PALIN POWER!! (Or as we say in the Hockey Community - She Shoots... SHE SCORES!)

What a tremendous speech by Sarah Palin. We will see how it gets spun, but I can not see how anyone who watched her speech tonight can call it anything but 'perfect'.

Here are a few of my favorite lines from her speech tonight:

"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."

"Here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of the country."

When speaking about Senator Obama:
"This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world."

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GOP Lawyer Free

This has been floating around all day today via email and now it has finally showed up on the Washington Times Website:

"When the Republican Party formally nominates its presidential and vice-presidential candidates Thursday, it will achieve something the Democrats have managed to do only twice since the two parties began contesting elections in 1856 - keep a lawyer off the ticket.

With Sen. John McCain, a naval aviator, and Gov. Sarah Palin, a former television reporter with a degree in journalism, the GOP team will be the third straight lawyer-free Republican ticket, and the fifth in eight elections for the party.

By contrast, the duo of Sen. Barack Obama (Harvard Law, 1991) and vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Syracuse University College of Law, 1968) continues a Democratic streak of having at least one lawyer on the national ticket since the 1856 pairing of lawyers James Buchanan and John Breckinridge, broken only by the elections of 1960 and 1964."

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Democratic Response |11:20 p.m. Here’s the response from Bill Burton, Mr. Obama’s spokesman: “The speech that Governor Palin was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90 percent of the time, that’s their choice, but we don’t think the American people are ready to take a 10 percent chance on change.”

From The New York Times