Posted on 07/03/2009 6:40:30 PM PDT by taildragger
Like many here, I am a political prognosticator. I followed Sarah Palin here for almost 2 years and told friends last May if McCain only chance is to pick Palin. So what does Sarah Palin's latest move mean?
Really? Are you sure you didn't see what you believe? And how would you know the difference?
You know, it hurts to see someone with you talent go to waste, please become that dark horse you are so patiently waiting for, then the battle can begin.
Now I doubt you would do that, because, you remind me of a computer hacker who is very clever but finds it much easier to break things than it is to create something.
Any person who can capture the heart and soul of the Nation can win, what can you do?
You’re a 100% correct. Third parties are a diversion to FIXING the GOP. That and that alone is the solution to maintaining some sort of rationality in American politics.
Wait and see? Yet your attack mode is in full force, why don't you wait and see how some of this plays out? Oh never mind, your agenda seem clear.
Im not necessarily a Rudy-for-President cheeleader. Hed be a heck of a lot better than Hillary/Edwards/Obama, and I wont be miserable if he gets elected. On balance, though, I favor Romney out of the current crop of serious contenders, mainly because he has a track record of major success in both the private and public sectors (the Salt Lake Olympics being for all practical purposes a public sector enterprise). Rudy is entirely a public sector creature, and less likely to take actions that will tend to reduce the size of government. Intellectually, he understands the concept, and I think believes in it, but he simply has no practical experience in getting big things done through private sector activity, and thus has only a vague sense of what the private sector can do and how.
18 posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 12:38:29 PM by GovernmentShrinker
That's all a ROMNEYBOT can do!
I am pretty sure Palin was waiting for the same thing, it didn't happen. Now you get what you get, and Palin will have a part in it, to your great dismay. Is your obvious disdain for Palin, because she is an unashamed Christian?
I’ve already seen Palin in action.
Waiting to see when it comes to her is like waiting to see if a horse with a broken leg can race again.
I recognize that seething hatred of all things Romney...
You were a HuckaBot, weren’t you?
Are you about to go off on an anti-Mormon tirade?
It sure seems that way to me.
Bring on Barbaro FLIP Romney and see how he fares....just like his last run when he bought the Iowa caucus.
OH COME ON! You expected Palin to carry McCain on the National stage? Really?
TO ALL: DO NOT FEED counterpunch, THE TROLL!
JOHN MCCAIN GOT CLOBBERED don’t ya mean?
And make Christopher Reeve walk again ala John Edwards.
Who cares what Terry McAwful says?
The New York City-based Transport Workers Union of America endorsed John Edwards this morning, calling the former North Carolina senator the most electable of the Democrats.
The most electable Democrat is the only consideration union goons and Democrats in general care about.
19 posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:36:23 PM by counterpunch ("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
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LOL
US Troops come home to Obama’s exploding unemployment rates and layoff emails from their civvie employers :
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=31707683
Obama is strangling oil development--as Russia and China ink a historic oil and natural gas agreement--
--and Palin has closed the deal on the biggest civilian construction project in the hemisphere's history.
She's for drilling ANWR--Obama is dead against it--
--which parallels their respective stances toward America.
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While Mark Levin and Glenn Beck top the best-seller book charts
I wonder if Newt Gingrich will co-author a new Global Warming book with algore?
Do you think the guy lies a lot and makes up his smears as he goes with no sense of consistency, only a conscienceless willingness to lie to advance his man Romney? In this post a vice presidential choice is meaningless.
"Whatever combination of votes that gives McCain the biggest coalition is alright in my book. McCain will have a center-right coalition.
McCain understands the first rule of VP picks, everyone does. Do no harm. He knows that Lieberman at best would attract the same kind of voters that he himself already attracts, and it would be at the price of a significant chunk of his coalition.
Ill break down the dynamics of the VP selection: most people dont know who the Vice President is, nor do they care.
The VP pick gets only two big nights: the acceptance speech at the convention, and the VP debate, which gets a very small audience compared to presidential debates. Other than that, the VP is invisible, and most people dont start paying attention until after the convention where the VP is nominated.
The people who actually care who is picked or could pick the guy out of a lineup are hardcore political junkies, who just like football fan, already have picked their team. Theyre not persuadable.
This is why a VP pick can not help and can only harm. The only people who care or follow the VP drama are people that are already onboard, and thus can only be lost by a bad pick.
Obama didnt understand this. The only people who care about his VP choice are die-hard Hillary supporters, and he lost a good chunk of them by not picking her.
No one else cares who he picked. After all, he should know, hes Barack Obama! Why would they care about the other guy on the ticket? Its all about him, not the other guy. Obama fans have a hard enough time keeping up with the Kardashians, let alone Paris, Britney, Ashton, Brad and Angelina, this seasons American Idol, the Lohans, the Simpson sisters, and not one Corey, but two. They certainly dont have time for some uncool windbag with bad plugs like Joe Biden.
45 posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:52:47 AM by counterpunch (John McCain - For the LOVE of Country)
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