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I watched the RNC last night.  I had to stop watching the RNC last night.  Granted, I stopped after Sarah Palin’s speech, and the brief remarks from Senator Mccain.  And while there have been rumors floating around the past few days about Palin’s experience, family life and even her selection as Mccain’s possible future Vice President, last night’s spectacle did little to clarify her positions, her record, her experience and her values.  And she wasn’t wearing a flag pin.In my opinion, Sarah Palin did not present herself adequately.  She spent more time ridiculing Obama’s past as a “community organizer” (I put that in quotes because I am almost positive she did too) than excoriating her own past.  Her family was a jumble.  Bristol, the 17 year old mother to be who has been dragged through the tabloids and the news, was almost glued to her baby daddy’s hand.  Palin’s parents were cute.  That’s pretty much what I got out of the speech.

I think Mccain made a mistake picking Palin.  His one true call-out for Obama was the whole experience thing.  Mccain got to say Obama was an inexperienced junior Senator.  Now he can’t or he’ll look hypocritical; especially since Joe Biden joined Obama on the ticket.  How can he justify calling Obama inexperienced and simultaneously excuse his own running mate from that criticism?  This is a giant loss for Mccain, the whole finger point dance and song of “you’re a youngin”. 

The offering of such bland lines as “we need energy independence” showed Palin’s weakness.  Apparently the solution to our energy DEPENDENCE rests on builing oil and natural gas pipelines while drilling for oil in Alaska?  Giving oil revenues back to the people is an interesting method and it sounds good.  But what about investing that money into technology that might help us truly distance ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil?  Did this woman not get the memo that oil is a non-renewable resource?  This speech was weak.  It showed us her ignorance. 

I could really go on and on about Palin.  Did Mccain really pick her to attact former Clinton supporters?  What does that say about his priorities, that he’d rather pander to democrats than republicans?  Are these women falling for it? 

Watching Palin hold her little Downs baby to look like a right to life champion freaked me out more than a little.