Posted on 08/30/2008 12:59:17 PM PDT by AreaMan
The analysis of Vandehei and Harris has the objectivity and neutrality of a carnival hawker singing the praises of the trash he is selling to unsuspecting dimwits.
Ahh the wiggle words..."extended public service"...which glosses over the governorship of Alaska.
Mayor of a town or governor of a State, it is still more executive experience than the Democrats' prez. candidate.
Full fledged ratfest. They are clearly worried. Otherwise they wouldn’t be unloading so hard right out of the gate.
Like Carville says, you want a VP that gets the other side upset.
Clearly the case here from the word go.
Viva the Palin family!
They’re projecting to beat the band.
I don’t know if I can forgive McCain for this. This must’ve been the action of desperation. He WAS doing very well on his own, and he had a slew of capable, qualified politicians to choose from (Romney is one). And I REALLY thought we needed someone with economics experience to run with McCain. Why go this way? I’m not sure what I’m going to do, now. I think there is more of a chance he could die in office than someone else, so it’s important that the VP be presidential material. I don’t see her as that at all. She was picked ‘cause she’s a woman, mainly.
Maybe I’ll get over it. I don’t know. I don’t think so. But I can’t vote for Obama. Maybe I should take a look at Barr. What to do, what to do.
You poor pitiful thing.
It only says one thing about McCain, he needs his base back, and he got it.
To paraphrase HRC, Obama is not ready to be pres on day one, and he’s at the head of the ticket.
What I don't understand is why you are wasting FR’s bandwidth.
What to do, what to do?
How about doing some research and learning that this successful business owner, this successful mayor, this successful Governor HAS economic experience. More importantly she has ADMINISTRATIVE experience which Obama doesn't have, Biden doesn't have and McCain doesn't have.
“Full fledged ratfest. They are clearly worried.”
Worried? The Dims are downright terrified!
Mark my words....you heard it here first! This was a mistake by McCain. As a moderate, I can tell you that Palin will ONLY appeal to the further right of the party. Some moderates may vote for the ticket, even with her on it, because of the alternative, but there is NO way that many Independents, who could vote either way, will vote for this ticket, now. Not with her on it. Where is the economic experience in this ticket? Nowhere. Where is the moderate maverick? Nowhere. His second banana is far from moderate. The Repubs NEED more than the base to vote for them this year. They may have lost it with this pick of VP (I mean...she wanted to take the fuzzy wuzzy Polar Bear off the endangered species list? How unappealing to moderates and Independents can you get?)
Maybe she’s got some moderate views we haven’t heard about yet. We’ll see. But I’m thinking....why didn’t he pick someone good for the economy. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Watch...you’ll see. No one’s gonna care that she’s a gun-totin’, tough-talkin’ mama from the wilds of Alaska, except some conservatives who were gonna vote for McCain, anyway.
“And I REALLY thought we needed someone with economics experience to run with McCain.”
Sarah Pail has far more economics experience than either Obambi or Biden. She ran her own company, was mayor (i.e., chief executive) of her town for many years, and is governor (again, chief executive) of natural resources rich Alaska. Obambi and Biden have ZERO executive experience, and the times they had their grubby hands on someone else’s money they frivolously pissed it away!
You sound like a Nader man.
You’re not electing a king and queen! You’re electing people with an ability to administer a nation and to delegate. If you want micromanagers then you elect guys like Carter the worst President in US history. Now where have the dem candidates administered on the scale of Palin? Right off the top Palin showed she was cut of the best cloth in her governship of Alaska. She is decisive and ideologically conservative. She appears to be the new generation of conservative females with guts which men have been lacking in the Republican Party.
We've seen the articles listing the results of McCain's selection of Palin as VP, the most noticeable being that it completely overshadowed BO. One point that hasn't been listed is that with the announcement BEFORE the RNC, all the ammo of the MSM will be out there and used up. When the American people see Palin in person -- and I expect her speech to have a higher rating than BO's acceptance -- they will realize that the MSN was a total misrepresentation. From that point McCain-Palin will gain more momentum.
Your tag line says it all.
“As a moderate,”
Thattttt’s all I need to know folks.
Look, TexasBud, You made your “point” in your first whining post. Making it again, in an ever greater drama queen style, only makes you look like an attention whore.
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