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It's great.
Bill Maher starts again, ( the writers are probably thanking GOD for this ) and Keith O is gonna wipe the floor with her inexperience.
And I thought last night couldn't get any better !
So, beginning of the end for McCain, or simply a cynical political calculation that might work?
Interesting stuff.
I don't believe this was the smartest thing John McCain has ever done. In fact, that should be a Dem talking pointing, McCain's judgment to lead this country.
I think that explains it. Former runner-up in Miss Alaska contest. McCain was letting his little head do his thinking.
I am listening to her now, and her voice is shreaking!
"What foreign capitals have you been to Governor? Well, uh, I've been to Spuzzum, Pouce Coupe, Yaak, Skookumchuck, and Horsefly British Columbia, Canada, all those big international capitals. Yeah, that Pouce Coupe is so citified that you can't even drive your ski doo on the street."
Hah!
Why not Mary Richards' spunk???
Well that makes it just fine, All you have to be in order to be the VP is not from Washington and a prolific producer of children.
Then again, she could turn out to be McCain's own Harriet Miers...
If people are going to use history, let's use all of it. Palin is a gimmick and if Obama and company do their job, she'll be laughing stock very soon. Unlike 88, there's no "Great communicator" to bail out the GOP and deliver them one more win.
Also, as a footnote, remember that Bush I lost re-election, with Dan Quayle too.
http://selfsufficientsteward.com/?p=304
She energizes the base, she attracts disaffected Libertarian types, she picks up some voters attracted to a woman (as well as those who are now paying attention because she is a very pretty woman), she picks up the sportsmen/women.
No, this is a shrewd pick indeed.
After all, what are we talking about, the morning after the acceptance speech of a lifetime?
She hasn't been on the National Stage before, I think this may be a big shock in dealing with the cutthroat politics on the national stage, even whether she will handle the campaign staff that McCain will give her, and act like a robot.
She will pick up enough of those women in Ohio, Colorado and elsewhere, who will be (secretly perhaps) proud of a woman who has successfully juggled career and family, just like they have.
This was one smart pick.
Snowe, someone from the Southwest to attract Latino voters, or someone independent in a sense within the Republican Party.
McCain is taking a gamble. She didn't win much on organization as much as a backlash from Murkowski. The mayor of New York runs a bigger and much more powerful organization than the Governor of Alaska. All those Federal Lands aren't under her domain. If any interests she seemed to like is the fishing industry, a big interest in Alaska.
"McCain: I found someone who grew up in a hard working middle class family."
Wow-he never saw one before?
McCain is going to run against Washington, as a reformer, and pushing immediate energy solutions. That Palin is a woman with a compelling story helps as well.
Let's not get cocky or complacent.
More of the same
Hey! That is one thing I won't hold against her. The SOB is a state trooper who slapped around Palin's sister and then tasered her nephew. I would have voted for acquital if she had shot the GD macho cop, one of those jerks who proves his manhood by slapping around women and abusing kids. If there is a time and a place for governor to abuse the power of that office, that is it.
Otherwise, the choice of Palin is a sickening choice. As someone up-thread mentioned, McCain had plenty of far more experienced, better qualified candidates to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, especially considering McCain's very fragile health. Of course, maybe McCain has the same contract with Satan that Cheney has, he won't die in office.
Oops! Oh yeah! This choice as his running mate also thoroughly undercuts his charge that Obama has no experience and is unqualified.
But agree with you on the downside of her as choice.
I think a much bigger issue will be her youngest child who has Down Syndrome. I think she needs to be careful how she deals with health care issue on the stump.
i really think this is a bad choice, not because Palin is a bad person, or incompetent, but she is being thrown on the National stage with an intense amount of scrutiny.
Sorry! My apologies to every good smart Democrat.
But then again, she apparently doesn't know what a VP does, so there you go.
God, Hillary - get out there and slap this airhead down. You too, Geraldine.
"The bigger the hair, the closer to God"
It's Dan Quayle in a dress.
How do YOU spell potato governor?
Talk about playing to the lowest common dominator
How do you see this pick?
As an ardent Obama supporter, I was REALLY hoping that he wouldn't pick Palin.
She has been on for five minutes and there are so many holes in her speech it is like a sponge.
I'm now cleaning coffee off my monitor.
Willow, Peiffer and Trig? WTF?
Why do I think of Charmed or Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
And McCain just checked out her booty!
And did she just say Nuculer?
And why is he standing so close? Is he a puppeteer with his hand u her back?
He just checked out her ass again!
Shit now there talking war!
http://palininvestigated.blogspot.com/
Good thing it's that huge, since it draws away from the fact that JOHN MCCAIN IS NOT WEARING A FLAG LAPEL PIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody put Sean Hannity on the case right away...
From Wikipedia:
"Wasilla is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, its population was 5,470. The 2005 estimate gives it a population of 8,471, making it the largest community in the borough."
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ breaking-news-its-unofficially-official.html#links
The ONLY distraction this announcement is causing is the uproar in pundit-land, liberal AND conservative, over what an absurdly stupid choice this was.
Good luck though with selling your meme!
Do you do standup or are you just naturally gifted with the ability to make people laugh?
Oh, thanks for the COMIC RELIEF!
...what the hell is this?
You're unusually genereous. I would have given her 60 seconds.
She's a weak enough candidate without bringing that up.
Thank God he didn't make it.
http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/492077.html
"The Legislature has hired Steve Branchflower, a retired state prosecutor, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Monegan firing. That includes looking at accusations that Palin, her aides and her husband had pressured Monegan to fire a state trooper who went through a divorce with the governor's sister."
and this is right up John A's alley.
Palin has 5 young kids and I think one has down syndrome.
here's the spark: I would even bet...Dr. Laura would not approve of a mother of five young kids trying to be VP. dr. Laura is so opposed to a mother of 5 young kids working.
Just a thought....
Kind of puts a wrench into "Family Values"
Any of those claiming to be Hillary voters that would accept Palin as a substitute are nuts.
Looks like he just picked a mare. Both destined for the cannery.
I wonder if she can spell "potato?"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/10940/8...
Rove said that won't matter because Mukasey will fix it all.
http://kodiakkonfidential.blogspot.com/2007/12/...
That's her life's work anyway.
Geeze, how could any mother want to take on running for a VP with a 4 month old.
I REALLY have to question her judgement.
that is just SAD.
Palin had a 1 in 35 chance at age 43 of having a baby with Down Syndrome. (At age 33: a 1 in 420 chance).
Expect this before the day is through: "No one is more pro-life than Palin and Barack Obama would have killed her Down Syndrome baby--AFTER he was born!"
Plus she'll wipe the floor with Biden in the swimsuit competition.
Obviously the pain meds have kicked in.
How embarassing is it that neenie nooner Noonan's party has a sick "two--headed" baby candidate as well?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/pegg...
She has a newborn! What a selfish bitch. You can tell her husband is a crossdresser.
Sorry, but a "hockey mom" , mother of five is not my idea of change, it is my idea that a disaster could easily happen should McCain die.
Palin came across as a big fat ZERO.
Obviously, it's an attempt to get them over to the Repub side.
However, whenever people talked about Obama considering a woman who wasn't Hillary, it was generally thought they would be hostile to her and consider it as pandering to them without giving them what they wanted.
Will that be the case here?
BUT: What happens after 4th Nov: the GOP is either not thinking about that, or they don't care.
(Good thing McCain can't get along with 99 percent of his Senate colleagues.)
WOW. Johnny McDesperate really pulled one out of Rove's ass didn't he.
no one saw this coming. I bet he did not make the decision until after he realized that he could not count on the dissention among the dems to bring the Hillary voters to his side.
Typical GOP pick.
gramps mcsame is a disposable candidate, pure and simple.
Also, his VP pick it the ultimate example of pandering. Pandering taken to the highest level picking a soccer mom to pander to the women vote.
Little Ms. Palin =Creationist
http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2006/10/27/in...