IMO, Palin is holding the McC campaign hostage or outright demanding top billing.

[CK_John]

It has been noted that Palin is canceling many events. I think she is making a power move.

It's the old, "he goes or I go power play" or "strike while the iron is hot".

She walks and Cheney loses everything. If John McC is pulled and Cheney moves to VP then he has a chance to stay in his bunker.

She goes on to fight another day down the road.

[begin_within]

1. Good point, but I can't see her (as a megalomaniac) giving up anything she's gotten so far

including a place on the ticket.

[tblue]

12. Me neither. She really believes she's the queen-in-waiting.

I really like your graphics. I've been quoting Sinclair Lewis since Sarah came on the scene. That describes her to a 't.'

[pnwmom]

29. She imagines herself as President. No problem with Cheney (or anyone else)

being V.P., as far as she's concerned.

[DangerousRhythm]

44. Wow, food for thought here.

Btw, I love your flag picture for its truth. How dare she wrap herself in our flag!

[RooseveltTruman]

46. She may not be the brightest bulb...

But she's smart enough not to screw a sure thing up. She knows she's had a tremendously positive impact for McCain. And she knows that this veep slot has made it possible for her to leapfrog guys like Romney and Huckabee and possibly win the nomination in 2012--or, if Obama's very popular and she wants to burnish her credentials--2016.

This woman may think Iraq is a task from God. She may think the Earth is 6,000 years old. But she's NOT enough of a simpleton to jeopardize what could be a very bright future for her in the Republican party.

[Phredicles]

2. Do even Rethugs want Cheney to stick around?

I can't claim to be an expert in what Rethugs think, but I have to wonder about that.

[CK_John]

16. Cheney tells them what to think. n/t

[babylonsister]

3. IMO, McBush never even thought about her past, never vetted her,

and troubles are brewing from lots of fronts. I love it.

Let's start with her religion; Obama had to deal with that.

[liberalmuse]

4. I think she was told to say 'Palin/McCain'...

by McCain's own campaign advisers. They know who the people are coming to see.

[pnwmom]

30. No way! McCain's ego is much too big to allow that. n/t

[orestes]

5. I think folks are reading too much into it

Their campaign probably figures that the negative press that occurs when McCain speaks to a handful of people when he's all by his lonesome isn't outweighed by her speaking separately to a few thousand people.

I also heard that McCain recently started speaking first at his rallies, since folks would start to leave after wards when Palin spoke first.

[Kazak]

6. You really think Cheney would step in if Palin walked?

:shrug:

[CK_John]

7. No, I think it will be a Palin/Cheney ticket. n/t

[emulatorloo]

8. Or maybe they are just giving up on Colorado?

That to me makes a lot of sense and would explain why she is canceling her appearances there.

. Or perhaps they see she needs lots of Debate Prep, as repeating "reformer" 'ruffled feathers" "important not to blinK' aren't going to get her very far with Joe Biden.

[CK_John]

11. Also CA, NY,WA,WY, and CO. n/t

[saltpoint]

9. A week ago I bet a lot of GOP heavy-hitters thought they'd dodged an

electoral bullet with the Palin pick.

I bet this week they're singing a different tune.

The woman is so emphatically unprepared to govern it's downright frightening.

[tblue]

14. And it's not her lack of experience. It's her actual experience that freaks me out.

[saltpoint]

15. Yes. And her rough-hewn problem-solving techniques.

She's actually reversed her positives/negative approval grid and now she's officially dragging McCain down.

I love it!

[CK_John]

17. A week ago Merrill Lynch was an icon. n/t

[saltpoint]

18. And of course, to McCain it still is. This is one of the many things

that's wrong with McCain.

He is disconnected from American cultural life and his political positions and temperament reflect that disconnection.

He doesn't know what he doesn't know, in other words.

And while that makes him dangerous on one hand, it also makes him more defeatable on the other.

[CK_John]

19. Next Friday is the test will they keep him and let him show for the debate or pull the plug.

IMO, Palin will show up for the debate on Friday the 26th.

[saltpoint]

21. A bold call.

But made somewhat more plausible by McCain's disastrous appearances to date.

It really is astonishing to listen to how bad he is on the campaign stump, isn't it.

My god. McCain's making Bob Dole look charismatic.

[CK_John]

22. They stole 4trillon in plain sight and Cheney is not going quietly. McCain does not remember

yesterday(IMO) and time is running out.

[saltpoint]

23. But at this point, I don't think they can shove him off the train,

and if they tried, it would mean instant defeat for thousands of down-ballot Pukes "from San Bernadino to Sioux Saint Marie."

And Palin's diamond ring turns out to be an old broken bottle piece, to shamelessly rip off a John Prine lyric.

She wields some capacity to trash the whole campaign for McCain but otherwise has lost her luster. The fundie nutbags still like her, but she wasn't their first choice, and truth be told, I think they're wondering if she's really as workable a theocrat as the theocrats they're used to.

Cheney is doing do crap in every opinion poll. He can exert more influence by creating havoc abroad than he can with the GOP ticket, IMO.

Palin had her 2 weeks in the sun and she couldn't hack it and now she has to pull several all-nighters just to look halfway sentient against Joe Biden, who is going to diplomatically but thoroughly do a little moose fielddressin' in the veep debate.

[CK_John]

26. $4trillion will push the whole train off the track, they need to protect their windfall. n/t

[quakerboy]

10. Cheney?

A chance? Cheney?

If you said Romney, Guiliani, Huckabee, Powell, even Crist, Pawlenty, or the other Bush bro, I would consider it. But Cheney is poison x2, politicaly.

[CK_John]

13. He is the puppet master. n/t

[quakerboy]

40. Ok.

are you proposing that he would actually, personally, be on the ticket?

[CK_John]

42. Yes. Cheney will not let anyone else have his bunker and the 4Trillion bailout. n/t

[quakerboy]

43. Mr Poison?

Mr 18% approval in the Flesh?

Like I said, pick another headliner. Or Opening Band, if you prefer. If you want to make an argument that He will be standing behind it all, holding as many aces as he can squirril away, Lets chat. But as the face? Not a chance.

[backscatter712]

20. This'll be fun to watch!

:popcorn:

I love the Republican's propensity to eat their own!

[saltpoint]

24. While the conventional wisdom says you shouldn't dump a veep nom and

expect to win a presidential election, the cancellation of Palin events this week has been mysterious -- and noticed.

Somethin's up.

[Kind of Blue]

25. do you have any links to palin canceling events?

[saltpoint]

27. don't know this website at all but googled Palin and "canceled events"

and it came up.

http://www.coloradopols.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7453

[Kind of Blue]

31. thanks a lot.

[CK_John]

28. Check out this thread.

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7126028&mesg_id=7126028>

[Kind of Blue]

32. appreciate it.

[Essene]

33. nah, she's gone from being an asset to to a liability (for now)

i dont think she has ANY pull within the campaign.

none.

zip.

in fact, id wager she's rubbing mccain's aides very poorly because i suspect her pushy "in charge" personality is making them marginalize her completely.

[CK_John]

35. The logic problem is based on the fact, we think she cares what anyone else thinks. n/t

[joshcryer]

34. She is *2.

Incometent, a major sycophant, a major power player, a big baby. Complete Bush* 2 in every fucking respect.

[CK_John]

36. Next Friday she may be No 1. n/t

[writes3000]

37. This will never happen.

They are hiding her from reporters and media. She is woefully un-prepared for the position she's in now. They will not make her the Pres candidate.

Oh, how I wish they would, LOL.

[CK_John]

38. Oh no, not the never word. n/t

[BrainStorm]

39. In my opinion, Palin has three heads.

It's just my opinion, see, so I can post it.

Without any facts or backup.

Just cause.

[crazy_vanilla]

41. she is canceling because the more she talks, the more her ratings slide

The woman is worse off than my parrot, Tiki. At least when he talks, he says "I'm gonna clean your clock.Right now!" Compared to her, he is Aristotle and Kirkegaard wrapped in one!

[Vinca]

45. Maybe they're planning on edging her out the door . . .

to bring Mittens back to "handle the economic crisis." Palin made a fatal mistake with the "Palin-McCain" remark and the McBush unvetting process is coming back to bite them big time.