Breaking news from Erick Erckson, Red State [1],
Halfway through Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani’s speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.
Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.
Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.
Sarah Palin. Winner.
One sign a campaign is losing is when their talking points a lame. The BO campaign talking points have gone limp. Mark Hemmingway, National Review [2]:
Immediately after Palin’s speech I saw a panelist on MSNBC harrumphing that Palin didn’t write her speech — she had one of George W. Bush’s speechwriters. You don’t say…
It was an extraordinarily petty and desperate attempt to devalue her remarkable speech — speechwriters or not, the speech was an accurate reflection of who she is and she obviously contributed to the writing of it in significant ways. For instance, the pitbull/lipstick line was all hers [3].
However, Ace notes [4] that “Palin didn’t write her speech” is a talking point [5] being pushed by the Obama/Biden campaign. Which is ridiculous. Obama is an undeniably talented writer, and yet you better believe he has speechwriters. But what’s most unbelievable is that surrogates of Joe Biden [6] are questioning the provenance of a political opponent’s speech.
Obviously any campaign with Joe Biden on the ticket can ill afford to talk about who writes a canidate’s speech.
Loser: Barack Obama.
How long before Obama medical condition comes to the fore and he forced to step aside for Mrs. Clinton?