Mark_Ockerbloom's Blog

I have a feeling that part of John McCain's strategy is to throw people off, to create alot of surprises; I think there are other surprises that may be on the horizon.
Each candidate must walk a fine line between being too assertive or not assertive enough.
They must be able to defend their positions, but also do so in such a way as to not antagonize the very voting blocs that they are trying to win over. All voting blocs are important, and should not be taken for granted.

Good point about Biden popping off. Biden's whole offense just changed, and he might not be able to learn the new playbook.

His whole life has been attacking people. The GOP has enough sound bites of him putting OBama down. There is nothing on tape of Palin doing this to McCain.

Delaying the convention will be a positive for the republicans. I would think Palin needs a little more time getting ready.

We'll see.

Biden will be hard pressed to bully Palin. She has a downs syndrome child, a son going to Iraq. She beat down the republican corruption in Alaska, and she has a strong oil backround.
She has said that drilling in Anwar is safe , and is only on 2000 acres,on a 6 million acre area. Who but an Alaskan resident would know better. Alaska is our biggest domestic area for oil,and we need it more than ever.
Delaying the rep convention was the right idea too.The republicans need a good convention to counter the democratic hollyweird prodution.

Gustav is a blessing to us that didnt want to hear about the rep.convention although i would love to hear paulin try to explain why her teenage daughter is pregnant without a husband.