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Sarah Palin gave her debut speech in front of millions of viewers tonight. The speech callously ripped Obama and his campaign ridiculing and diminishing his public service while showing a general lack of respect for the Democratic nominee.

The speech was written by Bush’s speechwriter, Matthew Scully, who met Palin for the first time last week.

It was an ugly, fear mongering speech filled with lies and a direct reference to the media and their treatment of at least two issues surrounding Palin at present.

“Here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country,” said Palin in her speech.

Well, the media didn’t like that too much. Within an hour, there was news about e-mails sent by Palin that implicate her in the improper firing of an Alaskan state trooper. She is, for those who don’t know, Alaska’s sitting Governor.

There’s also the recent report (albeit by the liberal New York Times) that Palin, while Mayor of the small town of Wasilla, Alaska, brought up the idea of a proposed the ban of several books from the local library. She never said which books would be banned and the proposal was never formally presented, but the born-again Christian upset some local residents with the idea including the town’s librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, who was very vocal in her opposition to Palin. Emmons vowed to “resist all efforts at censorship.” Despite the fact that the proposal never made it to the table, Palin fired Emmons anyway for threatening to oppose the phantom proposal. There was a mutiny in the town and Emmons was reinstated, but her taste for a career under Palin soured and she quit as librarian two years later.

The Republicans are good at campaigning. They know how to talk sh*t. It’s ugly and crude, but it’s effective and Obama, in order to win, needs to stick to his game plan.