Ooooh. That's good!
Posted on 08/31/2008 5:23:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — In the end, the choice of his running mate said more about Senator John McCain and his image of himself than it did about Sarah Palin, the little-known governor of Alaska whose selection has shaken up the presidential race.
For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, Mr. McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat turned independent. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian conservatives over the possibility that Mr. McCain would fill out the Republican ticket with Mr. Lieberman, a supporter of abortion rights, had become too intense to be ignored.
With time running out, and after a long meeting with his inner circle in Phoenix, Mr. McCain finally picked up the phone last Sunday and reached Ms. Palin at the Alaska State Fair. Although the campaign’s polling on Mr. McCain’s potential running mates was inconclusive on the selection of Ms. Palin — virtually no one had heard of her, a McCain adviser said — the governor, who opposes abortion, had glowing reviews from influential social conservatives.
Mr. McCain was comfortable with two others on his short list, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. But neither was the transformative, attention-grabbing choice Mr. McCain felt he needed, top campaign advisers said, to help him pivot from his image as the custodian of the status quo to a change agent like his Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama.
Not least, Mr. Obama’s decision to pass over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate opened the possibility for Republicans to put a woman on the ticket and pick off some of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters.
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One of the most remarkable aspects of this story is my sneaking suspicion that — behind the scenes — the GOP had selected Palin as the VP candidate even before McCain had secured the nomination.
The New York Times at it again drawing their own conlusions as if they were a fly on the wall and passing it on as fact. These veiled attempts to attack conservative support & excitement over the Palin selection is as transparent as anything these liberals have tried and done.
Our days and days of bellyaching and politically threatening McShamnesty here on FR and elsewhere can indeed yield some modest results.
Should we stop now and drink the RINO2008 Kool-Aid and let the pneumatic door of RINOism in the McCain camp swing back to CLOSED right on Conservatives faces, or should we keep up the pressure on that little guy whom we ALL know in our hearts (except the doctrinaire GOP-bots here among us) is no true friend to conservatives and will sell us out from 2009 at the drop of a sombrero??
I would think common sense pushed McCain away from selecting Lieberman, not that I would expect that Lieberman would ever have accepted in the first place.
Not sure why anyone would take comfort in slamming the NYT on this story, whether or not it is accurate. The mere fact that a Republican nominee even considered picking a very liberal Dem. as a running mate should inform every conservative once again what a dangerous, self-absorbed and unpredictable personality John McCain is.
Just because he finally made a good decision on the VP doesn’t mean he’s suddenly a reliable, Ronald Reagan conservative (in spite of having been a courageous foot soldier in the Reagan revolution. Ha, ha.).
Just think where’s we’d be if he’d chosen Lieberman, then he died or became incapacitated and we had President Lieberman. That McCain even seriously considered Lieberman for one minute... We’d have had Algore’s chosen VP as president!
No kidding!
I have more trust in the National Enquirer than the NYT.
Ooooh. That's good!
I guarantee if McCain had picked Lieberman, he would not have gotten $7 million in online donations Friday!
Whats the total since Palin was announced? I put in $100.00 yesterday. Never would have done that if Lieberman had been picked. I don’t dislike Lieberman, I just think Palin was a terrific pick.
BTW I never saw the NYT analysis of why Obama selected Biden over Hillary and her 18 million voters. Did I miss something here?
One full term? I’ll take 2 years and 1 day, so President Sarah can serve out the balance of that term, and run twice for election in her own name.
Easy boy. Your making the Clintons sick with envy.
We.. are always ahead of the curve. :^)
We have analysts around here the MSM only dreams about.
Hopefully Goober's last gasp!
The New York Times is writing itself into oblivion...
Unnamed advisors ‘close’ the campaign.
enough said.
Baloney. Liebermann was a Democrat and as old as McCain - he needed a younger partner. This should be obvious even to the Rats in the Media.
“Advisers Say Conservative Ire Pushed McCain Away From Picking Lieberman”
Well I friggin’ HOPE SO!
from “last nail in his own coffin” to “Reagan round 2”, what a comeback story (his second, don’tcha know) you’ll never read about in the MSM!
“It shouldn’t take “conservative ire” to get the Republican nominee to choose a Republican running mate.”
It shouldn’t take “conservative ire” to get the Republican president to choose a demonstrably conservative supreme court nominee either. However looking back, it gave us one fine justice.
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