Comments on: Crap.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:42:48 +0000

Bo Pot, is okay. Obviously, I didn’t get your original intention, and I’m written not so clearly myself.

By: Sugie

Sugie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:01:55 +0000

Well, McCain is a sneaky old man, but lives in a generation long gone. His pick will mean that the R base will vote for him, but just because someone has boobs doesn’t mean that Hillary supporters will flock that way. Palin is against everything from abortion – even in cases of incest and rape – to gay rights, to wildlife rights (wants to pull the tag on Polar Bears, eager to drill in the pristine areas of her state) and on and on and on.

If you’ve listened to her respond to unexpected questions, then you know how little she knows and how over confident she is. Sure she’s eager for gun rights and some of us would be too if we lived next door to a bear! She claims 14 years of experience – did she mention that when elected to her town, it was smaller than our CC? DUH!!!! Ignorance is not bliss.

Good for her for having five kids and for her husband to be connected to the oil industry, but that doesn’t mean she’s qualified to be VP or Pres.

McCain really shocked me with this decision – although VP’s usually don’t matter re elections, if the R’s get in, then THE IMPORTANCE of her role jumps way up (ie Cheney). She’s very arrogant about her knowledge, but is truly ignorant along with questionable illegal tactics (the reason she’s being investigated currently).

Can anyone imagine her being President of the United States? McCain was interviewed several weeks ago and said that the ‘heart beat away from the presidency’ was his number one consideration. What happened to that?

McCain got too caught up in winning and has really embraced Rove’s tactics.

Sugie

By: RahKyndl

RahKyndl — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:31:44 +0000

I have been a city council member in a small town. Yeah, maybe not a mayor; but as impressive as it might appear on a resume, it’s not much to brag about. She, Palin, might have done a good job, but it is a known truth that small town governments are dysfunctional to the core.
As to the hope that she will draw votes from disgruntled Hillary supporters, I sincerely doubt it. The vast majority of HRC supporters have always thought (and continue to think) that Hillary is destine to be the first female President of the United States: that this is her exclusive territory. Now that this upstart, Palin, has appeared on the scene, they realize that if McCain is elected, this new Vice-presidential candidate would be in a much better position to become the first woman President than Hillary. They will not let this happen. They will work like hell to keep the path open for Hillary to realize her ambition in some possible future election.
If Obama does pull it off and is elected to the Presidency, a possible consolation prize for Ms. Clinton would be to give her one of those coveted seats on the Supreme Court…that might be enough to assuage the faithful.

By: jmy9595

jmy9595 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:39:09 +0000

> Palin “has a solid resume. She’s not an old white dude, which makes McCain look less stodgy

1) She does???

2) Not being an old white dude makes McCain look EVEN MORE stodgy by comparison.

By: Cecca

Cecca — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:59:16 +0000

@ Jen:

But that’s how politics work, and that’s how the Republicans have won so many elections. Once you have someone sympathetic in office, you can do whatever the hell you want. But if it’s a choice against someone who pisses you off occasionally, and someone who treats you like less than a human being? You keep your head down until the person who pisses you off occasionally is in a position to do something about your complaints.

By: shethinks

shethinks — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:40:51 +0000

“How will 72 year old McCain interact with a 44 year old beauty queen?” She was chosen for a reason : she’ll do as she’s told. The only aspect that is historical about this choice is that it is history repeating itself. Perceive beyond gender, perceive beyond ethnicity, perceive beyond “American”.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:24:33 +0000

@Alexa:
…anyone who’s paying attention (and would therefore be likely to be swayed by her being picked if they weren’t already in the GOP camp anyway) is not going to be convinced to vote for the ticket because of her. If they have a shred of intelligence, that is.

Unfortunately, that’s not how it goes. If liberal pundits start up the hate machine again and Obama stands to benefit, again, from sexism, people are going to lose their shit. Seriously. I’m not going to put aside my feminism for Obama. Liberals need to stop asking me to “look at the bigger picture” whilst they snicker about how they’d like to fuck Palin. That’s not how feminism works.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:52:03 +0000

I can’t think of a single presidential election that was decided, or decisively influenced by the VP election.

This is hardly anything approaching a “typical” election, though.

I don’t think her selection will be much of an issue. No one knows her outside of Alaska, and as others have pointed out, McCain just completely undercut one of his biggest bullet points against Obama – his lack of experience, especially in the foreign affairs arena.

With McCain as old as he is, one has to be worried about who would replace him if he off’ed himself during his term. Palin fails by any reasonable stretch of the imagination. And since she’s a diametric contrast to every position Hillary stood for, anyone who’s paying attention (and would therefore be likely to be swayed by her being picked if they weren’t already in the GOP camp anyway) is not going to be convinced to vote for the ticket because of her. If they have a shred of intelligence, that is.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:13:15 +0000

People seem to be harping on the “solid resume” thing, so to clarify: I meant that she has a solid resume as an ideal wingnut. She’s super conservative, which endears McCain to the base. She’s anti-choice, anti-gay, pro-gun, bad on the environment, and on and on, and she’s made the decisions in office to back up those positions. That’s what I meant by “solid resume;” not that she’s some brilliant politician with years of experience. Sorry that wasn’t clear.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:12:34 +0000

@Charity-
Jen, I might agree with your theory about liberal pundits vs. conservative if I hadn’t ALREADY heard ultra-disgusting conservative radio show host Jay Severin making all kinds of reprehensible comments about Palin already, within mere hours of the announcement, about what he believes are her fake breasts, about how she’s the first female candidate he wouldn’t mind “knowing” (in the biblical sense, yes he meant fucking) even though she’s by no means *hot* (or something to that effect).

Oh thank God. Seriously. If conservatives had fallen into lock-step and shut up about sexism for the next couple of months, we’d be looking at President McCain next year.

You have made my day.