A good point

I watched a lot of Daily Show and Colbert Report (good news - the Oz feed now works!), and read a lot about the Republican convention.

Mike Huckabee, who was a guest on one of the shows, said the cons were more about 'red meat for the faithful'. And that both parties would then move from gloating to the base to the centre in an effort to convince the rest of the US that they were kosher.

Wow. So the crap the Republicans spewed forth was just red meat for the faithful was it?

When Palin spoke, managing to read the speech written for her with flair and thus confirming apparently she's the right person for the job, she mentioned in her Grace from Ferris esq voice how the Republicans were against terrorists, and Obama wanted 'to read them their rights.'

As one person on the Wash Post forums noted. It was somewhat ironic that the Republicans spent SO much time and effort waxing lyrical about McCain's imprisonment and torture at the hands of people he dropped bombs on, then gloated about how they'd retarded suspects their freedoms.

Don't these people fucking get it? It's not about voting for someone you'd like to have a beer with or who is emblematic of your values. It's about the best team to ensure your country's future. And part of that is not having the rest of the world hate you.

Having a nut job who is 1 in three from the top job due to age and infirmity who has embraced the concept of an imminent rapture, and whose claim to foreign policy experience is that her state has Russia next to it, is moronic to say the least.