Politico is reporting advance info on the contents of tonights speech:

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Good lines there.

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Andy
Cynical Optimist

ill go with what she says. the liberal froth and foam media will twist it anyway. I guess.. i mean I never listen to em. and I hope she's as good as Thompson was last night. rip em a brand new asshole !!!!!

This is the problem with attacking her before her speech. She now has a huge forum in which she can answer each and every criticism. It'll end up helping the McCain/Palin ticket.

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Obama Low Effort Wealth Spread. I can't believe it's not earned!

I hope she whips out a 12 gauge............

She seems more like a M-4 type to me.

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Andy
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Although, you know. Obama said "if they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun." Maybe McCain is smarter than everyone thought. Maybe Sarah is an up close and personal knife fighter.

I'm looking forward to it.

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Andy
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I hope things do get to her record, rather than the personal stuff we've seen. I could care less about the personal lives of these people.

I think it should matter to any voter that she left a town of under 7,000 with a debt of $20 million. That she hired a lawfirm at the time to lobby Washington for earmarks. And that as Governor she raised taxes.

I imagine when it comes to foreign policy her positions will mirror those of John McCain, which are completely vague on Iraq and tough-talking but not yet substantive on Russia.

The thing that voters are going to have to decide is if they think that the McCain/Palin team's new re-tooled message of "Change" can wash over 8 years of unprecedented deficits, and financing a war with tax cuts and borrowing from China, which are certainly not traditional conservative positions. The Republicans apparently will continue to deny or own up to any of their previous mistakes, simply brushing them aside and blaming Democrats for all the nations ills.

Having said all that, she's playing to a friendly audience, and she'll no doubt deliver a fine speech tonight.

It's obvious where this election is going now: it's a redux of 2004, with the right being hijacked by neo-cons and trying to mobilize values voters. Can they sacrifice all those Independents? Only time will tell.

I predict that her speech will be brilliant, and everyone in the audience will applaud loudly and will be on their feet the entire time, hanging on every word. She'll say all the right things that her audience wants to hear. Much like any other convention speech.

Will it win votes for McCain? I think that's impossible to tell, seeing as the elections are still 67 days away. Will it play well with Republicans? Absolutely.

I plan on listening to her speech with as open a mind as possible. I'm really interested to see if she addresses some of her criticisms.

Didn't seem to hurt their election results, so what sacrifice?

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Andy
Cynical Optimist

Tactically it's the right approach on the experience issue--try to turn the tables on an alleged liability asserted by critics to try to make her background viewed as a positive and/or get as many voters as possible to at least see silver linings.

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your kiddin. does he know which end to use????

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He's the most liberal Senator there is, so what do you think?

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Andy
Cynical Optimist

I don't know if McCain-Palin are going to win by running against the media. That's certainly not the kind of argument that appeals to independents. There are very good lines there, it will make the base excited. But will it change peoples minds away from Obama? Seems unlikely. It is the kind of speech that should produce a 1-2 point bounce by Friday which will still leave McCain behind. New swing state polls aren't looking to good. Obama up 12 in Minnesota, up 15 in Iowa and up 2 in Ohio. If McCain doesn't win New Mexico, CO and Iowa his chances become very very slim.

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Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys’ network in Washington.' I’m not making this up. This is somebody been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna take on the old boys' network,” he said. “In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting!- Obama, 9/17/2008

Is this woman for real? This speech sucks balls.

She's knocking it out of the park.

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Andy
Cynical Optimist