A quick diary but one that I hope will be helpful in framing some memes moving forward from that speech.
I think we can all agree that it started unsteadily, lingered too long on cutesy biography, got rolling with some punchy sneers at Obama, and ended in a bathetic paean to MCCAIN our LEADER.
What will most people remember about it tomorrow, or the next day? How can we frame that memory for them to help them find the essence of the politician they met on TV tonight?
By reminding them that they met Spiteful Sarah and listened to her Speech to Nowhere.
From start to finish, there was a lot of hate in that speech. Now, I have a soft spot for haters--they have a lot of energy, wit, and spirit. But if you're going to hate on something, hate on something REAL! And above all, don't deride what you don't understand.
Why was she sneering at community organizing? At Obama's memoirs? Did she have any idea what she was talking about? No. She was reading a Bush speechwriter's speech.
She was just being spiteful, for the sake of spiting her opponent.
So the speech was about nothing. It got us nowhere. No substance--just what she could get. Just like when she got Alaska a big pot of money to build a bridge to nowhere, and even bought the t-shirt.
No substance, just spite.
Spiteful Sarah and her Speech to Nowhere.
Or what's your meme?
(UPDATE) Worth mentioning I think that it emerges in the discussion that highlighting Palin's kind words about Obama from earlier this year could be fantastic fodder for the push-back. Sarah, what changed to make you so spiteful?
(UPDATE #2) Lots of comparisons to Pat Buchanan 1992 on dKos tonight which I think is apt: one great example is ChrisR's "Masturbation" diary ...