As I predicted earlier today, Sarah Palin did just fine. In fact, she delivered a brilliant speech. It was a classic Republican speech–written by Matthew Scully of the Bush speechwriting shop–chock full of conservative populism, a cultural “torpedo” as Chris Mathews is saying as I write this, aimed directly at Barack and Michelle Obama. She [...]

Maybe it won’t help them win. Maybe it will turn out to have been too negative and sarcastic for the current public mood, especially coming after Giuliani. But two things are clear after Sarah Palin made her do-or-die debut before 20-plus million people tonight. She is amazingly self-confident. And she knows how to nail a [...]

From TIME’s Amy Sullivan Rudy Giuliani becomes the first Republican speaker to describe what John McCain endured in the POW camp as “torture.” CORRECTION: Jay Carney tells me Huckabee spoke the T-word first. Apologies, and kudos to Huck. “Beatings and isolation” was kinda wordy anyway.

He gives a good speech, but he’s loose with the facts. He called Abraham Lincoln the “founder” of the Republican Party. Nope. Lincoln was not the founder of the party; he wasn’t even the first Republican nominee (John Fremont was, in 1856). Lincoln was, of course, the first Republican to be elected president. Second, Huckabee [...]

After Romney and before Huckabee. They are playing Rodney Atkins great tune “If You’re Going Through Hell.” The lyrics: You step off the straight and narrow/ And you don’t know where you are Use the needle of your compass/ To sew up your broken heart/ Ask directions from a genie/ In a bottle of Jim [...]

Thanks to Mitt Romney, favorite Republican son of Massachusetts, whose father was an automobile executive and governor, who graduated Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and cum laude from Harvard Law School, and who ran the one of the most successful private equity firms in the history of New England finance. He just put eastern [...]

In her speech tonight, Gov. Sarah Palin will take a few shots at Sen. Obama and the press. Two excerpts released by the campaign: Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, [...]

Watch this for the dating tips from Tucker Carlson. Seriously.

Jpod asserts that it was just fine for Sarah Palin to sit in church while a speaker claimed that Palestinian assaults on Israel were God’s vengeance on those who don’t accept Jesus… I guess this takes Jeremiah Wright off the table, right?