GOP VP thread: Palin is the pick

You can have a spin-off as well: Hoo-Ha Huts....

 

Nah, it's something else, though I'm not sure what.

If he had picked Lieberman, that would be taking a dive.

I guess it could be taking a dive while giving someone a leg up in four years. A leg up he couldn't stand to give Romney or Huck.

But it doesn't feel like a dive to me.

 

[quote author=Newsweek]Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state's entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton. (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn't support a woman, but she didn't like Clinton's "whining.")[/quote]

 

Why? Is Obama going into interior decorating after he loses? I sure don't think McCain is going to give him the account.

 

This is the story of America. Of women and men who defy the odds and never give up."

 

She'll help him a lot more than she'll hurt him. Unless there's something awful that we don't know about yet. She's down to earth, which will play well with a lot of people, and from what I see in interviews online, she doesn't duck questions or dance around them. She doesn't try to bluff when she doesn't know the answer (of course, she can play that card only so many times in a debate). She'll do well on likability. But I think people are looking for more than that right now -- they want inspiration. From the little I've seen, I don't think she has that in her. Otherwise, I think it's a shrewd choice by McCain. Her relative inexperience doesn't really bother me. It's a small state in terms of population, but with many complex issues. I don't see it as being any further down the food chain than Arkansas was for Clinton. I'd never vote for her because I dislike her stand on a bunch of issues, but, as with McCain, I can't work up much personal distaste.

 

Judging from the surrogates I'm seeing on TV today, they are all McCain staffers, or in his small posse of trusted colleagues (Mark Sanford, Lindsey Graham), Lisa Murkowski or evangelicals. The torso of the GOP House and Senate Leadership ISN"T on TV talking about how great the pick was whether they know her or not. I know McCain kept it tight, but it's been four hours already. No Boehner? No McConnell? No Mitt? The Silence is deafening.

And I've finally placed her voice. It's Jenny McCarthy.

 

She doesn't.

Cough, cough...

 

Great example of the double standard women face in running for office. Wouldn't even be a question if it were Mr. Palin running for office. No one would be calling for him to stay home with his four month old rather than run for VP--he'd have the missus there for that.

Sounds like Mr. P's there for the young-un, so this commentary really should stop. Hell, most folks of any degree of wealth/power are going to have a nanny anyway.

 

It can't be racism. The woman in question is a democrat.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the questions about that people are throwing out there is in reference to what evangelical voters might think.

 

The same link as before?