Sarah Palin's Almost Creepy Ambition Should Worry McCain

[susanbanks44]

Sarah Palin's post-Couric/Fey comeback at last week's vice presidential debate was a turning point in the campaign. But if she "won," as her indulgent partisans and press claque would have it, the loser was not Joe Biden. It was her running mate. With a month to go, the 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race -- about "the future," as Palin kept saying Thursday night -- and the only person who doesn't seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain.

To understand the meaning of Palin's "victory," it must be seen in the context of two ominous developments that directly preceded it. Just hours before the debate began, the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan. That state is ground zero for the collapsed Main Street economy and for so-called Reagan Democrats, those white working-class voters who keep being told by the right that Barack Obama is a Muslim who hung with bomb-throwing radicals during his childhood in the late 1960s.

McCain surrendered Michigan despite having outspent his opponent on television advertising and despite Obama's twin local handicaps, an unpopular Democratic governor and a felonious, now former, black Democratic Detroit mayor. If McCain can't make it there, can he make it anywhere in the Rust Belt?


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http://www.alternet.org/election08/101685/sarah_palin%27s_almost_creepy_ambition_should_worry_mccain/

[dchill]

1. That's true, but a LOT of things...

"Should Worry McCain." - Welcome to DU, susanbanks44! :hi:

[susanbanks44]

4. Thanks for the welcome dchill! n/t

[silverojo]

2. Here's what should worry McCain

Four words: "Get a food taster." :rofl:

[susanbanks44]

3. LOL hahah

[O.M.B.inOhio]

5. Myster Praisiden', heeere's yer Dailee Brieeef.... BOO!

Ooh, was I tryin' to startle ya inta hayvin' a heart attayck? You betcha!

[DRoseDARs]

6. Well, it's not like she's going to shoot McCain in the face in quail hunting accident.

That's Cheney's schtick.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

7. Doubt he'll go moose hunting with her

I think Palin is a better shot than Cheney.