We think John McCain showed poor judgment in his decision to select Dan Quayle, I mean Sarah Palin as his running buddy. We decided to have a little fun with it and hopefully raise a little money for our home team of Obama-Biden.

Here without a drum roll are the Fifteen Reasons We Support Sarah Palin (if you like please donate to Obama-Biden on our page)

15. She left her town of Wasilla in a great fiscal situation according to her set of books

14. She knows how to edit on Wiki. I'm sure she can teach McCain to google.

13. She thinks Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her insight into foreign policy.

12  She rides a mean snowmobile and cooks a fantastic mooseburger

11.At least she wasn't President of the Harvard Law Review

10. Palin knows the duties of the Vice-President. In fact someone explained them to her today.

9.  Mike Wooten will get his job as Alaska Trooper back

8  She's Vogue.

7 Palin said she will debate Al Gore anytime and anyplace on Global Warming because it's always cold in Alaska for the Idiatrod

6   She believes in Absolute Power because she thought it was a great Clint Eastwood movie.

5.  She has five kids.

4With her experience she can enter and win the Sturgis Beauty pageant.

3 We would get her husband Todd as a shadow Vice President

2.  She was properly vetted.

1 Before being Governor she was the mayor of an Alaskan village called Wasilla which had about 5,000 residents. That's experience

My wife is at the convention and I'm at home. . She was a big Hillary supporter and I was a big Barack supporter. We had many interesting debates and arguments, but we both made a deal that if Hillary won I would go to the convention and support her and if Barack won that she would go to the convention and support him.

So to ease my pain of not being there, I am doing a fundraiser. I've already raised $120 including my own $50. Go to My Act Blue Page and give us another $10, $20 or whatever you can afford.

My fifty reasons.

1. I am a lifelong Democrat

2. My best friend from law school just had his second child - second baby girl this morning. He's also a big Barack supporter.
 
3. I saw Barack speak three times this election cycle:

4. I marched with Barack and the Clinton's across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 2007.

5. Beau Biden gave an emotional heartfelt speech last night that brought his father, Michelle Obama and myself and millions of others to tears.

6. John Kerry gave the best speech of his life last night including my favorite line - "Before McCain can debate Obama he needs to finish the debate with himself."

7. My Congressman Artur Davis from Alabama gave a phenomenal nominating speech yesterday.

8. Gov Sebilius gave us this gem - I'm sure you remember a girl from Kansas who said there's no place like home. Well, in John McCain's version, there's no place like home. And a home. And home. And home.

9. My mother in law cried yesterday when Barack won the nomination

10. Brian Schweitzer is great

11. I just read Kos's endorsement of electronic filing for the Senate FEC reports

12. I only own two houses. Well the bank really owns both of them.

13. Chris Van Hollen gave a good speech yesterday that nobody saw.

14. One of our Two For Tuesday Candidates took the Stage with Van Hollen - Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico 3

15. Another one of our Two for Tuesday Candidates took the stage yesterday - Jeff Merkley of Oregon

16. Hillary Clinton ended the roll call yesterday in support of Obama

17. Republicans like Jim Leach and some other guy I saw from Iowa support Obama

18. "No way, no how, no McCain!!!"

19. That's not Change, that's more of the same.

20. Did I say that I like Joe Biden

21. Bill Richardson gave a great speech tonight.

22. I get to rub it in my wife's face that I was right and she is wrong.

23. I'm proud of my wife for being at the convention today

24. Because Left in Alabama <a href="Left'>http://www.leftinalabama.com">Left in Alabama</a> has provide great coverage throughout.

25. Because CSPAN has been great.

26. Al Gore gave a solid speech. Loved the recycling line.

27. Because i only have to come up with 23 more reasons

28. That's not Change we can Believe in

29. Fire it up

30. I'm a big Dick Durbin fan. We met at the DuQuoin State Fair and he remember me two weeks later in Chicago and then four months later in the halls of Congress.

31. Dick Durbin still doesn't know I was the one that wrecked his campaign truck (it really wasn't that bad, but just wanted it to sound dramatic)

32. AlObama voted for Barack on super tuesday.

33. I have a picture of me with Hillary when i was 17 at a conference in DC. that I kept up the entire primary season

34. I endorsed Barack for President in 2008 4 years ago

35. Because John McCain was a POW - had to be in here somewhere right?

36. John McCain is not a maverick - he's a sidekick says Sen. Bob Casey

37. McCain will announce his awful VP choice sometime in the next 48 hours

38. Al Gore will give a great speech tonight

39. Ted Kennedy - enough said

40. We can't have 12 more years of Bush economics

41. McCain doesn't understand the economy by his own admission

42. Only 8 more to go and after 8 we are rid of W.

43. John Conyers said he will hold Rove in contempt

44. Michelle Obama gave a great speech

45. 45 years ago Martin Luther King had a dream on this very same day.

46. 4 more to go and only 4 more months of Bush

47. 3 more to go - 3 states to tour this weekend or Obama-Biden - Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio

48. 75,000 plus at Invesco field tonight

49  Obama- Biden supported the GI Bill

50 Change is something I can Believe in !!!

And lord that was problematic for him. We blogged on this earlier in the week, but after some more vetting on our part we realized that we left some info out.

So here it goes

Apparently, the maverick of the Senate, or the Sidekick of the President as Senator Bob Casey called him last night is ready to make his VP pick on Friday.

Well what the heck has taken so long.

Here are the contenders and why they may have been problematic to figure out:

Tim Pawlenty : McCain had to "google" to find out what state this guy was from.

Bobby Jindal: McCain asked the IOC, after seeing they did such a good job with the Chinese gymnasts, to check Jindal's birth certificate to see if he was old enough.

Tom Ridge: McCain had to figure out if that would affect the terror code scam on the public. He also had to find someone else to figure out what the colors meant.

Joe Lieberman : McCain had to figure out if Lieberman's kiss with Bush meant more than McCain's warm embrace with W. He seemingly got a little jealous

Two new candidates have emerged:

Kay Bailey Hutchinson : Well apparently these two do not get along. Wouldn't be the first time McCain made an arrangement with someone he called a four letter word.

Mitt Romney: Wouldn't call this new, but questions remains as to if he could make his Hillary Clinton the pick?

 says John McCain - December 2007

you've seen the video - replay it in your head, share it with everyone you've ever talked to, embrace it (yes pun intended), share it.

anyways we at The Progressive Electorate are honoring Obama/Biden tonight at our Two for Tuesday fundraiser.

Ten reasons to donate ten dollars to our fund right now

10. Because Ted Kennedy took the stage last night
9.  Because this is the 45th anniversary this week of "I have a Dream"
8.  Because Hillary takes the stage tonight in a sign of Unity
7.  Because it's a Tuesday and I said so ( I just donated $10 and you can too)
6.  Because John McCain is a POW
5.  Because Michelle and Barack's kids are cute
4.  Because Michelle hit a home run last night
3.  Because Mark Warner is hitting a home run now
2.  Because we don't want to piss Joe Biden off
1.  Because We don't want John McCain answering the phone at 3:00 a.m.

Perhaps the best line of the convention thus far. And not too many people heard it unless you were watching CSPAN or in the Convention Hall. Of course CNN will call it a lackluster night. Another speech not covered in primetime, but should have been. At least this gem from Sebelius will get some play (if from nobody else but the Progressive Electorate)

Barack Obama has a plan to save the dream of homeownership for families who've lost their homes or fear they can never afford one — unlike John McCain, who has so many he can't keep track of them all. I'm sure you remember a girl from Kansas who said there's no place like home. Well, in John McCain's version, there's no place like home. And a home. And home. And home.

Gotta love a joke referencing the Wizard of Oz and bashing McCain. Solid.