Palin = Train Wreck.

[salin]

Heaven forbid, I can't seem to tear myself away from watching it. I can not recall such a trainwreck in a national election - and I have been following these elections since 1984. I have watched landslides - but even when Mondale/Ferraro were trounced, the campaign itself wasn't a veritable trainwreck.

I can't stop rubber necking. I don't know which is worse - the revelations, or the gop spinmeisters trying to explain it all away.

One even said that being a mother of five was a hard job and thus was a legitimate qualification to be vice president. No Lie.

The GOP finally have become one giant caricature of their own party.

These folks simply can NOT get anywhere near the whitehouse. We have to do all that is possible (politically speaking) to make sure that doesn't happen.

[XemaSab]

1. .

:popcorn:

[peacebird]

2. unfortunately she might energize the evangelicals........

[RoadRage]

6. But luckily evangelicals are outnumbered by American's with common sense.. NT

[peacebird]

12. unluckily for us, evangelicals VOTE and a lot of Americans with common sense don't bother.....

how else to explain 8 years of the shrub?

[RoadRage]

30. Point taken.. let's hope this country has learned over the past 8 yrs.. NT

[salin]

8. what good is that if they push even more folks off the train platform?

the GOP do not win national elections based only on an "energized evangelical" vote.

[TwilightGardener]

16. McLoon just shoved a whole lot of Indies into Obama's camp with this pick, at

the expense of pandering to the religious right. He damaged his one big strength, IMO.

[cameozalaznick]

35. I think the preggo teen might throw a little damp water on their enthusiasm. eom

[mwb970]

38. I doubt it.

They'll twist it around until they have her doing God's holy Jesus work or some such BS. Remember, we're dealing with people who don't believe in logic or reason.

[msallied]

45. I doubt it. She's energized evangelical talking heads

But you can bet there are millions of evangelical families sitting at home right now going WTF?

[sunnybrook]

61. she "might"

too late for that

[livetohike]

3. I was angry and insulted the day Palin was picked for VP

but after spending the weekend thinking about it and all of these revelations and McCain's incompetence in choosing her, I am having a good laugh right now :-).

Typical GOP incompetence. "Heckuva job McCain". :rofl:

[salin]

13. I got caught up in watching the trainwreck on Saturday morning

once the first opeds were in. I am laughing on the one hand - but really sitting in stunning disbelief.

This looks like a political implosion - and one of McCain's own making.

Yesterday I thought to myself - maybe he really does put service to his country above his own political aspirations and this was his harikari to take down what's left of the GOP.

Okay - I really don't think he intended to possibly throw away the campaign with this, but daaannng....

[livetohike]

18. Just when it looks like things couldn't get any worse for his

selection....wonder what else will turn up?

[kestrel91316]

42. Well, I hear she backs AK secession........

That'll score her a few more points.......

[salin]

46. train wreck....

My point exactly.

[DJ13]

4. Woo Wooo!

[TwilightGardener]

5. Let's not forget Cindy McBuffaloChip's insistence that Palin had

foreign policy experience because Alaska and Russia are geographically close. The GOP has finally jumped the shark on this one.

[salin]

14. in one morning Cindy just threw herself onto the top of the laughingstock heap.

Can you imagine even trying to claim that tripe with a serious face?

shark... jumping.

[tblue37]

27. And Pawlenty's remark about how managing a family's budget

gives her the experience to manage the federal budget.

Oh, and I read somewhere that some GOP fool claimed that her PTA leadership expereince gave her executive experience, too.

This is theater of the absurd.

[TwilightGardener]

29. "Theater of the absurd" is correct. This is how the GOP views the office

of the Presidency and VP. They'd argue for a dog as VP if they thought it might work.

[salin]

47. well Pawlenty might be trying to be absurd

word is he is pretty pissed off right now. Thought he had bagged the slot.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. And Bay Buchanan's insistance that the fact Calamity Jane's son was going to Iraq

alone established her expertise on foreign affairs.

[TwilightGardener]

32. LOL! I, too, can haz Vice Presidency, since my husband has been to Iraq!

I am now an expert on foreign affairs, and didn't even know it!

[NoFederales]

44. I live close to a nukular power plant, can I be a nukular engineer?

NoFederales

[salin]

49. in McCain's GOP, you now are qualified to command a fleet of nuclear

subs. Or so their logic would seem to go. But if you are a democrat, oops no longer qualified ;-)

[Ishoutandscream2]

48. Oh dear God

May I make a broad generalization here and state that anyone who supports today's Republican Party has to be absolutely clueless?

[spooky3]

7. Funny - those Repub. CEOs never seem to view being a mother

as a good qualification when they hire highly-paid managers at their firms.

[C_U_L8R]

9. McCain=Bus Wreck

Palin = Roadkill

McCombobulated can't keep the express straight

[salin]

15. There it is the BusWreck/Roadkill ticket.

[jazzjunkysue]

21. "Benny Hill Presidency"

[Zomby Woof]

10. Salin = DU Legend

You are abso-freakin'-lutley correct. I literally get nauseaous contemplating such a far-right whackjob getting that close to the Oval Office. Bush has his puppetmasters, and he does their bidding with little surprise in the awful results - but she would fire them, and who knows what else. She's the most wretched pick for VP in history, and there are plenty of horrible ones (Quayle, Agnew, etc).

[salin]

19. wierdly I think her candidacy will implode long before

we ever are in a position to find out what insanity would happen. The question is whether or not McCain's candidacy will implode with hers. And as confident as I am in watching this trainwreck that this is a near collapse of their ticket - no over confidence here. No way ever would I let these jokers anywhere near the wh.

btw, :hi:

have to sign off for a few hours, but am glad I caught you first!

[Zomby Woof]

26. Always great to see you

I wish I shared completely your faith in this implosion. Although you are correct in not being overconfident. Part of me believes he is throwing the election, the other part fears the media will do a successful "She's a reformer! An All-American Mom! She's One of US!" cosmetic do-over, and sucker just enough of the GOP base and right-leaning independents, that.................

:nuke:

:hi:

[salin]

50. One would think that at some point more members of the msm would

start resenting being put in the position of acting the idiotoafwaterbearer for the GOP that some would jump ship. And while I would like to say that there are signs of this starting to happen, we have too long been living this orwellian nightmore to believe it is soon to be passing.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

33. Quayle was a buffoon and he looks like Obama

next to Miss Mooseburger.

[mwb970]

39. Quayle had been in Congress for twelve years!

It seems strange, but he actually did some important work. I read up on him back then, and was surprised that he was a bit more than he seemed. Gidget, however, is more likely a good deal less than she seems, even now.

[Epiphany4z]

11. this is like

hell I am not sure...a bad lifetime movie...first he compares Obama to Brittney then he pics Britney's mom as vp...oy.

They try to tell us..she is good on foreign policy because she lives..sorta kinda close to russia..yaya I stayed at a holiday in last night thats why I am going to sec of the interior.

then she is abstinence only , pro life no matter what, and she neglects to tell us ..That it didn't work in her own family.

She calls her self a feminist is not for equal pay

holy shit what is not to love.

[dailykoff]

17. Plane crash #6.

Or is it 7.

[RichGirl]

20. The screenwriters...

...for Lifetime movies are feverishly taking notes....


"The Sarah Palin Story: The Girl who wanted it ALL" Starring : a really bad, unknown actress

[mwb970]

40. Katherine Harris is available. /nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. It sounds as if the religious right is estatic. It also could be devastating

because swing voters will perhaps love this woman. Playing with fire...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Palin = Bitch to Nowhere

Palin = Bitch to Nowhere

I hesitated to post that, because the word bitch is used so casually and hatefully by ignorant people, but sometimes the term applies.

[tblue37]

24. She also might energize those who are scared to death to

think of her being a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency, and those who feel insulted by McCain's and the Republcians' complete disregard for the safety and well-being of this country.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. It is as if the media is auditioning for The Daily Show, it has become just that ludicrous.

[unblock]

28. the gop became one giant caricature of its own party eight years ago

its just become too obvious even for the media to pretend otherwise, try as they might.

[tpi10d]

34. GOP "heckuva job brownie" candidate

I think this will be the eventual take-away from the Palin nomination.

Probably more revelations to come- recent lawyer breaking news troopergate.

Possible pull back of Palin for family reasons.

Likely press and gossip rags combing archives in Alaska.

I agree it looks like a train wreck.

[livetohike]

36. Welcome to DU tpi10d!

:hi: It's the incompetence that should be a major issue for our party to hammer on. I like your "heckuva job brownie" comment. I said the same thing in one other thread here. It's so appropriate :-).

[Erin Elizabeth]

37. How about one of her experience qualifications being

the PTA?

Don't get me wrong, I'm involved with the PTA. I'm a Life Member! But shit, that doesn't qualify me for national public office.

I'm not even sure that qualifies me for mayor.

[Arugula Latte]

41. If we ever need to balance the U.S. budget through wrapping paper and cookie dough sales,

we PTA moms will step in to save the day! :patriot:

;)

[salin]

51. bwahahahaha

again - train wreck.

[Erin Elizabeth]

55. LOL!

YAY PTA MOMS!

[salin]

57. Lets hold some paper drives... to pay for more tax cuts!

:-)

There is a lot of fun to be had on this line per how helpful her experience on the PTA would be for being vice president.

It totally negates being president of the Harvard Law Review. And being a mayor of a town of less than 8000 is totally more relevant per experience than years in the state senate of a large (and complex) state, and less than 18 months as gov of Alaska way, way negates four years in the US senate. Oh - and her state is next to Russia - so she *must* have tons more foreign relations experience. Totally.

[Erin Elizabeth]

59. Shit, you know, I'm thinking I really need to get myself into

national public office. Not only do I have PTA experience, but I also have a master's degree. Rock on.

[kestrel91316]

43. No offense, but, I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

[Erin Elizabeth]

54. I have other qualifications, though.

Wink.

(I'm fully planning on running for office someday. And I'm starting with the school board.)

[donco6]

52. Cars tumbling, smoke, fire . . .

when will it all STOP???

Hopefully not 'til I need a popcorn refill.

[salin]

53. This choice is forcing a lot of GOP figures to jump into the smoking car

as they try to come up with pubic statements to make the absurd seem reasonable.

[donco6]

56. And how embarrassed will they be when it's all over?

Not at all, I'd bet. The whole episode never happened.

[salin]

58. their degree of embarassment, or shame is irrelevant

but for each moderate listener who takes more scales off of their eyes due to the absolute absurdity of it all... that is what matters in the long run.

[Virginia Dare]

60. This is what two people's ruthless ambition has wrought...n/t