DISQUS

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

McCain chose her. You cannot tell me that this reaction was not expected. People don't make multi-million dollar decisions and without taking the consequences into consideration.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

but John McCain made the multi-million dollar decision in 24 hours.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Good God, where have you been the last 8+ years... take a look at ALL the big businesses -- (oil and drugs are the exception) how many have had huge write downs, layoffs, ect??? Do you really think that they thought beyond the fast buck to the long term consequences of their policies??? Really?

Try working in a company where the upper management and board is constantly making decisions based on short-term financial gain... it's an annual fun-fest of "who's getting laid off this round", until the company sells off it's assets and hobbles to it's eventual death.


As to McCain and his folks having weighed the consequenses of choosing her??? Here's Frank Luntz holding a focus group at their convention the other day.... pretty amusing and not unexpected, if you're a dem -- but not so much for poor Frank Luntz, who is actively trying to "improve" the outcome...

slappymagoo · 1 year ago

If you attack Palin, you're sexist, hating on her just because she's a woman.

If you attack McCain choosing Palin, you're anti-American for attacking a POW.

We're Republicans, we don't make mistakes. YOU make mistakes, and the biggest f*cking mistake you'll ever make is assuming WE EVER make a mistake. It's the way we make thie bitch called America work, and work FOR US! Got a problem with that? Stand on your apple box and bitch about it on the corner of "f*ck" and "you."

Seems like an odd platform upon which to base the Republican agenda in 2008, but they seem to think it'll work for them, so God bless 'em, hope they're wrong.

Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago

Yes, Jonny doesn't seem to want to read the memo. Having been (note past tense) a POW over three decades ago is no longer a free pass for anything good, bad or indifferent. in the twenty-first century.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

who seems to have fired a trooper because he was married to her daughter

John, it was her SISTER who was married to the trooper... otherwise it pretty well sums up the state of things...

And if they're worried about being sexist, then Sarah herself should stop with her apparent favoring her sons over her daughters.

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

thanks,corrected it

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Would have Ronald Reagan picked someone with the "credentials" of Sarah Palin for Vice President in 1980?

paul94611 · 1 year ago

If this is all McCain (The man that does not speak for the campaign) has to say, then they are in very deep water. They are realizing that the bar, while lowered will be just a little higher than Palin can reach.
McCain screwed his "base, the press over the way in which he handled the announcement and the dye is cast.
Eagleton will now get surpassed by Palin.

meemers · 1 year ago

I know a lot of Obama people will watch out of curiosity I plan on not watching.

Quick Vote
Do you plan to watch Gov. Sarah Palin"s address to the GOP convention?
Yes 47% 41642
No 53% 46349
Total Votes: 87991
http://www.cnn.com

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

We will be watching Obama on O'Liars show.

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

Okay, it is time for a little fun at Big John's expense. Since he made such an amazing and thoroughly vetted choice for VP. Just who is he going to carefully consider and then choose for his cabinet. Even though he has attacked her, I think because she has women parts and can like spend money like crazy--Paris Hilton for Secretary of the treasury.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

That means he has already vetted Brittany Spears to run Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

shrrrr · 1 year ago

I still don't think she can get a high level security clearance.

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

The repubes can get her anything she wants. If they can out CIA agents, then all is fair and legal

Amanda Lapore for secretary of the Interior.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

She won't last another two weeks. Time to bring in Mitty.

jimfromthefoothills · 1 year ago

it's too late, they are totally invested in her. It is funny though that she beat out Mittens for the job.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Note how pissed he must be; he's not anywhere near the convention, right?

Chris From Maine · 1 year ago

well that didnt take long.. way too early to be playing the sexist card.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Rather brazen of McCain to use the sexist card, given his own very, very crude attitude toward women.

Bose · 1 year ago

Note: This reveals right-wing perceptions of women and minorities. McCain and his cronies don't care about the substance of injustice; they shut down instantly whenever concerns are raised by women and minorities, labeling them as knee-jerk reactions and whining.

Now that they've got a woman on the ticket, they've decided it's their turn.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Is it sexist to call her a liar when she says she's a reformer?

She never did repay that $400,000,000 she took for the Bridge to Nowhere!

I hear it's paying her legal fees

tlsintx · 1 year ago

this, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when the inherently sexist GOP tries to play the sexist card.

they trump themselves.
McCain and the boys don't give a shit about Sarah Palin or whether she has 10 abortions. They just want to snow the base and win again.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

How asinine to discuss sexism when they're trying to run the first campaign where ISSUES are just stupid altogether!

jimfromthefoothills · 1 year ago

John should be making ads for the dems. This "joke" video should be played for the country to see. Picking on a little girl. what a fucking pussy.

CitizenX · 1 year ago

It's not about issues, it's about identity politics. Didn't you get the memo.

And besides... IF they get elected... gramps mcsame can give it the ol war monger try for a couple of years.. resign for health reasons... and then the jerry springer mascot can finish out the term.. and go for 2 more.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Only Limbaugh reserves the right to eviscerate a woman (who's undergoing chemo) for not blowing her husband enough....and made him have an affair.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

ggggrrrrrrowl. limpballs is crime against humanity.

osage · 1 year ago

“If Mr. McCain wanted to break with his party’s past and choose the Republicans’ first female vice presidential candidate, there are a number of politicians out there with far greater experience and stature than Ms. Palin, who has been in Alaska’s Statehouse for less than two years.

Before she was elected governor, she was mayor of a tiny Anchorage suburb, where her greatest accomplishment was raising the sales tax to build a hockey rink. According to Time magazine, she also sought to have books banned from the local library and threatened to fire the librarian.

For Mr. McCain to go on claiming that Mr. Obama has too little experience to be president after almost four years in the United States Senate is laughable now that he has announced that someone with no national or foreign policy experience is qualified to replace him, if necessary.

Mayor Palin gathered up $27 million in subsidies from Washington, $15 million of it for a railroad from her town to the ski resort hometown of Senator Ted Stevens, now under indictment for failing to report gifts.

The Republicans are presenting Ms. Palin as a crusader against Mr. Stevens’s infamous “Bridge to Nowhere.” The record says otherwise; she initially supported Mr. Stevens’s boondoggle, diverting the money to other projects when the bridge became a political disaster. In her speech to the Wasilla Assembly of God in June, Ms. Palin said it was “God’s will” that the federal government contribute to a $30 billion gas pipeline she wants built in Alaska.

As Senator Graham noted, Mr. McCain has to reach out beyond the party’s loyal base. “We’re going to have to win this thing,” he said. “This is not our race to lose.”

Mr. McCain’s hurdles are substantial. To start, he has to overcome Mr. Bush’s record of failures. (The president addressed the convention Tuesday night and now, McCain strategists fervently hope, will retire quietly to the Rose Garden.) That record includes the disastrous war in Iraq, a ballooning deficit, the mortgage crisis — and the list goes on.

To address those many problems, this country needs a leader with sound judgment and strong leadership skills. Choosing Ms. Palin raises serious questions about Mr. McCain’s qualifications.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/opinion/03wed...

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

The official talking point sent out to the McMinions today is that she is more qualified than Obama. Cuz she had all that executive experience and stuff.

osage · 1 year ago

The good thing about that tact is that it will only appeal to those who are already die-hard red kool-aid drinkers. Undecided Independents, Democrats and Republican moderates know the difference between serving four years as an Illinois Senator representing 13,000,000 citizens and serving two years in the Alaskan wilderness representing 680,000 citizens, some of whom want Alaska to be an indepedent country. People of intelligence using their brains aren't as gullible as right wing religious zealots who believe that their leaders have personal conversations with god. There is no one more unlike Christ than someone who believes that Christ was a self-righteous hypocritical racist who cared more about himself than the did his children of every creed and color. God's children aren't at the Republican convention; god's exploiters are.

Wolfsinger · 1 year ago

It IS amazing that the ReThuglicans think they can get away with taking the subject of women and their rights and turning it upside down when it serves their twisted means. And good grief! Do they complain when rational Americans say they don't buy it.

I mean, come on! Rush gets lauded by the Right when he blames Edwards' infidelity on the fact that his cancer afflicted wife "wouldn't use her mouth for anything other than talking". NO push back from the Right. NO outrage. Rush & the hate-mongers like him are still on the air. The Neocons consistently prove they fear and loathe the civil liberties that up until W, were the hallmark of this nation. Particularly, the civil liberties of women.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

They just might Wolfsigner. You forget they are playing to the redneck vote. They believe this shit. I live in a rural area and these crazies really believe the republicans are the chosen one. It is scary as hell.

Wolfsinger · 1 year ago

I have little doubt that you are right, SY.


I too, have some experince with Southern voters. A "salt-of-the-Earth" sector of the voting public who, when the chips are down, will help
their own. And that strength is what the Neocons have successfully tapped
into. By keeping these so called "social morale issues" at the
fore, villainizing civil liberties, personal choice, questioning the Government
etc., these folks vote against their own personal best interests in some manufactured
and manipulated attempt to "help". So,yes. I think you
are right that they believe this stuff. Its very difficult to admit that
you may have been used particularly when your real intent was to
"help".

Wolf

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Up now at HuffPo, Jason Linkins on how McCain was against Earmark Queen Sarah Palin before he was for her.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Wonder why her church doesn't want us to know what they're preaching? I guess they just teach how to be a shitty Mother for Jesus.

Then they parade the boyfriend around the country and you have to pay for his transportation.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Was Sarah in the movie: Small Sacrifices?

Andyz · 1 year ago

Uh, has anybody seen McCain's Bangla Deshi daughter lately? Is she being hidden because of her skin color? Just asking.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

Actually Bridget (that's her name) was the only McCain child at the RNC as of yesterday.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Maybe Dobson liked the fact that Sarah The Conservative was campaigning with the first 3 buttons on her blouse undone.

Maybe it was that she's modeled swimsuits to win a pageant.

I thought Dobson was against people swimming together in public.

there's so much to learn.

Wasn't she vetted?

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago

Seems to be Rove at work here. When you attack your opponent you attack his weak points. When you defend your self you make the weak points seem strong.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

I just know that 875,000,000,000 are going to watch McCain tomorrow night!


......unless they are watching Bill O'Really try to pin Obama.

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

The neocon "more of the same" fest is a big giant bore. No one will watch. I might peek, not unlike the person who wants to view an accident on the side of road. You look for a minute, and then you cant stomache it, and then you hurl......or is it turn to stone.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

I will be watching Obama. Am sure alot will be to see how he is treated.

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

Obama's camp needs an Ad saying Palin was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, and how much she agrees with all of Bushes policies.....etc. The list goes on. Bring it! HIllary and Barack have been dragged through the mud over and over again, why are rethugs off limits?? I don't care if she is a man, woman, or a giraffe. Since McSAME did not vet her, we have to.

Palin MUST not get her insane agenda into the whitehouse, plain and simple she must be stopped.

Throw the kitchen sink at her. You are on the national stage baby, deal with it. Hillary and Barack did, and Biden for that matter. Lay into her, and expose her for the wacko she is.

Milli · 1 year ago

Let's see, I don't like McCain, so therefore I hate all men. Got it.

akguy · 1 year ago

Correction: The esteemed governor of my adopted state did *not* fire her brother-in-law trooper guy (Wooten), although she tried mighty hard to make it happen. She fired the state commissioner (Monegan, an appointed cabinet-level guy) who refused to fire him while warning that to do so was an abuse of power. I know there's a lot of sordid details, but please try to keep your facts straight as you turn over rocks up here in Alaska.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

Thats good. You are there so it is up to you to help get the correct information out. After all we didn't know anything about her until a week ago. We are only commenting on what is out there. I have a niece that lives in Alaska but she isn't thrilled by her. I want the facts but the truth. I think that all we want

houstonray · 1 year ago

Would like to hear more from people in Alaska...to help us out down here in the lower 48...there is so much info coming out so fast, I also want to know what residents think of her...

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Meg Whitman WILL be getting a tongue-lashing this afternoon from Rick Davis for going "off-message."

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

How funny that McCain would say that, when Palin herself made a comment that she didn't think it was a good idea for Hillary to whine because she is a woman. Now look who is whinning. Well republicans whine all you want because the american people have a right to know where she stands on the issues.

kirkaracha · 1 year ago

Video:

When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn’t do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don’t think it’s, it bodes well for her -- a statement like that.

seohio · 1 year ago

I think a sexist is one who chooses a candidate for high office because of gender.

Mum48 · 1 year ago

Amen, and right on!

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

I am waiting for the famed McSAME temper to flare up. I can just hear him in the Oval office when Palin questions him....."hey, at least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*nt."

.....ah yes, family values....ain't it grand.

houstonray · 1 year ago

Mark, you almost made me spit my drink all over my computer screen! THAT was funny!

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

LOL...well if you don't laugh, you cry. :-)

houstonray · 1 year ago

Amen brother, amen!

Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago

The disaster that is the McBush3/Republicon National Convention just gets worse and worse. It appears that Sarah Palin, far from eschewing the "old boys network," as she called it seems to have been playing along with it even to the extent of takiong monies from Ted Stevens, (the now-indicted senator).
More and more it would appear that Palin is a bigger liar than McCain and now we are told the media dont like her because she is a woman! It doesn't matter that she is a woman; a man with her same lack of background and experience, and her same barely nodding acquaintence with the truth would have drawn the same reaction. In addition, we all know John McCain's view of women: HE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THEM!
The real cause for all the chaos was the foolish, ill-considered, sudden, seat-of-the-pants decision to interview Palin on day and then offer her the spot with almost no time interval for reflection or consultation with his advisors. Complicating this is the fact that almost no "vetting" was dome before the announcement! McCain said in PA yesterday "The vetting was complete and thorough" and he's very pleased. I submit he is lying through his teeth. No one in his right mind could say that with all the continuing surprises, big and little, that keep tumbling out about Palin's life and work experience, that she was vetted; else why did all of them come as such rude surprises.
She is clearly UNFIT to be a candidate for VP; She sould withdraw her name ASAP. Again I repeat it has nothing to do with her being a woman.

For that matter John McCain is TOO OLD to be a candidatefor POTUS. Some people at 72 are in great shape, firm of step and clear of mind; McCain is NOT one of them. Besides the multiple bouts with cancer, McCain is showing increasing symptoms of introductory dementia, a nice way of saying he is starting to lose his mind. All thosae gaffes, claiming on one day he didn't say things the media had tape of him saying only several days before; talking about geographical borders that never existed; political entities that ceased to exist a decade before. All these are not just gaffes; this person, if elected, will have his finger on the button and I for one don't want to worry that he may not know who or where he is when that phone rings at 3 am.

1shanta2 · 1 year ago

Mr. McCain only choose Mrs. Palin because he wanted Mrs. Clinton supporters. But if you are Mrs. Clinton supporters and you don't want anyone interferring in your personal decision to have an abortion than how coud you ever support Mrs. Palin, who from her on stands believe in no abortions at all. This is our personal decision and I don't think any woman or man (especially) a man should tell me or any woman what decision should she make concerning her own body.

mevohio · 1 year ago

They are getting exactly what they want -- all of the attention has been on Palin since they announced she was their choice. Obama is getting NO attention. They do not want the focus to be on the issues -- they want the focus to be on "poor little Sarah and her family" and the mean people who are "picking on her." I say let 'em hang themselves and get back to the issues. If she is any good at all make her prove it over and over and over again. Keep talking about the issues. She has no business being the VP candidate so keep asking her hard questions about the issues. The social conservatives are going to vote for McCain and Palin no matter what but maybe a few people will quit feeling sorry for her.

Kansaskitty · 1 year ago

The McCain campaign is setting up a strange dichotomy here - screeching "sexism!" if anyone dare question anything about Palin's abilities (or lack thereof). They keep saying she shouldn't be treated by a different standard than a man would. Good! By that standard, at the Biden v. Palin debate, the moderators & Biden should treat her like the man they want her treated as and go after her no differently. Watch the screeching then - they'll say they are picking on her because she's a woman!

Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago

RESONSE TO THE UPDATE:

It doesn't really matter what the McBush3 drones think the cause is....
they are never going to accept the real reason--Many feel that Palin is not up to the job; they do not think her competence and experience are sufficient. And frankly with the slow trickle of details about her past, she appears increasingly NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME!

Mum48 · 1 year ago

How ironic. The political party that has done more to disable women and minorities cries "sexism," when their unqualified and troubling vice-presidential candidate is challenged and questioned. And, of course, if we criticize McCain's judgment in choosing her, when it is clear that she was not vetted (or, what is even more frightening to contemplate, she was vetted and they did not care about the negatives!), we are what? . . . . . unpatriotic or part of an evil cabal of some sort.

And, a coda to the crude, offensive, and sexist joke would be that Palin would be against an emergency D&C, or the morning after pill.

rja4429 · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin, you say ,oh so rightly, "is unfit to govern America in a time of war." Sarah Palin, I say, is unfit to govern anything, anywhere, any time!

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

Actually, only sexists pick soccer-moms as their running mates-- purely for the political bump, not for their experience and sound judgment. It's the political equivalent of some guy looking at his date's hooters and saying how much he loves her for her mind. If the "bubba vote" hurts Obama, the "bubba 'tude" will hurt Meh-Cain.

CitizenX · 1 year ago

Did you hear the new talking point?

The current line is that the media is trying to destroy her candicacy because the Democrats are scared.

I heard that 3 different times from right wing wacko talkers since last night.

jimnotjimmy · 1 year ago

The Republicans’ new position is that it is sexist to question Palin’s qualifications to be vice-president, much less president if McCain breaks his campaign promise not to die or become demented before January 20, 2013.

Republicans certainly have a long history of acting in the defense of women’s honor, if not their right to privacy, or equal pay. Feminist trailblazer Barbara Bush denounced Geraldine Ferraro as ‘that $4 million—I can't say it, but it rhymes with “rich.”’" (“Barbara's Backlash” by Marjorie Williams; Vanity Fair August 1992 )

Chivalrous George H.W. Bush assessed his performance in his debate with Ferraro as follows: ““We tried to kick a little ass last night.” (The Yale Book of Quotations - by Fred R. Shapiro, Joseph Epstein – 2006)”

Speaking of asses, McCain laughed his off this spring when asked, “How do we beat the bitch?” When he stopped laughing, he said, “That’s an excellent question.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLQGWpRVA7o

MNUSA · 1 year ago

Why isn't anyone concerned about a woman who peeps into her sister's window watching an argument? Am I the only one that thinks there's a level of dysfunction there that's scary? On the other hand Bush has convinced us that wire taps and torture are okay.

CitizenX · 1 year ago

I saw that too... and thought it was way creepy.

KISSman · 1 year ago

There's been more cries of sexism in just this last week than during the entire presidential run of Hillary Clinton. The difference is that Hillary had some real experience and other qualities that made her a worthy presidential candidate -- even if some of us didn't like her.

In this case, Palin is a disasterous VP choice and doesn't have any experience worth noting. Notice how Republicans' only response to questions about her experience is about how she has more executive experience than Obama. So much for specifics.

Anyhow, a claim of sexism is all they have and they are going to milk it in hopes of trying to pull over Hillary voters (since this is the main reason she was ever chosen in the first place).

angelawilli6 · 1 year ago

What a bunch of hypocritical, judgmental, pompus, arrogant asses the Republicans have turned out to be? they parade Sarah Palin's pregnant teenage daughter and her baby daddy around at the convention, but demand that everyone give them privacy. I am so sick of this party that I could scream.

Please vote Obama in 08 and send John McCain a message that hypocrites get sent back to Arizona and ALaska. We don't need them in Washington.

PaminVT08 · 1 year ago

I am right there with you. I was listening to NPR today and heard interviews with people who actually worked with Palin when she was Mayor and Governor. She raised taxes in Wasilla. She increased the Alaska budget some 33% and the only time she worked across party lines was when she got Democrats to help her clean scandalous Republicans out of office. She would have had a ball going after the Bush Administration. It is a shame that she only uses her power to get what SHE wants. I am willing to bet that they will find that as Governor she did in fact pressure to have her estranged brother in law fired. This is all too familiar. Can you say Bush/Cheney (McCain/Palin)!

jane68 · 1 year ago

I just heard Sarah Palin's infantile, Student Council-level appeal at the RNC. We women have worked hard to get where we are since the 1960s - respected for our intellect and our strength of character. And this minor-league, snarky, little ditz is blowing it for all of us. Making a speech dripping with sarcasm, as her first introduction on the national stage? Honestly, I was sick at heart listening to her. Women need to UNITE in opposition to her, and send her packing, back to Alaska.

PaminVT08 · 1 year ago

Sexist? John McCain chose Sarah Palin because she is a woman. He is the pig. He assumes that women are unable to understand the depth of the issues our nation faces. He assumes we will choose him for President because he has a woman on the ticket. How dare he call others sexist? Seriously, is it any wonder that I and many many of the woman I know will vote for Barack Obama as the next President of the United States?