i saw a top local RAT in Wally's saturday and ask him what he thought of the prospect of having a Republican President for the next 16 years??? he's 70 years old i was laughing as i walked away, he was not amused...
Posted on 08/31/2008 3:50:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have seen a lot of commentary on why John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a cynical and transparent ploy to bring disaffected women who supported Hillary Clinton to his cause - and why this ploy would fail.
But I don’t think John McCain and the people around him are that stupid.
Something else in his speech introducing Palin as his choice caught my attention and I believe shines some light on the real reason McCain chose the Alaskan.
McCain said of this pick “I have found the right partner to help me stand up to those who value their privileges over their responsibilities, who put power over principle, and put their interests before your needs...I found someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies; someone who has fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past."
The McCain campaign plans on making an assault on Barack Obama’s strength as a change agent. And challenge, what the McCain campaign will describe as, Obama’s weak or non-existent attacks on corruption within the Democratic Party and other institutions throughout his career.
Like the Swift boat attacks of 2004 on Senator John Kerry, a decorated Viet Nam Veteran -- this assault will be on what is now a strength of Barack Obama's -- his focus on changing a broken system in Washington.
To make this assault, McCain picked in Palin someone who has taken on the corruption in the GOP in Alaska, turned against her own party’s establishment, and fought for reform.
The McCain/Palin duo will challenge Barack Obama’s claim of “a new kind of politics” and chastise Obama and Democratic vice presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, for their “silence” in taking on corruption in their own party in Illinois, Delaware and Washington, DC.
The McCain campaign intends to claim that “more of the same” in Washington means Barack Obama and Joe Biden and will make the argument that if you want to “shake things up” then McCain and his reform minded running mate from Alaska will get the job done.
My initial reaction was that in picking Palin, McCain had taken away the argument that Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president. I now think my initial assessment on that score was wrong. Over time, the McCain team will insinuate that if you think a first-term Governor isn’t ready for the number 2 slot, are your really sure that a first-term Senator is ready for the number 1 spot?
There are flaws in all these arguments. There is McCain’s own brush with corruption as a member of the Keating Five, as the country was wracked by the savings and loan scandal.
And Barack Obama has withstood the pressure of 19 months in the limelight as he secured the Democratic nomination, and proved he can handle the pressure--Sarah Palin has not. Palin could thrive and strongly help McCain make his case, or she could crumble and damage his candidacy. My first impression is that she is not going to crumble.
She isn’t Dan Quayle, and besides, Dan Quayle was elected vice president.
My take? Don’t LOL. Take the McCain/Palin ticket seriously.
Hurricane Gustav may hit the GOP convention as hard as it hits the Gulf Coast - but somewhere during his convention I expect John McCain to say “I love my party, but I love my country more."
Sarah Palin amplifies that part of the McCain brand, and helps to move McCain further from being identified with the Bush GOP, even while exciting some of the most conservative elements within it.
That’s accomplishing a lot and none of it involves Palin garnering votes from women “just because she is one."
Can the McCain of 2008 morph back to the McCain of 2000? Only if Democrats laugh out loud at Palin, let their guard down, and let it happen.
i saw a top local RAT in Wally's saturday and ask him what he thought of the prospect of having a Republican President for the next 16 years??? he's 70 years old i was laughing as i walked away, he was not amused...
If Obama really wanted change, wouldn’t he start by cleaning up the Chicago machine? Palin cleaned up the Alaska machine.
McCain has just redefined change to mean “anti-corruption.”
Obama doesn’t have a leg to stand on there.
McCain has already said that we are not republicans now, we are Americans.
Maybe each of you are seeing different pigs. You know, you’re not all sitting by the same window.
“Barack Obama has withstood the pressure of 19 months in the limelight...
Please. Obambi has been treated with kid gloves. If he got even half the scrutiny he deserved he would implode. I can’t wait for him to be put on the spot without a teleprommpter.
John Kerry was in Viet Nam? Who knew.......
She isn’t Dan Quayle, and besides, Dan Quayle was elected vice president
I'm sorry, I knew the late Sen. Lloyd Bensen of Texas and neither Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is JFK nor is Sen. Joe "Lord Lunch Bucket" Biden the British Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock.
I think I just saw a Duroc fly past my window...”
:)
Not only that, but the fur might still fly over both Biden’s and Nobama’s connections to Tony Reszko before Nov 4 gets here.
Biden has a long time advisor and fund raiser who is tied closely to Reszko.
Birds of a feather.
Everyone needs to read Nobama’s book and read closely how much he wants a black revolution in the country.
His best friends and mentors when he was young are the worst of the worst from the Black Panthers, etc.
Mitt and Huck were there, too. She did great ...””
Nothing on my local TV. Wish I could see that. Don’t have the Direct tv stuff.
Barack Obama has withstood the pressure of 19 months in the limelight as he secured the Democratic nomination, and proved he can handle the pressure...
Nobama tells his diciples that he will “change” things.
He never says WHAT he will change nor what he will change it to. They lap it up.
Dumbing down of America at it’s finest. Rush should be fun to listen to this week.
He took the films himself ;-))) Oh but he chucked the medals over a fences some place too :-O
A very reasonable analysis. I think the winning issues for McCain/Palin are ENERGY and REFORM. Obama is weak on both. He came out of the corrupt Chicago machine and voters need to reminded of this daily.
A very reasonable analysis. I think the winning issues for McCain/Palin are ENERGY and REFORM. Obama is weak on both. He came out of the corrupt Chicago machine and voters need to reminded of this daily.
You’re a great American. Probably. ;)
Like the Swift boat attacks Veterans for Truth of 2004
Fixed that...
Trippi is a smart democrat party activist, oops I meant unbiased CBS commentator.
Having said this, the democrats are going to focus on massive character assassination of this uppidty woman.
i don’t care why he picked her either.
All I know is i have not been this happy since i seduced my wife for the first time.
Now that's a crock! The MSM has done nothing but build up Obama, and cover for him the entire time he's been running for President. They've acted like he's the Second Coming, and the Only One who can save this nation.
I haven't seen ONE piece of coverage, that was critical of Obama, by any major newspaper, or radio, or TV networks. There has been nothing but, as Peggy Noonan so hilariously put it on Friday morning, "fatuous suck-upping" by the MSM.
Compare that with the nasty, horrid stories that have been passed on, without any sort of questioning at all by the press, about Sarah Palin in the last 36 hours. If Obama had had to endure that kind of crap thrown at him, by media outlets, he'd have been balled up on the floor, crying like a girl, inside a week.
I don't know about that, but I really do love this country, and am going to do what I have to to keep her safe. At this time, that means voting for McCain. With Palin as VP, he just made that easier.
Thank you though. I think....:)
You win an internet!
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