Nightly Ramble:The Choice Before Us

The bus is leaving and is starting on it’s 60 day journey, so let’s get to it.
After watching all the candidates, and after thinking intently about this for some time, now, I am to the conclusion that John McCain/Sarah

Can anyone explain to me the difference between the role Obama claims he played in his ‘community organizer’ days, and the role of “community organizer” Al Sharpton, and “community organizer” Jesse Jackson?

The good news, the bad news, John McCain was well McCain.   He is not changing who he is.

Funny thing, McCain is seventy-two and his biography has no blank chapters.   BO is but forty-seven, but his bio is full of

Someone was apparently reading MichaelW over at Q&O yesterday when he suggested playing “Barracuda” for Sarah Palin. Of course now, The Wilson sisters are doing the cease and desist number.

Ya know, ladies, I say this as a longtime

I’ll have more to say in the morning, after a few hours of shuteye.  At first blush, though, I think he did OK. McCain has never been the strongest speaker anyway, so delivery was about as strong as one would

OK, I suppose not many of you missed it. Ratings are in… and 37 million us us were watching  last night… but just in case you want to see it again, John Hawkins Of Right Wing News and Conservative Grapevine

Lots of ground to cover, today, but too little time to do it in..

• Interesting news; apparently that brilliant speech from Palin last night was genuine… the teleprompter for at least part of the speech was broken…. as David has

Breaking news from Erick Erckson, Red State,

Halfway through Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling

In case you’re curious, the transcript of Palin’s speech is availble here.

I have the habit of noting small, perhaps indicative things that some others might not notice. While the speech was great,  and we’ll be going over it repeatedly here and around the ‘sphere, there are quiet pictures that stay with

It’s remarkable, the lack of reaction from the left to last night’s speech. Take a look for yourself at 7am Eastern time today at the lack coverage of it. Particularly, take note of how few leftie blogs utter a

Well, she hit this one out of the park.

When I saw the early release stuff coming down, this morning, I knew it was going to be a barnstormer, and I hoped her delivery was going to be up to

• I find it interesting that the press is so busy bashing Sarah Palin’s 17 year old kid for a pregnancy, when it spent over two years hiding from sight the story of John Edwards ‘love child’, don’t you?
• The left

Bit is on top of the BO;s campaign attempt to smear Sarah Palin.  The MSM simply can not be trusted to report the news.  Brian Ross, and Len Tepper, reporting this as if it were legitimate straight news:

“It’s

ABC’s Jake Tapper is reporting this morning another Democrat Point has been exposed as a lie:

Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that regardless of the impression given to members of the Alaskan Independence