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icarusancalion ([personal profile] icarus) wrote2008-09-03 09:08 pm
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Fish out of water.

Typed as I watched Palin's speech:

Welcome to amateur hour. She's totally out of her league. She's not used to being on camera and keeps twitching her hands in a weak sort of hammer motion. Her voice is nasal and strangled. She's not very dramatic as a speaker and has the pedantic manner of a first grade teacher. Her hair is in her eyes. She keeps smirking at her own jokes.

She can deliver a cutting remark. But falls apart when it's supposed to be inspiring. How is she able to kill a section on McCain's torture and survival?

A well-written, should-be-stirring, but poorly delivered speech. She knows it's dying. Her manner is scared and growing dispirited. She's not able to hide it either, she just doesn't have the experience. The audience seems more professional than her.

Ah. They've trotted out her family. That works. What a cute baby.

McCain just came out. Oh, what a relief to see him. Here is a pro who belongs at this level.

Palin is a fish out of water, more like a city council member than a governor. I guess Alaska is pretty low-key and local. There's no way this woman could handle beltway politics.


ETA: Republican bloggers say that she seemed off-balance because her teleprompter broke. That story is bullcrap.

[identity profile] skipmcgee.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
That community organizer line really annoyed me. SO. MUCH.

The whole thing was so, so negative - and I do get the need for 'red meat'. Still bothered me.

[identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
It was very petty and small-minded. But I was watching her, and then watched the crowd. She laid an egg.

[identity profile] skipmcgee.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what worries me. The way the whole crowd laughed.... It seemed divisive in a way that makes me proudly uncomfortable. I saw a clip of, of all people, D.L. Hughley on Larry King Live, and he said the RNC made him think "I don't know if I can vote for this group, because they don't seem to know or care about someone different from them; this is an America I don't know". That's what her speech made me think of.

[identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well... it's a convention. The whole point is to show the unity of the party, so everyone's going to say their lines and laugh at the right points. The glue holding the Republican party together is derision aimed at the enemy. That's what they've got.

It's a pretty weak glue. It's not enough to win on.