Early report - McCain to choose Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as VP

[croat]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_mccain_veepstakes

Hmmmm .....

[DocM]

Unless I'm missing something, this could be a disaster for his campaign.

[pink posey]

i think it's a really smart move. A lot of the disgruntled hillary fans are already leaning towards Mccain. This might be the final push they need to deflect.

[DocM]

We'll see, but I think that faction is being greatly overestimated in terms of how they will actually turn out. Voting for a pro-life republican is not really what Hillary was getting at when criticizing Barack.

[kryg]

Well Dam I guess I'm going to have to vote for her for pres. 

[croat]

i think it's a really smart move. A lot of the disgruntled hillary fans are already leaning towards Mccain. This might be the final push they need to deflect.

Yea, voting for the wrong reasons - for a women. Just like how blacks are voting for obama based on color, voting on gender is simply absurd.

[croat]

Two years ago, Palin was part-time mayor of a village of 7,000. Today, she's supposedly ready to step in to run this country with McCain? Now the Obama camp can start throwing the experience accusations back at the McCain camp

Also her husband works for big oil

[croat]

    
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Re: ** Early reports** McCain shoose Alaskan Governor Palin as VP
   Today, 10:37 AM
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12969.html
If Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin got the job as running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), count her as one of the most surprised.

In an interview just a month ago, she dissed the job, saying it didn’t seem “productive.”

In fact, she said she doesn’t know what the vice president does.

Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain's ticket mate.
Palin replied: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re

[Josh]

wtf

he did this solely to screw with the "never been in office" hype.  So now, the media and cattle minded american public are back to their starting point....Black versus Female.  Great......it's now a fuking circus show again.

[croat]

Remember, a women and black man with no experience

[kryg]

hey not likely McCain will crock in office so lets have some eye candy to look at, while he is screwing us

[dj e.rich]

hey not likely McCain will crock in office so lets have some eye candy to look at, while he is screwing us

he's 72 and has battled cancer 4x.  i mean, i know he's on some chuck norris shit, but at some point nature is going to win. 

i admire the move from a campaign standpoint.  it's an all or nothing move.  i respect that.  i just think that it's going to backfire more than help him.

[croat]

Worse Than Quayle

So it's official - John McCain has thrown a Hail Mary and tapped Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. The trad med types are ga-ga about what a game-changing choice Palin is. And they're right. It is a game-changer. The Palin pick takes a race already leaning toward Obama and pushes it further into his corner.

Why? Because Sarah Palin is the most unqualified VP nominee in modern history, with the possible exception of Admiral Stockdale.

She's worse than Quayle.

After his selection in 1988, Dan Quayle was rightly lambasted as a dim, inexperienced lightweight with no real pertinent experience who was named by George H. W. Bush as a gimmick - a case of an old, out-of touch candidate trying to appear relevant by teaming up with a much younger pol. Now, Palin's not Quayle - by all accounts, she's quite bright. But she's fantastically inexperienced, far more so than Quayle was when he was tapped. And she possesses an attribute far worse than Quayle's stupidity - she's a big corrupt wheel in Alaska's big corrupt Republican Party, arguably the most corrupt political apparatus in the United States.

We're told that McCain really wanted to pick his old friend Joe Lieberman to run with him, but that Karl Rove and the rest of the elite Republican politburo nixed the idea, and told McCain that he had to take a conservative. And as he has at every step of his campaign, the one-time "maverick" sold out to the venal, icy core of the Republican leadership, and acquiesced by selecting Palin. Palin is really a Republican after Rove's heart - she's a product of the party that produced the indicted Ted Stevens and ethically tarred Don Young, and she's embroiled in a Troopergate scandal of her own, with state investigators looking at serious allegations that Palin abused her office by pressuring the state Public Safety Commissioner to fire "an Alaska state trooper involved in a rough divorce from Palin's sister." Sounds like a woman after Karl Rove's heart.

In addition to further associating McCain with the Republican culture of corruption, the Palin pick undermines one of his main anti-Obama narratives. It's going to be laughable to hear McCain assail Obama's supposed lack of experience after naming the first-term governor -- only one-and-a-half years into her term -- of the 47th largest state to be his running mate. Palin lacks any foreign policy experience, and is bereft of even the two core areas of policy expertise that governors are supposed to bring to a ticket -- ag policy (Alaska doesn't have much in the way of traditional agriculture) and urban affairs (Anchorage is the 65th largest city in the US, behind giants such as Corpus Christi). She's easily the least experienced running mate in recent memory, which is pretty scary, given McCain's age and his history of cancer.

By picking Palin, McCain revealed his desperation to make a splash to rival the genuine excitement generated by the Obama campaign. But desperation leads to poor decisions -- and McCain's Hail Mary, like most last second desperation moves, is destined to fail miserably. He's smeared himself with the pungent mud of Alaska Republican corruption, while cutting the legs out from one of his most reliable attacks against Obama. And he's presented Americans with the prospect of electing a dangerous neophyte to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, behind a man whose life expectancy is less than two presidential terms.

[croat]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/reportcard.palin/index.html

The average grade for her as his pick is currently a C.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/begala.palin/index.html

Paul Begala thinks ol Johhny boy is outta his mind with this one.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/29/mccain-vp-pick-younger-less-experienced-than-obama/

Jack Cafferty: McCain V.P. pick younger, less experienced than Obama.

[farzad]

they're grabbing at straws and its a clear 'play' for votes more than anything with substance.