sarah palin will NOT be the republican vice-presidential nominee

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it is very quickly becoming apparent that this candidacy is not up to even the low bar set by dan quayle.
the media are having a field day, and the mclame camp is NOT going all out to defend her. they're obviously can't just let her twist in the wind, but you don't see mclame vowing that he's made the right choice and she'll be by his side through november and beyond and whatever.

mclame picked her to shore up HIS cred with the rabid right. ALL HE NEEDED TO DO WAS PICK HER. this proved to the rabid right that he would do what they asked of him. he doesn't need to KEEP her.

now, obviously, he can't just dump her, and can't be seen as WANTING to dump her. but if it were to become obvious that she's too much of a liability (duh!) then either she can withdraw or the rabid right can pull her themselves.

the rabid right ultimately will realize that that the mccleese/palin flying circus is going over like a big joke and will settle for mclame/polenta or whatever, knowing that they've got mclame's number and he'll cave in to their demands whenever they need him to.


think thomas eagleton.

palin will not last. she'll probably say she needs to spend more time with her family.

[MichiganVote]

1. He won;t let her go but she may bow out---and then again she might not. And that will be funny.:)

[apnu]

3. And suicide

But then picking Palin looks, increasingly, like suicide too. Is there such a thing as suicide suicide?

[MichiganVote]

19. If she doesn't drop, it means that her ambition is greater even than McSame's.

[Phredicles]

2. Wait, you mean he picked her just so her could dump her and then

bring in who he really wanted (presumably Liebertoad)?

It's an interesting idea, but do you really think McCrash is capable of thinking that deviously?

[WinkyDink]

4. Rove is.

[Gore1FL]

6. it is just the Meirs bait and switch

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10. ding!ding!ding!

[katandmoon]

23. But Meirs bowed out because of all the fundie racket that she wasn't sufficiently anti-choice

Among other things. She wasn't conservative enough for the rabid fundie right wing.

No way you can say that about Palin. And she appears to have been picked especially to appease that base that doesn't trust McCain.

If McCain's campaign shitcans her, there will be hell to pay from them.

[unblock]

25. the actors are in different roles this time, but that play remains the same

to put it another way, the foo is on the other sh*t.

[katandmoon]

26. I don't agree. Last time the base was appeased. This time they'd be pissed off.

I don't think it's the same thing at all.

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13. it may or not have been the plan all along.

i don't know for sure that they saw around the corner first, but having turned and seen what's there, step two is becoming increasingly obvious.

[D23MIURG23]

30. I don't think there is any way this was the plan.

Where is the advantage in having your first VP pick go up in flames?

[seabeyond]

5. it has confirmed poor judgment on mccains part, laziness, incompetence.

he did not do this as a plan to appease the rw religious and then plan to dump her. this hurts him too much

[Fridays Child]

7. Ironically, she really DOES need to spend more time at home.

She has a special needs baby, prone to many illnesses, infections, and other conditions. And she has a pregnant and unwed, teenaged daughter. Her problems stem from the fact that she hasn't spent enough time at home. She needs to...ahem...

Focus On the Family.

[Quixote1818]

8. Either way McCain is fucked. nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. She'll drop out to spend more time with the caribou herds

The herds are about to migrate south.

[Matariki]

11. Not only that, but both her party AND the Dobson crew will abondon her

so when her indictment date in court comes up, she'll be toast as Governor as well.

I'll place bets on it.

[DeschutesRiver]

12. Mentioned it on another post but

has anyone seen or heard anything at all from McCain yet? I might have missed it, but I have heard squat from him at his on the scene location at hurricane central.

He could at least comment on that, since he has botched their convention allegedy to head for his hurricane photo op visit.

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14. exactly. why isn't he out there defending his choice?

[Tansy_Gold]

16. Why isn't SHE defending his choice?

Can't she take it?




Tansy Gold

[DeschutesRiver]

24. Newsflash re McCain

There is another thread going here that I just saw - CNN' Anderson Cooper had some shots of McCain in hurricane alley, but said that when he asked McCain if he could ask him some questions, MCCAIN DECLINED. This is bizarre behavior from a candidate.

As for Palin, as far as I can tell she has the same "I am NOT talking to anyone" disease that McCain has going. I am calling her Puppet Palin, and apparently Johnny Boy has the strings to this ventriliquist's doll all tangled up.

[Sugarcoated]

15. He's busy weeping

[democrat2thecore]

17. We're not even being fair to Dan Quayle!

At least he was a Congressman and then a two-term Senator from Indiana!
If I were him - I'd be insulted being compared to her!
That's the only time you'll hear me being kind to Dan Quayle - but seriously!!

[Erin Elizabeth]

35. Very true.

This woman isn't even Dan Quayle. Sad.

[BeyondGeography]

18. Agreed

[democrat2thecore]

20. ABC NEWS screencapture

[Arctic Dave]

21. I mentioned this on another post

1. Sarah daughter says she has problem with baby
2. Sarah flies home to be by her side
3. Sarah declines VP slot to be with family
4. Pugs choose new VP
5. Pugs blame Dems for daughters problem with pregnacy because they are mean

Pugs win because they threw the fundies a bone and now they have something to build up fake outrage over.

[Arctic Dave]

22. Dupe

Sorry my bad.

[flamingdem]

27. Is this why Bush decided to show up for the convention tomorrow night? So WHO then? nt

[Lars39]

28. It will make the next radical VP nomination look sane and logical

by comparison after this circus.

[lanlady]

29. I think she'll drop out by week's end

They'll concoct some family emergency and she'll withdraw. It's too risky & distracting for McCain to keep her on the ticket. Better to dump her now, before she's nominated.

[Oak2004]

31. Be aware and prepared: the GOP will try to spin her dropping out as caused by us "liberal bloggers"

going after her children or something else equally sodden with victimhood.

We'll need to stay on the offensive and deal with the pity stories

[FloridaJudy]

32. My feeling as well

That's why I appreciate Obama's policy of discouraging attacks on her family. We don't want to make a RW martyr of this lunatic. She's done enough dubious crap that we can go after fair and square.

[InvisibleTouch]

33. Hey, whatever it takes. ;)

I just want this poor excuse for a semi-sentient life-form GONE. Gone from the media, gone from our awareness, gone from any possibility of ever mis-wielding power or influence again. She could go home and bake cookies. Isn't that what all "good conservative" women are supposed to do? (Though oddly enough, the ones that most want to force this lifestyle on everyone else, are the absolute last ones to be living it.) The thought that she might not stay on the rethug ticket is the best news I've had all week!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. They will blame "politics of personal destruction". Push back with McCrash "no executive judgement"

They will blame "politics of personal destruction". Push back with McCrash "no executive judgement".

Everytime, every opportunity, put it right back on McCain. McCain has had much longer than Obama to vet and make his big decision, and Palin is the best he can do.

The USA is sick and tired of cowboys and cowboy wannabes like Shrub Bush. Maverick might be ok, if it were not a lie, but shooting from the hip is definitely not the way to run a country.