40 million people watched Sarah Palin’s speech the other night. Yes, more than the number who watched Obama by 2 million. This proves to me that we are a more curious nation than a serious, Reality TV over reality.

My big problem with the night–other than the fact that it was just nasty, dishonest Rovian politics all across the board–was that if Palin is really the new face of the GOP, then why have yesterday’s faces introduce her in yesterday’s fashion. You had Rudy, Romney and the Huckster all giving the same old spiel: Rudy lied once for every time he’s mentioned 9/11 in his life, which is no small feat; Romney managed to turn “liberal” into the new “fuck;” and Huckabee used a terribly dated Madonna joke. Just embarrassing.

Why not have Arnold and Bobby Jindal speak, even if they had to from location? Jindal speaking from a post-Gustav New Orleans would have been effective. If the GOP was really about change, it would have had a new face give the keynote address instead of Mr. Noun-Verb-9/11 as well. Why not former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who spoke earlier in the night? That would have been a smart choice.

Oh well, their loss. Instead of looking towards the future and selling change, they looked back and further connected the McCain-Palin ticket with the Bush-Cheney-Rove era.

One more thing…if Sarah Palin is such a little tough pitbull with lipstick, then why is she tucking her tail and going back to Alaska for a break? Why is she refusing to do interviews if she is so ready to take Washington by storm? I’m just asking…

…for every time I heard a Republican at the RNC say “Ronald Reagan,” I’d have as many homes as John McCain and Mitt Romney combined.  If you’re counting, that’s 11. This is getting ridiculous…are we looking back, or moving forward?

Look at the brand new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll results for yourself — Barack Obama is stronger than Hillary Clinton against the viable Republican candidates. He beats all four, and his margins are better for three of the four. Hillary fares better against only Mitt Romney, and by a mere three points. She actually loses to John McCain, while Obama is currently tied with the senator from AZ…

Judging from that info, a McCain or Mike Huckabee nomination would be pretty damn scary if HRC won the Democratic ticket.

Bill Maher about killed me from laughter a week ago when he said that Mitt Romney “is running for president as Ward Cleaver.” We figured we’d take the joke one step further…