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McCain has been thumbing his nose at authorities, rules, regulations and respect for tradition since he was at the naval academy. At the academy he holds the record for braking the most regulations ever. He is still rebelling against authority. We saw this same behavior in Dubya when he picked Condi Rice for his National Security advisor, she was out of her league. Dubya also had the incompetent 'nice job Brownie' running FEMA if you recall, and who could forget his appointing Harriet Miers to the Supreme court. Both McCain and Bush are children who never had to earn individual achievement or merit nor meet the rigorous standards to get plum assignments, so they have no regard for those standards. They laugh at them.
Has anyone forgotten how Jenna's old boyfriend was admitted to Harvard's MBA program because Bush recommended him and the boy only had community college credentials, not even a 4 year bachelors!!!
I hope America sees this pick for what it is. We are seeing just how McCain lacks the judgment to lead and will not have any more regard for the Constitution or the institution of the Presidency than Bush did.
To them this is just a toy that they get to play with and they laugh all the time knowing how incompetent they are for the job and that others more deserving with far better credentials lost out to them.
It is sickening and frightening.
My family went out on the primary election day in downtown to try to encourage people to go vote. The polling place was in walking distrance of their homes, and most people refused to go and vote. Thery were walking around with alcohol and cigaretts in their hand, living in dilapidated housing, and most of them had no jobs, and they still refused to vote. Interestingly enough, these are the very people everyone is concerned about helping!! If they hate Obama that bad, there is nothing he or we can do to change their minds. Let them vote for McCain, and if he wins, let them suffer.
Palin also is a PTA person ..that means she knows how to speak simply and we all know that the evangelical group is not comprised predominately of the sharpest knives in the drawer type intellect. Neither is mainstream America for that matter given they are used to sound bites. Between her pageant skills and 'simple truth' stating skills this woman may be a huge hit. She is obviously a political animal given again her being on the pageant circuit, which is very subjective and 99.9% political in terms of who wins.
I pray that she will not make Biden look professorial or like Lloyd Bentsen in the debates. Bentsen definitely had the gravitas but alas, that was a losing ticket for the Dems. So was the McCluskie candidacy. In short, Dems track record of having the heavy experience in the VP slot has lost more times than the GOP having the lightweight in the VP spot...i.e. Agnew and Quayle both were elected VP.
I think that Palin will galvanize the evangelical base and she could pick up other votes just on the basis of her being a 'working mom' with a downs syndrome baby along with her only other son being shipped off to Iraq at 19.
This race has gotten a lot trickier.
I think Obama has the skills to out charm this 'mom turned VP pro-lifer'
I'm just sayin' . . . . .
GOOD POST!!!!! :>) :>)
We can't help but see the humor in it...but still...you can never underestimate your foe...
That's the way I roll!! :>) :>) :>)
And we have to avoid this trap he's laying, that if we come after Palin, they'll haul out the tired old trope of "Obama attacks White woman" etc. ad nauseum. Let's stay on track!
More like an "AIR BALL"!! :>) :>) :>)
Good/thorough post!!! :>) :>) Thank you! :>)
And, on another note, the Republicans wanna brag about her keeping a baby with downs syndrome, I bet she has health insurance and a family income that will support the medical expenses they face.
But someone needs to ask that Toni from Family Research Council why there are no photos of all the McCain children especially both of their daughters.
Only Meghan was standing up there to day with her new Palin 'sisters'
The pundits are not asking about this. I don't know if we can send in questions for the debate....if so, I'm going to send that in.
It's a really white picture and McCain looks like he may be the grandfather of the group.
Cindy has a history of erasing family members.
That said, you are on point.
You're back and haven't missed a beat! You're right about that. Carville and Begala jumped out the gate today and started mocking Palin and Alaska. The Repubs hit back back by putting Obama on her level. By the end of the evening Carville and Begala had learned, and Begala especially, was coming up with better points against her.
He said that the McCain's wouldn't write a will and put their child in the care of someone they'd met only once; yet, McCain was putting America in the hands of someone he'd met only once. .....It was a good retort. It broached the subject without personally insulting her.
Palin is beside the point...she's a woman who got an offer she couldn't refuse.
She hit the McBush lottery.
If they start verbally opposing her...all they'll talk about for the next 8 weeks is the budget of that small town that she left in shambles, and stuff about her firing somebody. What they won't be talking about is the ECONOMY!
Palin is red meat for the media. They're scrambling for gossip about her and by the time their curiousity is fed, it'll be too late to talk about substantive issues. I hope the debate moderators keep it to the issues.
Palin is the response to the scathing criticism of the Convention. McCain is taking cover....behind another woman.
ANYONE with a Y chromosome CANNOT attack Sarah Palin. Period. That's why the GOP is jumping for joy.
You can't attack her on anything because anything you say about her WILL be turned around on Obama.
NOBODY with a XY chromosome from the Obama camp should attack her. None of the XY surrogates should attack her. That's what the GOP wants, they want the Obama camp to attack her.
DON'T.
The only people who can attack her are people with XX chromosomes. Ignore her like we ignore Alaska 99% of the time and keep the attacks on McCAIN.
Attack McCAIN's judgement. Attack McCain's temperament. Attack McCain's motives.
DO NOT ATTACK Sarah Palin. She will just put on the White Woman's Tears and then everyone will feel sorry for her (like Hillary in NH). I mean no harm to any white women reading this blog, but it's just common knowledge that when a white woman feels attacked, all she has to do is put on the tears and the sad face and people will back off.
". . . common knowledge . . . YES!!! [with NO disrespect - just truth]! :>)
Again, thanks for articulating the FOCUS ["McAncient's" judgment (or lack thereof), temperament (despite the meds) and motives (albeit EVIL) ] :>) :>)
That was the entire point of the nomination, to get Biden or someone close enough to Sen Obama to say something remotely condensending about that nice white woman. If and when it happens, you will habe white woman and some silly black women out protesting.
The cable news will twist the comment just like they did Wes Clark and typical white person-gate.
All the houses are in HER name, too!!
McCain is a kept man. He is living off the hard earned income of another man, cause he married the daughter.
For all we know Cindy wanted Palin cause she is tired of old wrinkled McCain pawing her.
Cindy and Palin probably have loads to chat about given they are both pageant people.
We need to demand family photos from this social conservative crowd.
If Palin can carry her infant son around then surely we can see the other McCain daughter on stage too!!
Also Cindy is aging and Palin (who makes her look even older) is a fresh new paegant type that her husband is fawning all over.
You must not know women. Especially entitled women.
Once a contestant - always a contestant!! :>)
They have a "secret wave" 2. The "pageant wave"! :>)
Whew! LAWD HA'Mercy Deep Breaths!!!
On a serious note: Cindy has a MA in Special Education from USC[Univ. Southern CA]
YES.
What could these 2 possibly talk about at a "HIGH" political level???
There's NOT enough gray matter between the both of them to make a whole brain!! He forgets; she never knew!
THE COUNTRY SUFFERS!!!!
And I'm NOT seeing where REpug leaders are willing to advise!!
PITIFUL!!! Deep Breaths!!! :>)
Megan McCain has a blog chock full of pictures from the McCains on the trail and behind the scenes. No Bridget
http://mccainblogette.com/index.shtml
Check out Megan's website. Is she an "only child" like her mother even though she has siblings?
http://mccainblogette.com/index.shtml
Where are the 527's when you need them the most? Like O said, its not about him, its about us. To me, it is a disservice to not expose the truth.
See pictures here. http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=1636
She's 16 now and she is in school. She has spent most of her time in Arizona in school and joining the family when they are there or when she has a break to be on the road.
The McCains have other children who aren't in all the pictures out of their choice. Meghan is the oldest and it was her choice to participate in the campaign. The others chose not to.
I admire the McCains for not letting the media degrade their daughter again the way they did when she was just a pre-teen in 2000.
Maybe you should try to get some facts before you condemn someone. Maybe they actually have the best interest of their daughter in heart rather than using her as a prop.
I know it is easy to blame everyone else for problems that come up, but like our future president has stated "It won't work this time". People are too upset, too informed, and far too aware for the trademark "twisting of the truth" to work again.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
I feel as if I knew someone there. I am so pleased you were there and I know it will reside in a special part of your soul. Thanks for representing us.
A reader writes:
I don't see how you can rationally say that picking Palin is unserious but picking Obama is serious. Neither one has a ton of experience. But Palin’s experience is mostly executive, and Obama’s experience is all legislative. That cuts in her favor. Moreover, Palin is running for the #2 slot and Obama is running for the #1 slot. That is fundamental.
Sullivan: It occurs to me that some on the right actually think that Obama is as inexperienced and as trivial a figure as Palin. So ask yourself: could Sarah Palin have run a national election campaign against, say, a machine as powerful as the Bush family, and won? Does she have the skill set to construct a campaign that would actually have brought her to the nomination herself? I find the comparison with Obama ludicrous. But it will be made. Palin looks to me like a lovely person and a good local politician, with some inevitable rough spots. I'd be delighted if she took a leadership role in the GOP in the future. But in the same league as Obama? Do Republicans really think that little of him?
I guess they do. We are looking at a different person.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
As many have pointed out, his choice was about politics not governing. Most Republicans who don't have their fingers shoved in their ears shouting "lalalala!" know that.
I just have to say that I am astounded. I am stunned by his lack of judgment, by his impulsiveness, by the very idea that the republicans would consider this woman ready to be second to a 72 year old man whose health is kind of dicey.
I'm not a big national security freak, because I think we're far more likely to destroy ourselves from the inside out. But this woman scares the shit out of me. To imagine her in the White House ~ as ill informed, uneducated and ignorant as she appears to be thus far ~ is frightening.
I can only hope that those clear thinking rethugs who are all about our being the biggest bully on the block will shrink at the thought of this woman with her finger anywhere near the red button. Or phone. Whatever the hell it was in those cold war years.
And on another note, the very idea that this woman would be the one who might become our first president? As a woman who has long wished for a woman in the White House, I find it insulting and demeaning. Wouldn't that just be the thing? Elect the first woman to the White House and she turns out to be some ill informed silly ninny from the hinterlands. Great.
I agree with what Hearts & flowers said above. There are people who will claim to be unenthused about it but will vote for McCain anyway because of his alleged experience. The media promotes McCain in a favorable light 24/7. They have the media in their pocket and they have started the meme that any criticism of Palin is the sexism that is typical of the Obama campaign. I've heard it 4 times and she hasn't even been the pick for 24 hours. O has got to deploy the female surrogates as soon as possible. They are dog whistling the disaffected female demoghaphic. This is truly war.
This is a "beauty queen" pick. If Sarah Pain had the exact same views but looked like Barbara Bush she would not have been chosen.
And then for the McCain camp (and Palin) to say "hey vote for her, she's a woman, she's a MOM, she's JUST. LIKE. YOU." insult the intelligence of the average woman.
I'm interested to see the pro-Hillary crowd now and see what they do. They claimed Obama BET.NOT. choose another woman to be his VP because "women weren't interchangeable." Are they going to vote McCain/Palin jus cuz she's a woman and they want to see a woman up there that badly?
ANYONE who cosigns Pat "A Brief for Whitey" Buchanan is on my automatic X list.
McCain chooses somebody he's only met twice, apparently never seriously vetting her, all so he can create some buzz about his dying campaign?
And this foolio claims "Country First?" Maybe that should be "Cuntry First?"
The spinning heads are all on TV chattering about "Palin has more executive experience than Obama." By that logic, she's more experienced than McCain as well, and nobody would argue that she's more experienced than McCain.
They claim she has foreign policy experience because Alaska is next door to Russia.
The chattering heads are all spinning about how questioning Palin = sexism. The "Challenging Hillary = Sexism" meme is just being transferred to Palin.
If I were a Republican official, I'd be PISSED that McCain is playing games with a beauty queen and bypassing plenty of qualified, competent officials in favor of this person.
This is going to be Mondale / Ferraro 2008, just on the Republican side. McCain just signed his ticket.
But lastly, this choice is an insult to Sarah Palin, because McCain regards her as a pretty placeholder, NOT as a competent official ready to take over at a moment's notice.
McCain is playing games, but he has the nerve to claim Obama will do anything to win an election? Bitch, please.
I hate to keep linking Sullivan but this is another good one on McPain
Putting. Country. Last. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
Here's why I think it was an incredulous choice:
As close as the election is going to be it is the Independents and the non-committed that will be the sought after deal breakers. I do not see choosing Palin as reaching out to these people.
It seems to only reach out to the people within your party...who, in the wider scheme of things, can be considered already committed to McCain in spite of their (previous) lack of enthusiasm for him.
Secondly, I read somewhere that the McCain strategy appears to be to play to “us” vs “them”. “US” = married couples with children, workers, home owners. “Them” = kooky leftists, singles, elites, homosexuals, other folks that are NOT us. I tend to agree with that. The problem is that the “us” is becoming a minority.
The Palin choice sends a message that yes there are still (relatively) younger people that believe in having family and I will reward those people
~ One of "US" I guess.
Viagra is the devil!
The Sarah Palin pick shows that McCain campaign is on its' deathbed. Many of the VP shortlisters may be furious, but better to let Sarah Palin go down with the ship than them. This VP pick is a win/win for Palin regardless of if they win or not:
She raises her exposure with her base (the extreme conservative right);
She raises her exposure nationally;
She makes history on the Republican side;
If they win, she'd be the first female VP in US history.
No matter what happens, Sarah Palin wins. If the Pubs intervene next week, it would be to throw both of them out, not just Palin. And they're not going to do that because that's sure disaster for them.
The majority of the time, McCain is polling around 42%. The latest Gallup poll shows him back at 41% to Obama's 49%. The ONLY way McCain will win in Nov. is if people just can't pull that lever for a black guy. Hopefully the Sarah Palin pick will ENERGIZE Democratic voters to get their asses to the polls to prevent this joke of a presidential ticket from assuming office.
But, I'm waiting for the polls [somewhat]. They are questionable 2! :>)
Lets Recall the Dems had Ferraro on the ticket and she didn't have a whole lot of experience either. But she too was a 'historic first'
David Frum, National Review: http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2VhOWE0...
The longer I think about it, the less well this selection sits with me. And I increasingly doubt that it will prove good politics. The Palin choice looks cynical. The wires are showing.
Cold Water on Palin [Ramesh Ponnuru]
http://tinyurl.com/557crm
Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain's age raised the stakes on this issue.
As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.
And it’s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.)
Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?
Compatibility. It doesn’t seem as though McCain knows Palin well. Do we have much reason to think they would work well together?
Debates. Maybe, as Jonah said the other day, Biden will look like a bully going up against her—and maybe she’ll shine. But I can think of a lot of other picks who would have been lower-risk.
*Sarah Palin has been governor for as long as Obama has been running for president and McCain had only met her once prior to last week.
* Barack Obama also has a degree in Political science specializing in International Relations.
* Obama was a Civil Rights lawyer for 10 years.
* Obama served 11 years in the Illinois State Senate.
* Obama has written over 800 pieces of legislation and co-sponsored even more.
* Palin praised for Obama's energy plan 18 days ago and posted on her website.
They removed it on August 28th.
* Palin told Alaska Business Monthly "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place"
* Pat Buchanon said Palin was a "brigader" for him in 1996. http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ybh92
That should go over really well with Jewish voters and Independents.
As Rikyrah pointed out in another thread, McCain could have chose a GOP women with far more experience than Palin (Olympia Snowe, Carly Fiorina, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Christine Todd Whitman, Meg Whitmans) but they would probably be too much of a threat for him. That will sting for HRC supporters who supported her for reasons other than being a woman.
Face it - she is hardly a slam dunk for McCain.
John McCain is dangerous.
John McCain is UNFIT to be POTUS.
This proves it beyond any reasonable doubt.
Where are the trolls?
They know what's up.
Palin is a nobody.. Charlotte, North Carolina is as big as Alaska. And it's easy to provide "tax cuts" when you don't need the taxes. Alaska is a state because of its oil. And it receives revenue automatically from the oil industry.
John McCain is a fool.
Keep the focus not John McCain, not Palin.
The Dangerous One is a Fool.
Exactly.
This does not ring true and historically it has not shown to be true. Palin's pick highlights Obama's weakness, it validates inexperience as being a reason NOT to vote for Obama. Because in the end, if you vote for McCain you DO get loads of experience. So, if experience is the issue you pick McCain. This was an extremely shrewd move by McCain.
Listen to how folks are ranting about the inexperience factor and Obama;s name is always thrown in the mix, with the GOP pundits always ending with but Palin is not the top of our ticket!!
Men worried about experience will vote for McCain...that is the take away message.
Palin reinforces, affirms and validates that McCain is the EXPERIENCED candidate.
Look no further to Nixon/Agnew and Bush/Quayle winning tickets.
At the end of the day folks vote for the top of the ticket.
I pray that this is the year that political wisdom does not hold true.
"Political wisdom" gets thrown out the window everyday in this election.
It also reinforces that McCain is the OLD candidate...and all the implications of that.
This is evidence that the right wing has no credibility whatsoever. All the talk of national security and family values is all bluster. You people believe in nothing at all. This is John McCain's "Fuck You" to America.
Last but not least...Obama has less executive experience than Palin, and he is running for President!?!
So is Palin more experienced than John McCain?
"Because Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has relatively little experience in national affairs, the bar has been lowered this year for national candidates. This helps Mrs. Palin. As a governor, she has more executive experience than Mr. Obama."
McCain has some, though I don't yet know if he has more or less than Palin. She has a record of integrity that few - if any - elected officials can match. "She's an expert on one of this year's biggest issues - energy."
Anyway, here is a link that I just found: TIME's interview with Sarah Palin.
RATIONAL LEVEL!! :>) :>)
HE IS QUALIFIED!!! ENOUGH!!!!! :>) :>)
Whew! Neurons on fire Deep Breaths!!!! :>) :>)