Calls rise among Republicans for Sarah Palin to step down

[ThePhoenix]

Calls rise among Republicans for Sarah Palin to step down from GOP ticket

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/27/2008-09-27_calls_rise_among_republicans_for_sarah_p.html

Sarah Palin faces the biggest test of her month-old candidacy with this Thursday's vice presidential debate, but many Republicans are already convinced the Alaska governor is not ready for prime time - and may never be.

"It was fun while it lasted," conservative National Review columnist Kathleen Parker regretfully concluded last week. "But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick."
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Those "circumstances," Parker and others are now saying, include not just the Wall Street meltdown - a crisis that seems to cry out for seasoned leadership - but also Palin's choppy, tenuous, even unintelligible answers to the few questions she has fielded on her own.

Palin's interview last week with CBS' Katie Couric is Exhibit A - a frightening glimpse, say fans and critics alike, into what happens when Palin is allowed to speak without a script.

[KewlKat]

1. Is that even an option? for her to be pulled from the ticket?

What about all those who have already cast their absentee ballots? I don't think McLame would do it, but is it even possible?

[yellowcanine]

4. Actually this is one situation where the Electoral College provides a solution.

Even if the ballots say McCain/Palin, the electors can vote for someone else if McCain/Palin wins their state. Of course McCain would still have the drag(or benefit) of Palin on the ticket and undoubtably some electors would choose to stick with Palin - opening up the possibility in a close race tha McCain wins that McCain gets elected but without his chosen VP - either it is Biden, or more likely, no one and the House of Reps has to decide, in which case it probably is Biden.

[Lancer]

2. Technically, it's not too late

just consider if a candidate died this late in the game. There's a plan for all contingencies, but this close to Election Day, things get pretty confusing.

This article from Slate does its best. . . http://www.slate.com/id/2199167/

(Remember that Paul Wellstone died 11 days before the 2002 election. In Minnesota, a Party delegation chooses a new candidate, in this case Mondale, who lost to Norm Coleman. There has to be a viable, living candidate for every office on the MN ballot. They do things differently there than in FL, for example, where Mark Foley's name stayed on the ballot even though he resigned 30+ days out.)

[roseBudd]

3. DUers you can use this, most have not heard it because its from a campaign rally

It may be worse than many of us have suspected. Palin may not even know we have divided government, that the House & Senate legislate, and that trade does not lend itself to kinds of remarks that she said at a campaign rally.

The following is what she said about an export ban on oil, which most but not all Americans realize is sold on the global market.

"Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."

The main recipients of our exported oil were Mexico and Canada, 170,716,000 barrels of what the EIA calls "petroleum and products." We import oil from Canada and Mexico. They sold us 1,455,280,000 barrels or about eight and a half times as much as we sold them. If you check crude oil alone, Canada, sold us nearly seventy times as much crude oil as we sold them.

So Sarah, really, really is not anywhere near knowledgeable enough to be a heartbeat away from a very old man's say anything do anything quest to finally be president before he dies.

[coolhandlulu]

5. There is no way that she is stepping down

because she is serving her purpose in that she still appeals to that "special" section of American voters. The CNN report says that only intellectual conservatives are calling for her to step down. Did ya hear that? There are actually conservatives who are intellectual! Ha! I think that "Brownie" Sarah Palin is doing a great job at illuminating to the thinking American how inadequate McCain is at making executive decisions and how he considers Sarah the average American. McCain thinks all he needs is a cheerleader for vice prez and that the average American voter is a complete idiot.