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Vice President Sarah Palin: It Is Over!
I guess Mc Cain decided he can't win.
The last time anyone picked a VP with this little experience was Goldwater in '64. He picked William Miller, who no one had heard of, because "he drives Johnson nuts" and Goldwater knew he was going to lose anyway.
Romney would have been a serious choice. This is anything but. It suggests that Mc Cain himself is not a serious person. He's just playing.
Mc Cain thinks feminists still upset about Hillary will support a right-wing, anti-choice woman simply because she's a woman. He thinks it will drive the Democrats crazy. It won't. But it will cause the Republicans to think that Mc Cain has lost his mind,
He hasn't. But he has lost the election.
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They gave up! She has NO experience! Sure, she owned a small fishing business, was mayor for a rural town and Governor for only 2 years. Why Obama can wipe the floor with his 152 day in the Senate experience!
Obama blew it by passing on Hillary!
August 29, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Old Sarg,
Consider the following scenario;
President McCain dies in office, we then have President Palin.
President Obama dies in office, we than have President Biden.
Iran, Russia, N Korea bubble, our casualties in Afghanistan are increasing exponentially, and India and Pakistan are glaring at each other.
Choose your President
August 29, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin vs. Putin. Any questions?
August 30, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lets bring up education just for giggles:
McCain - Naval Academy grad that skated through due to patriarch connections
Sarah Palin - University of Idaho, Major Journalism
Obama - Columbia University (Major PoliSci specializing in International Relations) and Harvard Law (magna cum laude)- Constitutional Law Professor - University of Chicago
Biden - University of Delaware (Double major PoliSci and History) and Syracuse Law School Grad. Passed bar in 69, US senator by 72 - 2 years after passing the bar. Adjunct Professor at Widener University School of Law teaching Constitutional Law
Humm I kinda want someone who knows about constitutional law in office especially after an administration who spent the last 8 years pissing and burning our constitution. And I damn sure don't want someone as another president who has no knowledge in upholding the laws of this country.
August 29, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damned educated elitists. Let's get some real people in the White House for a change.
;-)
August 30, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, we're all sick of "experts" doing things like flying our planes and running our power plants.
I know: everyone should just change jobs every three days!
August 30, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
A significant part of the white Catholic older female Democratic voter demographic that Obama is having trouble with IS anti-choice.
The feminists who took a good look at Obama in part because of his mistreatment of Hillary have decided in droves to vote McCain despite knowing his anti-choice record so this pick isn't going to hurt.
August 29, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is hamburger. NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the rest will rip her to shreds.
August 29, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do you mean like they tear apart unborn kids?
August 29, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, like they tear apart unborn kids. Exactly like that. And then they put ketchup on them and eat them.
August 29, 2008 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that made me laugh, what with the avatar.
August 29, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
excellent point.
August 29, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Personally, I like mine with hot sauce. But that's just me.
August 29, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is kind of silly. It sounds like McCain made this pick last week, prior to the Democratic convention, before the events of the last week took 90% of the wind out of the PUMA sails.
White, older Catholic, pro-life females have already been voting Republican for years. What voters is this pick designed to pick up exactly?
August 29, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope that's right. These women do *love* Sarah. Long as it stays among them!
August 29, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where do you get this crap???? Nobody really knows how ANY demographic is really going to vote once they are in that booth.
August 29, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Droves? Mistreatment? What are you talking about?
August 30, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
**Really, dude? You can't see the difference between Hillary and Palin?
August 31, 2008 10:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
One hopes Hillary will point out to her supporters just how clearly this shows McCain's deep contempt for women. God, I hope Hillary's supporters aren't as bitter and stupid as McCain obviously believes they are.
August 29, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I must protest: McCain doesn't have contempt for all women.
Look, he offered up his own wife as a contestant in the "Miss Buffalo Chip" contest, and here he's gone and picked a runner-up Miss Alaska as his, err... running mate.
Clearly McCain has an eye for eye-candy.
August 29, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you mean like they tear apart unborn kids?
August 29, 2008 11:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
No. Probably more like the way the Republicans tear up the Constitution.
But what the Hell I don't care if you pin your hopes on the abortion issue, troll. I am sure it is the single one issue most Americans are concerned about in our very troubled times...
or then again...
August 29, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
OldSarge,
the Republican ticket is now complete;
Jubilation T Cornpone and Daisy Mae
August 29, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Some of the unborn fetuses are kids, some aren't. Depends on the stage of development, just as Roe v. Wade said. No one advocates killing kids, Old Man. Except right wingers who send them off to pointless wars.
September 1, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Also posted on another thread:
Help me out with a question here - don't you have to be 45 to be president? Wikipedia lists her birthdate as February 11, 1964 - which would mean that she will be 44 for roughly a month after being sworn in as VP? And doesn't the constitution say that the VP has to meet the same qualifications as the president? What am I missing?
August 29, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
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August 29, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
I haven't checked recently but the Constitution says very little about the duties of the VP, even less about qualifications. The VP was whichever candidate came in second in the presidential election, and his/her only function was to act as a standby in case the president died or was incapacitated. The only real function of the VP was to act as president of the senate and case a tie-breaking vote if one was needed.
It was only later (I forget which administration) that the President and VP had to come from the same ticket. This ambiguity in the definition of the VP's role is the basis of the silly argument put forth by Cheney/Addington that the VP is not part of the Executive Branch.
August 29, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think McCain picked her because he wants to DO her. Face it: the guy has a history of lecherous behavior. Little John made this pick from Slightly-Bigger John's pants.
August 29, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! You are "bent".
August 29, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not as bent as she'll be--over McCain's desk, OldSarg.
August 29, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kudos, kittybunny, for keeping the discourse civil by using the future tense here, rather than suggesting something sleazy about her interviews with McCain. Republican values demand that she save herself for the oval office.
August 29, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! You are "bent". There is seriously something wrong with your thinking. You need to see a professional.
August 29, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, sarg. You need to pull your head out.
August 29, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey hrebenforf:
Looks like you've picked up an obsessive troll. And he appears to have an unhealthy interest in whether you're "bent" or not...
Yuck!
August 29, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
he is not bent he is just your regular uninhibited shmuck. Kinda refreshing around these parts.
The avatar? too close to his personae for comfort I'd say.
August 29, 2008 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
A trophy wife, a trophy running mate, and the promise of nominating the Swedish Bikini Team to the Supreme Court.
August 29, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that made me nearly fall off my chair. Bravo Bob.
August 31, 2008 3:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
hreb,
she was just on CNN with McCain; she was talking and McCain was to her right, he kept looking down at her boobs.
This video will be shown again.
August 29, 2008 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I said above:
August 29, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin?
If McCain wanted to pick a Republican woman as a running mate who might have brought woman voters to his side he should have picked someone like Jodi Rell, Governor of Connecticut, from my state. She would have been a serious choice which would have actually worried me a bit. But alas she doesn't pass the 'litmus test'...she is pro-choice and signed our state's civil union law after it was passed by the legislature.
Sarah Palin?
August 29, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, this is the best choice McCain could have made. All of what Dems perceive as Palin's negatives either endear her to the GOP base or blunt Obama-Biden's ability to attack the GOP ticket.
Little experience: but it's "executive" experience
Anti-choice: she has a disabled kid
State-house scandal: she's a maverick
Plus she's a woman - POW!
August 29, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink