Voters Panel member Tiffany weighs in on Palin speech

September 3rd, 2008 at 10:33pm Chuck Sweeny

Register Star Voters Panel member Gary Tiffany weighs in on Palin speech:

I felt Gov. Palin did a very good job with her speech. It started out somewhat slow, concentrating more on John McCain than on herself, but did get around to helping us understand who she is and what she stands for. The speech contained a lot of jabs at the Democrats. She did a good job laying out what she and McCain want to do about oil drilling and energy, but it didn’t seem to me to be all that different from what I heard from the Democrats. They all want to increase drilling, and concentrate on other forms of energy. As with the Democrats, there was NO talk of conservation or asking Americans to give up their big SUVs. Hopefully, the market will take care of that. Some of the jabs at Sen. Obama’s tax proposals were over the top, saying he wanted to raise this tax and that tax without giving specifics, making it sound like the tax increases would be for everyone rather than the highest paid individuals. Overall, she did a good job and will serve as a good “attack dog” for John McCain.

I also caught a little of Mike Huckabee’s speech and Rudy Giuliani’s speech. What little I heard from Huckabee struck me as very jingoistic. Giuliani’s speech didn’t impress me either. He seemed to make a lot of broad partisan statements and, at least to me, came off as an arrogant Republican, but then, I’ve never cared for him.

The other item that struck me as I watched the speeches was the crowd. I noticed that almost every male in the crowd was dressed in a suit or sport coat. The women were also in what I would consider “business dress”. As I remember from the Democratic convention, most, if not all, of the convention audience were in casual attire – sport shirts, polos and Dockers. Don’t know if it means anything or if there was a formal dress code for the Republicans, but it was strange. But then again, the Republicans have always been a more buttoned up group of people and somewhat rigid in some of their thinking.

Gary Tiffany, MSFS, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF

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