Re: Palin's Speech

[brigdh]

That was way more boring than crazy. How do VP candidates get away with talking about their family for what seemed like half of the speech?

Even the little ticker thing at the bottom of the screen agreed with me. It couldn't even find quotes from the speech to run, and just stayed blank most of the time.

However, this convention still wins for crazy with the moment when Romney announced "radical, violent Islam is evil, and he will defeat it" (which happened to be the moment I turned on the TV, for a particularly creepy beginning), and the crowd went wild. And it sure seemed to me like they'd be cheering just as much without the adjectives in front of Islam.

Comments

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

You're a stronger woman than I. I listened to her little "Will someone tell me what the VP does?" clip and that was it, my yearly quota, right there. It's not so much her voice, it's how the crazy just rolls off her with this weird smiley news anchor energy. The prospect of her in front of that whipped up Kill-The-Infidels crowd of GOPers was more than I could stomach.