Posted on 08/25/2008 5:33:45 PM PDT by An Old Man
You want family values? She has it.
You want patriotism? She has it. Track Palin enlisted in the Army. He wants to head to Iraq.
You want a ‘maverick’? She has it. She took out Alaska’s corrupt power structure.
She doesn’t like special interests. She is something of an idealist. She has enough executive experience to appear young and fresh to counter anything the Obama campaign might throw at John McCain. She is a champion of ethics reform. Have I mentioned that she is young (46) and pretty?
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I wasn’t trying to minimize their family situation and understand it is quite a challenge - but she is still a Governor, and could have resigned knowing the child would have issues. VP is a good area for her to serve and she can decide when Trig is 4-5 whether she wants to move on up to POTUS or return to Alaska.
I said I would never vote for McPain ...but IF he chooses Palin I might change my mind . Take Palin now , and then you have a Palin / Jindal ticket in 2012 . Jindal can run for POTUS in 2020 .
Maybe, but the campaigning phase is pretty intense. She’d have to be traveling almost non-stop from now until November. I wouldn’t blame her if that was her reason for opting out.
But if McCain picks her and she thinks she can do it, I wouldn’t have any problem with it. She seems like a nice conservative lady with a lot of charisma. I’ll be happy if McCain picks any solidly conservative running mate at this point. He has several really appealing possibilities at this point, and a few more decently good choices. I just don’t want to see him flake out and pick some RINO.
You pick Pawlenty if you think he can win MN and end this election.
Otherwise, you go with Romney, who is the equivalent of LBJ in ‘60 and Bush I in ‘80.
The Democrats chose a stupid candidate who is running a stupid campaign. There is no need to do anything risky to beat him when their party is imploding.
No, she’d get smoked. Biden is a pompous and obnoxious prick; you retaliate with someone of a similar nature.
That’s precisely what she will appear to be; A woman nominated because she is a woman.
Is that your opinion of any woman who would ever be nominated? It seems to me that Ms Palin is as qualified as Obama at least.
That’s precisely the problem. Obama isn’t qualified. Hillary said it, Biden said it, and America is realizing that they do not want this man making decisions in a time of war.
This election is about Obama more than it is about McCain. Why would you nominate Palin and effectively eliminate Obama’s greatest weakness?
Imagine it is April 1945, and we at war in the Pacific. Roosevelt just died Are you really comfortable with this woman in that position?
I think the main difference between being governor and VP is the traveling issue. With being governor, she can still be at home most of the time. She also doesn’t have to switch her time between 2 homes like she would being VP.
One example of a non-sequitur would be thinking the number 2 on the GOP ticket being inexperienced somehow equals the top of the Dim ticket being even more inexperienced. Palin would not erase worries about Obama.
If you want to complain about Palin, you can say:
1. She is from a small state and has not been through a large state rough and tumble statewide election.
2. She might not be ready if anything happens to McCain, but that is not really a huge voting issue unless something happens prior to election day.
Palin has a lot of pluses.
Why would you nominate Palin and effectively eliminate Obama’s greatest weakness?
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Its McCain’s Experience vs obambi’s, not Palin’s, that counts. Palin would pull in the women who want to hit back at the obambi-thugs rape of Hillery.
One other question is will those women fight back against obambi by voting for McCain regardless of who he chooses as VP? Whats your opinion on that?
I think it would be a great pick.
ProLife
Woman
ProMilitary
ProGun
Young
Governor of a State.
There isn’t another GOP woman out there with those Creds.
For what my 2 cents is worth around here, she’s my favorite, hands down.
But it would reduce them. Selecting a running mate, someone a heart-beat away from the presidency itself, who has even less experience than Obama removes that as a weapon McCain can use against him. McCain needs to pick someone ready to be president in his or her own right from day one. That's not Palin.
I would be as comfortable with her as I was with Truman in 1945. Who in the world knew anything about HST at that time?—and yes, I remember when Truman took office and how nervous my parents were about him. I was 9 yrs old at the time.
Proving a negative.
Bad argument form.
Palin might marginally reduce worries about Obama’s experience or at least the press would make such a claim. But in the mind of the public any discussion of Palin’s inexperience would remind people of Obama’s inexperience at the top of the Dim ticket, so she might even be a plus on that point.
Combat the other side's inexperienced candidate by picking one of our own? Good plan.
Yet another non-sequitur from you?
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