You know it's funny to watch Republicans just make shit up on the fly. Honestly, with that kind of talent they many Republican operatives need to consider applying to be writers in Hollywood.

Can anyone find video of Carville on Larry King tonight?

Personally, I'm not all that impressed.  Certainly, she threw in a lot of objections, but she let Bounds off the hook on the "name one decision" question when she had him dead to rights, and then she let him get away with a long recitation of the Republican talking points at the end, which is likely all most viewers will remember.

On MSNBC there is another McCain talking head hitting all the talking points and dodging the questions.  And she just said that Palin, as a mother of 5, should be "begging the Democrats for hand outs."  That makes me feel a little better about the ignorance that a Dem just spouted on CNN.  

It seems to me that both camps need to get the message a little tighter around Palin and McCain's judgement on the VP slot.

Every cycle, the media loves to anticipate an October surprise. As I recall we didn't have one in '04, and in 2000 it was the Bush Kennebunkport DUI stuff.

Any thoughts on if or what there might be this year? I'm sure both sides would love to have something like a big endorsement (Colin Powell?) or big dirt (Cindy McCain buys another house?) for Halloween weekend.

So, what do youse think?

If they weren't mad before, all the republicans should be furious with McCain for this senseless VP pick.  I feel bad for the Republicans who are tasked to defend this pick. It's not their fault McCain picked this person.

How much easier for the Republicans would it have been if McCain had picked Romney . If McCain wanted to kowtow to his base, he should have gone with Huckabee.  These are solid VP choices. No surprise. Plain vanilla. Romney and Huckabee will not screw up a debate. They have already gone through all the questions before.  Once chosen, it would be over in a day and life would go on.

Now you have this VP pick in Palin that adds all this drama that just don't belong in presidential politics.

In my view, this is probably a short term victory for the truth

In general, I find Campbell Brown very unreliable - her unsympathetic take on the truth, especially as it relates to Obama, make her very prone to over-correct if the Right wing blogs start giving her a hard time on this

This shows you what Republican women (other than the fundies) think about Palin.  

They don't like her.  Period.

Campbell Brown seemed to be asking tough questions, but she did it an entirely apologetic way. The only thing missing from the shot was her winking at Mr. Bounds as he spouted his bullshit. What's important is that he never answered her "tough" question, and, in the end, she gave him the opportunity to recite his Republican talking points. I especially loved the part where she said "no one's arguing with you that [McCain] has more experience than Barack Obmam." I'm not sure we all agree with Ms. Brown on that last point.

Wow, you know it's bad when the Republicans can't spin their way out of it.  Palin is the most inexperienced Vice Presidential Candidate on a major party's ticket in modern history, which isn't exactly a good thing for a party that has been pounding the importance of experience for the past year or so.  All the Republicans can say is "It's about the top of the ticket" or amusingly try to make Palin out to be experienced.  Both arguments are failing miserably...

I know McCain had to throw a Hail Mary, but I mean did Sen. Hutchinson turn him down or something?  Palin is sinking this already troubled campaign and I'm loving every second of it.

This is the  Republican  version of Ralph Kramden going  "Homina Homina Homina Homina".Some of you will know what I'm referring to.

The  F##!!ing audacity  of the lying bastards  in that party never ceases to amaze and astound me.

I'm happy to see that someone  other than  Jack Cafferty at  CNN has balls !!Well done Campbell Brown!