
Sen. John McCain’s strategists hoped that Palin would mobilize women and tilt the election in their favor. It didn’t happen.
The demise of Alaska’s Ted Stevens spells real trouble for the Republicans in the Senate.
But lest you think Palin had given up McCarthy’s ghost, she also indulged in some more casual red-baiting of Obama.
We haven’t got time for Sarah “Operation Distraction” Palin. John McCain, or as we call him in our house, God Forbid, answered a question about Spain with all the loopiness of Miss Teen South Carolina when asked why one-fifth of Americans could not locate the U.S. on a map. Such as.
John McCain gave a decent acceptance speech. It was gracious and affecting. But when you look closely at his proposals, there wasn’t much there but the same old, same old.
The only thing Sarah Palin proved with her speech Wednesday night was that she could do long derision. She was hopelessly short on ideas to improve people’s everyday lives.
The Republican National Convention may be the place where John McCain officially accepts his party’s nomination. But it’s Sarah Palin’s show.
Despite the so-called “enthusiasm gap,” delegates here are pretty fired up about McCain and Palin. The mainstream media and even some McCain advisers have been saying McCain’s pick was an attempt to woo Hillary supporters. But it’s McCain attempt to court the Christian conservatives within the party.
Even though it was blazing hot, the day seemed promising at first.
John McCain has been dropping an awful lot of praise for Hillary Clinton into his speeches lately.
So bad was John McCain's speech on Tuesday night, even the pundits on Fox conceded that Obama sounded a lot better, and that McCain would surely "improve," as Fred Barnes put it.
When John McCain went before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on June 2, he could not have been more obsequious to this group that has done more than any other in the United States