"watching for the "sizing" jokes"
Posted on 09/01/2008 7:53:43 PM PDT by ellery
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"No nominee that I've ever heard of has had all the boxes checked...Whether she can survive those liabilities depends on things that haven't happened yet. John McCain has lot riding on this. I think she'll do very well, but it's up to her to carry the mail."
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"I wonder sometimes what we call experience," he drawled. "How much experience does Barack Obama have? Sitting on the floor of the Senate listening to people talk does not give you foreign-relations experience."
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Is Palin ready? At this, Thompson groaned. "Ahhhh," he said, pausing for a moment before finding his footing. "Yes, I do. Look, remember what the standard is. Go back and look at vice-presidential picks throughout the history of the country. Look at Harry Truman, where he stood, how much experience he had before he was chosen as vice president."
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Pushed by NEWSWEEK's reporters and editors to say whether having a pregnant teenage daughter and five-month-old baby with Down syndrome at home will raise questions about Palin's "priorities," Thompson immediately questioned the questioners. "Would you be saying that about man running for office in her shoes?" he asked. "I really think you're going to be surprised at how average people--and especially women--who are not necessarily political one way or another identify with her. I see nothing in this that will hurt Sarah Palin politically. I mean, I get that it's a necessary part of the process to ask those questions. But we have to keep it fair. If we don't keep it fair, it will redound to her benefit." Judging by the reaction in the room--one female Newsweeker said she couldn't "believe that [our male reporters] were even asking this question"--I have a feeling he's right.
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(Excerpt) Read more at blog.newsweek.com ...
ping!
Fred ping.
I predict that Sarah’s teflon suit will prove to be superior to even Reagan’s. Moderrn technology, don’t you know :-)
“Would you be saying that about man running for office in her shoes?”
Bingo.
They of course would not.
"watching for the "sizing" jokes"
A good and honorable man Fred is.
Someone to have at your back defending you.
...if he's running in her shoes ,he's gonna hear much much more.....
50-state landslide.
Obama can have D.C.
Cheers!
Someone in front of the camera needs to make the point that Palin is not up for the Sec of State job...neither is bin biden.
OTOH, Cheney has received nothing but grief for ‘masterminding’ foreign policy and he’s supposed to quit meddling and go back in the VP cave.
You can’t win either way.
Glad to see Fred’s take on this.
I’m a bit nervous about the pregnant daughter, but he’s right...nobody would ask this about a man.
A belated welcome to FR, too. You picked a really good time to sign up!
There are some great lines she can use against Biden easy.
I figure Thompson himself got married in high school b/c of a surprise pregnancy — and he turned out more than all right. :)
“Look at Harry Truman, where he stood, how much experience he had before he was chosen as vice president.”
YES! And this is such a good example (I thought about that same one as well after discussion with some people today, about SP’s “lack of experience” and defending her) - I’ll always use THIS one from now on.
Cheney’s daughter is a Lesbian and nobody blamed Dick for that.
Obama took his local entry into politics as a chance to cozy up to an old terrorist and get favoritism from convicted Rezko. He proceded to vote “Present” one hundred and thirty times and then slide into a Senate slot he has used for nothing but launch his Presidential ambitions.
Palin was a succesful Mayor filling an Executive role for seven years and was so successful that when she ran for Governor she swept away the old guard of her own party and has been a take charge executive running a giant state.
Palin is over qualified based upon the opposition.
One can do all the right things rearing a child, but in the end, they still make their own decisions. From experience, I have to say that you just trust the Lord that good will come out of it.
Sarah’s daughter is a teen, probably very good-looking, and probably wasn’t thinking about the consequences, like so many her age. Let’s pray that she and her boyfriend make a good decision and raise a healthy, happy baby to maturity- and for themselves, that they have a long and happy life together! Isn’t that what we’d want for our own?
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