The Fly on The Wall

How do these politicians and pundits -really think?

in the vein of "viral" blogging..From Talking Points Memo

Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.

(cut away)

Peggy Noonan: Yeah.

Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --

PN: It's over.

MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PN: Saw Kay this morning.

CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --

MM: They're all bummed out.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --

CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.

MM: I totally agree.

PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.

MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.

CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

MM: Yeah.

Go to the TPM link to check out the video with the live mics. If only these guys would mess up more often!

As the Palin Turns

OK. So, Palin's not out yet. They probably cannot turn her out now since to do so would be to admit defeat and bad choices. But, it can't escape our notice that the campaign has taken on a SOAP quality. Just today the McCain camp went on record to ask the press to stop picking on poor Palin and her preggo unwed daughter. Also just today McCain staged a huge press conference featuring himself conferring his mighty touch upon the boyfriend of said daughter.

I guess since it's hands off of the daughter, it's still OK to lay hands on the boyfriend

Palin's Painful Flameout

The Republican vice presidential nominee is flaming out so spectacularly today, she could easily be confused as a part of last weeks Democratic fireworks display held at the end of their own convention.

From TPM:

On the same day that the Republicans were forced to dramatically cut back their convention activities, the Palin Meltdown unfolded with extraordinary speed. It's worth pondering the totality of what happened today, in a mere half day...

So much of this came out in just half a day, today, that it can't plausibly be considering anything but a true flame out in the most partisanly gratifying way (for the Dems, of course). I read somewhere that if McCain and Pailin lose the election that Pailin will be forgotten as most VP nominees are.

Not True.

She is going as she came in - with a bang.

Pailin and McCain

it's 'beyond the Pailin'
What's Pailin' you, John McCain?
On his choice for VP pick, he's Pailin badly
Pailin down on the job.
He has a shovel and a Pailin hand


OK, that's all i have for now :)

Sara Palin

The WTF heard round the world.

Obama's Speech

After watching the convention and Barack's nomination acceptance speech, i have to say i think they nailed it on this one. If the Dems can get the themes and messages behind this convention out to the mainstream they will nail the Presidential election. Barack Obama touched on his critics charges as well as outlining what we have to do as a nation... and he spoke of uniting the nation instead of continuing along the same tired old partisan lines.

The Democratic Convention

While i watched the Democratic Convention i enjoyed myself. However, PBS insisted on ruining my experience by their running play by play commentary by Mark Shields and David Brookes. I kept wondering why they felt they needed to spruce up the evening by spoon feeding us their "analysis." If they are so objective, so trusted by Americans, it boggles that they don't just let us decide for ourselves whether the Democrats had a good night or not.

This just goes to show that PBS' Newshour may the the most trusted American MSM source but these days the bar for them is incredibly low.