Posted on 08/29/2008 10:31:47 AM PDT by americanophile
Dont kid yourself John McCain just put all his chips on the table and rolled the dice.
Over the past many months, McCains team had skillfully underscored the natural impressions of Americans that Barak Obama was the lightweight in the race; the candidate of risk. Now, with a single stroke McCain has undercut his most effective argument. He has weakened his case for wisdom and experience, and elevated a one-term governor of a small-population state based on her gender.
McCain had plenty of safe choices. Choices that would have bolstered Americans inherent understanding of McCains competency and ability; choices that would have underscored the longstanding notion that whatever gimmick the Democrats try, the Republican Party remains the serious one.
With the electorate evenly split, McCains first job was to pick a competent running mate that would not undermine his standing, and would reassure voters that should something happen to the oldest man ever to be nominated for president, a competent, experienced leader, ready to serve as commander-in-chief in a time of war, was waiting in the wings.
The former Miss Congeniality, and hockey mom from the last frontier is a bizarre choice.
McCains pick today has all the hallmarks of a political gimmick and a hail-Mary pass. While it is likely to excite some conservatives, his choice will refocus the entire campaign away from Obamas status as a political neophyte and will reshuffle the risk calculus in the favor of the increasingly familiar, and always-eloquent Obama. With Biden on the ticket, Obama has lessened the sense that he poses a serious danger to the electorate. McCains selection by contrast is likely to shake voters and cast uncertainty on the wisdom and safety of a McCain presidency.
With competent and proven individuals waiting in the wings such as Governor Mitt Romney, the selection of Sarah Palin is a most unfortunate choice.
John McCain may have just lost the 2008 election
cue the hurricane.
My wife is overjoyed that she can vote for a qualified woman & I haven’t found a real Republican that is not fired up over Palin yet.
LOL! That made me laugh.
I love it when the libs come out of hiding and get nailed. They do it out of fear, and Palin is scaring them to death!
Corruption and puppetmasters in Alaska...taking them on is what has earned Governor Palin her 80% approval rating from her constituents.
LOL!
Rush just read an AP headline that says much the same thing.
I realize for some people it’s always someone else’s fault.
I look at it differently.
It’s my vote and I’m responsible for using it in such a way as to do what’s best for my country, given the viable choices *presented to me on Election Day.*
Besides, it’s not the RNC who made McCain the nominee. It was primary voters, very few of whom voted for a candidate who was “more conservative.”
He makes up for it in quality
:eye roll:
Last night Al Gore said one reason to vote for Obambi was that the next president could have up to three Supreme Court Justice nominations.
If I was sitting on a fence for McCain, that would be all I needed to be reminded of.
When a person sits out a presidential election, he accomplishes two things:
1. He helps whoever wins the election win.
2. He does nothing to help whoever lost the election lose.
Actually, it was Clinton pal Huckabee who was thrown in to split the evangelical vote and push McCain to the top of the ticket. One way for Clinton to win was to weaken the Republican ticket. Too bad she didn’t plan the correct strategy to win her own nomination, but she tried.
You must be kidding me. If half of what I hear out of the oil/gas industry is accurate, then this selection was a no-brainer . . . and was probably made by the GOP even before McCain was the nominee.
Ah yes, the nonRepublican primary voters.
Well, that is the party’s base then. The RNC will be able to count on them to bring their candidate to victory.
All I'm seeing....is "rolled the dice", and "have thrown a hail-hary"
It's funny actually.....
I followed your link, and from what you wrote, it seems like you wouldn’t like any woman for commander in chief, even a Maggie Thatcher type. I don’t have a problem with women in charge of the country, as long as they are able to make the decisions that have to be made. Apparently, you do. Sounds like the problem is not with Palin, it is with you.
Comrade Obama thanks you for your vote.
“And people wonder why I don’t consider myself a Christian.”
I know you didn’t mean it they way I’m going to spin it, but what you said is a step in the right direction. There is more hope for you, who knows he/she is not a Christian, to eventually become one, than someone who wrongly believes they are “OK” in that department. Having bought into a false version of the real thing.
The very first step to becoming a true Christian is to realize you are indeed not one and helplessly lost in that state. By the Grace of God, I hope the day comes when you realize that for yourself, and then seek a cure at the hands of the real Jesus Christ of the Bible.
As the hymn writer wrote, “Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling.”
Politics 101 bump!
El Mahdi made me do it.
Character without experience can be fixed
Experience without character cannot be fixed
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