Some random thoughts about tonight's RNC

A few thoughts about tonight's primetime coverage of the Republican National Convention:

• The night's ickiest moment - after Rudy Giuliani delivers an applause line about McCain's support for offshore drilling, Giuliani giggling like a bald-headed school girl while the crowd chants "Drill, baby, drill!"
  
• Overall Giuliani impression - he looked ridiculous. He seemed as if he was delivering punchlines on Saturday Night Live not giving a fairly important speech at a nationally broadcast political event. He sounded ridiculous.
• You know how you can read a fortune cookie and say "in bed" at the end of the fortune and it always comes out funnier? Try the same thing with Giuliani's speech, only say "just like I did on September 11th" after every line. It works!
  
• The night's cutest moment - a shot of one of Sarah Palin's younger daughters holding Palin's four month old son. She's lovingly stroking his head trying to smooth his hair down. When that doesn't work, she holds her hand up to her face, licks down her palm and smooths THAT over his head. Unscripted adorable at its best.
• That woman would politicize dead body - despite the fact that it has been widely reported that Palin's son Track is not leaving for Iraq on September 11th, she once again claims he is in her speech. While doing so, she manages to break a major rule of OpSec (operational security) by nationally publicizing - however erroneously - a troop deployment.
  
• That woman would politicize a dead body, Part II - having not yet had the opportunity to politicize her son Trig, Palin gives a shout out to all those parents of special needs children and assures them that they'll have an advocate in the White House when she's elected. As if Obama is a special needs baby-hater.
  
• Hey, McCain camp: you don't get to piss and moan that Palin's children are off limits while simultaneously throwing them in front of any camera you can find. If children are going to be off-limits (and I think they should be) they need to be off-limits for YOU TOO.
  
• Overall impression of Palin - her speech was considerably better than last Friday's "nothing-but-a-hockey-mom" mess (although she couldn't help using the line AGAIN). She seemed significantly more in command of the situation. I'm still not sure, though, whether she'll play with Hillary supporters. She's certainly not playing with me.