babs blows her WaD!
Posted on 09/02/2008 10:59:19 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
Maybe he was sick of the lack of media attention…maybe he had enough of the late night talk show hosts poking fun at his age…maybe he realized that belonging to a party that has been associated with rich, white men was not going to connect with voters in this historical election year. Or maybe he was just ready to take back some of the spotlight that has shined so brightly on Barack Obama and the Democrats since the beginning of the Democratic convention. Desperation can motivate people to make some pretty cynical and hypocritical decisions. Whatever the reason, John McCain’s Hail Mary-- in the form of Vice Presidential pick Governor Sarah Palin--sent a very clear message to America about how he views female voters. Women, he thinks, will vote another woman into office regardless of the candidate's values, experience and political positions.
No one can dispute that this decision was micro-targeted to the small percentage of Independent and Democratic women residing in the Rocky Mountain West, who strongly supported Hillary Clinton in the primary and still find themselves undecided as we move into the general election. Unfortunately, what John McCain failed to realize is that after eight long and destructive years of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their cronies, American voters will not fall prey to political ploys once again.
For months, John McCain and the Republicans went after Barack Obama for lacking the experience they felt was necessary in order to be commander in chief. Yet, on this day, an aging John McCain, who is the oldest Presidential nominee in history, chose a running mate—a person that is just a heart beat away from the Presidency—that has no foreign policy experience, no national experience and limited state government experience…. a virtual unknown who has only been Governor for a less than 2 years of a state with a population of fewer than 680,000 people…a woman who condemns a woman’s right to choose.
I believe John McCain chose Gov. Palin because he truly believes that women who supported Hillary—an experienced, brilliant, life-long public servant--would vote for him because his Vice President has two x chromosomes. McCain’s selection of Governor Palin is a transparent and irresponsible decision all in the name of trying to win this election.
John McCain has served this country. No one in this election is denying him that. But his selection of Governor Palin has demonstrated that he is willing to put his desperation to win this election above the welfare of the American people. As someone who has spent over 40 years advocating on behalf of women both politically and philanthropically, as someone who was a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and as someone who cares deeply about the health and welfare of all women, hear me Senator McCain: “This calculated, cynical ploy to pull away a small percentage of Hillary's women voters from Barack Obama will not work. We are not that stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Dear Babs,
Your rant is stupid. Stupid is as stupid does.
Cheers,
What_Not
You have to read this out loud pinching your nostrils for the proper effect.
Kind of like you have to start the percolator, get a shawl and toast an onion bayali before listening to Andrea Mitchell.
Can anyone name a male candidate that could resemble Palin?
Those fanatic liberals who think this pick was ‘pandering’ to women should just get over themselves.
It isn’t about you!
This is a pick that stands for the ‘rugged individualism’ of the American Spirit!
babs blows her WaD!
biyali, not bayali.
Here’s what’s happening with the Sarah Palin pick. The Dim leftists and the liberal Republicans have taken great pains over the past 10 to 20 years, and most particularly in 2008, to frontload the primaries and caucuses with States and voting laws that would guarantee no conservative could emerge with the Republican nomination.
Then, McCain picked conservative Sarah Palin to be his VP, giving her a leg up to run for president as a conservative in either 2012 or 2016.
The leftists and liberals reacted, “Whoa, we had this thing fixed. But John McCain is backing out of the deal we fixed.”
McCain’s fixed a fix that has fixed their fix. That’s wht they’re in a lather.
Now the only fix they have for McCain’s fix of their fix is to shout and scream and whine.
That’s what’s happening.
This pick was about CONSERVATIVES, not about women.
>>an experienced, brilliant, life-long public servant<<
People keep saying this about hillary. What has she done?
A bunch of unelected “First Lady” roles and a couple years as senator, what lifelong is there?
“we are not that stupid!!!!!!!!!”
there she goes, projecting again, tsk, tsk,tsk.
I gues there’s no ‘THAT’ there, Babs.
“It isn’t about you!”
Obama said that this election is about ‘you’ though. After about a million ‘I’ insertions.
Soros must have a whole lot of money to spread around.
Great minds think alike!
see post #23
Yep, Babs that describes you to a tee.
WELL DO YOU?!?!?!?!
We don't complain about Dick Cheney doing it. (running for the bunker).
Whaaaaaaaaattttt !?!?
Fix, the fix, and fixed the fixer, fix?
Seriously...you are correct it’s just a long way to get there.
STILL waiting for someone to make that collage ad I’ve been calling for:
“Rosie...Sarandon...Clooney...Sarandon...Diddy...Obama.
WE JUST KNOW BETTER.”
I wasn’t saying women are stupid.
I was responding to this comment in fun:
>Do you really, really want a VP who sang “Wild boys alwaaaaays shiiiiiiiine! into her hairbrush instead of “Evergreen”!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL DO YOU?!?!?!?!<
What a bunch of bs bs is spouting.
Hey dearie, we want a real leader; not some bs artist whose only qualification is well, bs.
Streisand has never heard of transference.
See the dims are so used to using sex and race as a political ploy they just cannot understand
using a woman or a minority simply because they are qualified . They do not understand that we support
Justice Thomas, J.C. Watts, or michael Steel because of
their beliefs regardless of their skin color. The same goes
for Sarah Palin, or Condoleeza Rice.
I think the democrats are finding out how it feels to be
hoist on their own petard.
We have a winning team here, what we must do is make sure
they have big coat tails.
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