Six Things The Palin Pick Says About McCain

Politico:

The selection of a running mate is among the most consequential, most defining decisions a presidential nominee can make. John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says a lot about his decison-making -- and some of it is downright breathtaking.

We knew McCain is a politician who relishes improvisation, and likes to go with his gut. But it is remarkable that someone who has repeatedly emphasized experience in this campaign named an inexperienced governor he barely knew to be his No. 2. Whatever you think of the pick, here are six things it tells us about McCain:

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Comments

[MourningDude]

The question no lib can answer without exposing their own cynical misogyny...

"Why did JMac choose SP for VP?"

[Sabreen60]

Surely you jest. The easy politically correct answer is simply because of her ultra right conservative stance on issues.

[cluelessinSD]

because it has a great tune and you can dance to it.

[nellie]

Because she the female version of W.

[LeftLeanWing]

If you are digging for

"because she is a women"

that does NOT show misogyny ,

It shows an awareness that McScrotoHead is trying to reel in Hillary Supporters with a
Lactating Lady Lure


** i'm sure this will get scrubbed **

[AshevilleVoice]

You missed the most obvious thing the Palin pick says about McCain.

7) He's horny.

Did you watch where his eyes were pointed as she spoke in Dayton?

[tubette]

seems there's an agenda...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/163234/559/495/579213

[DebbieinPhx]

Oh, geez, I read that stuff...followed the links, etc.
Is this REALLY what this woman believes?
That is frightening!!!! This talks about taking over the world and ridding it of anyone or
anything that isn't Christian, and doing so by force because THEY are walking in the path of right
eouness, God's Army (Joel's Army)

That is scary stuff. Does the media have this yet????????

[CaliGold]

Gov. Palin not popular with fellow Alaska politicians? I'm shocked , Simply shocked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2z2NAqpGI

[DebbieinPhx]

Wow... she's a real piece of work!!!!! She is NASTY

[ChucklingRedRectum]

Many right-wing voters believe that overturning Roe would make abortion illegal. It would not. All it really does is turn the decision back over to each state to decide for itself what their laws should be.

How many states would vote to make abortion illegal? A few. And what stops those in need from crossing state lines to have one?

[abigail1]

money.

[athenasword]

Issues: the cash, a car, means to pay for a hotel, time away from work, someone noticing you're gone (which in some cases could be dangerous)...

[JTyroler]

That's also assuming that the nearest state to where a person lives does offer safe and legal abortions. If someone lived in central Alabama for example, the nearest abortion provider could be in New Orleans or farther.

[cluelessinSD]

It would also open the door to crack pots doing illegal abortions, placing the lives of poor women in their grimey little hands.

[pattio66]

uhhhh...money. If one must travel 200-700 miles to obtain a legal procedure, you've just added substantial gas, lodging, and time constraints to an already stressful situation. In case ya'll hadn't thought about it, every woman I've ever spoken with who has had an abortion (and there are a lot of us out there) made the decision because of financial issues. When one loses a job due to pregnancy, one cannot feed the children one already has. And welfare "reform" has made it even more difficult for poor women to carry an unintended pregnancy to term. Apparently, Sarah Palin and John McCain would just incarcerate these women and force them into bearing a child they didn't intend to bear, all the while putting her already existing children in foster care. Seems pretty "family-focused," doesn't it?

[RRonin]

In the game of poker a player who has a junk hand "represents" that the hand is a great one by acting confident and betting big. McCain is holding a junk hand and trying to represent he's got a royal flush......

[abigail1]

to say that this pick was anything other than a completely reckless and ridiculous political ploy is just insulting. To say that there is any legitimate reason to pick this person with these qualifications is not just sexist but flat out d u m b.
I think Obama is playing it right, don't talk about her because really there is nothing to talk about.

[blueshield]

However....I strongly believe Dem women need to be vocal, strong and clear this candidate is ignorant of the issues, the facts, the operations of government, and the American people. She may be a wonderful person, a strong woman, and have a great family, but she is NOT inexperienced - she is totally unqualified.

Otherwise, she will set women in politics back three decades.

[athenasword]

Exactly. Dem women are the ones who have the most to say here; they can make the bigger difference.

[SeekerOne]

What a joke Bush/McCain have made of the Republican Party. The dog food is decomposing as we blog...

[Oklad]

Out of the mouth of Rove..

With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town. So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States?

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It gets better
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"Rove argues that Kaine’s mayorship of Richmond (pop. 200,000+) is insignificant and that his 3 years as Governor of Virginia (pop. 7,712,091, GDP $383 million) has been “indistinguisahable.” If Rove was intellectually consistent, wouldn’t that mean Palin’s mayorship of Wasilla (pop. 8,000+) and 20 months as Alaska governor (pop. 683,478, GDP $44.5 million) makes her even less qualified than Kaine?"


http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/29/vp-picks-karl-rove-swings-and-misses-big-time/
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[cnobody]

that's fantastic! this needs to be everywhere.

[abigail1]

when Sarah Palin was mayor, Wasilla had a population of just 5400.

[athenasword]

This needs to go VIRAL~!

[lostnacfgop]

This is a great premise for a novel, perhaps. Maybe a come-drama, or mini-series. Maybe if they just brought back "Roseanne" and had her and John Goodman thrust by kismet into a Presidential campaign. But, no, McCain has made this reality. A starkly, stupid reality borne out of a need to change the subject from perhaps the best presidential campaign speech since 1960. McCain's tossed away the most potent argument in his gruel-thin arsenal of attacks on Obama - that he lacks the experience necessary, by putting Miss Congeniality in the seat last occupied by Darth Remington. Adios, best argument. Hello more questions about senility, poor judgment, mercurial temperament, "thinking with the smaller brain," pandering to the Bob Jones crowd, mocking the Cult of Romney, and most of all assuming - absolutely incorrectly so, that voting women who favored Hillary are sooo gullible and vapid that they'll be taken by this superficially pretty face whose beliefs match up better with Ralph Reed's than Hillary Clinton's. Sheey*t Maverick, you didn't just shoot yourself in the foot, you stuffed your leg into the insinkerator and then you flipped the switch.

[justanotherbushhater]

Ahhh, she's cute as a button! She'd make a darling lil' President! A real matched pair with the current Cheerleader-in-Chief!

[blueollie]

This wasn't a maverick pick; this was a pick by someone held captive by his party's extreme right wing.

Obama-Biden got it right: this is more of the same; the Bush-Cheney cronies are still calling the shots and would continue to do so in a hypothetical (albeit unlikely) McCain administration.

[EuGeneTherapy]

Absolutely correct. It also says that the Republican establishment continues to believe more in theatrics and politics than substance and the fate of the American people. Thing is, the American people really are on to them. Even before this ridiculous VP pick, McCain had a very small chance of being elected. His chance just got smaller, by a wide margin.

All because repugs really don't get it. And this time, the cheerleading media won't be able to turn the tide!!!

[Trill]

Hey folks...does anyone remember that Bush selected some woman from the White House to be his VP and the Pub powers that be liked to have had a fit!

There was such an uproar that in a few...she was gone. And, then we got Cheney...or Chain--ee.

What was that woman's name?

[citizenmike]

Excuse me. Wasn't "The Maverick" a TV show about a con man. Just checking.

[rosal]

I can only imagined if O had picked, for example, Michael Moore for his VP, cable news talking heads would be exploding. And I consider Michael a lot more experienced on issued that this woman. Mc might energize the Fundamentalist Christian right, but he just turned off the rest of the country.

[swift goat pet for truth]

"Gov. Palin is one of many millions of Americans who have used marijuana and gone on to live productive, wildly successful lives. That she used marijuana is no big deal, but what is a big deal is that she thinks that the 100 million Americans who have used marijuana, including herself, belong in jail. That wouldn't be good for her kids. Perhaps most importantly, Alaska is one of 12 states that allow the medical use of marijuana, and one in five Americans currently live in those states The GOP ticket should embrace the time-honored Republican principle of local control by promising to end the federal government's war on sensible medical marijuana laws in both red and blue states." – Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington.

[Sabreen60]

I think I read a quote from her that said she smoked pot when it was legal. When has it been legal in this country???? Have I missed something????

[poco767c]

It says that he is so spontaneous that one day he will wake up, his toast will be burned and he will nuke Nicaragua to prove a point.