tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30510558.post2423624997362397462..comments2023-06-10T05:20:16.484-07:00Comments on Here's To Your Health, America: Country FirstLHwriteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890891351498768757noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30510558.post-60746507400564658482008-09-05T08:11:00.000-07:002008-09-05T08:11:00.000-07:00I agree with the good theater and I feel Palin's s...I agree with the good theater and I feel Palin's speech was not quite as good than either Clinton, but she shined more because there were low expectations. You don't see what McCain did but he wants to be seen as a reformer by railing against a failed administration. He certainly could not embrace them and hope to win in November. however, his voting record and rhetoric the last 4 years is proof that the McCain of the convention is a very new incarnation, who thought he would have other things to run on just 2 years ago. For him to repudiate Bush now, will soon be considered the biggest flip-flop of them all because his record and speeches show he was against Bush--before he was for Bush--before he turned against Bush again. Talk about political expediency. Palin too, as a staunch conservative, will soon be exposed by the public record as being much more aligned with Bush than she liked to portray at the convention. There was a time when McCain could have run as a Republican reformer, but as I have tried to point out many times, those days are long gone, after he was beat up by Bush in 2000, actually.LHwriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890891351498768757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30510558.post-60450868171291437472008-09-05T08:02:00.000-07:002008-09-05T08:02:00.000-07:00I take it you were not impressed with the RNC. Bu...I take it you were not impressed with the RNC. But as political theatre, there was some brilliance. <BR/><BR/>McCain, not know to be a good orator, hired Sarah Palin. She then gave the best political speech of either convention. <BR/><BR/>He also did something very odd last night...in his acceptance speech he attacked Republicans for their 'failures.' I've not seen that in all my adult life [from either party]. He seem to be putting on notice those who doubt he will be a reformer. <BR/><BR/>In the same breath, he successfully stole Obama's change rhetoric. <BR/><BR/>As political theatre, this is almost as good as the Super Bowl.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com