Analysis: GOP struggles with identity on Palin's big night

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — For the second night in a row, a lot of the rhetoric at the Republican convention Wednesday evening seemed left over from the last cycle, when the fight against terrorism dominated the race.

The economy is the biggest voter concern this cycle, and the theme of the evening — but it didn’t top the agenda Wednesday night. The policy prescriptions were minimal; the party-issued signs proclaiming “prosperity” made for a jarring sight.

The language and terror focus were left over from 2004. The evening’s tone was vintage 1992, with just a hint of culture war.

Surveys suggest Democrats hold the advantage on the dominant issue this year, so Republicans looked to redirect the anger and with base-pleasing swipes at the media and liberal elites.

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Her adoption of the evening’s bitter tone may have fallen a bit flat. A focus group of white married women who watched the speech didn’t care for her sarcasm.

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The top targets of the night were Barack and Michelle Obama and the news media, with the Democratic Congress close behind. The outsider language that dominated the evening might have struck a dissonant chord: this is, after all, the party that had controlled the White House for the past eight years, and Congress for 12 of the last 14.



The press can't stop talking about two things today:

1. How strong a speaker Palin was.

2. How much of a bully Palin was.

Hmm. The GOP finally has a female fascist.

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