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Sarah Palin to be McCain's VP!!

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Originally posted by: tynopik
Originally posted by: Vic
Maybe it motivates his base a bit
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a BIT?!?!

have you been watching conservative sites AT ALL?

they are going into throes of ecstasy . . .
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Yes but those are voters who McCain had at first hello.

What is the reaction from the undecided base & disgruntled Hilary voters?


 
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Originally posted by: QED
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Damn like I said, if that 72 year old McCain dies, you going to have a 44 year old school teacher/cheerleader running this country.

Hillary is 10x greater than this woman... Hillary can stump her into the ground so deep she won't be able to get out ever.
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Hilarious. A woman who was able to run for Governor and win, and now enjoys an astronomically high job approval rating from her constituents (higher than Barack Obama's, or Bill Clinton's approval rating ever were)-- all without having to ride on her husband's coattails-- is being dismissed as a "school teacher/chearleader"?

Seriously, what is it with all of the misogynist Obama supporters today?
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Look I don't care who McCain could have picked, even if he picked a frog, I wouldn't care... what bothers me is that McCain has been bugging Obama about experience past 3 months! And now he picks someone with not much experience than Obama. What does this tell me? They are playing this gain vote game, no substance. Why you people are so ignorant and can't see what McCain camp is doing!

It comes to this, if someone happens to obama, biden will take over. If something happens to mccain, this cheerleader will take over, OKAY, can I get more clearer?
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dude, we get it. shut up about it already. everyone sees it.
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Then why are you not agreeing with me ?
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Let me put it this way. Figure out which side you do NOT want winning this election, and throw your full support behind them.
 
Honestly, this pick has me shrugging my shoulders. It only magnifies the fact that McCain is 72 years old and his VP is young enough to be his daughter.
 
Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Originally posted by: Vic
Hard to see how this helps McCain's campaign. Maybe it motivates his base a bit, but his ticket is now 2 west coast conservatives against 2 east coast liberals. And Hillary supporters aren't going to jump to McCain just because he put a token woman on the ticket, that's not how women operate politically.
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The location of her state hardly matters. It helps him by solidifying the conservative vote. She is a strong conservative woman and she will bring in the undecided or independent woman, the ones that were only voting for Hillary because they wanted to see a woman in the whitehouse. She also has executive experience, although short. She also helps a whole lot on the domestic issues front.

She is the cheese to McCain's cake.
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For the record, she a SOCIAL conservative, not a true strong conservative. This pick was a nod to Huckabee's following, not Romney's.

And let me repeat, that's now how women operate. Hillary supporters didn't want just any woman in the White House, they wanted Hillary in the White House. You're applying male logic. To women, the idea of just ANY woman in the White House is condescending and insulting.
 
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Originally posted by: NetGuySC
I'm extremely excited about her, I think she will re energize the republican party more than McCain.
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Do you want her to be a president, McCain is 72 years old, lets say something happens.. you want this school teacher to run the country?
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She is not a god damned school teacher, she is a governor. You're spewing empty rhetoric.
 
Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Originally posted by: Vic
Hard to see how this helps McCain's campaign. Maybe it motivates his base a bit, but his ticket is now 2 west coast conservatives against 2 east coast liberals. And Hillary supporters aren't going to jump to McCain just because he put a token woman on the ticket, that's not how women operate politically.
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The location of her state hardly matters. It helps him by solidifying the conservative vote. She is a strong conservative woman and she will bring in the undecided or independent woman, the ones that were only voting for Hillary because they wanted to see a woman in the whitehouse. She also has executive experience, although short. She also helps a whole lot on the domestic issues front.

She is the cheese to McCain's cake.
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Ummmm, no.

As has been pointed out in the other direction, McCain already had the conservative vote (just as Barack already has the liberal).

What this picks does is show the desperation of the McCain campaign to try to get the disgruntled Hillary voters. The conservatives were not going to switch and vote for "the most liberal Senator in Congress" any more than the pro-life democratic females are going to turn around now and vote for a "Pro-life, gun totting woman" just because she shares a common anatomy.

And the location of her state matters greatly. What it will end up being is a battering ram that is used to hammer home that she was in charge of as many people as a lot of middle management in large companies while a mayor and hasn't had to face the challenges that most of the country has had to deal with as a governor.
 
Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Originally posted by: NetGuySC
I'm extremely excited about her, I think she will re energize the republican party more than McCain.
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Do you want her to be a president, McCain is 72 years old, lets say something happens.. you want this school teacher to run the country?
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She is not a god damned school teacher, she is a governor. You're spewing empty rhetoric.
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But, but but
BUT BUT BUT

SHE WAS PART OF THE PTA!!!! EXPERIENCE!!!
 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: TechAZ
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Originally posted by: NetGuySC
I'm extremely excited about her, I think she will re energize the republican party more than McCain.
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Do you want her to be a president, McCain is 72 years old, lets say something happens.. you want this school teacher to run the country?
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Considering she has more experience than BO....you should be happy.
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pffft... oh, ok.

get a brain, moran.
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Where is he incorrect? Moran.
 
I think Jack Cafferty made the best comments on this:

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



All we have heard from John McCain for months is, ?Barack Obama is too young. Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. Who do you want answering the phone in the White House at three a.m.? Blah, blah, blah.?

So what does McCain do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is even younger than Barack Obama and has less experience.

Sara Palin is 44 ? Obama is 47. Sara Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, a state that has 13 people and some caribou. Obama is a member of the United States Senate from Illinois.

It?s not a big deal, except for this: If McCain wins, he will be the oldest person ever inaugurated for a first term at 72. He has a history of health problems that include bouts of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It is reasonable to consider that McCain?s running mate could be called upon to be our president.

At some point, voters will have to ask themselves who they would want running the country if it ever became necessary: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin.

 
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Originally posted by: Vic
Hard to see how this helps McCain's campaign. Maybe it motivates his base a bit, but his ticket is now 2 west coast conservatives against 2 east coast liberals. And Hillary supporters aren't going to jump to McCain just because he put a token woman on the ticket, that's not how women operate politically.
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The location of her state hardly matters. It helps him by solidifying the conservative vote. She is a strong conservative woman and she will bring in the undecided or independent woman, the ones that were only voting for Hillary because they wanted to see a woman in the whitehouse. She also has executive experience, although short. She also helps a whole lot on the domestic issues front.

She is the cheese to McCain's cake.
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For the record, she a SOCIAL conservative, not a true strong conservative. This pick was a nod to Huckabee's following, not Romney's.

And let me repeat, that's now how women operate. Hillary supporters didn't want just any woman in the White House, they wanted Hillary in the White House. You're applying male logic. To women, the idea of just ANY woman in the White House is condescending and insulting.
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Give him a break, he's a Republican, he doesn't know any better.
 
In the event that the aging McCain is unable to lead, I don't know how I feel about Palin taking the reigns. Can you imagine a Medvedev/Palin showdown? I can't. Ugh... McCain better pick a super strong cabinet, my vote went from McCain for sure to up for grabs in 24 hours :-/
 
Woman, mainstream conservative who is pro-life and pro-gun but also fought oil companies, Washington DC outsider, and she has more experience than Obama..

McCain knocked this one out of the park. He is playing to the conservative base but still with a hint of independent leaning, with a woman that a vast majority of Americans on both sides will respect.

Dmcowen said this is a lock for McCain. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I'd say McCain just took all the air out of Obama's pantheon speech and gave angry Hillary supporters something to think about.

McCain just might win, and I won't even have to vote for him.
 
Originally posted by: GroundedSailor
Let me see if I have this right: the GOP is pinning its hopes on disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters?

What other reason to select Palin?
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Best for the job? I prefer her over any of the other names thrown about in the last 6 months other than maybe Jindal... but Louisiana needs him in a bad way, especially with the chance of another hurricane striking there very soon.

I like her. I havent heard anything about her so far I dont like. She has more executive experience than ANYONE on EITHER side. More than McCain, Obama, and Biden combined. I'd put her at the top of the ticket if I could. Then again, I wouldnt have McCain on there at all if I were running things. But I'm not, and given the porposition of voting for McCain or not voting at all, I am very happy with his choice.
 
I think the pick could be suicidal.

With McSame, more so than other candidates, the VP choice is an issue because he is likely to kick the bucket.
His conservative base would never vote for a woman..
 
Knocked this one out of the park? Not by a long shot...more like a dribble bunt that ends up turning into a triple play.
 
Oh, two other points about McCain picking Palin:
1) The McCain campaign handled the Palin announcement while the Obama fumbled the Biden announcement with a 3AM phone text after delays.
2) Announcing Palin today has just taken the news cycle away from Obama the day after his acceptance speech.

Nicely handled.
 
Originally posted by: QED
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: QED
Originally posted by: SlingXShot
Damn like I said, if that 72 year old McCain dies, you going to have a 44 year old school teacher/cheerleader running this country.

Hillary is 10x greater than this woman... Hillary can stump her into the ground so deep she won't be able to get out ever.
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Hilarious. A woman who was able to run for Governor and win, and now enjoys an astronomically high job approval rating from her constituents (higher than Barack Obama's, or Bill Clinton's approval rating ever were)-- all without having to ride on her husband's coattails-- is being dismissed as a "school teacher/chearleader"?

Seriously, what is it with all of the misogynist Obama supporters today?
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dude, when your population is that small, you've got a much higher probability of having a higher percentage of happier people than if you have a population of millions... it's easy math.
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I have a PhD in mathematics. I used to teach introductory mathematics courses at college. And let me tell you: with that kind of math, you would have flunked out of any of my classes.

Please, go back to college (or high school) and take a math class. And while your are there, take a course in logic as well. I'm sure we all would appreciate it.
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you're wrong. it's easier to please a smaller population than a very large population. it's ridiculously easier to have a 75% approval rating with a population of 6,500 than with 12.4 million.
 
Agreed. This pick, although on the surface it may superficially direct the chattering class toward the "mav" image...in reality, this pick really solidifies McCain's poor record of judgment and temperament.
 
Originally posted by: 351Cleveland
Originally posted by: tynopik
Originally posted by: Vic
Maybe it motivates his base a bit
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a BIT?!?!

have you been watching conservative sites AT ALL?

they are going into throes of ecstasy . . .
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I can tell you this... she sure as hell "motivates" me. 🙂 🙂
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Yes, you want to bone your VP pick. Awesome.
 
lol. So if she had 1 day of executive experience, that makes her better? Worse, she's had 1 year of experience in a state that's 99% dependent on oil and salmon with less than 700,00 people.

The conservative base may be happy but McCain's VP choice was supposed to make people less worried about his untimely death, not more worried.
 
Originally posted by: glugglug
I think the pick could be suicidal.

With McSame, more so than other candidates, the VP choice is an issue because he is likely to kick the bucket.
His conservative base would never vote for a woman..
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you're wrong on both counts.

the conservative base luuuves Palin and there's nothing to suggest that anyone above the age of 70 immediately drops dead after coming into the office.
 
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