So I’ve been watching the Republican Convention live for the past few days (I watched the Democratic one too, though I took very little real interest in the speeches other than occasionally gasp in awe at their well trained presentation skills).
It’s like watching a soap opera. And I blame 7 seasons of The West Wing for making me take such a huge interest in American politics. Anyway, here are the best lines from some of the speakers so far from the party I believe I would be part of should I be a citizen of that country.
Rudy Giuliani
His rise is remarkable in its own right. It’s the kind of thing that can happen only in America.
But he’s never — he’s never run a city. He’s never run a state. He’s never run a business. He’s never run a military unit. He’s never had to lead people in crisis.
He is the least experienced candidate for president of the United States in at least the last 100 years.
Not a personal attack, a statement of fact. Barack Obama has never led anything, nothing, nada.
Nada, nothing.
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I have some advice for Senator Obama: Next time, call John McCain.
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Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
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And how — how dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president. How dare they do that.
When do they ever ask a man that question? When?
Mike Huckabee
So, I say with sincerity that I have great respect for Senator Obama’s historic achievement to become his party’s nominee — not because of his color, but with indifference to it. Party or politics aside, we celebrate this milestone because it elevates our country.
But the Presidency is not a symbolic job, and I don’t believe his preparation or his plans will lift America up.
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I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.
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John McCain doesn’t want the kind of change that allows the government to reach deeper into your paycheck and pick your doctor, your child’s school, or even the kind of car you drive or how much you inflate the tires.
He doesn’t want to change the very definition of marriage from what it has always meant throughout recorded human history. It is not above John McCain’s pay grade to grasp the simple fact that human life begins at conception, and he is committed to protecting it.
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Fred Thompson
the Democrats present a history- making nominee for president — history-making in that he’s the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee to ever run for president!
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And my friends, we need a president who doesn’t think that the protection of the unborn or a newly born baby is above his pay grade.
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Sarah Palin (my new hero)
You know what. Read her whole speech here. Or Youtube it. After McCain, Palin should run for president.









