I got a lot of e-mails about this, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t me. Yeah, it does sound kinda like me, but I don’t remember writing that.
Also, a couple people forwarded me an e-mail (that I got myself) that Fred Thompson will have a announcement on Monday thinking that means he’s going to do a third-party run. Come on, people; he’s a party man, not a Don Quixote. I assume the announcement will be about his new FredPAC to support conservatives (like Palin).

If you’re getting excited about Palin, remember that Obama has a great story too:

I think Jon Stewart is about to get excommunicated from the left for blasphemy.
(hat tip Hot Air)

Sorry not to have reaction up right away, but I’m not one of those bloggers who can just post crap all day; I have to work for a living. Thus, I don’t go for immediacy; I go for quality. While all the other pea-brained bloggers are typing the first thing that leaves their puppy-soaked synapses, I sit in thoughtful contemplation. That’s what you expect from IMAO, and what keeps us consistently ranked as one of the top ten thousand political blogs.
Anyway, here’s the simplest way to put my reaction to McCain picking Sarah Palin: I actually spent time today seeing if McCain has a donation widget I could put on IMAO.
I was already prepared to use the money we would have given to a conservative candidate to buy more comic books, but SarahK says we have to donate to McCain now. It should be money well spent, too, just looking at the technical competence of the McCain campaign thus far. Their ads have been a lot more newsworthy than Obama’s boring, same-old tripe, and then this VP rollout left only about five seconds to discuss Obama’s “historic” speech.
And now conservatives are actually excited for a McCain candidacy (or perhaps, despite it). It’s crazy. Anyway, I’ll have more on Palin in the coming week, and until then just read up on her (basketball captain, beauty pageant contestant, hunter, sports newscaster, commercial fisherman, mother of five including a son who joined the Army on the sixth anniversary of 9-11 — can you get more American?) and you can consider donating to McCain here. Make sure to tell them IMAO sent you so we’re recognized as the kingmaker we are. And maybe they’ll get me that widget. Fred Thompson had a widget.
Put more stories of Palin’s awesomeness in the comments. And here’s video of her using an M-16. That’s how you take out a glass ceiling.

On the forty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” Barack Obama gave his speech accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party. King’s speech was about judging people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, and while Obama’s character lacks any content whatsoever, this was still pretty historic. And, if you can’t nominate someone competent, you might as well go for someone historic.
Anyway, it was an important speech that everyone should be talking about for about five or six minutes until McCain’s running mate pick dominates the news cycle. Of course, I didn’t watch it; I was busy playing Pokemon on my DS. There’s these berry trees in the game that could die if I don’t water them once a day, and we Republicans are all about responsibility. Still, I rounded up the reactions of other people to Obama’s speech for your convenience:
REACTIONS TO OBAMA’S SPEECH
Nancy Pelosi: “It drilled my brains!”
Harry Reid:”I wish I got applauded after speaking.”
Tom Daschle: “Do you think he’ll hire me? Target is working me like a slave-driver.”
Joe Biden: “This was Obama at his most articulate. The speech was completely devoid of the ghetto slang we would expect from his kind.”
John McCain: “I’ve heard more coherent things out of gooks I’ve strangled. They also were less negative about me.”
Robert Byrd: “Holy crap, we just nominated a (censored)!”
Joe Lieberman: “They wouldn’t let me in the building.”
Keith Olbermann: “I had to change my pants twice during it.”
William Ayers: “To know my good friend Obama may go in the White House almost makes me not want to blow it up.”
Jeremiah Wright: “Bet the crackers ate that up.”
Kos: “Blig awagga gerrrrblah!”
Michael Moore: “After it, I was speechless and obese.”
Chris Matthews: “The doctors found out that the tingle up my leg is nerve damage.”
Hillary Clinton: “Enjoy your moment in the spotlight, wee child, but never think this is over.”
Fred Thompson: “I’ve crapped better speeches.”
Barack Obama: “It was the greatest speech ever given. It was like God Himself was speaking through me and then I realized: I’m God.”
Paris Hilton: “It lacked substance.”

Man, I was hoping to know McCain’s running mate by now so I could put up a fact sheet on him or her — information is why people come to IMAO — but McCain has certainly done a better job than Obama at keeping it a secret (yet another thing Obama is incompetent at). I tried calling McCain, but when he found out I was a conservative blogger he just went into a curse-filled rant.
Man, wouldn’t it be cool if it were Fred Thompson? And they had live video of Biden crapping his pants during the announcement? Pundits would be like, “They’re too old.” And Fred Thompson would be like, “Your heads are too ripped off,” and then he’d rip off their heads.
We can dream.