Keep up the good work Chris!
I have been a republican since the mid seventies, and was very happy when McCain won the GOP primary earlier this year.  However, in recent days I do not recognize the McCain I thought I knew. The blunt, incorrect attacks at his oponent and then the selection of a running mate of a governer whose experience is  lower than another governer of which Carl Rove said was not qualified, made me change my mind.  John McCain is right, he is changing.... himself.....  from a maverick who I believe stood for the best of the country, to a team of Bush policy makers.  Not only will I not vote republican but democrat this year, I also will change my party alliance to the democratic party.

Enough is enough!

Mr. Matthews-
Your commentary last night was especially poignant. The "moment" goes by so quickly but history lives on and remembers. Your call for dignity and serious purpose was non-partisan and a great service to us all. I hope the right folks were listening.  

Great work Chris. We need to get back to the real issues. I'm glad someone has the guts to stand up to these people who don't care about anything else but winning an election.

Thank you Chris Matthews!

I really appreciate you pointing out the absolute idiocity of this whole lipstick issue. First of all, Obama was clearly referring to McCain's policy preferences and not about Palin herself and secondly this points out why Obama is desperately needed for this country. Clearly, while John McCain and Sarah Palin spend their time trying to bash Obama, Obama is spending his time informing people why he is different then Bush and his chronies (including McCain) and won't be "putting lipstick on a pig" and  try selling the same bs to the American people.

Chris, you were right on target with your comments last night. We rely on the media – supposedly the watchdogs of our republic – to ferret out the lies and hidden agendas that got us into the mess we’re in now and threaten to keep us there in the future.  Only yesterday did I see a glimmer of the responsible journalistic sentry in the appropriate public vetting of the republican vice presidential candidate.  We need the media to do serious and responsible reporting on the county’s behalf – we do not want to be entertained by spectacles and agendas that are not related to the issues at hand - we need the media to keep us informed about the facts that really matter.

Sarah Palin is not running for president of the hockey team booster club or the PTA – she is on a national ticket as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.  Her qualification as a hockey mom will be meaningless in the face of a world crisis.  Lies – not half truths or some other euphuism – about her record and accomplishments further diminish our nation’s credibility at home and abroad.  Her obvious lack of education, exposure and experience will provide no expertise, advice or counsel to a President.  We really don’t know Sarah Palin and by keeping all of us at bay with fictitious homespun stories about her prowess as a seller on EBay and feigned righteous indignation on just about everything else, does not address her positions or knowledge of the profound issues that face this country.  Please do not allow the republicans to obstruct our necessary critical examination of the candidates of both parties by reporting on minutia and ignore the significant issues that face us as a nation.  Governance is VERY serious business and we should treat it as such.  Let us all be less concerned about a pig in lipstick and very, very wary of buying a pig in a poke.

Obama just can't seem to win.  When he speaks from the heart, but using his brain, he's accused of talking down to people, being an elitist. When he tries to be folksy, they accuse him of being sexist.

Chris,

The press has a responsibility to stick to the issues and not be so easily manipulated by the RNC to spread their smear propaganda. Please, we, the voters, want reporting on the ISSUES, not this nonsense lipstick crap.  It's NOT news and doesn't serve to inform  voters on the real and pressing issues. We have only 50 or so days left so please don't waste another show on this nonsense.



I'm upset that you and Keith aren't covering election night.

Way to go Chris!!!!
God Blless!   Please keep doing what you always have!
Leave the dramatics to Keath!  What we need is the
you that looks beyond the spin traps and lets us know what the real facts are!!!!!

Way to go Chris!!!!
God Blless!   Please keep doing what you always have!
Leave the dramatics to Keath!  What we need is the
you that looks beyond the spin traps and lets us know what the real facts are!!!!!

You complain about this nonsense yet you devoted most of your program to it.  The Republican strategy is to turn people off voting alltogether, thereby surpressing turnout and enhancing their chances.  John McCain has sold his soul and will say or do anything to become President.  That should  be your topic!

I support Obama all the way, but yes, I think Obama was probably make a reference to Palin...but in the way he described on Lettermen.  

Palin is the lipstick (not the pig) on the piggish Republicans.  She's what the marketing department dreamed up to rebrand and freshen up the 70 year old man selling the tired and failed (as proved by the last 8 years) GOP ideology.

But...who cares????!!!  Just because Obama said something cute in reference to Palin's effect on the ticket, does not mean the McCain outrage was at all appropriate.  The McCain response is especially silly because part of the Palin brand is the pit bull metaphor.  Their fake outrage makes Palin seem like less of a pit bull and more a poodle.  A poodle that will only bark at people and their pets through the window (attacks on Obama at the convention), but refuses to come outside to back-up her tough talk and defend herself to the big, bad "biased" reporters.

McCain's age and Palin's gender make no difference in how I will vote, but the issues do.  If McCain were brave enough to discuss the issues instead of wasting all our time crying foul over politically incorrect statements, then Americans would know how to vote to protect their interest.  I guess that's the point behind the "lipstick" controversy.

Also, I was distraught by the non-stop lipstick coverage on MSNBC yesterday.  ALL DAY that is all the entire line up talked about.  Though I appreciate Chris's alternative and tough approach...this type of story should not soak up 15 straight hours of a networks time. The election is less than 2 months away!!!

Chris apply the hardball skills you showed us last night to the really important stuff that the Republican surrogates need to be called out on.

Christ: I think you did a great service to the american people to force the truth out of that republican strategist who finally agreed that Obama gets slammed unfairly by those trying to create an illusion about Obama a man of integrity. Most intelligent people recognize the republican tactics at war.

She was able to get away with calling hockey moms  pitbulls which I found to be an insult. Her popularity is really about the curiousity and her soap opera life style, not her qualifications.

This rookie will take women back 40 years and drive this country further in the ground if she had to replace McCain. Meanwhile McCain has been following behind this woman's skirt-tail like a wimpering dog. Why has he (follower) allowed her (leader) to run the show. That says a lot about him... he is weak as a man and leader.

Please, if Karl Rove were a democrat, right now someone would be asking if someone with as thin skin as Governor Palin, who is taking offense at something that was no were near directed towards her, is really ready to help lead our nation.  There are alot meaner spirited things that are actually intended to insult American officials that are said and done throughout the world every day and if she can't categorize the Obama statement as "does not apply to you", then I doubt she can handle what other nations say or do.

Obama is no more sexist than President Clinton is racist but Obama's folks used Bill's comments to their advantage and McCain's folks used Obama's comments to their advantage.  This is politcs folks and what goes around comes around.  

Chris,

I thought last nights show was superb. It's time an end was put to this demeaning smesaring of the other candidate.
I am female, a little older than you, registered Independent & would have voted for McCain in 2000, if his campaign had not been derailed by just the kind of scummy "ads". I have been sickened to see McCain turn around & use, not only the same type of "ads" but even the people who did the ads in 2000. I have lost all respect for the man. I just hope enough others can see what he has become, to employ such low means while saying he's "straight talking." The 180 changes in his policies, the stooping into the mud just shows he's either power hungry or senile.

Sorry, I got sidetracked. Just want to thank you for the lengths you went to to point out the stupidity of the braying of the Republicans. I hope you continue to attack ANY such stupidity, try & keep this about the issues, there is real difference in their approach to the economy, foreign relations etc.
     Thank you  Jean

I am amazed that so many Americans are willing to forgo good sense and to abandon the issues to discuss all this follishness. Remember that after all of this is over you will have to live with whoever you elect. Don't allow yoursleves to be sidetracked.

Well done.... Well said....

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