Ok, I didn't watch the Republican convention speeches in real time; I get up at about 4 am each morning.
But I did catch two of the speeches on youtube.
And I'll admit it: I enjoyed Fred Thompson's speech; repeated throat clearing and all.
But Joe Leiberman just hit it out of the park...
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Here is what our ex-Democrat had to say:
Transcript is here.
Here is where Senator Lieberman hit it out of the park:
What you can expect from John McCain as president is precisely what he has done this week [...]
EXACTLY!!!
What we got from McSame McCain this week was either
- A complete cave in to the extremists in his party or
- A poorly thought out choice made solely on "his gut instinct" with no thought given to it at all.
Senator Lieberman hit is out of the park here.
For my take on Thompson:
Transcript
My reaction: I actually enjoyed listening to this speech. Ironically, one of my liberal friends told me the same thing.
For the most part, Thompson gave a rather graphic account of what McCain had to endure as a prisoner of war. That part was well worth listening to.
He also gave some standard "conservative cultural references" and, yeah, I found myself chuckling a bit at some of these.
I’ll respond to a few of his lines here:
Let’s be clear ... the selection of Gov. Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic.
Uh, no...actually, some of us fear that she will be pulled from the ticket. It is people like Dick Morris that are trying to rally people behind her nomination.
People like Peggy Noonan are saying that this is a terrible pick.
Frankly Sir, most on my side are delighted.
She has run a municipality [...]
Yep, a town of 7000. Obama has over 12,000 people working in his campaign; Palin maybe had 50 working for her when she was mayor. :)
Now, being a POW certainly doesn’t qualify anyone to be president.
Sir, I couldn’t agree with you more! Too bad that your side attacked General Clark when he said the same thing.
The Senate has always had more than its share of smooth talkers.
Like John F. Kennedy? Oh yes, we’ve had some not-so-smooth talkers in the Executive Branch, such as George W. Bush. How is that working out? ;)
Of course, Redstate Update loved the speech: