I've culled the highlights of Joe Lieberman's speech to the RNC:
What... is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this?
Well, I'll tell you what: I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more than party......if John McCain is just another partisan Republican, then I'm Michael Moore's favorite Democrat.
...In the Senate, during the 3½ years that Sen. Obama has been a member, he has not reached across party lines to accomplish anything significant, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party to get something done...
...the real ticket for change this year is the McCain-Palin ticket.
Let me tell you, friends, that the Washington bureaucrats and the power brokers are not going to be able to build a pen that will hold in these two mavericks. It's just not possible...
...when others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, which would have been a disaster for the USA, when colleagues like Barack Obama were voting to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield, John McCain had the courage to stand against the tide of public opinion, advocate the surge, support the surge, and, because of that today, America's troops are coming home, thousands of them, and they're coming home in honor...
...You may not agree with John McCain on every issue, but you can always count on him to be straight with you about where he stands and to stand for what he thinks is right for our country, regardless of the politics.
The Anchoress, in a rare (for her) spate of television watching, remarks on the differences between conventions:
I don’t love prolonged chanting of “U-S-A, U-S-A” but at least these people are chanting for the whole nation, and not in the name of one man.
And Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard catches a great riposte by Newt Gingrich:
MSNBC/Ron Allen: But to be fair, her resume is not something we're familiar seeing with presidential candidates.
Gingrich: It's stronger than Barack Obama's. I don't know why you guys walk around saying this baloney. She has a stronger resume than Obama. She's been a real mayor, he hasn't. She has been a real governor, he hasn't. She's been in charge of the Alaskan National Guard, he hasn't. She was a whistleblower who defeated an incumbent mayor. He has never once shown that kind of courage. She's a whistleblower who turned in the chairman of her own party and got him fined $12,000. I've never seen Obama do one thing like that. She took on the incumbent governor of her own party and beat him, and then she beat a former Democratic governor in the general election. I don't know of a single thing Obama's done except talk and write.
I'd like you to tell me one thing Sen. Obama's done.
Allen: Thanks very much, Mr. Speaker. I'm going to leave it there. I'm not going to argue the case. Thanks very much.
Good night, Gracie.
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