McCain's 72 and has battled cancer. Is a first-term Gov ready to serve as President?
Since God favors the Republicans, I'm sure He'll keep McCain alive....
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Aug 29, 2008 6:18:53 am PDT #6135 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Aug 29, 2008 6:20:44 am PDT #6136 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
but it feels like pandering to me.
I think pandering is the only thing the GOP has going for them right now, so...yeah. It's a good strategic choice.
Gudanov - Aug 29, 2008 6:21:35 am PDT #6137 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Seriously? I know I'm not the target audience (that is, I have some sense) but it feels like pandering to me.
Well, you have a woman which may help with the PUMA crowd, but also that helps deflect from McCain who does not have a great record on woman's rights.
You have someone who is NRA supported, that is really, really important where I live and I suspect in a lot of places. I think gun control is underrated in importance.
She is apparently strongly pro-life and anti-gay marriage, which should help appease social conservatives lukewarm about McCain.
She is an advocate for drilling, which fits in very well with McCain's energy policy.
She also is a Washington outsider, not a bad thing when everybody else is coming from the senate.
So, a good choice. I agree that experience is the risk with this choice.
Trudy Booth - Aug 29, 2008 6:24:35 am PDT #6138 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sarah and Todd Palin have five children: boys Track, 19, and Trig, 4 months, and daughters Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.
Favorite sport, favorite class, favorite small English city, favorite Lucas film and favorite personal aircraft?
lisah - Aug 29, 2008 6:27:32 am PDT #6139 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Other than the PUMA thing, who supports those positions who wasn't already going to vote for McCain?
And on the PUMA thing, I really think it has been blown out of proportion by the media and McCain's campaign. I mean really how many Democratic women are going to vote for McCain because they are pissy Clinton didn't get nominated, not very many at all I don't think.
I don't know, maybe it's easier for me to be optimistic because of where I live and who I know.
Jesse - Aug 29, 2008 6:29:03 am PDT #6140 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, you have a woman which may help with the PUMA crowd, but also that helps deflect from McCain who does not have a great record on woman's rights.
But neither does she! I just don't get it. I mean, I get why they picked her, but I don't understand why it would be successful as pandering.
Pandering to the right, sure.
Allyson - Aug 29, 2008 6:29:05 am PDT #6141 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Both McCain and Palin will get trounced in the debates.
It was a cynical choice.
SuziQ - Aug 29, 2008 6:29:29 am PDT #6142 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
The youngest - 4 months - also has Downs. Is this really a good time to take on such a political role?
Connie Neil - Aug 29, 2008 6:29:37 am PDT #6143 of 10003
brillig
I gritted my teeth and checked the comments on a local news board, and the radical righties are ecstatic. She hunts! She skins her own critters! She understands that a woman's job is to be a mother first! She's in charge of a great big state! And she blew the whistle on her own party's corruption!
Apparently she has a bass boat, too. She's One Of Us!
Connie Neil - Aug 29, 2008 6:30:54 am PDT #6144 of 10003
brillig
The youngest - 4 months - also has Downs. Is this really a good time to take on such a political role?
Apparently this illustrates how perfect she is on the subject of family values. A Vice President who has to go home to take care of the kids is perfect for the Limbaugh lemmings.