I’m finally tuning into the RNC. I’m watching it on Fox to get the full effect. I caught Meg Whitman’s speech. She’s the former head of eBay and is now hoping to follow in the long tradition of billionaires buying elected office in this country.

Actually, I can’t take anymore of O’Reilly, so I have switched over to America’s Top Model where they are having a Rock the Vote fashion shoot. One of the models didn’t know what the word "bureaucracy" meant.

This convention has a much different vibe than the DNC. First of all, there is a huge number of empty seats in the hall. It looks really bad on TV. On Fox, Hannity was downplaying the importance of conventions. Viewership must be low. The camera keeps panning to really old dudes. The Palin family are the few young people there.

Palin did a good job with the delivery. She has a sense of humor about her, which it is a huge plus. Her hockey mom stuff played very well with the crowd. She asked the crowd what the difference was between a pitbull and a hockey mom. The answer. Lipstick. OK, I laughed. They loved that she said she was a supporter of families of special needs kids. What would she do for us? That I’m not quite sure about. I would like IDEA to be fully funded, but maybe she just meant that Piper would babysit for us.

She really harped on the small town thing. They must really see that as a gap in Obama’s armor.

We’ve heard a lot about the torture of McCain, but a little too much. And then she said that Obama was too concerned with reading Iraqi prisoners their rights. Weird.

Domestic policy is going to be a huge weakness for them. They’ve got nothing there. She said that Washington was all about taxing and spending and deficit. And what president did that? Oh, the president that you are pretending doesn’t exist. Oh, yeah that guy.

Alaska doesn’t have a deficit. It’s true. But that’s not because she sold a plane on eBay, but because the state is swimming in oil money.

I love the guy in the audience who was holding up a sign that said, "Drill Now."

She does have a very cute family. Even the hockey dude with the shotgun to his head.