DISQUS

dad · 1 year ago

not far from john mccain's numbers

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

B-b-b-BUT! The corporate media is telling us that will all change tonight. When America sees Sarah take on Joe, America will remember why it fell in love with her--all over again! It's just that the shiny novelty value has worn off, and she has been so cruelly subjected to "gotcha" journalism. Tonight, we're turning the clock back to the day she was announced. It's going to be like remembering the War in Eye-rack really began with the surge in 2007.

cassie · 1 year ago

I don’t think she should be asked ANYTHING that has been covered in the previous interviews with Gibson and Couric. They will have already prepared her for those and she will have snappy answers for them. Ask her something she hasn’t been asked yet…..tons of material out there.The american people are already seeing her for what she is-a lightweight fraud. Don’t give her a chance to redeem herself at all.

okojo · 1 year ago

Those numbers of people who think she is not qualify, will go up.

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

I think Palin's strategy will be just to get as many Right Wing Soundbites in as possible -- I don't see any other way she can go.

But, at this point, Wingnut support isn't helping the John "I've fallen and I can't get up" McCain Campaign.

acknight · 1 year ago

CNN's running a story about the _other_ bridge to nowhere, the one everyone forgets about:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/...

Sage24 · 1 year ago

The pundits keep saying Palin should be allowed to be Palin, and that she has been prepped too much...What difference will that make? It looks like Palin just does NOT know about national issues, she is way over her head. Even if she is not prepped, the woman knows nothing about issues pertaining to this country, so she cannot give an intelligent answer. You cannot bring a person, all the way from Alaska, who has been incurious, and disconnected from the happenings on the mainland, and expect them to answer questions, past and present, about national and international issues. That would be like bringing a country bumpkin, and making him/her run a major company in the city.

Why do these republicans always nominate/vote for these ignorant people?
They gave us Quayle, W, and now Palin. The unbelievable thing is, they always vote for these people in large numbers.

McCain's judgment again, is very questionable.

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

There is a pattern emerging:

Quayle
W
Palin

and next ?

A professional cheerleader

vkobaya · 1 year ago

They gave us Quayle, W, and now Palin.

Try Cooledge, Harding, Hoover, Agnew, Reagan, besides the ones you mentioned.

As far as experienced, just how much experience do you think will it take before she is qualified to be president? 50 years, 500 years, 5,000 years or maybe 50,000 years when she has evolved in something with functional brain cells between her ears. Then again, Nixon was probably the only Republican president I can remember in my life time who did have functional brain cells and where did that lead him?

Oops! Eisenhower! Yeah, but he wasn't a dedicated Republican. He did not become a Republican until he was asked to become their presidential nominee. He had been an honorable military officer who believed the military did meddle in politics. Huh! Someone should tell that to the military officers today.

grandma · 1 year ago

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle em with bullshit'

....that only works for a while.

123akennedy · 1 year ago

From what I have seen of the protest in Alaska, her inexperience has also spilled over into her governing of the state. McShame loves to say that Sarah is the most popular Governor in the country. I would love to see a current poll, I'll bet those numbers arn't quite as high as they would like them to be any more. Alaskans are ashamed of her, she is an embarassment to them. I wouldn't be surprised to see Alaska vote Democratic in this election because of "Six Pack Sarah" Now wouldn't that be a kick in the ass. We have already seen Florida swich to our side and look at Texas, the numbers are droping for McShame, don't be surprised if it changes because of the Hispanic vote, and look at some of the other Southern states that are getting closer. The old Southern "Dixiecrats" of the 60's who formed the modern Republican party in the south after the civil rights act was signed into law are now realizing that McCain, at 72 just might not live to complete his first term and I think that they are beginning to take a real look at just how totally under qualify "Sarah Six Pack:" is and it scares the hell out of them. This election is getting to be really interesting.

WDemDem · 1 year ago

Latest poll had her at 68%

Ginger_FL · 1 year ago

I think it was on Olberman last night...he said her poll numbers are down to 60% and sliding...that there are 2 other governers with higher percentages.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

and look at Texas, the numbers are droping for McShame, don't be surprised if it changes

Don't kid yourself. Texas will go blue about the same time the Republicans become honest, honorable, decent, civil, decent, loyal Americans who don't cheat, lie, steal or rig elections and intimidate minority voters. Look to see that there will be a vast campaign to threaten to deport any Hispanics who show up at their polling places. And they will deport them even if they are legal citizens. There will be prison buses ferrying Hispanics over the border to Mexico regardless of their citizenship as well as whether they are Salvadorian, Columbian, Argentinean. etc. Probably, Japs, Chinks, and Asians too. Africans will be told they are felons and committing voting fraud and their ballots will be discarded.

Someone did a movie about voter attitudes and in Texas, again and again came across people who were convinced that Obama was Muslim and was part of that conspiracy that carried out 9/11.

grandma · 1 year ago

Ambinder:

If there's one thing that worries Republican strategists more than the polls today, even more than the listlessness of the Republican Party, it is that Sen. McCain seems flustered, angry, inconsistent-in-tone, and his campaign seems angry and off-kilter. His refusal to look at Obama during last week's debate was evident in just about every clip.

The press is starting to pick up the theme,

They had a basic strategy: make the race about Obama. Well, the race is now about the economy. And, as predicted, there's more curiosity about Sarah Palin than about Obama.

Compare this to Democratic strategists who worried that Obama wasn't fighting back hard enough. Turns out that Obama didn't need to -- events took care of the problem.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/20...

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

Rachel Maddow keeps pointing out how the Republican Party doesn't have a leader. (I think that scares the American people more than anything).

Sage24 · 1 year ago

McCain really looks petulant and immature. Apparently, yesterday on the Senate floor, Obama had crossed the floor, in an effort to greet MCain, and McCain had not been that friendly. He had not even looked at him (once again)very much. What an arrogant SOB.

BarrieT · 1 year ago

old + immature = senile

gwpriester · 1 year ago

McCain does not have any choice. It is obvious that by his campaign's keeping Ms. Palin away from the media that his campaign knows she is not ready.

It's the Emperor's New Clothes.

grandma · 1 year ago

I know...who do they think they are fooling...keeping her away from the media...

We aren't THAT dumb !!!

TomJoad · 1 year ago

Hey, she's well on her way to the new VP duties.

Hiding in undisclosed places, and we know she can handle a shotgun, so shooting a hunting partner in the face ought to come as easy as falling off a log.
She just needs to cultivate the sneer.

michaelt · 1 year ago

read the RS article on McCain?

it's brutally honest.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mak...

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Wow!

That's a good one.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

They're still dancing around the obvious.

It's not so much her lack of experience--although that doesn't help---so much as the fact that she's a moron.

To a certain extent, you can make up for lack of experience with a first-class education and inquisitive mind--but she has neither.

Sage24 · 1 year ago

Here is the link to the story about McCain "chilly" reception to Obama's friendly gestures.

Makes Obama look mature, and gentlemanly.
Makes Mccain look immature, petulant, and crude.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/mccain...

grandma · 1 year ago

Yes...just shows once again...Obama is the adult....McJerk the child...errr spoiled brat.

nicho · 1 year ago

Well, a lot of Americans are immature and crude. Apparently, they want their president to be just like them.

DKarma · 1 year ago

It's not about experience, but rather character and competence. When Palin goes on these interviews she really shows how naive and incompetent she is to be VP much less president. Obama has character, composure, class, and he can answer a question when asked. Palin doesn't possess these traits. Not because she's a woman, but because she is in WAAAAY over her head on the national stage.

BarrieT · 1 year ago

Debate Palin into insignificance.

GollyGee · 1 year ago

That means 40% don't think she's unqualified.

A nation of morons.

nicho · 1 year ago

That is truly scary. Forty freaking percent think that ignoramus is qualified to be president? She's not even qualified to be mayor of Wasilla, AK -- she screwed that up to a fare-thee-well.

bish8 · 1 year ago

I love Bill Maher's comment that Sarah is a "Catagory Five Moron".

BarrieT · 1 year ago

ROTFL

dcastro · 1 year ago

I still say there’s a few hours for an “October surprise” where Palin will be forced to “suspend” her participation in tonight’s debate - Bristol’s water will “break” and Grandma Sarah will have to be there; the giant head of Vladimir Putin will rear his head over the Bering Straits and she will be called back to Alaska as Commander In Chief of the Alaskan National Guard; McCain will provide her the Google Map directions to the debate hall and she will end up in East St. Louis at the same intersection where Chevy Chase asked for directions in National Lampoon’s Vacation. Anything is better for the spiraling downward Country Club First campaign of McSame-Palinsignificance.

scytherius · 1 year ago

Jesus god what about that other 40%? Are they zombies? And I agree with some of you. I just do'nt see her as making it to election day. I see McCain snagging Romney as the "financial VP". Though I only think that by about 55%. If he dumps Palin (even if they try and pretend she isn't being dumped) the base will be PISSED and they may lose as much as they hope to gain.

LisaLV711 · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin has been getting a pass on intelligence. Since when is it cool to be dumb? Especially if there is a slight chance of one becoming President of the United States. Sarah Palin is either '"giving us the business" or she really is really, really dumb. If we don't start rebuilding our educational system here in the United States, we will never be competitive. There is no way McCain or Sarah should qualify for any major office on any level. She's dumb and he's lack judgement.

EmGD · 1 year ago

That 40% still think she's qualified has to be some sort of miracle. They should be thrilled with that number. Though, that does show there's still a bottom Governor Mooseburger still hasn't hit yet. Which is scary to think. What else can she do?

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/