You know, it’s interesting, I’ve read several accounts, and seen the photographic back-up, of the empty seats at the Republican convention last night. At the Democratic convention, they were all saying that they had to be there early or they’d lose their seats. I read one account, over at Andrew Sullivan’s, that says not only were there plenty of empty seats, they were GOOD seats!
I am really starting to wonder if this Palin pick doesn’t have anything other than a handful of cloistered pundits, the fringe end times folks, and Pat Buchanon excited. One of the interesting things I’ve seen is conservative leaning women and men, (not the fringe end timers) seem to be asking, why isn’t this woman home with her special-needs child and pregnant daughter? See, that is a reaction I can totally see coming from the right. There is more to the base than the extremist religious wack right. There’s the pretty religious, socially conservative base, and those guys want a mother of five, with one very very high maintenance infant, and one pregnant teen, home. And don’t come crying to me, because that’s YOUR base, not mine. My people won’t vote for her because we don’t like to have our bodies held hostage by the state, our teenaged daughters dreaming of dropping out of school and being impregnanted by LEVI! and creationism taught in our schools.
I don’t think, that outside of the fringe at that convention, there’s any excitement. So, let’s see.
I am really starting to wonder if this Palin pick doesn’t have anything other than a handful of cloistered pundits, the fringe end times folks, and Pat Buchanon excited. One of the interesting things I’ve seen is conservative leaning women and men, (not the fringe end timers) seem to be asking, why isn’t this woman home with her special-needs child and pregnant daughter? See, that is a reaction I can totally see coming from the right. There is more to the base than the extremist religious wack right. There’s the pretty religious, socially conservative base, and those guys want a mother of five, with one very very high maintenance infant, and one pregnant teen, home. And don’t come crying to me, because that’s YOUR base, not mine. My people won’t vote for her because we don’t like to have our bodies held hostage by the state, our teenaged daughters dreaming of dropping out of school and being impregnanted by LEVI! and creationism taught in our schools.
I don’t think, that outside of the fringe at that convention, there’s any excitement. So, let’s see.
