John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate is a searing insult to women.
Clearly, Palin was chosen in hopes of attracting women voters. There is virtually no other explanation for picking a right-wing leader of a state with a population of fewer than 680,000 people.
The decision argues that McCain has such a low opinion of women voters that they would overlook education, abortion, foreign policy, civil rights, health care, family leave and more simply to vote for a candidate with two x chromosomes.
As Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida said: "I know Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton."
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John McCain collects state quarters. For 2008, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii are the four last quarters released. The other contendors for VP do not live in these states. McCain fills the Arizona spot. Then along came Alaska, and a candidate is born.
I don't understand a mother or father who is pro-life, with five children, with a young child who has Special Needs, accepting the job. What message is that sending the family values? Bring children into the world and put yourself first?
Sarah Palin's choice of VP is a Harriet Myers moment. Remember her: she was Bush's choice for Supreme Court who almost got the job for being buddy-buddy with Bush with zero qualifications.
This is something similar, but this time, the stakes are much higher.
You potentially will have someone, a heartbeat away from the highest office, especially given JMacs age, who has near zero qualifications to take that position, beyond being a woman.
Compare that to Joe Biden and his ability to step into Obama's shoes if needed.
Hmm... I wonder if McC ever considered Keyes...
The attributes that PumaAnn CLAIMED she ADORED in Hillary are NOWHERE to be found in Sarah Palin ................... GO FIGURE.
Not only are WE INSULTED by McCain's pick with THIS woman, BUT HILLARY SHOULD BE EVEN MORE INSULTED THAT McCAIN BELIEVES PALIN IS A COMPARABLE ALTERNATIVE TO HERSELF.
I eagerly await Hillary's comments about McCain and Palin trying to bring her into their picture just to score political points with women voters......................
I await Hillary going out on the campaign trail in support of Obama .............. THERE WILL BE NO CONTENST.
Because Palin comes with so much INEXPERIENCE, it would be SO EASY to show her for what she is without even having to bring her GENDER into play ................... McCain made it so easy for Obama/Biden and the MSM to derail and dismiss Palin without being FALSELY accused of SEXISM.
McCain could have had the BEST OF BOTH WORLDS if he had chosen Charlie Crist.
What a joke!
Sarah is also is inexperienced (in relation to Hillary) and literally got to the VP because she was appointed.
Now, I wonder then, why the GOP wouldn't have picked Elizabeth Dole. She has a fight going in North Carolina. The GOP has little hope of taking over the Senate anyway, so why not pick her? No clue.
Obama may be inexperienced, but he picks someone with experience. If McCain dies (which isn't so hard to imagine since he is 72), we are going to downgrade to someone with LESS experience?
It sort of seems like an admition by the McCain camp that military experience is not what is grabbing people's attention. But change. Not a wise pick.
If you did not know the sex of Biden and H. Clinton, Biden is the better experienced.
Obama was smart because he chose experience, not genitals to woo voters. He actually is thinking the best for this country.. and I was PRO-HILLARY! But I am not an idiot. Biden is a good man. You clearly do not know Biden's record.. I didnt know the Violence against Women Act that he got pushed through, to protect dumbsh**ts like you was "same old politics). You need to grow up and educate.
OBAMA/BIDEN '08
Hey, if there are PUMAs out there who are creationists and anti-choice to the point that they want to outlaw "choice" even in the case of rape and incest and don't care that as recent as March of 2007 Palin is quoted as saying "I don't pay too much attention to Iraq" so having someone a heartbeat away from the presidency not only would have no experience in foreign affairs but has very little to no interest in the biggest foreign affairs and national security issue of the day... then if those PUMAs decide to vote for McCain/Palin, it makes sense. But any Hillary supporter who actually believes in their candidate as they claim... believe that her issues are their issues.... and they vote for McCain/Palin, well they are just frauds and it IS an insult to Hillary's accomplishment in this historic race. It makes it meaningless because it will have been based on nothing more than her gender. How awful. For HRC and all of us frankly.
1. A governor who has very little experience--but has done a lot during that time. If Obama's campaign attacks her experience, she'll show how she's done more in 1.5 years as governor than he has in the Senate. She'll be a Maverick, an outsider, who can do good things in a corrupt environment.
2. A reputation for integrity. She's pissed off her Republican colleagues in Alaska and closed down projects that never should have gone through in the first place (e.g., the Bridge to Nowhere). People are overreaching on the "corruption scandal"--she's cooperating fully and they haven't even needed subpoenas.
3. She's staunchly conservative, fiscally and socially. McCain floated pro-choice Tom Ridge and got beat up--she's an ardent pro-lifer. He got the message: be more conservative. Just as people here at HuffPo have said that Obama shouldn't run to the center, he knows that he shouldn't run to the center, either. Many Republicans _already_ think he's too far left. This VP choice brings him much closer to the Republican base.
This choice isn't meant to capture Hillary supporters (except the stupid ones). It's about capturing Huckabee supporters, having a better hammer to pound Barack with about his experience, and doing both while getting another maverick on the ticket. It might just possibly be a stroke of genius, and it will certainly work better than Tom Ridge.
He had the power to stop such behavior in it's tracks and he turned away.