Oh she was hot on sneering at Obama and his principles, hot on emphasising how she would support America's 'victory' in Iraq, how 'our boys' deserved to be supported in times of war...in fact all the right wing, jingoistic bullshit one would anticipate from a robot who was told to hit key soundbytes for a right wing audience...but I didn't hear a single word that told me she had any ideas of her own, let alone the remotest qualifications to be a heartbeat from the Presidency.
She was waspish, shrewlike, vindictive and unpleasant - while occasionally pausing to stare at us with that fixed Colgate smile beneath the weird 1960's 'Bobbie-Jean' hair-do.
There seem to be other revelations coming out now about Palin. Rumours of an affair with her husbands boss, rumours that she joined an Alaskan breakaway party in the early 90s. Well, frankly, I hope it comes out that she screwed half the Alaskan national guard and that she's got five other kids by indeterminate fathers because to let this woman anywhere near the heartbeat of government is a frightening prospect.
She has been described in today's British newpapers as sounding like an American Margaret Thatcher - and I can see some similarity, but much though I hated the old bitch from Grantham, at least her ideas were her own. You never saw the strident and very convinced Margaret Thatcher resorting to a cue card. This rather empty American model could barely takes its eyes off the teleprompter, so robotic were her Rove-style responses.
I sincerely hope this Convention is her zenith, her Andy Warhol fifteen minutes of fame, then she can go back to Alaska and carry on balancing the state books, which I'm sure she does with enthusiastic and ruthless zeal.
Vice President of the United States? God help us!!!!!
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