Craps McCain rolled the dice and WON ...

[Sensitivity]

At least for the first round.

It seemed a totally crazy gamble, but since the MSM are giving the Palin speech rave reviews -- stunning, out of the park, powerful, star is born, etc. -- we can't deny its success. No matter what the viewers of the speech really felt -- I was sickened -- opinion tends to be shaped by the commentary over the succeeding days. So, we can expect the race to be tied by next week.


The choice still remains a decision to go gambling. Let's hope that some new revelation ends his winning streak and brings their house of cards crashing down.

[BeyondGeography]

1. And now he doesn't know what to do with her

[Cha]

22. It was already predicted the corporatemediaWhore$ would do

this before the fact..nobody thinks she's anything other than what she is..red meat for the whacks.

And, she reportedly raised $10Million for our Obama Biden campaign.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Pffffttt

[blondeatlast]

25. +1

[terrya]

43. +2

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Wow...another post extolling McCain's genius by Sensitivity

has Sensitivity ever posted anything positive about the Democratic nominee? Has Sensitivity ever posted anything negative about the Republican nominee?

[blondeatlast]

12. That would be an unequivocal--NO. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. .....

[blondeatlast]

21. ...

:thumbsup:

[Sensitivity]

17. Easy to do a search to find out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. It was a rhetorical question

besides, who has the energy to pay more than2 minutes of attention to your bullshit.

[dbonds]

4. If people are not wise to the media spin before, they will be now.

Just because the media is reluctantly spinning for them doesn't mean the populace is buying it.

[Sensitivity]

57. That's the challenge

[writes3000]

5. The sky isn't falling. It's actually quite bright. Nasty Palin left a bad taste in people's mouths

And the media isn't going to be able to spin that for more that 36 hours.

I know you like to see the worst in a situation to be prepared.

But this time, just watch. Your analysis is off.

[glowing]

6. Are u kidding me? More and more think these people are liars.. and really

hate it when they suggest fun things like stayvacations and cutting coupons. People don't like to know they put in an honest days work, and can't fucking take a vacation.... What is the repugs offering? Nothing.. this is what makes the media look like fools.

[Sensitivity]

56. Hope those people are not just the ones who were voting on our side already.

[Xipe Totec]

7. He won crap n/t

[progressoid]

8. It'll be a short honeymoon

Biden will destroy her in the debates.

(assuming she debates him)

[anigbrowl]

9. Vanilla Ice was popular at first too.

They want their horse race, but there's no denying that Palin is way too polarizing to attract swing voters.

[SuperTrouper]

13. 8-track cassettes were popular, too

[grantcart]

10. hardly these are the promos

round one comes when she starts taking questions from the media


Yesterday was for those already in the tent.

[azmouse]

11. Read the comments on Jack Cafferty's blog

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com /

Almost all negative. She is NOT a success. Don't let the MSM fool you.

[GodlessBiker]

16. I agree. Not a success. Except for the Dems, netting 10 mill for Obama.

[sofa king]

14. There were no dice... it was a stacked deck.

The MSM is owned by the wealthy oligarchs who are inexorably devouring your wealth and future. They were going to piss a river of love for any fool the GOP put up, and they did. That's what we're up against.

[Sensitivity]

63. Never give in.

[book_worm]

18. of course people turned in out of curiosity, but I think swing voters came away disappointed.

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Sure, that's why McCain has surged ahead in all the polls.

I mean, if it was such a great pick (on face value), he'd have seen a huge bump.

Oh wait...

[Sensitivity]

58. A horrible pick, but does not seem to affect the ave. voter

[HughMoran]

23. VP = 1 speech, 1 debate

McPOW is the Presidential nominee - if he's upstaged himself with this pick, then in the end he'll be a big loser. McCain is running for President, not POWlin.

[SurfingAtWork]

24. I disagree. He is cancelling appearances left and right,

In addition to electifying the Con base he has also electrified the Progressive base, and I'll wait to see next weeks polls to gauge the success of the speech. As of today the polls are still trending away from him.

If this is what winning looks like, I'd hate to see what he looks like loosing.

[beltanefauve]

26. It's the economy,

stupid. Remember that one? It's still our trump card. They can talk fear-and-smear, "family values" and POW 'til they're blue in the face, but what are they really offering when it comes to the kitchen-table issues? Nothing! And that's when the chickens will come home to roost.

[thoughtcrime1984]

27. He could've picked a piece of warm dog shit as his running mate and the MSM would be extolling its'

virtues.

[FrenchieCat]

28. Why are you here?

still.

[Gabi Hayes]

29. it's all up to the media now....maybe a little from the dems: if they

insist on covering Palin's almost uncountable weaknesses/lies/distortions, she should go down in flames

but the media will react in the opposite manner they did yesterday/today if dems claim the story isn't being covered: they'll accuse the dems of being sexist whiners, and deride them for awhile.....soon after stop covering ANY negative story about her, or McCain, for that matter

where's the Keating Five in all this, or Carl Lindner, terrorist financier/multimillion dollar McCain fundraiser?

where's the lettuce story?

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOZKeOauNI

[Sugarcoated]

30. Sensitivity

Why do you always post negatives about Obama? What's the point of that?

[Sensitivity]

34. God help us. This has nothing to do with Obama, who is my hero and candidate. Please.

[blondeatlast]

35. Edit: the thread starter isn't worht my aggravation. nt

[Sugarcoated]

51. Okie dokie

[Sensitivity]

31. We can still hope and pray for a McCain discombobulation tonight

He certainly must be on the edge already to pick Miss Alaska runner-up as his V.P.

Otherwise we must expect that they will gain some votes from this scorchingly nasty convention.

[spanone]

32. the sarah surge

[Stop Cornyn]

33. Won? All he did was grab headlines for a few days. If he deficated in a public park he would have

grabbed even more headlines.

Besides, you say "McCain rolled the dice." There is every indication that Palin was picked for him against his wishes to run with Lieberman. McCain had little to do with Palin's selection (and, in 2012, she'll blame him for the ticket's loss when she runs for the Repub nomination to challenge President Obama).

[Sensitivity]

36. Good points but McCain decided to take the gamble. Hope headlines is all he gets

[Lex]

37. Obama's donations shot through the roof & McCain is hemorraging swing voters

so yeah, wow, it's working out great, eh?

[Stop Cornyn]

40. I don't think it was a gamble. It was a capitulation. McCain wanted to run a campaign to win the

independents and moderates. The Repub machine wanted to run a get-out-the-base campaign (because it is less risky for their downballot races). When McCain gave up on his plan to choose Lieberman and chose redmeat for the base instead, he lost the command of his own campaign.

[Ichingcarpenter]

59. You know nothing about craps....... he should have passed the dice

You show your ignorance.... on the game and politics.

[mitchum]

38. Your enthusiastic concern is noted

[lib2DaBone]

39. Palin Inspires Women To Vote For Democrats

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24293429-5013948,00.html

[Sensitivity]

41. Great report, but before the speech. Certainly applies to "informed" women. Waiting monday results,

[mokawanis]

42. Bullshit

One speech constitutes round 1 of the campaign? One speech means "we can expect the race to be tied by next week"? I'm calling bullshit on this post. Were you watching the Dem. convention? Did you see Obama's speech in Denver? How do you think Obama's speech compares to Palin's?

[Sensitivity]

44. Obama speech cannot be compared with Palin's swill. But pigs eat swill and like it.

[mokawanis]

47. I suppose that's true

and I don't mean to attack you personally. I apologize if I came across that way. I just think the speech was little more than a snarky put-down of Obama and Biden so I'm a little put off that it's being praised so much by repugs.

[MarjorieG]

45. McCain has been playing the refs, and won round one. Christian Conservatives are thrilled.

I'm worried they're going to the top, sometime soon, if not this time. The GOP is on board.

[Teaser]

46. -1: premature

.

[stanwyck]

48. Whose base has been more energized by the Palin pick?

I'll argue that our base, the Obama-Biden, base has been just as energized, if not more, by the Palin selection. It works both ways. And having her come out last night with badly framed attacks on Obama is really heating up our blood. Which is great. AND our pocketbooks. 8 million raised during her speech last night.
Palin is a gift. She's a smart lady, no question. But she's a governor who is not widely traveled and seems to have W.'s same lack of intellectual curiousity about the world. She's going to try and study for the test the night before. And, usually, that doesn't result in a very high grade. Her strengths have been on display, her adorable children and her feisty underdog charm. But she's got weeks ahead of a media which will ask questions about Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, as well as a host of domestic issues beyond her current realm.
Now, a guy like Clinton, another governor, could handle all that because the guy is just so scary smart. "W" went with the narrative strategy. Hey, I'm a cowboy. Vote for me.
This will be Palin's strategy. Hey, I'm a cowgirl, vote for me.
But, Americans are a little jaded right now on the "narrative" candidates. They haven't proven to be effective leaders.

[Sensitivity]

49. I agree. Palin could easily become the biggest disaster imaginable. So far

her handlers are fending off this danger.

[stanwyck]

50. Uh, we're only into Day 6. And she's been

under wraps for at least 4 of those days. There's a long way to go here. Right now there is a veritable surge of journalists dedicated to interrogating every last Palin acquaintance hoping for his/her 15 minutes of glory. Grab some popcorn. The fun is just beginning with Mustang Sally.

[Sensitivity]

52. FOLKS, I hope people understand I am promoting the "McCain as gambler" meme w this OP

It is one of the few damaging themes that don't depend on specific damaging allegations against Ms. Palin.

There are many ways in which the Palin pick can be seen as a dangerous gamble.

[the Sundance Kid]

53. your pizza will be one of the tastiest

[Monk06]

54. Palin will be Dick Cheney's sock puppet. The real power behind the throne.

Mc Cain will be a toothless relic sitting in a
wheelchair eating his custard pudding.

[JoshDem]

55. So far big McCain win--but its not over

[Baltoman991]

61. How

is it a big McCain win?

Anyone with half a brain knows he picked Palin to win over the Hillary vote.

The last gallup poll I saw was a big jump to Obama by the Clinton supporters. You want to listen to the media spin, be my guest.

[EstimatedProphet]

66. BIG?!?

WTF?

[MarjorieG]

60. I also hear crazy women looking for a reason not to vote Obama, liking Palin. In NYC.

We need to get out all those facts about Israel, every other wedge issue, as relates to her religion, her lack of ability to manage Alaska, and drive home the danger. Many people don't see it.

[Sensitivity]

62. I expect Palin to lead a thinly veiled racist "Mark Penn" attack against Obama

Her attack of him as a "community organizer" was code -- "inner city" with "no responsibility."

[casus belli]

64. Yay for mediocrity.

Barf.

You'd think after 8 years of the mediocrity of George Bush, and after understanding the consequences of electing someone under-qualified for the job, that Palin would have been an immediate death sentence to the McCain campaign.

I guess there will always be citizens who thrive on persistent mediocrity.

[Sensitivity]

65. Seem crazy, no. But there is a history of these "personality" and "culture" gimicks working