Go Sarah.

Same here. Bet the last polls 3 days out will have McCain/Palin down by 5.

If the MSM didn’t rig the polls like this the hippies and leftist losers would have no motivation to get out of bed to vote.

They must lie in the polls or these freaks won’t show up.

McCain/Palin ’08

Ah, nothing like being an internationally-recognised columnist, eh, Kathleen? Who knows—maybe she can get a gig with the CBC as pretend-conservative token?

The conversation transformed to one of equal pay for equal work between men and women. I told him that I believed that if the work were truly equal, then the pay should be equal. He disagreed. After several rounds of back and forth, with him losing every point badly and his anger rising at each exchange, he finally stood and sputtered his real reason: “Because.. because I got a dick!” and walked away.

I’ve sensed some of that thinking around here and with some famous “DC Insider” conservatives….

CC

Cut her loose and let her do her thing.

The very last poll to come out 3 days before the election had Dem Tony Knowles up by 5. We were scared sh*tless going into election day. Some of us openly thought we were going to lose.

At the downtown Egan Center the votes started rolling in around 8 pm. She won with over 10%.

Same here. Bet the last polls 3 days out will have McCain/Palin down by 5.

It isn’t in the McCain Campaign’s interest to turn her loose. Her purpose is to be seen, and to be heard saying what John McCain wants her to say. She thinks like a conservative, and a Republican. John McCain for the most part doesn’t. They are not going to let Palin put her foot in McCain’s mouth.

austinnelly on September 27, 2008 at 12:26 AM

I’m sorry, but this is just so much hooey.

First of all, McCain would be glad for Palin to shovel some conservative talking points for him. She’s the reason he’s palatable to conservatives; securing the base is her job.

And second of all, her problem has not been that she’s uncomfortable putting her mouth around moderate McCain’s talking points, it’s that she’s not comfortable even talking around the topics she’s being asked about.

Lopez is correct. They’re trying to brief Palin to the gills and get her up to speed for the national stage, and the problem with that is that that’s not who she is. She’ll never sound convincing as a policy wonk. They should let her be herself.

Frankly, I would find it refreshing to hear her say “Look, I’ve been focusing on my job in Alaska, so I don’t know beans (blubber?) about Waziristan or Putin’s politics. I just know how to get things done, and the things I’ve gotten done are things that Washington needs.” That’s authentic. We can forgive ignorance, ’cause it’s curable, but it has to be attached to competence.

My hope is that it’s just build-up for her one shining moment vs. Biden. Tight lease, no gaffes for Biden to play to, and then Boom, totally free.

Spirit of 1776 on September 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM

I hope you’re right…cause we all know by feel alone there’s a lot more to her than meets the eye and ear..

point out other situations where the VP nominee’s positions matter.

highhopes on September 26, 2008 at 10:45 PM

Dan Quayle, 1988. Not enough to sink Bush Sr.’s candidacy, but it was close.

Thomas Eagleton, 1972. Can’t say that he’s what caused the avalanche that buried McGovern’s candidacy, but he certainly was one of the problems.

Curtis Lemay, 1968. George Wallace’s running mate on a 3rd-party ticket. As usual with 3rd party candidates, Wallace did not really have a chance of winning, but he certainly had a chance of diverting enough votes from Richard Nixon to put Hubert Humphrey into the White House. 1968 was not 2008, and Wallace’s segregationist credentials did not disqualify him from consideration back then; as much as we expected to hate him, my friends and I were shocked to admit that Wallace actually made good, conservative sense on most of his positions. Lemay, though, was frightening, a cold warrior that many of us were afraid could actually use The Bomb.

Vice Presidents can matter.

Some people are saying that the Mccain campaign is downing her confidence. Now what can we do to bolster her confidence for the debate next week? maybe stop using lib talking points to trash her.

PALIN POWER!

Heck, I thought she should have dropped in on Keith Olbermann while she was in the Big Apple and charm his official Bush-Derangement-Syndrome socks off or be cheered for trying.

Ew. Sarah would earn her combat pay.

So far, McCain is that annoying boyfriend of your daughter that you wish she’d dump because he isn’t good enough for her.

Sapwolf on September 27, 2008 at 12:45 AM

+1

everyone has an opinion

Nobody seems to point out the the obvious double standard in the media..

Where are all those journalist trying to talk to all those angry black folks and hispanics in Chicago that were mad at him for doing business with Rezko? I;m sure there are some that were happy with Obama for selling them out for Campaign cash.. where are the stories? Are the reporters scared of walking into the South Side of Chicago because of the Gangs? hmmmm… Maybe Obama has a failed district?

Maybe Obama failed being a community organizer?

Why the high crime rate in his district? high taxes too.. that should have solved it… WTF..

Hmmm… why are those people fleeing to Indiana? (BTW, my parents are getting angry that the Illinois people are flooding into Indiana, tell Obama to fix his mess in Illinois and keep his trashy gang people in Illinois)

Because Country First. A deal needs to be made. This weekend. Such an attack would not help.

It isn’t in the McCain Campaign’s interest to turn her loose. Her purpose is to be seen, and to be heard saying what John McCain wants her to say. She thinks like a conservative, and a Republican. John McCain for the most part doesn’t. They are not going to let Palin put her foot in McCain’s mouth. She’ll be kept on a tight script until the election; if they manage to win, look for her to be harder to find than Waldo at a rock concert. Don’t think it doesn’t piss McCain off that she is more popular than he is; if she can help him pull off a victory, that’s all fine, but he’s going to show everyone who runs the ticket once the election is safely behind him. He’ll bring her out when he needs to jam a particularly loathsome piece of legislation (such as amnesty) down our collective throats, but don’t look for her beyond that. Her purpose is to get the resentful base out to vote for him; after that, it’s off to the ‘undisclosed location’ for the next 4 years.
This is one of the reason’s I didn’t want McCain to pick Palin. She doesn’t deserve being the mouthpiece for his RINO sh*t policies. Whatever damage he does, she’ll be the one to pay the check; McCain will be 76 and walking off to retirement smirking, and hoisting the middle finger to the world in general.

austinnelly on September 27, 2008 at 12:26 AM

If McCain pulls this off and wins, and then acts like a Dem in office, Sarah Palin could just resign her VP spot due to the differences and how she would not want to be part of more socialism.

Quotes of the Day should be:

Mac: “What you don’t seem to understand is …”

0bama: “John is right …”

Tony737 on September 26, 2008 at 10:56 PM

Ditto

Let her loose so she can hammer the liberal media, they’ll never love her but they can learn to respect her.