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Sarah Palin: The Double-X Dan Quayle
RCP ^ | August 29, 2008, 12:22 PM | Dee Dee Myers

Posted on 08/29/2008 10:55:19 AM PDT by nikos1121

“Not again!” I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don’t go right.

Don’t get me wrong: what I know of Palin (which admittedly isn’t much), I kind of like. I don’t agree with her politics. But in her two years in Alaska’s state house, she’s shown herself to be a scrappy reformer, a no-nonsense manager, and a consistent conservative. She’s also a mother of five, which in my book is a sterling test of leadership.

It’s such a transparently political decision, a double-X Dan Quayle. McCain made the decision to double down on his credentials as a take-no-prisoners reformer. But he did so at the expense of the more important qualifications for a running mate.

It’s not political to say that John McCain turns 72 today. That he’s a cancer survivor. That he spent six years being tortured and abused in a Vietnamese prison camp. Those are the physical realities of his life, and pure and simple, they demanded that he chose a running mate who is ready, really ready. That he put country first. Today, he failed that test.

Worse, when Sarah Palin falls short—and I hope I’m wrong but I think in important ways, such as her debate with Joe Biden, she will—some people will conclude that women can’t cut it. That’s unfair to Sarah Palin—and it’s certainly unfair to the rest of us.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; 2008veep; bigbarf; dnctalkingpoints; electionpresident; mccain; palin; palinbashing; personaldestruction; sarahpalin
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To: nikos1121
Shouldn't Dee Dee Meyers be crashing her car into a school bus stop somewhere with empty vodka bottles behind the back seat?

Yeah, she was a great White House Press Secretary. She'd lock up with the 'deer in the headlights' look like Cindy Brady on the Quiz Kids show whenever they asked her a question.

41 posted on 08/29/2008 11:13:19 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: nikos1121
Don't be fooled by the psyop.

It will be Job #1 for the Democrat media to cast doubts in Republicans (especially during the leadup to the convention) about McCain's choice. Regardless of her qualifications, the in my mind the more doubts that the MSM try to spread, the more afraid of this choice they really are.

I thought that, even before this choice, McCain had a strong shot at winning the election. His running mate would be in a strong position to run in 2012. A Palin-Clinton campaign in 2012 would be historic, and if McCain can't finish his term, a first-female President Palin would be even more historic.

The Democrats are frightened by this choice.

-PJ

42 posted on 08/29/2008 11:13:29 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Obama's "citizen of the world" is the 2008 version of Kerry's "global test.")
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To: nikos1121
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18zernike.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

“No woman with Obama’s résumé could run,” said Dee Dee Myers, the first woman to be White House press secretary, under Bill Clinton, and the author of “Why Women Should Rule the World.” “No woman could have gotten out of the gate.”

43 posted on 08/29/2008 11:13:39 AM PDT by maggief
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To: 6SJ7
If she's hunted moose, she should be able to handle the horse's ass Joe Biden.

I doubt if Sissy Matthews or Keith Olberfruit will be getting all tingly over her, though. After all, she's a girrrrrrllllll.

Bottom line: Palin’s a brilliant choice.

44 posted on 08/29/2008 11:14:11 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: nikos1121
Leave it to Dee Dee.

Yep. More clear thinking from one of Clinton's old alcoholic sluts.

45 posted on 08/29/2008 11:14:15 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: avacado
Palin is more qualified than Obama. As a governor, Palin runs everything. Obama is a Senator of Illinois which is just a Representative and all he does is vote on things that other people have put together.

Hell, in a lot of respects, Palin is more qualified than McCain is.

46 posted on 08/29/2008 11:15:25 AM PDT by kevkrom ("This is not the [fill in the blank] that I knew" - Barack Obama)
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To: nikos1121

Go easy on Dee Dee. She wrote this in a hurry as they’re starting happy hour at 3 pm today in observance of the Labor Day weekend.


47 posted on 08/29/2008 11:16:31 AM PDT by relictele
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtI5FtEQTiQ

Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers argues that American women continue to be held to different social and professional standards than men.


48 posted on 08/29/2008 11:17:20 AM PDT by maggief
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To: hinckley buzzard

I’m a Ron Paulite and McCain despiser and will never, never vote for him. Having said this, the Palin pick is very smart choice. This could seal the election for him.


49 posted on 08/29/2008 11:17:40 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: nikos1121

Go put some ice on that lip Dee Dee.


50 posted on 08/29/2008 11:17:46 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: NavyCanDo
Quayle must be the talking point given to the Libs and Lib media. A Liberal Koskid I know at work e-mailed me this question, “Is Quayle her middle name?”

A weak avenue of attack for them since those voters beyond his immediate base that Obama might attract haven't a clue who Dan Quayle is.
51 posted on 08/29/2008 11:19:13 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: nikos1121
Dee Dee couldn't even hold Palin’s jock.

She is irrelevant.

52 posted on 08/29/2008 11:19:23 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: All
They don't have their talking points yet. Watch out for the DNC to roll out every staffer, aide or “advisor” with a set of ovaries to smear her starting tonight and going through the next five days. Inexperienced will be the nicest thing they say.
We know the democrats and they will not allow a woman to have a man's job.
53 posted on 08/29/2008 11:19:33 AM PDT by newnhdad
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To: nikos1121

Is this person really complaining that a VP selection was transparently political?! Has there ever been a VP selection that wasn’t?


54 posted on 08/29/2008 11:19:49 AM PDT by boogerbear
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To: PetroniusMaximus
"We WON with Dan Quale... the first time."

Which reminds me, I need to send Ross Perot a thank-you card for giving us Bill Clinton.
55 posted on 08/29/2008 11:19:57 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Fred Thompson/Clarence Thomas 2008!])
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To: nikos1121

If you know anything about Dee Dee Myers, the very first thing you know is “FEMINIST.” She just wrote a book titled “Why Women Should Rule the World.” Now, when a woman could be on the verge of breaking THE highest ‘glass ceiling’ there is, she immediately comes out of the woodwork to bad-mouth that woman. Because she’s a pro-life Republican. Because she’s effective. Because she has five kids. Because she’s beautiful. Because she’s pro-Second Amendment. Because she’s successful. Dee Dee has just exposed herself as a phony. Even worse, she’s committed the only cardinal sin, other than racism, according to the liberals ... HYPOCRISY!


56 posted on 08/29/2008 11:20:28 AM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter
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To: nikos1121

You know Dee Dee could easily make some women look bad


57 posted on 08/29/2008 11:21:45 AM PDT by woofie
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To: nikos1121
I hope I’m wrong but I think in important ways, such as her debate with Joe Biden, she will—some people will conclude that women can’t cut it.

Keep that up Dee Dee... If expectations become too low, just showing up may make her the winner.

McCain shocked the sh*t out of the Dems with his pick and they seem beside themselves when it comes to responding, which makes McCain's pick smarter with every minute that goes by.

They have no ads prepared and they probably wasted a pile of time this past week making Romney/ Pawlenty & Ridge ads.

They have the problem of criticizing a women without sounding misogynistic. I've noticed that the RATS have pushed a lot of children hating feminist on to the airwaves to attack her, which will probably alienate the real women out there.

Their best play so far has been attacking her experience and saying that it now eliminates McCain's charges of Barry O's inexperience... In reality, she has more experience and that will make Barry O look even worse on the top of the RAT ticket.

She has a son who'll soon be fighting in Iraq and another who she just birthed with down syndrome. Making attacks against her even harder.

She and McCain can obviously keep a secret. Barry O's intro of Biden was a complete disaster. McCain and Palin on the other hand, were so secretive that her parents found out watching television.

McCain made the first big executive decision that every president has to make, his VP and his selection tells you that he isn't afraid to shake it up a bit... Obama on the other hand picked somebody who he can call at 3:00 am and ask them where the heck on earth Georgia is?

It says a lot about the two candidates and when it comes down to it, it's really all about Barry and his poor VP judgment and lack of experience. His chances have just gone down the toilet along with good number of Hillary's former supporters.

58 posted on 08/29/2008 11:23:09 AM PDT by jerod (They were pro-abortion, for gun control & wanted a cleaner environment at all cost - The NAZI party)
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To: nikos1121

“some people will conclude that women can’t cut it”

Leave it to dems to once again belittle women. They love us as long as we stay on the plantation.

22 years ago I became an attorney. I am a woman. I heard the “women can’t cut it” mostly from liberal idiots. Since they believed so much in affirmative action, they thought every woman was just another token.

22 years later, women are CEOs of corporations, doctors, partners of law firms, senators, governors, Secretaries of State, and generals in the military. If, by any chance, Gov. Palin falls flat on her face, it hardly reflects on the rest of the women in this country. We each stand or fall on our own abilities. The republican party represents us as individuals and lets us succeed as individuals. Democrats view everyone as groups of minorities who (at least hearing the speech last night) fail without big brother.

Geraldine Ferrarro was absolutely right. The democrats are sexists who disrespect women of accomplishment.


59 posted on 08/29/2008 11:23:50 AM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: nikos1121
The Dims love to talk about Dan Quayle's gaffes and love to play the Bentson clip. But they forget one thing. Bentson was never elected Vice President and Quayle was.

By all means, less have a debate about experience!

Palin would get to learn from John McCain during a first term. The Chosen One would have to learn on the job. Big difference.

60 posted on 08/29/2008 11:24:42 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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