Posted on 08/30/2008 12:56:02 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
The Democrats are starting to pan John McCain's surprise pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, suggesting that he went a little too far in his search for a game-changing VP.
House majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the most senior African American in Congress, told SCETV's Mark Quinn this morning he thinks Plain is a "very risky" choice for McCain.
"I think (her selection) would be something similiar to Dan Quayle," Clyburn said. "Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrasment as a campaigner..."
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Even Dan Quayle wasn't "Dan Quayle". The MSM intentionally made him appear to be a fool.
They can't get away with that anymore. In addition, Biden actually is a fool.
The MSM and the talking heads may look at Sarah Barracuda and see "Dan Quayle", but I see Claire Boothe Luce with a shotgun.
South Carolina Ping
Add me to the list. / Remove me from the list.
You beat me to it. As in the George W. Bush lexicon entry for "clymer."
Is Clybrn also on record with nasty remarks about Hillary? Could be useful.
Ummm... wasn’t Clyburn due for a trial or something?
During WWII, the Japanese thought they could also break the will of the American people. They found out different. They found out that when the American people want something, and if it is the best for our country, we will stand up to anybody. The democrats will try and rip Palin apart but she has our people on her side. Democrats will find out what real Americans can do now.
Rachel Maddow also referred to her as “Danielle Quayle” yesterday.
It may be that Palin’s personal qualities will counteract these attacks. No offense meant against Quayle, but he hadn’t a lot of charm. The media not only enjoyed attacking him, they also got away with it. Palin, I think, is going to be a more sympathetic sort.
And in the end, she and McCain are running against two really awful candidates. Hero and the Girl, vs. the Zero and the Churl. It’s going to be an early night on 11/4.
Please, they had to shove him in his chicken back to say something about the non-existent Whitey tape (thanks for blaming on us Larry of House Clinton); I had witnessed more cajones on three year olds after their sibling took their toy.
I just posted this on another thread but it is a perfect fit here:
"I guess he forgot (or never knew) that Dan Quayle was elected as part of the George H. W. Bush ticket where he served as the forty-fourth Vice President of the USA for four full years.
Dan Quayle also had a distinguished career in Congress setting some election records along the way and decisively beating Birch Bayh, one of the Democrats' congressional stars of that era:
Dan Quayle (from Wikipedia):
"In 1976, Quayle was elected to the U.S. Congress from Indiana's Fourth Congressional District, defeating eight-term incumbent Democrat J. Edward Roush.
He won reelection in 1978 by the greatest percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast Indiana district. In 1980, at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh.
Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in 1986 with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race. His 1986 victory was notable because several other Republican Senators elected in 1980 were not returned to office."
Not too shabby at all!
“who started running for president as a 2 yr senator”
LOL!
The jokes keep on writing themselves!
Question for the msm....Who resembles Quayle the most?
Obama? or Palin?
Too funny!
Clyburn reads the “Dummies”? That’s been their mantra since yesterday: Palin = Quayle. They seem to have forgotten that the Bush I/Quayle ticket won 53% of the popular vote, 40 states and 426 Electoral College votes.
Sounds good to me.
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MSNBC has some bald heading DNC idiot saying Palin need TWO YEARS to bone up on the national issues.
NBC now saying USATODAYGALOP 33% palin not ready. (67% ready not mentioned)
NBC is BEYOND insulting to all of america. NBC is full whore mode of obama talking points of “high risk” and ordinary america is not good enough to run DC. US CITIZENS NOT WELCOME INSIDE BELTWAY.
what next NBC, mom and apple pie are eeeeeevil plots?
(just love the fact Scarburough and Minka were played and humiliated on national TV by the McCain camp)
MSNBC should just be declared a 527
Clyburn is clearly in panic mode because he realizes that his bro just lost the election because of the Palin pick.
Sadly that’s not a joke. They should also have warnings before their shows take the air. Not suitable for children.
>I have seen more than once example, too, of the Misogynistic Main Stream Media bringing up Dan Quayle in connection with Sarah Palin, trying to cut her legs out beneath her before she even gets started.<
Yep, and the Democrats are just desperate to gloss over Obama’s glaring inexperience. Democrats always pick highly experienced candidates for presidential/vice presidential office. They picked John Kerry and his VP pick was the highly experienced John Edwards, after all.
The MSM is in doublespeak mode:
Alaska is a “small state”
NBC talking heads = “women are insulted by choice”
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