkward man.
Anyway, in conclusion, I am worried that the Palin/McCain ticket will end up capturing enough voters in critical swing states to win this election. David
