If Sarah Palin’s speech sounded familiar last night it should. It was written by George Bush’s writer Matthew Scully. Although I don’t think the McCain campaign thought people would pick up on the similarities, they did.
The speech, designed to walk a tightrope of attacking Obama and laying hooks for McCain’s speech tonight was actually written before they even knew who would be reading it.
I suspect it is a lot like playing Political Mad Libs. You remember, that game as a kid where you picked nouns, verbs and adverbs and placed them in “blanks” just to see how a seemingly normal text could be funny? Same thing there.
Stick to the same Bush plans but insert some “Alaska” references, “all families have it tough”, and being “compassionate.” Viola – you have a speech for Sarah Palin.
Next up, McCain!
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I heard she wrote it all herself. Why would Bush’s writer do it?
Cindy, writers are “for hire” and Palin definitely did not write it herself.
I believe most of the speech was written in advance. That makes sense. The republicans have the same issues they alway have.
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Ahm…i think we all agree the speech was great! it’s where our place in it ends, who wrote the speech is more palins issue…