Reply #21: Mixed reviews from me. [View All]

[Miss Authoritiva]

The speechwriters gave her a well-crafted speech to deliver that featured some well-pointed barbs and taunts for the RNC audience to respond to. Palin delivered it well, especially considering her lack of inexperience in giving a speech to both a large live audience and a television audience.

That being said, I thought the speech clearly crossed the line into genuine snottiness at times. Not that geniune snottiness is never used in political speeches, but I thought it was inappropriate in the VP acceptance speech. Some of the passages would have been better suited to, say, Giuliani.

I also was surprised that Palin used the since debunked line about saying "no thanks to the bridge to nowhere" -- it has been well established that the earmark for the bridge had been scuttled <b>before</b> Palin was even sworn in as governor.