Dear James, Daniel and Emily
I will be the first to admit that I haven't watched much of the Republican Convention. I don't expect to get much out of it. I tried to watch some of Sara Palin's speech last night, and it was so painful in it's delivery that I willingly changed the channel. But apparently I must have watched the wrong part of the speech because supposedly she was pretty good. Well pretty good being a relative term.
From what I have seen so far, it looks like the Republicans are into full on attack dog mode. 'Screw the ideas or policies, we want America to know how bad this Obama guy is.' And of course from the shots of the crowd last night all I could think was 'wow, look at all the old white people'. The Party of Lincoln should be ashamed.
I plan to watch McCain's speech tonight, I will be interested to see if he can propose any new ideas. Or policies period, something other than, elect me because I am a heroic old white guy. Hero's are good for the country, I am not discounting them, but heroism doesn't mean you can govern. And I don't think you should be elected just because you are better at making the other guy or girl look bad.
I kept hearing the coverage of the DNC calling for 'red meat', but I think that this country has had enough of that. I am not talking about turn the other cheek politics, respond when attacked, but whenever possible bring the subject back to real concrete policies and issues, not personalities. All of this character assassination is one of the reasons I stopped voting Republican back in 92.
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