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  • #16
    Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

    It's Sarah Palin (44) as McCain's choice, Miss Congeniality in the Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant. Married to a full blooded Eskimo. Mother of five, including a 4 month old with Downs Syndrome. Political experience: Mayor of a town of 8000. Governor of Alaska for 2 years. International or Federal experience....0. Her sister is involved in a nasty divorce with an Alaska state trooper. Palin had him fired from his job as a result.

    McCain has shown real insight, decisiveness, and savvy in this courageous choice.....NOT! McCain has proven he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Ohhhhh.....this campaign is going to be good, real good!
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    • #17
      Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

      Originally posted by matapule View Post
      McCain has shown real insight, decisiveness, and savvy in this courageous choice.....NOT! McCain has proven he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Ohhhhh.....this campaign is going to be good, real good!
      So, McCain chose a governor from a noncontinental US. And Linda Lingle was so close!

      So, what is wrong with Sarah Palin?
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      • #18
        Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

        Originally posted by matapule View Post
        It's Sarah Palin (44) as McCain's choice
        Perhaps a ploy to get the Clinton supporters who have threatened to jump to McCain to follow through, by putting a woman in as VP? (In her speech this morning, she referred to Clinton's "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling.") Since there's a chance she'd outlive McCain and inherit the office that way, there are certainly voters who would go along with that plan.

        So much for McCain's campaign arguing about Obama's "lack of experience" - Palin's lacking it as well. But she's been a harder-line conservative than McCain, so she'll appeal to those members of the GOP.

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        • #19
          Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

          Originally posted by matapule View Post
          McCain has shown real insight, decisiveness, and savvy in this courageous choice.....NOT! McCain has proven he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Ohhhhh.....this campaign is going to be good, real good!
          That crack about Alzheimer's disease indicates to me that you, at least, should then be getting the campaign you deserve.
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          • #20
            Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

            Sen. Obama's speech was moved to a larger venue (Invesco Field, Denver CO) to accomodate 84,000 people - many more who wanted to attend were unable to get in.

            Sen. McCain's announcement was in a venue that holds about 12,000 (Nutter Center, Dayton OH) - they had plenty of free tickets to spare. Sen. Obama was able to pack the same space back in February for a rally.

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            • #21
              Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

              Originally posted by matapule View Post
              It's Sarah Palin (44) as McCain's choice, Miss Congeniality in the Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant. Married to a full blooded Eskimo. Mother of five, including a 4 month old with Downs Syndrome. Political experience: Mayor of a town of 8000. Governor of Alaska for 2 years. International or Federal experience....0. Her sister is involved in a nasty divorce with an Alaska state trooper. Palin had him fired from his job as a result.

              McCain has shown real insight, decisiveness, and savvy in this courageous choice.....NOT! McCain has proven he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Ohhhhh.....this campaign is going to be good, real good!
              and she's HOT!!!! yah baby!
              Last edited by Ninja; August 29, 2008, 07:26 AM.

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              • #22
                Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                Corrections to her background as the story unfolds. Her husband is only part Eskimo. She was Mayor of a town of 6500. She fired the State Commissioner when he refused to fire her brother-in-law as a State Trooper.

                One Republican strategist said, "She is head of the Alaska National Guard and she is the mother of a son in the military. That is the kind of experience we need to lead the Nation."

                Another Republican strategist said, "We need someone in the Whitehouse who isn't afraid to eat a mooseburger."
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                • #23
                  Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                  Originally posted by Leo Lakio View Post
                  Perhaps a ploy to get the Clinton supporters who have threatened to jump to McCain to follow through, by putting a woman in as VP?
                  I suppose that's the strategy. But the problem is that Clinton is pro-choice, Palin is ardently anti-abortion. That presents an ethical conumdrum for Clinton supporters.

                  I still think that Obama will announce a significant political appointment for Hillary prior to the election (Secretary of State or Supreme Court?).
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                  • #24
                    Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                    Originally posted by Random View Post
                    So, what is wrong with Sarah Palin?
                    Don’t get me wrong, all of the criticisms identified by matapule are valid concerns. But IMHO, it’s not so much as what is wrong with Sarah Palin, it’s the fact that she’s from a state that few people hear about except news of their senior Sen. Ted Stevens. You know, the guy who’s been in the U.S. Senate nearly as long as Sen. Dan Inouye (which makes him pretty f*#king senior). Stevens, in case you hadn’t heard is currently embroiled in a messy scandal in which the FBI and IRS have raided his home. The Justice Department is also investigating whether Stevens steered million$ of dollars in federal contracts to his former aides. Suffice to say, Stevens will be standing trial next month, and I would be shocked if any political party besides the GOP didn’t jump all over this opportunity to hammer McCain’s choice.

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                    • #25
                      Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                      Originally posted by matapule View Post
                      But the problem is that Clinton is pro-choice, Palin is ardently anti-abortion. That presents an ethical conumdrum for Clinton supporters.
                      If those Clinton supporters are so angry with the Democratic Party that they are honestly willing to support McCain over Obama, this will not stand in their way.
                      Originally posted by TuNnL View Post
                      she’s from a state that few people hear about except news of their senior Sen. Ted Stevens. You know, the guy who’s been in the U.S. Senate nearly as long as Sen. Dan Inouye (which makes him pretty f*#king senior). Stevens, in case you hadn’t heard is currently embroiled in a messy scandal in which the FBI and IRS have raided his home. The Justice Department is also investigating whether Stevens steered million$ of dollars in federal contracts to his former aides.
                      He didn't even go to Dayton for the McCain/Palin announcement this morning.
                      Last edited by Leo Lakio; August 29, 2008, 08:46 AM.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                        Originally posted by TuNnL View Post
                        Suffice to say, Stevens will be standing trial next month, and I would be shocked if any political party besides the GOP didn’t jump all over this opportunity to hammer McCain’s choice.
                        In defense of Palin (there are many things I do admire about her) she has been critical of both Republicans, Stevens and representative Young in a very public way, calling for their resignations.

                        What I question is her qualifications to be VP.....a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

                        If you follow the news today, Palin is contradicting and tripping all over herself trying to explain her firing the State Commissioner of Public Safety and firing of her former brother-in-law, a State trooper.

                        Today on Faux News, a Republican pundit said, "Palin has lots of experience in International Policy, her State is right up there next to Russia."
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                        • #27
                          Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                          Originally posted by timkona View Post
                          McCain has a host of reasonably good choices.
                          Was Palin a reasonably good choice?
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                          People who form FIRM opinions with so little knowledge only pretend to be open-minded. They select their facts like food from a buffet. David R. Dow

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                          • #28
                            Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                            Picked simply for hype.

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                            • #29
                              Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                              She's not as politically inexperienced as people may think.

                              (1992-1996)2 time council member in Wasilla, AK(Anchorage Exurb)
                              (1996-2002)2 term Mayor of Wasilla, AK
                              (2002) Failed bid for Lt. Governor
                              (2003-2004)Commissioner Alaska OGCC(Energy Commission)Appointed
                              (2006-Present)Governor of Alaska

                              So she's been in politics 5 years longer than Obama, has served in 3 different levels of politics as well as a bureaucrat, and has dealt with defeat.

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                              • #30
                                Re: Who should be McCain's VP?

                                She doesn't think the VP job is very "productive" and doesn't even know what the job duties are. Hopefully for her case, she's been briefed and educated since she made these statements:

                                http://news.yahoo.com/story/politico...KJSCapiEBh24cA

                                Aj

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