RNC Day 3

Well, the house was rocking tonight. It was a raucous crowd whooping and cheering the speeches. Mit Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Guliani all gave ones that seemed like they were from the same speech writing team, but that didn't matter. They all began with John McCain's POW experience, telling us what a good character he is, then went on the attack against Obama. It was a good swan song for their political careers, and a full house cheered and applauded.

Talk about treating politicians like they were celebrities, the real star tonight was Sarah Palin. She delivered her speech well, and got to deliver the most zingers against her opponents. She even got to deliver the best joke of the night: What's the difference between a soccer mom and a pitbull? Lipstick... She came across confident, sarcastic, and someone who will be able to handle the pressures of campaigning. In a copycat move, John McCain made a surprise visit at the end of her speech. They still don't know each other very well, and her body language when he went to embrace her was less than pleasant, get it over with old man...

It remains to be seen if she can learn enough about domestic and foreign policy to debate with Joe Biden, but she could make it interesting and not be a complete drubbing. She certainly gives the GOP campaign the shot of adrenaline it needs and proved that she can dish it out with the rest of the girls.

A major theme was to drill, baby drill! If we drilled off of all our coastlines and the oil was available tomorrow, it still wouldn't bring the cost of gasoline down one penny. Instead, we'd be selling it to China and the Russians on the open market at the current barrel price. The only way to keep the oil for ourselves is if we nationalized the oil companies... And you know that will never happen. We are being manipulated by the agendas of the oil companies and it won't make us any less dependent on foreign oil. Our oil will just add to their profits while making you believe that it was a patriotic thing to do. A sucker really is born every minute...