A Star is Born!

Hey Charles,

Sorry it’s taken me too long to write. First, I spent an entire morning trying to come up with a new sports analogy to describe Sarah Palin’s speech, but they were all taken. “She hit it out of the park!” “She pitched a shutout in Game 1 of the World Series!” “The hockey mom scored a hat trick.” Continuing with the hockey reference, I don’t quite understand why the media let Palin skate free like Gretzky on his farewell tour. Can we get a hard check please? And that’s just the thing … it’s almost like the pundits are incapable of real, substantive analysis. I’m sorry, but watching Professor Stephanopoulos on Nightline handing out a post-speech report card just doesn’t cut it.

But alas, last night belonged to John McCain, although you wouldn’t have known it by the post-speech song choice of Heart’s “Barracuda.” I almost feel for the guy. Last night should’ve been his moment, but it seemed like the GOP couldn’t get past his speech fast enough. How many folks do you think there were in the hall last night who were ready to fast forward to 2012 and the big Barack-Barracuda fight?

Ah, yes, the word “fight.” How many times did we hear it last night? Twenty-five times, I believe. I don’t know about you, but after eight long years of this type of tough-guy, John Wayne talk, haven’t we had enough? And would it have been so difficult to replace, I don’t know, one or two of those “fights” with a reference to what McCain-Palin (or is it Palin-McCain) is planning to do on the economy, health care, the mortgage crisis. Not that the media pundits cared to talk about these issues. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the debates for some real discussion and, for now, remember the inspirational words of my favorite homemade sign from St. Paul, which read “Just Drill Baby.”

Actually, a pretty good discussion about issues happened last night. If you missed it, check out this special “Factor Event.”

So here we go. It will be interesting to see if the candidates engage in a real debate over these next several weeks and how the media continues to react to the Palin circus. All I know is that between “The Chosen One” and “Sarah Barracuda” we have a real MTV Celebrity Deathmatch on our hands!

Surprise guest referee – Hillary Clinton!

Ryan