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.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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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.
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
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.
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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.
juliana - Aug 29, 2008 6:31:03 am PDT #6145 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
the Alaska repubs have to be the most corrupt political organization going since the Grant administration
Are, and have been for a loooooong time.
Bristol, Willow, and Piper? Seriously? (All place names in AK.)