GOP VP thread: Palin is the pick

The saddest part about the Palin selection is that we don't have a year and a half to judge if she's ready to be president like we did with Obama, who wasn't my first choice.
The polls have spoken. The Dems don't need two months to prove Palin isn't ready. The GOP only has two months to prove she is.

 

Bingo.

Anybody who believes the onus is on Democrats to "disprove" the Palin choice is sadly mistaken. Democrats only have to convince the public that Obama-Biden is the better ticket to vote for. It's up to the Republicans to convince the public that McCain-Palin is worth voting for.

 

Nice try, Ms. Powers.

Better luck, next time.

 

Worse picks:

 

her argument that abortion doesn't matter as an issue since there will be a democratic majority in the senate is laughable. what, women stop caring about their reproductive rights based on the party in charge? um,no.

 

Vigilance against hoardes of nosy busybodies is ALWAYS in season.

 

I have no doubt that there were conservatives who were willing to cross over and vote for Hillary because her candidacy appealed to them despite her take on the issues. McCain will get those votes with the pick, BUT HE LIKELY HAD THEM ANYWAY when Obama picked Biden. I noticed FOX didn't use a body language expert to analyze McCain during Palin's intro yesterday.
If Palin was out campaigning with McCain for the last two months like Lieberman or Romney did and people began talking her up as a veep selection, this is an entirely different pick. But I gather there were reasons McCain had nothing to do with her until a week ago.

 

The Dems better not take her lightly though. They also better avoid come off as sounding condescending toward her in debates, etc., lest McCain/Palin come off as the more likeable pairing.

 

Because she invites it.

This career nitwit would (and likely will) occupy the same office as Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Hubert H. Humphrey. That should stop anyone with a brain in their tracks.

 

USA Today/Gallup:

Among Democratic women — including those who may be disappointed that New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did not win the Democratic nomination — 9% say Palin makes them more likely to support McCain, 15% less likely.

 

Obviously those numbers could change, but if Palin actually does run off more Hillary women than she attracts, it really is game over.

 

Yup.