What happens if he kicks it between now and the election? I can't imagine the Republicans putting Palin up as the nominee (of course, I wouldn't have imagined them picking her as the VP nominee, if I'd ever heard of her before this year). Do they tag Romney?
Didn't Huckabee come second in the primaries? Maybe we'd get Huckabee-Palin. Or Huckabee-Norris.
I'd imagine the timeframe is important here. The Repubs would need enough time to make another selection. If McCain kicked off only a couple of weeks before the big day, they might not have time to change. I believe in 2000, when John Ashcroft lost to a corpse, they treated it as if he died in office. (The dead Dem, not Ashcroft.) If the same principle applied here, that would effectively mean that the Repubs are stuck with McCain's name on the ballot, and Palin as the effective (I use the term advisedly) candidate. And they would lose in the biggest landslide since 1984. Or bigger, as there are more people in Minnesota than in Alaska.
I'm sorry, billytea, but I must quibble with your analysis: [link]
Heh. They'd be happy to have lunch with her but they don't want her anywhere near the White House. I share half of that opinion.
Whoah. The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan. They usually wait until Friday evening to do that sort of thing.
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The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan.
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Huh.
Everything I saw all day was expecting it or something like it to happen tonight.
Sigh. Have to get off my ass and get an account at FirstTech for my pin money. (My account has been with WaMu for 11 years, almost 12. Most of my paycheck goes into the joint credit union account, but there's still a wad of it that goes to WaMu.)
Whoah. The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan. They usually wait until Friday evening to do that sort of thing.
Woah. I am more and more glad that the bank I met with yesterday was JPMorgan Chase.
I knew they'd pay for getting rid of the Rodeo Grannies.
Dag, you guys -- I'm watching the Daily Show from the other night, and this shit isn't even funny, it's so scary.
