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2008-08-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by lotp 2008-08-29 11:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Geraldine A. Ferraro (dem VP in 80s) just gave her support on FOX!

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 11:04|| 2008-08-29 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 McCain picks relativily obscure Alaskan female governor, Obama picks 30 year career Democratic hack senator.
Change, my ass.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-29 11:12|| 2008-08-29 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 McCain is inside Bambi's decision loop as Johnny just got all of Clinton's pissed off supporters and Bambi doesn't dare attack Palin as he drudges up all the anger about Clinton.
Bambi is going down in flames.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-29 11:17|| 2008-08-29 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 If McCain crokes and she becomes Pontus, can she handle pressure?

As a voter, I see this as a little risky at this point unless she can prove herself. We'll see.

Posted by Omereling Sforza3485 2008-08-29 11:20|| 2008-08-29 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 She has my support just based on the fact that she baits her own hook and is an NRA member.

channeling Flounder from 'Animal House' -

"This is going to be great!!"

Posted by GORT 2008-08-29 11:20|| 2008-08-29 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 She is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association

There was no way in Hell I'd have ever voted for Bama anyway, but this selection not only assures my vote, it gets me to reach in my pocket for some cash to help the GOP. Vote this ticket in and our guns are safe for another eight years.

This was an absolutely brilliant move by McCain!

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-29 11:33|| 2008-08-29 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the first time in my adult life that I have been proud of a political decision by John McCain.

Posted by Scott R 2008-08-29 11:36|| 2008-08-29 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 She has my support just based on the fact that she baits her own hook and is an NRA member.

Yeah, but has she ever resorted to eating minnows on stale Ritz crackers after accidentally dropping lunch into the lake? That's what I want to know!

Posted by Zebulon Snains1306 2008-08-29 11:40|| 2008-08-29 11:40|| Front Page Top

#9 If this is true (can you believe CNN), it should also help with the women who support Hilary.

Posted by WolfDog 2008-08-29 11:41|| 2008-08-29 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 This is the first time in my adult life that I have been proud of a political decision by John McCain.

That and the surge.
Instead of voting for McCain because he isn't Obama, I'm actually excited about this ticket.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-29 11:42|| 2008-08-29 11:42|| Front Page Top

#11
<i>If McCain crokes and she becomes Pontus, can she handle pressure? </i>

She took on corruption and entrenched interests in the Republican party when there was public oil/gas money at stake -- and won. Yeah, I think she'll do fine.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-29 11:43|| 2008-08-29 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 And if McCain is elected, and dies or becomes incapacitated while in office, Palin becomes the first woman president!
You will be able to hear Hillary's scream throughout the entire country.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-08-29 11:44|| 2008-08-29 11:44|| Front Page Top

#13 My wife is going nutz with happy-ness! She's driving right now so I hope she doesn't crash....

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 11:45|| 2008-08-29 11:45|| Front Page Top

#14 McCain is inside Bambi's decision loop ....

Yes he is. Is it just me or is McCain running one of the canniest campaigns in recent memory over the last month or so? If I didn't know better I'd swear that Bill Clinton and Karl Rove were holed up in an office somewhere calling the shots.

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-29 11:49|| 2008-08-29 11:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Can she handle the pressure?

She worked on a crab boat. Ever seen Deadliest Catch? She can handle it.

I love this! Just love it!

Posted by Mike 2008-08-29 11:49|| 2008-08-29 11:49|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually I was just trying to channel Michelle Obama in #7. McCain has given conservative plenty indigestion in the past, but this decision has me grinning like a school girl and believing that he could actually win this election.

Posted by Scott R 2008-08-29 11:50|| 2008-08-29 11:50|| Front Page Top

#17 So now BO, whose the candidate of change? You picked a 30 year Washington insider for veep. Your proposals will result in more power being centralized in Washington and higher taxes. What's new about that? Same old, same old donk stuff of the last century.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-29 11:52|| 2008-08-29 11:52|| Front Page Top

#18 The Dems must have been caught off guard, because their talking hack on CNN just said that she doesn't have enough experience to be president. Lol! He then talked about the experience that the Obama/Biden TEAM brings to the ticket, seemingly oblivious to the fact that McCain and Palin are also a team. Then they talked about her how her only accomplishment was to raise taxes.

lol! McCain's choice is brilliant!! In order to talk down Palin, they have to point to their own weaknesses. Too funny.

I went to the DU to check reaction and they are busing sniping about her hair, her downs syndrome child, and her lack of experience.

Of course, for libs, the whole cognitive disconnect of complaining about her lack of experience seems to totally escape them.

What seemed to stump the DU'ers the most was that her husband is a native American.

I actually have changed my opinion of McCain. He just might make a good president afterall.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-29 11:55|| 2008-08-29 11:55|| Front Page Top

#19 First reactions in "Figaro" (France's conservative newspaper) are enthusiastic.

For the record: A couple months ago even at Figaro site readers were very Obamaniacs and many seemd to think Obama's election was aforegone conclusion and advised McCain to just retire.

For the record two: This weekone of Fiagro's leadiong commenters told that Obama's election would be a good thing because it would weaken America.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-29 12:00|| 2008-08-29 12:00|| Front Page Top

#20 What seemed to stump the DU'ers the most was that her husband is a native American.

Native American? Like Sioux, Apache, Kiowa? The French will be livid when they will find themselves unable to say she is racist.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-29 12:03|| 2008-08-29 12:03|| Front Page Top

#21 McCain is crazy - like a fox that is. Nobody is talking about Obama's speech. The wind came right out of the sails. Everything will be about Palin today. And when the Obama camp brings up experience they can check the mirror. She's MORE QUALIFIED and has MORE EXPERIENCE than Obama!. Way to go!

Posted by Intrinsicpilot 2008-08-29 12:08|| 2008-08-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#22 Her husband is Yupik Eskimo.

Posted by ed 2008-08-29 12:08|| 2008-08-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#23 For the record two: This weekone of Fiagro's leadiong commenters told that Obama's election would be a good thing because it would weaken America.

I don't do newspaper forums, because I don't care nor read newspaper, and care even less for their readers & forumers, but I do read blogs, and this has been a reccurring idea thrown around in righwing blogs comments : elect obama, 'cause everything that weakens America is good for Europe.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-08-29 12:09|| 2008-08-29 12:09|| Front Page Top

#24 If George Bush was able somehow to come up with bin Laden or his second in command unicorn Zawahiri, I'd be laughing all the way to the polls in November. The air would be sucked out of BO's campaign.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-29 12:24|| 2008-08-29 12:24|| Front Page Top

#25 anonymous5089

The one who tiold that was not some anonymous crazy reader (possibly a leftist wnting to troll). It was Alexandre Adler ie one of the heavy weights in Figaro staff. Too bad for him. Four more years!!!!

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-29 12:29|| 2008-08-29 12:29|| Front Page Top

#26 Exciting. Congress is the problem IMHO, she is not congress.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-08-29 12:33|| 2008-08-29 12:33|| Front Page Top

#27 I'm listening to her right now. I've not heard her speak before. She's good. One of her sons is deploying to Iraq soon. I didn't know that. Her husband is a handsome man. The Democrats must be going nuts. They really don't have anything to attack her on.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-08-29 12:39|| 2008-08-29 12:39|| Front Page Top

#28 JFM, dude! Adler said that?

I really like Adler... he's ALWAYS wrong and full of it, he's in the pay of the iranian MM (figuratively speaking, he's got vested business interest into iran, according to what I recall reading in Iranresist), he's getting fatter and fatter every passing year, his wife is a washed out, sold-out french philosopher as we all hate them, he's irremediably tainted by althusser's marxist worldview... BUT, he's a GREAT storyteller, and while I was still watching teevee, I really enjoyed his appearances. I knew he has a regular geopolitical column in the figaro, but the last ones I read were about 2004? or so.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-08-29 12:42|| 2008-08-29 12:42|| Front Page Top

#29 I like Palin. Good strategic choice.

Main drawback? She lacks experience, only 2 years as an executive running Alaska.

But politically speaking, she hits all the right notes: strongly pro-life, pro-military (has a son going ot Iraq, also visited troops at Landstuhl unlike Obama), lifetime NRA member, hunter (for real, not Kerry style), anti-earmarks, in favor of drilling ANWR, tough on crime, "hockey mom" (vice Obama & Michelle Harvard Millionare Lawyer), and the list goes on. On top of that she is a good speaker, strong woman, and very photogenic.

Some real red-meat there for the abortion issue: she has a downs syndrome kid that she kept versus the Obama situation: The law Obama voted against allowing medical care for infants born after a botched abotions was due to a case where a downs syndrome child born alive from a late-term abortion was left to die in a utility closet.

Politically, for me, other than experience she's better than McCain.

And think what this sets up if McCain turns it in at 1 term:

PALIN/JINDAL 2012

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 12:54|| 2008-08-29 12:54|| Front Page Top

#30 Trunks to Donks:

Checkmate. :)

Posted by MarkZ 2008-08-29 13:00|| 2008-08-29 13:00|| Front Page Top

#31 It will be tough for Biden to attack her without further alienating Hillary supporters.

I also think that people will be able to relate to her on a personal level, and they won't with Obama or Biden.

She was also Miss Wasilla in 1984.

Posted by DoDo 2008-08-29 13:09|| 2008-08-29 13:09|| Front Page Top

#32 . . . think what this sets up if McCain turns it in at 1 term:

PALIN/JINDAL 2012

'Spook, you took the words right outta my PDA!

Posted by Mike 2008-08-29 13:18|| 2008-08-29 13:18|| Front Page Top

#33 Isn't she the one who filed suit against the EPA for placing Polar Bears on the Endangered Species list?

I watched an interview with her. Seems very intelligent and sharp. Doesn't hurt to be pretty too.

From her bio...

Palin conflicted with the citys staff and administrators who had stood by her predecessor, leading opponents to call her Sarah Barracuda, reviving a nickname she earned on the basketball court for her fierce and adversarial style.

V.P. Debates are going to be interesting.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-08-29 13:22|| 2008-08-29 13:22|| Front Page Top

#34 Her nickname on the HS basketball team was "Sarah Barracuda" :)

Posted by mrp 2008-08-29 13:28|| 2008-08-29 13:28|| Front Page Top

#35 I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day.

Chorus:
She's a lumberjack and she's OK
She sleeps all night and she works all day.

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea

Dems:
She cut down trees, she eat her lunch
She go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays she go shopping and has buttered scones for tea.

Chorus:
She's a lumberjack and she's OK
She sleeps all night and she works all day.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Dems:
She cuts down trees, she skips and jumps
She likes to press wild flowers.
She puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars.

Chorus:
She's a lumberjack and she's OK
She sleeps all night and she works all day.
I cut down trees, I wear high heels
Suspendies and a bra.

I'm glad I'm been a girlie, just like my dear mama.

Dems:
She cuts down trees, she wears high heels?
Suspendies...and a bra?

...She's a lumberjack and she's OK
She sleeps all night and she works all day.

...She's/I'm a lumberjack and she's/I'm OK
She/I sleep all night and she/I work all day.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-08-29 13:31|| 2008-08-29 13:31|| Front Page Top

#36 Mrs. Smith goes to Washington.

The timing of the announcement steals the news cycle from Obama for the weekend. Talk about being inside Obama's loop!

And as VP choices go, Biden is palin comparison. (groan)

Posted by Slats Glans2659 2008-08-29 13:33|| 2008-08-29 13:33|| Front Page Top

#37 Her two years of actual govt executive experience isn't much but its two more years than McCain, Biden and Obama have combined (unless you count Obama's 3 years of experience running the Chicago Annanberg Education Challenge-Scam).

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-08-29 13:34|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

#38 Game, set, match. Move over John Kerry, another noodle-armed elitist loser fixing to take a seat on the backbench Nov. 3.

Posted by regular joe 2008-08-29 13:35|| 2008-08-29 13:35|| Front Page Top

#39 As a mother to 2 children with special needs, wife to a USMC that served in the Pursian Gulf, Board member to a special needs group, and over all soccer mom type - THIS ROCKS!

Posted by AspergersMomTo2 2008-08-29 13:35|| 2008-08-29 13:35|| Front Page Top

#40 Eggcellent!

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-29 13:47|| 2008-08-29 13:47|| Front Page Top

#41 I nominate GulfBravoUSMC for tune of the day!

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 13:56|| 2008-08-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

#42 Yesterday sweetness and light. Today TOTAL PWNage!! I'm starting to like McCain.

Posted by DMFD 2008-08-29 13:56|| 2008-08-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

#43 As a gesture of goodwill, I've got to wonder what it would take to have Todd Palin take The One and Biden.... crab fishing.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-29 13:58|| 2008-08-29 13:58|| Front Page Top

#44 One thing I love about this is how it just plain demonstrates McCain's political chops.

Want to talk about Gov. Palin's 'inexperience'? Sure, let's have that talk, Senator Obama.

Want to talk 'reform'? Let's compare Palin taking on the Pub establishment in Alaska versus Obama never once challenging Rich Daley.

Want to talk the 'economy'? Let's compare Palin and her handling of Alaska versus Obama and Biden's record in the Senate.

Want to talk 'energy policy'? Let's compare the oil Governor versus the tire-inflation Senator.

Bring. It. On.

Posted by Steve White 2008-08-29 13:57|| 2008-08-29 13:57|| Front Page Top

#45 It is freakin' hilarious reading all the Obamites squawk about her "lack of experience" on the WaPo article linked by Drudge this morning.

Apparently, you need more experience to be "a heartbeat away" from the presidency than to be the actual president! Logic that only a Dem could understand...

Posted by Dar">Dar 2008-08-29 14:01|| 2008-08-29 14:01|| Front Page Top

#46 I never voted for McCain when I lived in Arizona. I swore I wouldn't do it for President.

I take it back now. Go Sarah!

(Gotta get a bumper sticker for my Subaru. That oughta get some people good and agitated!! ;) )

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-29 14:03|| 2008-08-29 14:03|| Front Page Top

#47 You nailed it Steve. Behind the stealthy smile, McCain is a Type "A" junkyard dog and he'll be running with a young, dynamic Type "A" just like him! If something happens to McCain and she has to step up to the plate, she's got dozens of seasoned beltway insiders which she can pull to be the VP.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-29 14:06|| 2008-08-29 14:06|| Front Page Top

#48 She is HOT!

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-08-29 14:16|| 2008-08-29 14:16|| Front Page Top

#49 As a gesture of goodwill, I've got to wonder what it would take to have Todd Palin take The One and Biden.... crab fishing.

[MikeRowe]
Tonight on Deadliest Catch: Decision '08 Captain Todd's new greenhorns Barry and Joe face their toughest challenge . . .
[/MikeRowe]

Posted by Mike 2008-08-29 14:20|| 2008-08-29 14:20|| Front Page Top

#50 The Obamacropolis crumbles.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-29 14:24|| 2008-08-29 14:24|| Front Page Top

#51 I never voted for McCain when I lived in Arizona.

Ditto. But it's impossible to miss the irony of McCain being the one to potentially halt the 20 year slide of the Republican Party away from Reagan's ideals. Palin is a perfect pick in that respect and win or lose this time around she's now a perpetual contender and at the epicenter of Republican politics for likely as long as she chooses to remain there.

Very *VERY* well done Senator McCain!

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-29 14:48|| 2008-08-29 14:48|| Front Page Top

#52

Miss Wasilla 1984.jpg

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 14:49|| 2008-08-29 14:49|| Front Page Top

#53 This photo is great too

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 14:56|| 2008-08-29 14:56|| Front Page Top

#54 Guys easy on the inexperience thing.

She's got 8 yrs as mayor (granted a small place) as well as 2 years as governor.

I don't give a crap how small that place was I'll still put it up against Zero's 3 yrs of community organizing.

She is head and shoulders more experienced than Obama in the real world!

Oh, did I mention that she's the VP candidate, not the P candidate?

I'm with many others here. Was going to vote for McCain barely. Now I may have to donate!

Posted by AlanC 2008-08-29 15:02|| 2008-08-29 15:02|| Front Page Top

#55 "Old age and cunning will triumph over youth and enthusiasm every time." - old proverb.

Can we say Theadora Roosevelt? Yes we can [Heh].

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-29 15:04|| 2008-08-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#56 B: Behind the stealthy smile, McCain is a Type "A" junkyard dog and he'll be running with a young, dynamic Type "A" just like him!

Actually, my impression is that McCain smiles the way a junkyard dog smiles - just before he sinks his teeth into you.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-29 15:05|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-29 15:05|| Front Page Top

#57 This shot is going to make heads explode all across the P.E.T.A. landscape. How often do you see something like that and think to youself, "Y'know, there's a really good chance that she actually shot that bear."

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-29 15:05|| 2008-08-29 15:05|| Front Page Top

#58 The lib posters at SF GATE are going nuts. Their childish reactions to this pick are a riot. That is confirmation that this was an outstanding pick. Irony is not lost on those folks...one wrote that the Russians would be laughing at this pick and that they would only respect "serious" opponents like Obama/Biden. LOL!

Posted by remoteman 2008-08-29 15:11|| 2008-08-29 15:11|| Front Page Top

#59 Husbands blue collar oilfield worker and Marine. heh

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-29 15:12|| 2008-08-29 15:12|| Front Page Top

#60 way to go CNN CNNs John Roberts: Palin Might Neglect Her Disabled Infant?

Posted by Beavis 2008-08-29 15:14|| 2008-08-29 15:14|| Front Page Top

#61 Maybe it's just me, but he looks a bit like Terry Thorne in the movie Proof of Life.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-29 15:16|| 2008-08-29 15:16|| Front Page Top

#62 Azcat - this is good too:

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 15:16|| 2008-08-29 15:16|| Front Page Top

#63 Wikipedia is just upgraded her page with a more in-depth bio

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 15:23|| 2008-08-29 15:23|| Front Page Top

#64 #60 way to go CNN CNN's John Roberts: Palin Might Neglect Her Disabled Infant?
Posted by Beavis 2008-08-29 15:14|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

The irony here is too rich. How caring they are at CNN. Baby "Trig" would have never seen the light of day left to the leftest abortion crowd at Turnerville.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-29 15:25|| 2008-08-29 15:25|| Front Page Top

#65 Nice wiki

Sarah Louise Palin (IPA: /peɪlɪn/; born February 11, 1964) is the retarded governor of Alaska, and the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee for the November 2008 election.

Posted by Beavis 2008-08-29 15:27|| 2008-08-29 15:27|| Front Page Top

#66 hacked quick

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 15:29|| 2008-08-29 15:29|| Front Page Top

#67 already fixed

Posted by Beavis 2008-08-29 15:30|| 2008-08-29 15:30|| Front Page Top

#68 Looks like Holy Man's minions are panicing.

LOL We have to check her wiki page to be sure all folks are playing nice.

Posted by BigEd 2008-08-29 15:49|| 2008-08-29 15:49|| Front Page Top

#69 You know who's spinning in her freshly-dug grave? HRC. Her 2012 run for the presidency just took a big hit below the waterline.

Posted by Mercutio 2008-08-29 15:51|| 2008-08-29 15:51|| Front Page Top

#70 As you Rantburgers can imagine, the talk this morning up here in Alaska is Sarah Palin as VP pick to John McCain. I think that she is a good choice. Without some spark into the campaign, McCain's candidacy seems to be lackluster and just cruising along. People are aching for leadership that they can put their support to, and not the typical MSM pablum crap being fed now.

Sarah has done pretty well in shaking up the Good Olde Boy network up here, with a little help from the FBI and their hunger for legislators' files, heh heh.

Her husband is a blue collar guy, and they are good down to earth people. In fact, IIRC, last month, Sarah was driving her Suburban to an office from their home in Wasilla and got rear ended at a stop light. Not hurt, not major damage. She also shows up at meetings on her own.

She recently got a $100 million energy fund set up for alternative energy sources in Alaska to get us off of high cost fossil fuels. There is an energy source inventory being done for every community in Alaska. Everything is on the table--hydro, biomass, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, tidal, etc. She got the ball rolling.

Other things happening in the state:
1. Sen. Ted Stevens won his primary election 2:1 over Dave Cuddy, despite Ted's indictment.
2. The race between Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell and incumbent Rep. Don Young is too close to call. Young is leading Parnell by 150 votes, that is 0.015% right now. There are a sh*tload of questioned and absentee ballots yet to be counted, included mine. I voted questioned ballot at Slana, Alaska, out in the middle of nowhere on Tuesday. Google it, heh.

So if Don Young loses and Parnell wins the primary and the general election, and if Sarah Palin becomes VP, then we have some interesting scrambling to do in the state govt.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-08-29 15:56|| 2008-08-29 15:56|| Front Page Top

#71 My first thought as well! The fantastic endorsement she and Slick gave The One netted them a handsome campaign financial recovery I'm sure.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-29 15:58|| 2008-08-29 15:58|| Front Page Top

#72 Palin is going to bloody Plugs nose big time without even laying a hand on him

Posted by Steven 2008-08-29 16:03|| 2008-08-29 16:03|| Front Page Top

#73 On the experience question, running the state of Alaska vs combing implanted hair, gives one pause.

Posted by Steven 2008-08-29 16:10|| 2008-08-29 16:10|| Front Page Top

#74 If McCain and Palin go after the energy issue and do a comprehensive plan with a positive message, the dems will be left behind like a road killed cow t*rd.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-08-29 16:11|| 2008-08-29 16:11|| Front Page Top

#75 This from The Campaign Spot, NRO:

Crazy Prediction

Picture this scenario...

One month from now, the Palin pick has proven a bonanza for the McCain campaign. A large chunk of Hillary's 18 million voters have been won over. Conservatives are unified and energized, and the previously-undiscovered "Maxim magazine vote" is suddenly giving McCain large margins among young males.

Joe Biden will disappear from the campaign trail, and we will later learn it was to see a doctor. A previously-undiscovered, vaguely ominous health issue will be discovered, and Biden will sadly announce that he cannot continue as Obama's running mate. With a sudden need for a new one, Obama will turn... to Hillary Clinton.

Call it the Torricelli gambit.

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2008-08-29 16:22|| 2008-08-29 16:22|| Front Page Top

#76 Sarah Louise Palin (IPA: /peɪlɪn/; born February 11, 1964) is the retarded governor of Alaska, and the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee for the November 2008 election.

Perhaps I am too devious but I wouldn't have it fixed. Moonbats (who would vote for Obama anyway) could think it is a great idea but real voters would be angered by such lowliness.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-29 16:24|| 2008-08-29 16:24|| Front Page Top

#77 Wow, she's terrific. I think John McCain is a better leader than many (including me) have previously thought. Someone had to break that glass ceiling, and McCain had the guts. Running on reform and principle, strong military, energy independence, is smart and the right thing to do. So, I'll take back everything I ever said about him that was less than complimentary. Besides, I was going to vote for McCain before I knew who he'd pick for VP. And I like his wife, too.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-08-29 16:52|| 2008-08-29 16:52|| Front Page Top

#78 This is a great pick, I don't see a downside to it. This just may prove to be the little bit that McCain needed to get over the top & best Barry O this fall.

Plus she's a good looking gal. ;)

Posted by Jefferson 2008-08-29 16:53|| 2008-08-29 16:53|| Front Page Top

#79 It sure was an upper after dealing with the DNC convention here in Denver this week. Icky . . . and it totally pissed me off that Obama was blabbing stuff he doesn't believe in and can't deliver, and was deceiving average people that just want good stuff to happen, people that want a better world. I talked with some of them, and I just didn't have the heart to tell these elderly black people that Obaba was just a slick and corrupt politician from CHICAGO (which says it all).

Posted by ex-lib 2008-08-29 16:56|| 2008-08-29 16:56|| Front Page Top

#80 the squealers are out in force. Our local paper's editorial writer has a blog - his usual posts get 3 or 4 comments (at most) - he posted about Palin and got 436 comments at last check.... LOL - was there a convention last night? Nice move, Maverick

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-29 17:30|| 2008-08-29 17:30|| Front Page Top

#81 I admire Palin's personal bio and political principles. I was aware of her background previously and I look forward to hearing her speak.

However, I would not underestimate the extent to which the joint issue of McCain's age and Palin's relative inexperience will resonate with the public as Obama's campaign will relentlessly focus on this.

The fact that she represents a non-swing state with few electoral votes is a minor quibble (although the pick of Biden has little geographic significance as well, and in this media-saturated day and age geography seems to matter less).

Overall, this selection could be a game-changer. Palin is female and a true heartland American in roots and spirit, the kind of person I am proud to have represent me.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2008-08-29 17:50|| 2008-08-29 17:50|| Front Page Top

#82 This is the first time in my life that I've been excited to vote Republican. I might even put a bumper sticker on my car - another first!

And an Idaho girl to boot! McCain/Palin 2008!!

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-29 17:55|| 2008-08-29 17:55|| Front Page Top

#83

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Posted by Mike N. 2008-08-29 18:20|| 2008-08-29 18:20|| Front Page Top

#84 PBS is doing a major hit job on Palin right now by way of Judy Woodruff.

If anybody else out there is watching let me know how it ends. I just threw a beer bottle at Judy and my picture tube is broken.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-08-29 18:26|| 2008-08-29 18:26|| Front Page Top

#85 I was on the road this week and I did not look at the dem convention on the tube because I did not want to pay for a broken TV, heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-08-29 18:34|| 2008-08-29 18:34|| Front Page Top

#86 What did you expect from PBS? Just pandering to their viewership - all five of them.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-08-29 18:35|| 2008-08-29 18:35|| Front Page Top

#87 If anyone has a link to the video from Palin's full statement today, please post it. I had to be in meetings ....

Posted by lotp 2008-08-29 18:35|| 2008-08-29 18:35|| Front Page Top

#88 DB, let's be fair. One of Biden's sons is heading to serve in Iraq in October. Call that one a tie.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-08-29 18:51|| 2008-08-29 18:51|| Front Page Top

#89 Clean up in aisle 88!

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-29 18:54|| 2008-08-29 18:54|| Front Page Top

#90 Lovely modern and non-sexist comments.

Please drink bleach and die.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-29 18:55|| 2008-08-29 18:55|| Front Page Top

#91 Video of Palin's Acceptance Speech

Posted by Punky Speatch1801 2008-08-29 18:56|| 2008-08-29 18:56|| Front Page Top

#92 Eric, I hadn't ment to be unfair to Biden. His deficiencies speak for themselves. Truly, I didn't know he had a son in Iraq.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-08-29 19:05|| 2008-08-29 19:05|| Front Page Top

#93 Mike N.: AOSHQ already did the VPILF thread..just dipped in to Matthews "Hardball" and they were wrapping themslves in spasms over her "lack of experience". Apparently, irony is dead

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-29 19:17|| 2008-08-29 19:17|| Front Page Top

#94 #54 AlanC: "Was going to vote for McCain barely. Now I may have to donate!"

I know what you mean - I was more about keeping Obamie the Commie out of the Oval Office than anything else. After the announcement, I donated $100 through a link that AllahPundit at Hot Air gave.

And just for grins and giggles, named AllahPundit as the friend who had recommended the donation site to me. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-29 19:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-08-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

#95 "age and Palin's relative inexperience will resonate with the public as Obama's campaign will relentlessly focus on this."

And how will they escape the fact that SHE has more exectuve experience than ANY of the candidates?

SH has been a governor of the largest state (geocraphically) in the US. What has Obama run other than a continuous campaign since he was elected 3 years ago to the senate?

They want to play that game, they are more than welcome to do so.

They have both visited IrRaq the same number of times.

Unlike Obama, she has gotten laws passed, budgets made, and has achieved the construction of a gas pipeline that will help with the energy crisis. What has Obama done?

Lets put the pictures side by side of thier visits to the wounded troops in Landstuhl.

Opps sorry - there are NONE from Obamessiah who would rather play rockstar at a Nazi memorial.

And she backed the surge, Obama has yet to sadmit he was completely wrong.

Also, unliek Obama, she has worked on trade agreements that would open up exports for Alaska and the US. Any word on a treaty Obama has worked on?

My OPINION: I think that reasoning is bullshit - and its typical of the "beltway" mentality the Manhattan and DC insider "Country club" types have - and that's what has destroyed the GOP, that same smarmy self-satisified insider crap that has cost the GOP their majority in 06 and was about to cost them this election too. They are too concerned about power, and not concerned about doign whats right. her stand on ethics, her cahsing down and breaking up the old boy network is a MAJOR threat to the COuntry CLub Repubs griip on GOP power, so they are now running scared, just like they did from Reagan in 76. Fecking pigs, they need to die and let the grass roots conseravties run the part again like we did in 80 - and 94.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 19:38|| 2008-08-29 19:38|| Front Page Top

#96 lotp, theres an embedded copy of it over at hotair from MSNBC

I'll try embedding it here

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 19:39|| 2008-08-29 19:39|| Front Page Top

#97

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 19:40|| 2008-08-29 19:40|| Front Page Top

#98 ANnd before you ask, yes, I *do* find it ironic that the best complete video is at MSNBC.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 19:41|| 2008-08-29 19:41|| Front Page Top

#99 re: experience.

Only one of the candidates has held a "The Buck Stops Here" elective positon.

Sarah Palin.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 19:47|| 2008-08-29 19:47|| Front Page Top

#100 On other thing to consider: VA Gov Tim Kaine was a credible and respectable pick that was considered by the press to be one of the best choices fo Obama. Yet he has pricesly the same amount of executive and foreign policy experience Palin has - so tell me how he is qualified and she is not?

Bias.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-29 19:53|| 2008-08-29 19:53|| Front Page Top

#101 Spook, the MSM will spin anything at this point to try to smear her. McCain outflanked 'em and is threatening to cut the dhimocrats off from one of their most important support bases. Women.
They are running scared and Republicans know it. We smell liberal blood in the water.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-29 19:56|| 2008-08-29 19:56|| Front Page Top

#102 She has an awful lot of courage to take this on. Daily Kos is already trying to smear her.
Okay, I just have to diary about this, although in many ways this falls into the "none of our business category".
But it appears that Pallin's last child, a baby with Down's syndrome, may not be hers. It may be that of her teenage daughter.
Here's a link just to get you started:
http://www.adn.com/...
These people have no soul. Vicious, demons of Satan, they are.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-08-29 20:47|| 2008-08-29 20:47|| Front Page Top

#103 [Jonk has been pooplisted.]

Posted by Jonk">Jonk 2008-08-29 21:11|| 2008-08-29 21:11|| Front Page Top

#104 I read one of the "hit" pieces on her and it involved her discussing the danger of her ex brother-in-law. Bozo is a state trooper who tazed his own 10 yr kid (at his request) and made a thrtening phone call to her sister. Hmmm That all you got? She is just too cute. I will also be donating and buying a Vets for McCain hat.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-08-29 21:30|| 2008-08-29 21:30|| Front Page Top

#105 Thanks for posting that video, OS. I found myself getting emotional during McCain's speech introducing Gov. Palin, and I thought her speech was very, very good. The part about "the women of America aren't finished yet" is going to blow the doors off the Dems this year.

My hat is off to John McCain. What a brilliant, brilliant move this was! Maybe Bismarck was right: God DOES have a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America!

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-29 21:42|| 2008-08-29 21:42|| Front Page Top

#106 Excellent! My first trip to the sinktrap! I'll drink to that!

Posted by Mike N. 2008-08-29 21:43|| 2008-08-29 21:43|| Front Page Top

#107 Swamp Blondie, what was your problem with my comment? It had the virtue of being true; Capt. Beau Biden, Del. Nat. Guard. will be heading to Iraq soon. I'm in favor of arguing with my political opponents, but I will do so fairly. Both Palin and Biden have children reporting for duty there soon; may they both serve our country with honor, and may they not be used as political footballs by us.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-08-29 21:53|| 2008-08-29 21:53|| Front Page Top

#108 I think our foul mouthed troll showed up at 88 and was deleted, moving the comments all back one. I can't see anybody having an issue with what you said.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-29 21:58|| 2008-08-29 21:58|| Front Page Top

#109 Don't forget ... Alaska is the only US State that BORDERS the USSR (err Russia until they finish the chapter 11)...

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 22:21|| 2008-08-29 22:21|| Front Page Top

#110 The draft Sarah web page from june 2007

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-29 22:27|| 2008-08-29 22:27|| Front Page Top

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