The Scarriest thing Palin said,

[Perky]

That she did not hesitate when John McCain asked her to be his running mate,

She gave birth to a SPecial Needs child in April. She knew her teenage daughter was pregnant. A teenage son deploying to Iraq in a little over two weeks, As a parent, regardless of gender, how do you not pause? How do you not take a day to consider the stresses this would create.


If you come to the same conclusion after a day od soul searching. fine....But how do you not blink? Gulp? Have any sort of gut check?

This is not the type of personality we need in the White House.. God Forbid the Oval Office,

Charlie Gibson got it right. What Hubris!!

[Bobbie Jo]

1. If she's that quick to blow off her own family, do the rest of us have a chance? nt

[TwilightGardener]

2. A wise person would realize the enormous task she was being asked to consider, and

approach the offer with humility and deep soul searching, as you say--even IF that same wise person didn't have immediately difficult family issues. She's just that silly and shallow.

[ladjf]

8. She is stunningly arrogant.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Yep--perfect word.

[lukasahero]

26. My thoughts exactly. eom

[progressoid]

29. Just like GWB.

[Perky]

42. Precisely like GWB

[bdamomma]

32. dangerously impulsive too.

and does not think about the consequences of their actions, just like bushie. it is all about the mission (the mission of God) these people have to be called out, but from who, the media?????

[Perky]

39. 527s

[Virginia Dare]

33. She purposefully hid her pregnancy so she would be considered for V.P.

she is extremely calculating. She has relentlessly lobbied for the V.P. spot since February. It's clear that she wasn't going to let ANYTHING get in her way.

[Perky]

40. Hew own pregnancy?

[Perky]

3. It is just stunning,

[Social_Liberty]

4. nice

[qanda]

5. It always strikes me when politicians discuss how difficult a decision it is to run for office

They usually include their family in the discussion because they know how much of an impact it will have on everyone. I think she was trying to appear strong and missed an opportunity to be reasonable and thoughtful. Instead she came off as selfish and reckless.

[On the Road]

6. While I Don't Think She's Qualified

I don't blame her for accepting. I blame McCain for asking.

She was frequently mentioned as a possibility and had plenty of time to consider it. Any politician in her shoes would have been crazy to turn the opportunity down.

[TwilightGardener]

11. If she had time to consider it, then she obviously did not feel the

need to learn anything, brush up, and prepare herself. That's the attitude we're afraid of.

[Perky]

13. not when she was not his first choice,

He wanted Liebermman but he was talked down og the ledge.


They then looked around at the shortlist and al of them gave them nothing. then someone said.... Hey how Palin?

ANd she became the consenssus choice to sell as a game changer.

[bdamomma]

34. rove and the coalition of religious wingnuts were for putting

palin in. Dangerous bunch of wingnuts.

[tomp]

44. i blame her

she doesn't know she's not qualified, or she knows and doesn't care, or she knows that she can use it as a political forum for her own incredibly narrow and disgusting agenda.

and i blame him.

[Richard Steele]

7. "Reasoned consideration" isn't something that sociopaths do. nm

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

10. The scariest thing to me is her nonchalance about going to war with Russia.

[MadrasT]

12. Every time she opens her mouth

she scares the living crap out of me. :hide:

[kayell]

14. The benefit of knowing that God is on your side. Who needs

to think about things when you know that you're rapture ready and whatever you do or say, you're right because you're right with God?

[POAS]

15. Bingo!!!

When God talks in your ear you don't think, you act.

[leftrightwingnut]

16. Ooh! Decisive! She will not hesitate to launch nukes at russia

for even the slightest provocation. Sleep well.

[opihimoimoi]

17. Self centered and Shallow...with all them kids...who has the time to read unless

really dedicated???

If no reading of series material....not astute

If not astute....the Gibsom Factor follows..

Ya look stupid

same with McWho....and Bush....both non readers.....poor decisions / judgments

[renie408]

18. I don't care if you were childless and the most experienced person in the US, wouldn't you

stop and think? Wouldn't any normally thoughtful person stop to consider?

[WinkyDink]

19. Words, only words. She/Team McCain wanted to get across the expression "Didn't BLINK."

As in, "Who would BLINK FIRST?"

Just a Cold War allusion, nothing real to her.

[bunkerbuster1]

20. Agreed. It's a lie, like most everything else McCain or Palin utter that seems implausible.

My presumption is that McCain and Palin's default is to lie if it helps. This is an answer that helps.

Did she hesitate? Who knows or cares, really? I'd suspect she'd had to have at least thought a moment as she was being asked.

[WinkyDink]

21. Any woman would, if only to think about her shoes! LOL!

Oh, wait; maybe that's just me!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. It's the Republican macho mentality - to hesitate is to show cowardice and weakness

To think things over is too intyleckshul, pinko, and soft.

Palin has systematically tried to build an image as a dynamic, resourceful, hands on, can do person, in killing a moose, in being a pit-bull, in putting planes on ebay, in firing her chef. She's a man of action! (at least in the warped minds of the drolling toothless GOP sycophants).

And besides, she has a calling from God to serve him as Vice President. That requires no thought but has come to her by divine inspiration. Her Vice Presidency is her ministry. Her selection is no coincidence. It is written.

[Virginia Dare]

36. That was her money line and it fell flat..

if you watched the interview, she didn't deliver that line with the confident swagger that it required. It looked better on paper.

[Dinger]

22. Gibson Should Have Then Followed Up With:

"That's a big decision bitch. Do you always make decisions that affect others in such a profound way with so little thought?
Do you think a vice president or president should make decisions affecting this country and world in the same manner?"

[Dinger]

23. Just Gave This The Fifth Rec

because it's spot on.

[ColbertWatcher]

24. She's a sociopath!

[ForeignSpectator]

25. Because she is NOT a "wonderful mother"! Sick of hearing people say...

"I am sure she is a wonderful mother, I just don't agree with her policies/don't think she's ready/bla bla bla"

There are horrible parents in this world and she is one of them. The way she uses almost each of her kids for political expedience, her despicable ethics, her ultra-"christian" hypocrisy and heartlessness and that she is bullshitting her kids about the realities of life with her crazy ass views make her a pitiful excuse for a parent.

Anyone notice at the RNC that her son didn't seem too excited about him being mentioned so she could present herself as "mother of one of those troops"??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDxXJSucF4

from 6:20 to 6:51 ( so nobody has to endure looking at those empty dumb faces for too long... )

[firedupdem]

27. She's a certified nut job and so is McCain and the rest of that

party. I would have said to McCain's people. Look, I've got 5 kids, one of em is pregnant, and a special needs child. I have been mayor of a town of 2 people and a Governor of a state with 10 people. I don't know all that foreign policy stuff and further more....why are you asking me?

[nebenaube]

28. she didn't blink because...

I didn't really buy this yesterday but after finally hearing her voice on the radio this morning; I absoulutely have to agree with a comment made here yesterday and I'm terrified because of the implications. She didn't blink because she was the chosen one to follow * a decade ago and the 'low-info' voters have been conditioned for years to love her. SHE IS PEGGY HILL!!!!!



Just search DU for Peggy Hill and you'll see what I mean...

[bullwinkle428]

30. But, but, but...NPR said this morning that she said nothing that would put people off!

:crazy:

[Virginia Dare]

35. I guess people are okay with the prospect of war with Russia then?

:wtf:

[codjh9]

31. Far too many of them have this hubris, and the funny thing is that it's almost

always based on little to NOTHING.

[Perky]

37. She is wired that way? To be decisive.

ummm excuse me... but this is the woman who went to six schools for her undergrad. She is wired that way? To be decisive?

[jctw769]

38. obvious she didnt blink, she's a power mongerer. i believe her.

[SeaLyons]

41. Absolutely stunning.

John McCain should be ashamed of what he is putting this country through. Putting an absolute idiot out there and trying to convince people she's ready. What a friggin joke!!!!!

[cali]

45. What sexist bullshit. You wouldn't be saying this if she was a man. Period.

There are a million legitimate reasons to oppose Palin. Her parenting is not one of them.