The huge audience for Palin’s acceptance speech rivaled that for Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention six days earlier, and set a tough standard for the top of her own ticket. John McCain was to accept the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday.

The first two days of the GOP convention essentially served as a build-up for Palin. The Alaska governor hadn’t spoken publicly since McCain selected her for the ticket last Friday, as a series of stories circulated questioning whether McCain had properly vetted her.

Her poised speech, primarily going after Obama and touting McCain’s case for the presidency, was gushed over by many analysts.

An audience of 37.2 million people watched Palin on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. PBS estimated its audience at 3.9 million, based on a less reliable sample of several big cities. Nielsen does not count the audience for C-SPAN, which also showed the speech.

Last week, Nielsen said 38.4 million people watched Obama speak at a Denver stadium on the six commercial networks, along with BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo — four networks that didn’t cover Palin’s speech. PBS added an estimated 4 million to that total.

Nearly 2 million more women were watching Palin than men, Nielsen said.

Viewers were far more interested in Palin than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden’s speech to Democrats last week was seen by an estimated 24 million people.

The audiences for the Obama and Palin speeches were bigger than the ones this year for the Academy Awards, the finale of “American Idol” or the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing.

Nearly 120 million Americans voted in the 2004 presidential election and numbers could be higher this year because of young and minority voters attracted to Obama, and renewed enthusiasm among Republicans for their ticket.

No Obama 2012

Accordingly, this is former President Bill Clinton’s argument against Barack Obama, as well. Clinton, during “An hour” interview with Charlie Rose, questioned voters being “prepared to roll the dice” with a Barack Obama Presidency. As Clinton puts it, “When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the senate before he started running?” Clinton, further, said: “If you listen to the people who are most strongly for him they say, ‘basicly we have to throw away all those experienced people…And we want somebody who started running for president a year after he became a senator because he’s fresh, he’s new…and we’re willing to risk it.” However, Clinton, said: “I think a president ought to’ve done something for other people and for his country when you pick a president.” see http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/14/1/an-hour-with-former-president-bill-clinton .

In short, that describes Sarah Palin. She would make a wonderful vice president and/or president (not to say that the others wouldn’t make an okay president or vice president).
What’s your political party and gender (or sex)

sarah palin fox news show

Rush Limbaugh, accurately, states: “Clearly, in last year’s campaign, the most prominent, articulate voice for standard, run-of-the-mill, good old-fashioned conservatism was Sarah Palin.” See http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/04/palin-officially-joins-gop-rebranding-effort/ , http://www.poligazette.com/2009/05/05/limbaugh-jeb-and-romney-hate-palin/ . Accordingly, that is why John McCain that of their “Over 50 million” votes, people voted “mostly for Sarah Palin.” See http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/26/mccain-people-voted-mostly-for-sarah-palin-last-year/ . In fact, evidence establishes that McCain was the downer on that ticket.

However, sadly, Rush Limbaugh is right that people like Mitt Romney, who aspires to the next President of the United States, is already starting to take jabs at Honorable Sarah Palin because they fear her winning 2012 Republican nominee, that’s dirty. Sarah Palin has not said anything negative, so far, about Romney, Bush, etc.

I love it when Honorable Sarah Palin receives praises.

What’s your political party and gender?

No Obama 2012

It’s simple, Americans know her executive talents, common sense and wanting to work for the American people is good for America.

What’s your political party and gender?

palin 2012 poll

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Huckabee: I’m not writing a science book

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, an ordained minister who has said that he does not believe in evolution, said this type of question should not be asked of someone running for president because he is “not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book.”

“If they want a president that doesn’t believe in God, there’s plenty of choices,” Huckabee said.

He added, “My point is, I don’t know. I wasn’t there. But I believe whether God did it in six days or whether he did it in six days that represented periods of time, he did it. And that’s what’s important.

“But you know, if anybody wants to believe they’re the descendants of a primate, they’re welcome to do it.”

After he finished his answer, Huckabee received loud applause from the audience and praise from his Republican rival Sen. John McCain.

–CNN
I don’t think that religion should be involved in politics. A scientific theory is not hypothesis; it is supported by evidence. Creationism, especially the 6-day type, is a horribly anti-scientific position that involves religion alone. If the guy is going to be in charge of financing government education, not to mention foreign policy issues, I want to make sure he has at least has an understanding beyond the preschool level.
Ok San Fran, so he’s honest about his nuttiness. But it’s hard to believe that he can pander to the basest form of ignorance and still win votes.

Note: he avoided stating his specific views on the issue, but confined that to a 6-day creationist “period.” That’s more extreme than what most of the intelligent designers say. But I’ll give him credit: Now I can vote against him in advance of the elections.
Baseball Girl: I say this nicely: If you’re going to argue a scientific position, you need to understand the terms.

Evolution is supported by the fossil record and DNA evidence.

You’ve been lied to about the meaning of a scientific theory. It is not a mere guess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory#science

Information is power.
Yikes! Didn’t realize the firestorm this would create.

No Obama 2012

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/06/obama.poll/

http://www.zogby.com/news/readnews.cfm?id=1737

http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php

obama job approval

Gallup: 62%
Rasmussen: 55%
Ipsos/McClatchy: 63%
Pew Research: 61%
CNN: 66%
CBS/NYT: 66%
Marist: 56%
Newsweek: 61%
Fox News: 58%

Please don’t say the polls are biased. They were completely correct in the general election.

But why do some people keep saying that Obama’s approval is less than 50%? Are they lying to us, to themselves, or both?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

obama job approval

“Palin would be a total insult to women.”

“If Palin would have become VP, it would have set women back at least 100 years.”

“Sarah Palin was an insult to any intelligent woman in this country”

“Palin would give women a BAD NAME. She’s a loser”

“Palin gave women a bad name because she’s ignorant.”

…And much worse

And most things I’ve seen were said by women which makes them no better then the types in high school that said stuff to other girls to make them feel like less of a girl/woman and ugly.

They say Palin is/was an insult to women while the ones saying that about her are the real insult. Hilary may be more “book smart” but if you go on woman-hood alone she’s much worse… staying with a cheating husband to get a leg up… talk about setting women back 100 years!
I can’t believe half of you are calling her less of a woman because she thinks its wrong to kill a child in the place it grows.

I’m so sorry that you are inconvenienced by the way nature made us.
Moose:
Where the heck have you ever seen or heard that from her?

Or was that just something you heard someone on CNN blow out of proportion?

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