Inside Scoop
Half of my office is in Minneapolis at the moment, and I spoke to an insider last night after Palin's speech. They wanted to know if it was as big a hit on TV as it was on the floor, and I assured them it was. Apparently, they had also spoken to Karl Rove, the Master of Evil, earlier in the day. Rove had said that Palin was very accomplished with a teleprompter because of her previous life as a sportscaster, and that would make a huge difference. Any Mormon who has endured an anonymous Seventy giving a General Conference speech can tell you how rare good teleprompter readers are.
Rove also said McCain really wanted Lieberman, but the guy who talked him out of it was Lieberman himself. I don't know if that means that Lieberman refused the position outright or if he just convinced McCain otherwise, but it speaks well for Lieberman and says plenty about McCain. If you need to be convinced, watch Palin's speech side-by-side with Lieberman's tortured litany of McCain's lefty tendencies, and realize that McCain, if he had followed his heart, would have picked the latter. Yes, I dig Palin, yet McCain remains loathsome to me.
RobotontheToilet makes the comment in yesterday's post that Palin's speech is bad for Mitt. He's right. Mitt needs to position himself as Reagan '76, but his speech, while sturdy and admirable, didn't share the same we-nominated-the-wrong-dude gravitas that was present when Reagan addressed the '76 convention after his defeat. On the flip side, nobody remembers that, because Palin's tour de force overshadowed everything else.
The future of the GOP, for better or for worse, lies with Sarah Palin, not Mitt Romney.
Rove also said McCain really wanted Lieberman, but the guy who talked him out of it was Lieberman himself. I don't know if that means that Lieberman refused the position outright or if he just convinced McCain otherwise, but it speaks well for Lieberman and says plenty about McCain. If you need to be convinced, watch Palin's speech side-by-side with Lieberman's tortured litany of McCain's lefty tendencies, and realize that McCain, if he had followed his heart, would have picked the latter. Yes, I dig Palin, yet McCain remains loathsome to me.
RobotontheToilet makes the comment in yesterday's post that Palin's speech is bad for Mitt. He's right. Mitt needs to position himself as Reagan '76, but his speech, while sturdy and admirable, didn't share the same we-nominated-the-wrong-dude gravitas that was present when Reagan addressed the '76 convention after his defeat. On the flip side, nobody remembers that, because Palin's tour de force overshadowed everything else.
The future of the GOP, for better or for worse, lies with Sarah Palin, not Mitt Romney.
posted by Elder Samuel Bennett | 11:46 AM
2 Comments:
I saw on the news that she asked where her copy of the speech was beforehand. The staff hurried and got her one which was a good thing because her teleprompter actually went out at the beginning of her speech. You would never had known! She rocked!
I'm reading conflicting reports on that. Politico states that her prompter never went out, while others say it ran too fast.
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