So McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. I don’t know enough about her yet to decide if I’m on board or mortified, except that she appears to have a huge aversion to normal kid names. Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow and Piper are the names of her children. I am not making this up. Those aren’t nicknames - those are their actual names. What the hell??
So McCain has either just completely screwed up, or he’s BRILLIANT. Too early to tell for me. I like a whole lot of stuff about her, but she’s even less experienced than Obama, who is like, totally pubescent politically. If she’s half as good at melodramatic speeches as Obama is though, McCain could have a real shot at winning this thing.
Ohhh, the drama. LOVE.
-Great choice by McCain. She is a young and dynamic up-and-comer who adds some pizazz to the ticket. You don’t need to have decades of Washington experience to do what a VP does. She is a much better strategic choice than Romney or the dullard Ridge.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think that McCain surrounds himself with gorgeous-yet-creepy-looking women? His wife Cindy and this Sarah chick are pretty, but have something about them that kinda make me cower if I stare at their Botox faces for too long.
My husband said she looks like Tina Fey’s evil twin.
You guys - watch this video of the two of them. http://www.breitbart.tv/html/163813.html
At about 3 minutes in, when she talks about the bridge, McCain starts clapping and totally reminds me of those monkey-with-the-cymbals toys.
I think it’s a good move and as far as the experience,she is the only one of all four that has Executive level experience. You have three senators and one Governor. She has also done a great job as governor and has an 80% approval rating. I’ve done some reading about her and she has some impressive accomplishments.
Cindy McCain scares me a little, but I don’t see anything scary, evil, or “botoxy” in Sarah Palin.
I do totally love the whole PR aspect of this. I mean, talk about a way to totally take the wind out of the sails of the DNC - this will be ALL the media focuses on this weekend! McCain has some impeccable timing, that’s for sure.
I totally do not think this took any wind at all out of the sails of the DNC. Nothing can eradicate the outstandingly positive and hopeful speech Obama made. If anything, McCain looks like an idiot now for mocking Obama as too inexperienced. If McCain drops dead, the ‘totally prepubescent’ woman will be the president.
Except that Obama’s speech didn’t SAY anything. It was just flowery fluff as usual. Hope and change and blah blah blah - give us a PLAN for crying out loud. I cannot WAIT for the debates, when he’ll actually have to answer questions head to head with McCain.
Mock - The plan is to hope for change, and to change for hope. We hope that this plan changes so that we can further plan for hope. Let’s change our hope so that we can plan to hope some more for change and hope. I hope you will join me in this plan for change.
Best. Comment. Ever.
McCain “looks like an idiot now for mocking Obama as too inexperienced”……..?
Uh, isn’t this just what Obama’s running mate did (repeatedly) during the entire primary and debate process? Yes it is……..but Obama was so desperate for experience and credibility on his ticket that he had to pick Biden anyway.
Mock, she’s absolutely _NOT_ less experienced than NObama. As Bob pointed out, she actually has executive experience. Besides the fact that she’s on the ticket as veep, not as the head honcho. I’m not thrilled with Mac, but I’m getting more and more comfortable with him, and if Gov. Palin is half of what I’ve heard about her, he’s getting even higher in my estimation.
I’ve had mixed feelings about both candidates. If I had to align myself with a particular party, I would say I’m a Libertarian with conservative leanings. Neither one is going to do anything about what I consider to be this country’s biggest problems - Illegal Immigration and Congressional Spending. I prefer Obama’s approach to foreign policy, but Socialism just isn’t my bag. I don’t like, well, anything about McCain. I never in a million years would have considered voting for him…until now. I’ve been researching Palin and I like pretty much everything I’ve read. And, for the record, I couldn’t care less either way that she is female.
I think its a blatant plea for the disenchanted Hillary supporters. Or, the ‘anything with a vagina’ vote. Does McCain really think one woman is interchangeable with another? That this is going to get him those all-important Hillary supporters?
Cuz there’s nothing that Hil supporters like more than an anti-abortion Intelligent Design Creationist. Yeah.
And I’d like to know McCain’s plan for her handling veep duties - diplomacy being one of the Tops - in the Middle East? Cuz y’know how much they respect and revere women and what women have to say.
The more I read, the more I like.
And the more it becomes obvious that McCain does NOT think women are interchangeable. She’s nothing like Hillary (thank GOD).
How would Hillary supporters have answered your 3rd paragraph question, SnarkyBritches?
Veep duties (and respect) are very different from Prez ones. IF Hil had won (I, too say Thank god she didn’t - she’s skeery) she’d have been Top Brass. I don’t know how ME-erners would have appreciated her behind her back, but they would have been required by diplomatic standards to maintain at least a show of respect.
Veeps don’t have that assurance.
Yup, she’s nothing like Hilary. But picking a woman NOW, any woman, just seems like a pander to the vagina voters, that’s all.
She is currently under investigation by her ledgislature, the problem is she has not been vetted because she was no where near McCain’s first choice…McCain pulled in football what we call an audible, where the QB changes the play at the line because the defense looks more formidable that he thought. I think Romney had the job until Thursday night, but after Obama’s presidential speech and strong convention, the cards got reshuffled-maybe hastily…I admit it’s a gutsy move, but if she blows up on the pad it can end up not only killing McCain, but also hurting women. You want the first to be an ass kicker and maybe she is we have to see..In the end I think Bam-whether you like him or not-made his VP decision out of a desire for good governance, keeping the state of the union in mind where McCain’s decision was bourn of pure policts and self interest. Ironic since McCain was the one who accused Obama for wanting to win an election at any cost.
Hillary people don’t like her… she is pro life and Hillary people are pro choice. (I didn’t support Hillary)
Not sure about Palin… I just know that if he had a stroke, I wouldn’t want her as the Pres. Sorry folks.