Finished now. I think she did pretty good actually. She came off as a bit condescending and shrill but that's to be expected. All in all, she can read a teleprompter with a speech written by someone else very well.
A very good speech by Palin. She met and exceeded the bar, IMO. She needed to energize the GOP base, and I'm sure she didn't hurt that cause one bit. The only things I found objectionable were her tone (as in voice, but that's just me) and that she was too negative at times. But hey, sometimes negative works.
The details are scarce right now. McCain campaign is threatening to sue already so they struck back pretty quick. I think they alluded to it in the print magazine only because there is no story online yet. Here is what I read earlier. From Washington Post: McCain Aide Rips Tabloid Report By Howard Kurtz ST. PAUL -- John McCain's top strategist today denounced a report in the National Enquirer, hours after it was published, as "disgraceful." "The smearing of the Palin family must end," spokesman Steve Schmidt said in an e-mail distributed to journalists. The Enquirer, which exposed John Edwards's extramarital affair, cited unnamed sources in alleging that the Alaska governor had an affair with a business associate of her "fisherman husband," Todd Palin -- the story doesn't say when -- and that he found out and severed relations with the man. "The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Governor Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false," Schmidt said. "It is a vicious lie. Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country. She is a proven leader, an accomplished executive, a champion for ethics reform, and a fighter against corruption. The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public servant are a disgrace. The American people will reject it." The mainstream media might well have ignored the unsubstantiated allegation, as they did for eight months in the Edwards saga. But the McCain's team quick response in defending the Arizona senator's running mate had the effect, intentionally or otherwise, of giving the story more prominence. Schmidt, who told The Washington Post Tuesday that the news media are "on a mission to destroy" Palin, lumped the media and tabloids together in his blast against the Enquirer. The supermarket tabloid also deals with the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, which the governor acknowledged Monday. The tabloid quotes an insider as saying that the governor wanted to announce that Bristol was expecting and had set a wedding date before McCain went public with his vice-presidential choice. But, the story says, the baby's father, high school student Levi Johnston, balked at the plan.
Wow. If it IS true (guess we'll have to wait), it will destroy McCain's campaign. I wonder if this was the October Surprise delivered early?
Keep dreaming. When the moonbats are grasping for salvation from the National Enquirer, you know they're in full-blown panic mode. (Not that you're a moonbat or anything....)
No one is making up anything. Everyone is reporting the FACTS. And only the FACTS. The right-turds are pulling the same "moral outrage" nonesense they did with Kerry. And the funny thing is, it's a strategy that seems to work on the liberals and the media to shut them up. Everyone should be demanding a birth certificate of her last child. Or at the very least a DNA sample. There is no way she was carrying that child.