Posted on 09/02/2008 10:04:22 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
For reasons only "progressive" minds can fathom, several bloggers on the left think—or more likely, are perhaps wishing—that Sarah Palin, John McCain's newly-announced choice for Vice President, will drop out of the Presidential race.
Jeralyn Merritt, probably once the most consistently rational member of the leftist blogosphere, is actively promoting a drop-out pool.
Merritt claims that McCain must force Palin out because she wasn't adequately vetted, and then quite seriously suggests that Obama was:
Obama presented himself for 17 months to the American people, they heard him debate more than a dozen times, they made their own decision that he was ready for the job and the Democrats voted him their nominee.
Obama wasn't unilaterally appointed by a party's nominee in a transparent play for the evangelical and female vote. As if Sarah Palin could fill Hillary Clinton's shoes by virtue of her gender. As if women wouldn't see that Sarah Palin is the antithesis of Hillary Clinton on issues. As if anything would evoke Palin's lack of qualifications more than to compare them to Hillary's.
We now know far more about Sarah Palin in just four days than we've learned about Barack Obama in 17 months. That is just sad. It's a pathetic reflection of the mainstream media's unwillingness to do their jobs for fear of finding stories that would hurt the candidate so many of them openly desire to win.
But periodically appearing to read teleprompters isn't vetting, not matter how many months a candidate has done it, and Obama's ability to perform in set-piece debates is both dubious—Hillary once famously took him apart—and irrelevant. Barack Obama really has never been fully vetted. He hasn't even come close.
You want examples?
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If Obama does not share the radical cultural and religious views of Jeremiah Wright, then why was he a member of Trinity United Church of Christ for more than two decades?
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He will drop out when Larry Sinclair’s phone records are made public.
Isn’t there some piece which shows how Obama would stand up to a security clearance review process? I heard there was but never saw it.
Why haven’t the records been released?
Pissant!
Larry Sinclair hasn’t gone anywere. I think he is a dead issue. I personally think that Phil Berg might have a chance with the Birth Certificate issue. Again its a wait and see for the OCTOBER SURPRISE!
With billionaires as puppetmasters, he won’t. To get really sick, read this Bloomberg report on Obama’s finance Chair.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/08/the_power_of_penny_pritzker_bl.html
Jerlyn has never uttered a rational statement in my hearing.
She is incredibly stupid.
I WISH! But then WHO would they run?
I am sure Mrs. Palin would not hesitate to release an original copy of her birth certificate to the news media and document experts here on FreeRepublic and elsewhere. That is something Obama will not do. Why?
He’s at the GOP convention, I think. And the Biden team had to drop the Delaware charges against him as well. So Larry appears to be hanging around.
Neither B. Hussein nor Palin will drop out - there is too much at stake for either one of them.
Picking Palin was a stroke of genius on McCain’s part, and it most likely will help him beat Obama in the general. Picking B. Hussein will be seen as a disaster for the libs and their enablers in the MSM long after the election is over.
“If Obama does not share the radical cultural and religious views of Jeremiah Wright, then why was he a member of Trinity United Church of Christ for more than two decades?”
Either he shares Wright’s message or he is deaf and doesn’t know it.
Neither will drop out.
Can Palin, Hillary, or ANY woman be potus?
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Wishful thinking. The GOP base is energized and mobilized now. All of this sleazeball crap is just stoking that. And there’s nothing that’s anywhere close to warranting her exit. Unless, perhaps, if she started her political career at the home of a real terrorist.
Of course the left wants her gone. She’s done wonders for McCain’s campaign and is someone who could have a very long and successful career in national politics. Don’t think this is just about preventing President McCain. It’s about preventing an attractive younger pro-life woman from becoming President Palin.
But on the other hand, I predict Biden will.
birth outside the US is a constitutional reason to drop out.
What is even more amazing is that he TOOK HIS KIDS TO THIS CHURCH weekly, so they could listen to the anti-American ranting garbage spewing from “Rev” Wright. Why hasn’t the conservative media picked up on the fact that he exposed his kids to this puke?
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