Republicans Make History With Their Nominees

Published by Pamela Gentry on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 12:24 pm.

Gov. Sarah Palin addresses the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. - Sept. 3, 2008 (AP)By Pamela Gentry, Senior Political Producer

(ST. PAUL, Minn.) Sept. 4, 2008 – Republicans made history Wednesday night when they nominated the oldest first-time presidential candidate in history, 72-year-old Sen. John McCain, and their party’s first woman vice presidential candidate, 44-year-old Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Delivering her speech in the national prime-time spotlight, Palin attacked her Democratic rivals as Washington insiders, out of touch and incapable of bringing about change. Palin promised that it would be she and McCain who would bring “real change” to Washington.

The fired-up crowd at the Xcell Center repeatedly interrupted Palin with cheers and uproarious standing ovations throughout her speech.  

Palin, who has a special-needs son of her own, couched her party as the one that cares about such children, understands the difficulty of parenting a child out of wedlock and what it means to keep American safe amid the threats of global terrorism.  

“Victory in Iraq is finally in sight; he wants to forfeit,” Palin said of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.

“Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.

“Government is too big; he wants to grow it.”

The crowd ate it up.

But while the speech was relentless in its assault on Obama, it offered little in the way of what a Republican administration would do to define the difference. 

Palin’s speech was one of  two highlights for the relatively lackluster convention so far. Delegates also lined up for a roll call of the states to nominate their  presidential pick Arizona senator McCain.

As Palin spoke, network cameras seemed transfixed  on the vice presidential candidate’s 17-year-old, unmarried, pregnant daughter, Bristol, who held hands with her 18-year-old boyfriend, Levi Johnson.  Johnson the self-proclaimed “red-neck” hockey player, looked tense and uncomfortable throughout the speech.

“Our family has the same ups and downs as any other, the same challenges and the same joys,” Palin said, after introducing her family.

She saved the barbs for Obama. “In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change,” she said.

While her speech was filled with tough talk and delivered well to a friendly crowd, the next test will be her first encounter with the national press corps and her first debate with Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden. 

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Ray Said on

I read some of the comments in regards in Support of Sarah Palin as well as reciting her comments.

May I say this; The backbone of representation in the Black, Latino, Asian, and other minority communities were from Community Organizing. Without Community Organization we wouldn’t have a NAACP, SCLC, Civil Liberties Unions, Neighborhood Watch programs, and many many more. As for Mr. Washington talking about “all they do is collect money” Apparently my brother, you haven’t seen the world like some of us. There are forms of Community Organizations called “Non-Profit” which they dont make profits at all and proceeds go towards the needy, less fortunate, victims, homeless, so on, and so on. The Civil Rights movement grew from Community Organization. We are blessed to have the opportunity to voice our opinions here, unlike in 1950’s and early 60’s. Thanks to Community Organizations minorities finally have some representation in this country. However, we have a long way to go. We cannot stop now, we must keep hope alive. As for those who are still fixated on her speech. YOU ARE SCARED AND BRAINWASHED!!



Ms. B Said on

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE , VOTE
You have to do your job.. 2 keep your job. McCain is full of Bulls**t, his old as*, don’t even know how many houses he Own, How does he know ANYTHING about the PEOPLE, PALIN… BOO that all I’m going to speak on her… OBAMA/ BINDEN is that change I need, for myself, my children.. Please vote, EVERYONE OBAMA/BINDEN ALL THE WAY, WE can do it!!!



Saynit Said on

I do believe that Ms. Palin’s family life should be commented on because she put them on front street.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08



over40andfabulous Said on

Palin McCain=SCARY!

I’m not a republican but I would rather he had picked up Huckabee. I’m not a woman hater, because I am a woman, but I don’t want a woman in the Whitehouse at all. Lawd, help us all if MCCain/Palin win this election!

Women get a little power and we run wild…just look at Pelosi. She has been basically worthless. The first thing she did was take impeachment off the table for Bush/Cheney. Plain STUPID!



karen Said on

I think Palin should have to go through the samething all others have to go through. Let them put her private life on front street!! She can’t hide behind McCain always. I hope Bush/Cheney are impeached!! We as people that want REAL CHANGE need to register to VOTE and get out and VOTE!!! And we need to encourage everyone else who maynot be a registered voter to correct that. I believe change for the better will come with OBAMA! I not mad at McCain because he was the one who made that stupid choice, not the DEMOCRATES!! I think that will end up to be a plus for the DEMOCRATES. My grandmother used to say “If you give a person enough rope he/she will hang themselves” Let’s give McCain/Palin all the Rope they need!! I was reading different articles on the net, not only does Palin tell lies about her accomplishments. McCain not to truthfull either, he ssid he was a FIGHTER PILOT not true! He was a BOMBER PILOT!! Maybe the old age disease has come upon him. DON’T NEED THAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HOW CAN YOU CHANGE SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN APART OF FOR OVER 20 YEARS? AND A MAJOR PLAYER FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS.



ljr Said on

Sarah Palin only defined the division of this nation. With her sly nasty remarks. She can only make things worse. Shame on you Palin, that’s why your daughter is pregnant. Oh she made the choice to keep her illegit baby. She going to marry the young boy. What are you thinking. You speak with hate. You’re so sly and slick and underhanded. Speak on the facts and stop trying to make your party laugh at Obama. What are you going to do as a VP.. Can’t wait for the debates you and your running mate are going to get torn up. Who has the last laugh?



ljr Said on

Have you thought about the money spent for these campaigns? If everyone wants the best for American then we should just have a convention and no party, just people running. Shame on you Palin for running at this time. You have a special needs baby, (that I heard was your daughters) Your situation, teenage sex, is public because young girls are looking at this and are influenced. You are being investigated for a lot of crap. Your place is at home trying to get things together, not parading over the US with McCain to try to get the american people out of the mess your party got us into.



khrish Said on

I find it absolutely amazing that Sen. Obama has been on the trail for 18 months and people still talk about “we don’t really know him” but the self proclaimed “pit bull with lipstick” (no offense to pit bulls) arrived on the scene a day before the GOP convention and everybody loves her and knows everything she stands for; proving that it has nothing to do with knowing Sen.Obama that makes it difficult to decide to vote for him. I watched the entire GOP convention. It was so sad the way McCain told the people how he was sorry and wanted to do something to help them losing their “real estate investments” Duh! What about the people who have lost their homes, is he not planning to help them? I was totally sickened by the lies that were told and especially by the lipstick pit bull. No. 1 she did not sell the Governors plane on Ebay. She put the plane up for sale on Ebay twice and it did not sell. She sold it to a campaign supporter and she sold it at a loss. She was comparing her job as Mayor to Community Organizer but she never did get around to listing her duties. She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it and did take some of the money for her state. I have been the mother of a special needs person for 37 years and I have never known any benefits offered by the Repubs.; if anything they have always cut back funding for such things. She didn’t talk about the librarian that she promised to fire because she would not remove books from the library shelves that offended her (Palin) And as a mother, to use her daughter and her mentally disabled child by parading them on stage for votes is the most vile and selfish thing I have yet to see….and this is supposed to be the party of VALUES…whose values…those that are made as the situation allows? When has the Republican Party done anything to help support teens who are pregnant or single teen age parents? I’ll wait. Then to milk the situation even more; they ?#*%*~ the “baby daddy” out of Alaska from his hockey team and bring him to the convention and march him across the stage as if he is a proud father to-be and happy bridegroom. What a joke. With that website that he had set up, before they took it down; he is a self proclaimed “redneck” who wants to “kick ass”. Please! Does that sound like someone who is about to do the right thing and marry some little girl that he had a good time with? This is going to be a “high tech” shotgun wedding and you all know it. And then they tell the media that they can’t talk about it because it’s off limits. They put it within limits when they brought the girl there and had her on stage holding the baby. Most people would have left their daughter at home; not parade her out to be pointed at and whispered about by the convention attendee because they would have respected the privacy of their children. If this whole thing had been done by one of the Obama girls,or any other nominee’s daughter of color, were they old enough; the whole event would have been a tv mini series by now. Michle Malkin even referred to Mrs. Obama as a “baby mama”; but I bet she won’t refer to this little girl in that way. Because all of a sudden the media is scared, even FOX NEWS. Imagine that.

Oh,I’m waiting for someone to loop that tape with her attending and participating in the service where the minister talks about Israel and how it deserves what it gets because they are disbelievers in Jesus. I want to hear the tape where she welcomes the group that wants to Alaska to leave the United States; the part where she welcomes them and hopes for their success and how she hates the American Government. I want that looped. I’m waiting for all this to come out. I am waiting for the media to retaliate, as they would have against Sen. Obama, that they are not allowed to interview her…She can’t be ready on day one, because she is not even ready after the speech that the “Bush speech makers wrote for her. With all the ranting from her, Guillani and Thompson and the rest of them, they said nothing about what they will do to help America. All they did was rail against Sen. Obama. I can’t believe that people will belief such baloney without checking it….but then we are Americans who have lived under a system for 8 years that relishes ignorance. It was one big joke. And did you notice all the rich folk that were sitting there laughing and enjoying the fact that they had found someone who was just stupid enough to say all the things they had been wanting to say for months….so they wrote it down and let the dumb “redneck” say it. Those were not her words remember…those were the words of the speech writer and they forgot to list her duties as a mayor that was far more important than Sen. Obama’s. She’s more qualified than a man who was the head of the Harvard Law Review, a constitutional Law professor for twelve years at a prestigious university,a state senator, a National Senator….crack heads, Please! If you believe that, I have a bridge in California that I want to sell you.



khrish Said on

Oh, yeah; I, too, want to know what “Victory” we are going to enjoy out of Iraq? Win….win what? We’re in debt up the grits. Somebody tell me, what it is we are going to win?

He can’t talk to Dr.Rice about being his running mate because it seems from her responses and those of Powell; they plan to vote for Sen. Obama.
The Pit Bull’s drilling doesn’t even take into consideration that T Boone Pickens…But hey, she’s smarter than Sen. Obama and she’s smarter doesn’t need to listen to anyone who’s been in oil all his life, tell her what to do. She has all the answers. My land, she’s been a hockey mom, a mayor and the governor of Alaska so she knows everything and can bring all the “right solutions” to the table. After all, the first thing she did, as a working mother, was take two jobs away from working folk….she fired the chef and the airplane pilot. Who’s cooking, and who is giving the extra care to a special needs baby? Who’s bright idea was it to have the daughter carry the baby on stage to hide her stomach? That’s what first called my attention…I’m wondering; why isn’t the father holding the baby? Usually if the man is the prominent one on stage the mother has the children; then I finally found out why the father wasn’t carrying the baby. Note that he was carrying the baby at the convention because all was out of the bag.\

And by the way, I am not buying that story about water breaking on stage during a speech and an airline accepting the risk of flying a woman, in labor on an 8 hour flight from Texas to Alaska because she doesn’t want to have a baby in Texas; and then return to work 3 days later? As I said, I have a bridge in California that I want to sell you. LOL



jimmy34 Said on

omg…the sexy woman seems i have seen her,oh…remember her now, seems she is playing on tall dating site :” http://Tallmingle.com “,but she is not tall ,why???



Angelic777 Said on

Khrish, well done. You put the icing on the cake, served truth down every lying tongue. I love you for speaking up and out. Now! If we can get those in denial to stand for truth.
It is so difficult to believe people would want to suffer the way this country has for the last 8 years in beyond me. I want change, I want what Senator Obama has pledged. Not because he is a black man, because he is a man I believe will bring the change this country needs. It will take him 4 years to dig us out of the 8 years BUSH and his Adminstration has sunk us too. Obama/Biden 08′



khrish Said on

Miss Ann, Obama does not stammer because he’s not using a teleprompter or because he’s not brillant; he is meticulous in any respond he has to make because he knows that he doesn’t dare make a mistake. the media is just waiting for one mistake so that they can get it out to the public quick, fast and in a hurry. They have thrown everything and everyone who has ever spoken to him in his way, yet he still rises. I find it really funny how they keep trying to connect him with the guy who did the bombing when Sen. Obama was only 8 years old. I thought, well crap, if that man is so dangerous that even to serve on a board with him bears investigating, why in the hell ain’t he in prison? has there been a mis-carriage of justice? A man that bad and that dangerous to know, how the hell is American allowing him to walk the streets not to mention, serve on boards. Obviously they didn’t think that he was as bad as they make him seem….It’s just that Sen. Obama, who never bombed anything and who has been a model citizen is “bad” because he served on a board with this man. I don’t get it!!!!do you?

Oh, but can you believe they have the media in her hometown and nobody is talking. That, to me, is quite strange. She’s a politician, not everyone could have liked her….so why are they singing only her praise…could it be they are afraid? They say she has an 84% positive rating in her state; why is that other 16% saying nothing? There are skeletons there and I can hear the bones rattle. But someone is going to talk soon and then all hell will break loose. It’s going to be bigger than the hurricane that devastated New Orleans. There is a story here, believe me, and it’s a hellva story. The GOP have taken on the job to deter this investigation of the brother-in-law thing and I’m certain that they will try to hold it off until after the election…. I tell you, I keep listening to these poll that show McCain up by almost 10 points since the convention and I keep emailing the stations wanting to know from whom this information is taken because I have been voting since the age of 18 and I am now a Senior citizen and no one has ever asked me anything about voting. It’s sort of like the Nielson rating….never been asked to have a box at my house…yet they know just which shows everybody is watching. Sure do hope that have all these voting places ready with proper equipment and all in good shape; because I don’t think America can afford “hanging chads” or anything else to malfunction for this election.



seschris Said on

Khrish,

Very well done. Tell it like it is. Straight no chaser!



Bobby Said on

The question for BET bloggers, name this candidate

Who came into the presidential race as a so called, “Maverick, taken on the special interests, the good-ole-boys, a reformer, and want to change the way washington does business.”

This candidates record consists of executive experience neighboring a foreign country, very religious, pro-life, and commander in chief of their states’ national guard?

A. George Bush in 2000
B. Sarah Palin in 2008
C. All of the above
d. None of the Above.



MO Said on

To all the people going for Mcain/Palin need to sit they ass down somewhere!!!! Obama is the man, and if you black voting for Mcain you need to sit yo ass down too and read more about your Black History!!!!!



San for OBOMA Said on

The Bottom Line is who does the American People want who cares who McCain picks for VP.We have to realize that name calling is not needed here all we need is a fair race and voting booth to cast our valid opinion. Then we will get our due.

OBOMA FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Francesca Said on

Its crazy how the republican party criticizes Obama to be misleading and out of touch when through out Palin’s entire speech she came across to me as just talk…Neither McCain or Palin discussed real issues, neither touched base on specific changes they plan to bring…Instead they down play senator Obama…I see nothing amusing about Phalin and I don’t applaud her for anything, for she has done nothing or said anything to help convince the American people that she is the ONE. She tries to talk a good talk and play an intimidating role that aint too convincing. America needs real change, not representatives with big egos who want the fame and recognition of the white house, and that’s what I see in Palin… sorry to be so negative but it’s the truth



JUST WONDERING? Said on

I WAS JUST WONDERING…IF MCCAIN/PALIN GET THE ELECTION. HOW MANY SECRET SERVICE PEOPLE WOULD PALIN NEED? A FEW FOR HER,2 FOR HER HUSBAND,2 EACH FOR MINOR CHILDREN,4 FOR PREGNANT DAUGHTER AND BOYFRIEND AND SEVERAL FOR THE SON THAT’S GOING TO IRAQ. WILL THE TAXPAYERS HAVE TO FOOT THAT BILL? AND LET ME NOT FORGET THEIR PARENTS WILL NEED THEM ALSO. I THINK HER FAMILY ALONE WOULD GET AROUND 25-30 SECRET SERVICE PEOPLE. I THINK IT’S FUNNY DON’T YOU? HOW MANY DO YOU OR I NEED FOR PROTECTION, THE WAY CRIME IS NOW. I FORGOT WE AREN’T IMPORTANT!! WE JUST NEED TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND PAY TAXES.



khrish Said on

And do you notice how she just talks straight away to Sen. Obama as if she is the one who is running for President. Cause she really thinks that she is just as qualified as Obama and more qualified than McCain. This chick thinks a lot of herself. You know if she will use her own children, she will use McCain. She is proud to send her son off to Iraq, even after the facts have come out; but then chances are, she doesn’t even know that they have. I would be pulling every string I could to keep my son out of harms way; but this makes her look good and gives her something to brag about. She’s getting rid of the daughter and a son so that she now will only need to deal with 3 children which gives her more time for her career. Careful the baby, the baby will need institutionalized after a while cause this chick is the pit bull with lipstick. She’s already told us that. She can travel around he country with McCain to draw a crowd but she can’t be interviewed by the media yet. She can say anything she wants and nobody can challenge her on it; that way it sticks in the minds of those audiences and then the press will have to try to clear it up after the fact. This dum-dum thinks that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were government agencies that’s how astute she is on the economy. I certainly hope that Biden and McCain don’t let the day end without raising that issue. Someone’s got to take her down a peg and put her in her place. This is one of those who takes a foot when you offer an inch. I have to believe that taking the high road as Sen. Obama and his assistants have been doing will work; but I was more of a Malcolm person….You have to speak to a person in a language they can understand. They are out there lying to the American people and laughing behind their backs talking about how well it went over and how great the speech was. None are so blind as those who will not see. Don’t be sorry to be negative because they have made this the “mean season” with their rampant lying. That’s how little respect they have for people who are hurting the most; to take advantage of the fact that they aren’t following the facts. Bush, Cheney and Rove and all of that crew needs to pass go and be sent straight to jail. All of these people’s families have been torn apart through death or maiming and people coming back with no proper medical care and no jobs and they suckers paying their friends to hire people and pay them more than our service men and women who are struggling to keep their heads above water..for a war that built around scheming and plotting and lying to the country. They will walk away to their homes with pockets full of oil money while the rest the majority of us suffer as we work to pick up the pieces and pay for this war and the loans from China. Then pit bull and McCain stand there and tell these people they will not raise their taxes….you know he means the rich just like Bush did…and the rest of us will suffer the burden to pay for their fortunes. Cause any fool knows that someone has to pay for this war among other things and taxes are going to foot the bill. Only under republican rules only the working middle class will be assigned that duty. They ought to go straight to f******jail. Unless you are very rich, you’ve got to be stupid to even consider voting in the same crap.



JUST WONDERING? Said on

IT’S ME AGAIN, TTHE PITBULL WITH LIPSTICK FINALLY AGREED TO AN INTERVIEW WITH CBS I BELIEVE. THAT WILL BE THE SHOW TO WATCH!!!! I GUESS THE REPUBLICANS FINALLY GOT HER UP TO SPEED ON SOME OF THEIR BULLSH..T THEY WANTED HER TO REMEMBER. GO VOTE! GO VOTE! GO VOTE!!! THEY THINK WE ARE STUPID!!