Palin

[beachmouse]

chickpea, you ask why McCain chose Palin. I think the answer is now very obvious. Who has talked about Obama or Biden since last Friday at 10am? The Press hasn't, nor have I seen anyone posting about them on SoWal.com/bb. How many people are talking about Palin? Seems like everyone. -- poliTRICKal surge. McCain knows all about the "surge."

If that was the intention, then it could very easily backfire on him. For all that he's been giving off a certain Bob Dole 2.0 vibe, McCain was doing pretty well in the polls because he was managing to frame the election as a referendum on Obama- with McCain you know exactly where you stand, but this new guy Barak should be scrutinized very thoroughly and looked at far more critically than McCain the known quantity.

But now the scrutiny shifts, and the pick opens McCain up to a higher level of questioning. Right now, it's a referendum again, but this time the subject is McCain's judgement, and that's not a good line of questions for a presidential candidate.

 

[Miss Kitty]

if we fix our country and our international profile, we will make many friends.

Okay, give me a country you wish we would emualte.

 

[scooterbug44]

New theory - they wouldn't support his pick of Lieberman, so McCain chose Palin. After a couple weeks of teen pregnancy, scandal, and distraction she'll go away and Lieberman will be looking pretty good!

 

[Jdarg]

I just talked to my mom - she was at the mall walking with all the mall walkers (most are senior citizens).

Anyway, she said they are all shaking their heads over VP choice of Palin- these older people just don't get why McCain picked her. This is the first time I have ever heard my mother question anything Republican- as many years as she has walked in a voting booth and just pulled the Republican lever, she's having a heard time getting on board with this one.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I wonder if Lieberman as VP would send the conservative votes to Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party.

 

[Miss Critter]

Okay, give me a country you wish we would emualte.

We shouldn't emulate anyone. America at her best is the envy of the world, and rightfully so. It's just lately she seems like the former honor student who suddenly developed a crack problem. Nothing that a little rehab can't fix. She just needs a little intervention (maybe in November?) to get her back on track.

 

[Jdarg]

We shouldn't emulate anyone. America at her best is the envy of the world, and rightfully so. It's just lately she seems like the former honor student who suddenly developed a crack problem. Nothing that a little rehab can't fix. She just needs a little intervention (maybe in November?) to get her back on track.

I love this!!

 

[Miss Kitty]

I just talked to my mom - she was at the mall walking with all the mall walkers (most are senior citizens).

Anyway, she said they are all shaking their heads over VP choice of Palin- these older people just don't get why McCain picked her. This is the first time I have ever heard my mother question anything Republican- as many years as she has walked in a voting booth and just pulled the Republican lever, she's having a heard time getting on board with this one.

Yep. My Daddy said the very same thing. What does Andy A. say?

 

[Smiling JOe]

I just talked to my mom - she was at the mall walking with all the mall walkers (most are senior citizens).

Anyway, she said they are all shaking their heads over VP choice of Palin- these older people just don't get why McCain picked her. This is the first time I have ever heard my mother question anything Republican- as many years as she has walked in a voting booth and just pulled the Republican lever, she's having a heard time getting on board with this one.

Very interesting. I haven't thought about these ladies, who grew up in a world where men were expected to do everything with regard to authority and power. I wonder if that mindset has led this group of ladies to not believe a woman should be in power.

 

[Miss Critter]

Hardly what anyone would consider "real news," but good for a chuckle nonetheless:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg/azjwbcginwsg

Excerpt:

McCain More Likely to Drop Palin, Bookmakers Say
Mark DeenTue Sep 2, 1:04 PM ET

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The smart money thinks there's a better chance today than yesterday that John McCain will dump Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Before the Republican senator's presidential campaign disclosed the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, bookmakers in Britain and Ireland were offering 20-1 odds or higher on a bet that she would be forced off the ticket, meaning a 1 pound ($1.78) bet would pay 20 pounds. Now that same bet will pay no more than 8 pounds.
``While it is rare that a VP candidate gets dropped, it's not completely impossible,'' said Ken Robertson, political betting analyst at Paddy Power Plc, a Dublin-based gambling company. ``Lots of our punters are betting `Shocking' Sarah's days are numbered,'' he added, using a nickname he came up with for the first-term Alaska governor.