Thought
They're framing the Palin announcement in economic terms. She "was a union member," in touch with mortgage and gas prices.
This tells me that the "7 houses," out of touch with the common man attacks on McCain are viewed seriously enough to impact their VP pick.
(And I'll say again, you don't gamble if you think you're on a track to win.)
Also, It should tell you something that the media folks know nothing about Sarah Palin except what was in the McCain press brief.....
This tells me that the "7 houses," out of touch with the common man attacks on McCain are viewed seriously enough to impact their VP pick.
(And I'll say again, you don't gamble if you think you're on a track to win.)
Also, It should tell you something that the media folks know nothing about Sarah Palin except what was in the McCain press brief.....
posted by mikevotes at
11:25 AM
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I think it's accepted that the VP doesn't necessarily win or lose the election for the candidate. Sometimes a decision is made to pick someone who's experience or expertise fill gaps in the candidate's CV thus rounding out the ticket; as is the case with Obama/Biden. However, this rounding out of expertise is usually one where the candidate is rounding out presidentially pertinent skills, isn't it? Not to balance out the real estate portfolio or cultural awareness quotient?
Sarah Palin will pique the of curiosity among casual voters. They may not be impressed with what they find. More that there will be nothing there -- a rather empty slate -- that anything shocking. Other than the current ethics investigation, of course. (God, what were they thinking!)
There is, to me, a reactive vapidity to her. By this I mean that she doesn't let her lack of knowledge of a topic stop her from reacting with the air of expertise -- and making judgments on that unsubstantiated view of self righteousness. Acting on preprogrammed belief rather than facts. In other words, very Bush-like.
It should be obvious that Sarah Palin was picked for McCain, not by McCain. Obama surrogates should drop this idea into the media pool. McCain's first "presidential" decision was to yield to GOP machine insiders. Another example of "McCain doesn't speak for the McCain campaign."
But Palin really is unknown. Maybe all us naysayers will be stunned when she starts campaigning in her own right. It'll certainly be less boring than Mitt.
(I still think pairing McCain with a chick is a baaaad idea. Especially a former beauty queen.... McCain's gonna explode. I just know it. Some "straight talking" bullshit's gonna come flyin' outa his head about Palin before Nov. 4)
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-epm, at 12:13 PM
Lunch is getting cold, I'll respond later.
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mikevotes, at 12:18 PM
LOL....tick, tick, tick...
Funny, -epm
Great analysis
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zen, at 12:21 PM
I don't know enough about her to comment on her personal qualities at this point. She seemed to come across a little lightweight in the first part of her speech then firmed up when praising McCain.
I don't know if somebody picked her for McCain or not. This is so out there I don't have any real sense of how this decision could have been made.
And your parenthesis refers to something denigrating or sexist?
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mikevotes, at 1:01 PM
"And your parenthesis refers to something denigrating or sexist?"
Yes. In general, I don't believe McCain respects women. It's been reported he's rather fond of the ladies. He cheated on his first wife repeatedly, apparently. There's an allegation he's cheated on his second. He's made jokes about, and at the expense of, women. He's a Navy pilot in the Tailhook tradition. And he's stuck in the '60s cultural and world view, in my opinion. Yeah, Baby!
I'm not suggesting he'd chase Palin around the room with a martini in one hand and wearing nothing but boxer shorts and garter-supported-socks, or anything like that. Just that I don't think he respects women and he'll have even less patience with her if he feels she's doing anything to drag down the ticket.
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-epm, at 1:43 PM
I don't think it's a stretch that he'd throw something out in a fit. There's a pretty good basis for that.
And supposedly, she has a pretty quick temper, too.
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mikevotes, at 2:16 PM
epm wrote:
McCain's first "presidential" decision was to yield to GOP machine insiders. Another example of "McCain doesn't speak for the McCain campaign."
Very insightful point.
If this pick was supposed to bolster his "maverick" credentials, it fails.
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Todd Dugdale , at 2:18 PM
From a politico piece, they finally talked him out of Lieberman last Saturday, and they he was "unsatisfied" with Romney and Pawlenty.
She was the compromise.
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mikevotes, at 2:43 PM
Interesting.
Question: Would Lieberman have been a better pick for him electorally? Or is the whole pro-choice thing just a deal-killer with GOP voters?
I'd like to know the vetting process they used. She's a right wing Christian (anti abortion, religion-trumps-science, etc) and she seems bright and ambitious. She has girl bits and isn't a geezer. Is that it?
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-epm, at 2:59 PM
From what I can tell, Pretty much.
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mikevotes, at 3:44 PM
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