The Note: VP Guessing Game Keeps GOP in Headlines

I like the former eBay exec as McCain’s VP choice. She can help him auction off American jobs overseas.
Gee, I wonder why McCain wants to choose a woman now? The transparency of his campaign is pathetic.
And Karl Rove can’t “smell” anything but his own stench.

Many in the media are reporting sincere frustration as the McCain camp is putting out false information regarding the VP. This is bad for ALL of us as the media “sources” will have every reason to be skeptical of anything McCain puts out.

So Radar, Fox news is reporting that her staff cannot confirm her whereabouts this morning. And you forgot to say in your previous report that the spokesperson who was asked in the middle of the night where her boss was said, “as far as i know”. Does John McCain tell spokespeople where his VP pick is or give them permission to tell reporters? Just wondering?

Hilarious. After weeks of smearing Obama as an unqualified “celebrity”, McCain is going to suggest that if he keeled over, control of the entire USA should go to the former mayor of a town of 3,000 people who does fashion spreads for Vogue.
He’s already married to a beauty pageant contestant with no political experience and a history of criminal investigations. Why didn’t he just pick his own wife?

The biggest question about the Alaskan Beauty Queen:
Can she spell “potato” correctly??

So he’s wants to pick an anti-abortion woman as his VP?
I hope other women aren’t stupid enough to fall for this. Someone who is AGAINST WOMEN’S RIGHTS will not help our cause.
The Republicans are much too scary to allow them to retain the power of the Presidency. President’s last 4 years, Supreme Court justices can be there for decades!
Besides, McCain only got into the academy because of his admiral father. He was in the BOTTOM 1% of his class. What business would consider making him their CEO? (The answer is NONE!) And some people think he can govern the most powerful and complex nation in the world?
Haven’t we had learned yet what electing an idiot does for America? Or are half of the people in this country just easily manipulated lemmings?
Start with the word “freedom”, “terrorism”, or “patriotic” and some folks will apparently believe anything that follows.

Mccain’s choices are bad …or worse.
so today is all about how bad of a pick did he choose…
that’s true isn’t it.

As a woman, I find this offensive for John McCain to think that women across America would get his vote just because he chose a woman as his VP. I would be fearful that if anything did happen to McCain during his presidency (if he were elected), an inexperienced woman would be in charge of running our country. Barack Obama is going to get my vote!

If he picks Ridge he is saying that the Bush aggressive and blindered security bologne of the last 8 years was good.
Since he would be picking the biggest face of those choices.
If he picks Romney
“The Trust Fund Baby” Ticket
If he picks Palin
“The Pray he doesn’t have a heart attack” Ticket
If he picks Lieberman
the “we will win with 3 families from Boca and the couple of thousand people who had dinner with him over the years in connecticut and NARAL/Committee for Liberation of Iraq Lobbyists” ticket…
because no one else is voting for him.

I would say if he picked Palin…
right now from all the pundits and news…
they are telling her…
“uh, wemade a mistake”
lol

It’s Palin!
Good judgment John mcCain.
get this guy to retire.

Great VP choice Sen MCcAIN,Hillary supporters are with you.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08

This is the CHANGE WE’VE been waiting for!!!!! Thank you Senator McCain!!!
This woman has it all – you have hit a home run!

Obama will need his hope and a prayer.

GAME CHANGER Let’s see the Obama campaign continue theie sexist attacks. Governor Palin can identify with working mothers.

This changes everything. This is history in the making for the republican party. McCain is the change agent of 2008!
McCain/Palin – Yes THEY can!

Steve: “A Palin pick is a pick out of desperation…”
I suspect a lot of folks are going to see it that way. Will be interesting to see the initial reactions, but my initial reaction is this is probably a political mistake.
Being seen trying to pander to Clinton supporters seems to cheapen McCain’s view of the responsibilities of the office.
Now, that’s the cynical view. We also need to be open to the possibility that McCain really thinks she’s presidential material. And she may be – I know nothing about her.
But a lot of folks are going to see this cynically, I think.

He should pick Paris Hilton. It’ll be the second time he took the younger, richer woman over the one he was supposed to stick with.

Palin?
And yet another politican who’s career is tied DIRECTLY TO BIG OIL!
Are we that stupid to do it AGAIN?

Vanessa,
go celebrate if you truly believe that. I suspect you really are worried sick. Obama/Biden and the DNC got played big time.

Hannity and Lintball are speechless.

Guess a 44 year-old, on the 45th year of MLK, just bumped 46 year-old off the headlines.

We have all seen how sexism is alive and well in the democratic party, obviously the repulican party embraces what a woman can bring to the ticket!
The republicans will absolutely win now.

anthony:
Your comments are nonsensical!
Obama is at the top of the ticket.
As president he would make the decisions
relying on his lack of experience to
make his decisions!
McCain as president would rely on his
many years in the Senate to make
foreign policy and domestic decisions!
The VP attends state funereals overseas,
breaks ties in the Senate, and is
available to take over as president if something happens to the president.
She also brings to the table executive experience that none of the Senators
have. She was a mayor and a governor and
therefore has experience preparing
budgets!
McCain hit it out of the park!

on…btw, she like HRC is a women …

I think the biggest risk of this pick is it reinforces the notion of McCain’s obsession with beauty and celebrity.

The old geezer has always had a thing for younger women. He is really robbing the cradle with this one.

Okay, enough about Palin, now back to McCain’s temperment.
Given what we now know about that, I’d take Palin over McCain for president, and I know next to nothing about her.

I’m not sure that Hillary voters will flock to this ticket en masse just because a woman is on it. If anything this just upstages HRC if Palin’s the first woman to be elected to an office higher than senator. And if McCain croaks or becomes incapacitated with Alzheimer’s then she becomes president.

Paul …Omentum,
I think you will have to this will be a HISTORIC election …fair fight
WHITE/COLORED/MAN/WOMEN all represented

This will be a fight for the SWING voters for sure … GOOD MOVE !!!

McCain/Palin: “This will be a fight for the SWING voters for sure.”
What election isn’t?
And, no, it wasn’t Obama who was considering Paris Hilton. In fact, John McCain has the distinction of being the first major party nominee to ever engage Paris Hilton in a back ‘n forth, and we all know he’s obsessed with celebrity. So if anything, McCain might have considered Hilton as a running mate.
But he went with Palin instead.

Me: “But he went with Palin instead.”
See, I’m not saying McCain can’t make a good decision every once in a while. Palin is definitely a better pick than Paris Hilton.
I’m just saying McCain frequently gets seething mad, sometimes over nothing, and its then his judgment goes out the window.
My advice to Palin – don’t comment on McCain’s hairline. That’s what got Cindy called a trollop and worse.

By making this choice. McCain is saying he will go it alone in running the country. I don’t think that Palin can offer any advice that the likes of McCain would consider.
This increases the risks of the the state of the country if the President disappears.
Biden would be a safer pick than Palin. Anyone would agree.

Palin “Grit, Integrity, Honor”
McCain/Palin 2008 ~ Country First

Palin “New American Heroine”
USA ! USA ! USA !

Palin “People First”
McCain “Country First”

We have defended the constitution of IRAQ more than we have defended our own. Poorly I may say. So poorly they even want us to leave.
Think again
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

I lived in Alaska 25 years and have visited Chicago. Give me Wasilla, Alaska, a beautiful small town surrounded by mountains in the Mat-Su Valley over south Chicago with is druggies, drunks and craszies on every street corner. Only a fool would walk down some of Chicago streets without a body guard. People should check out Obama’s home district on You Tube. Scary.

Just what we need. SPONTANEOUS. Touching on all the wedge issues.

….so far …still no gaffe …no BARACK AMERICA…nor PRESIDENT BIDEN

CuriousIndep – yep, McCain was the Democrats favorite Republican once upon a time, while Republican colleagues were warning the country about McCain’s temperment.
Given his reaction to Georgia, his encouragement of the Iraq invasion – let’s not forget McCain was way out in front of Bush in advocating an invasion of Iraq – I have to say on the question of McCain’s temperment, the Republicans got that one right eight years ago.

Omentum and other Obama supporters:
McCain is in excellant shape.
Ronald Reagan was 2 years younger
when he was elected and was 77 when
he left office(surviving an assasins
bullet to boot).
At least palin has youth on her side.
If something happens to Obama and
Biden has a heart attack Nancy Pelosi
would be president!
I’ll take my chances with McCain/Palin!

And Curious, from that same article:
Eric Vaughn, the president of the Renewable Fuels Assn., says he can only guess that McCain established his anti-ethanol stance in the late ’80s, when 70% of ethanol came from agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. Today, most ethanol production comes from farmer-owned co-operatives. ”If he’s going to attack the ethanol industry, at least he should attack us with updated information,” Vaughn sighs. ”I don’t have the impression that Mr. McCain has the benefit of all the information. But he does have the benefit of his convictions.”

Reaganfan – congrats on learning to spell Reagan (assuming you are the same guy who previously showed up as ReagunFan).
You said: “If something happens to Obama and Biden has a heart attack Nancy Pelosi would be president!”
That’s not true, unless the line of ascension was triggered, meaning the president and vice president die simultaneously and don’t have an opportunity to make other picks. And upon that, I believe Pelosi would be president regardless of which party previously held the White House.

POWDER KEG.
He is already trying to drag the country into a unilateral war with russia when we don’t even have the forces for such.
Imagine Paling telling him to cools his heels. I hope she has time to talk with Cindy first. Also I hope Palins husband is a softy and don’t mind his wife being disgraced.

In my humble opinion, I don’t think that this election really matters.
Let’s look at the issues that the Republicans and Democrats both Support:
• Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
• Patriot Act
• Invasion of Afghanistan
• Kosovo War
• Increased Military Budget
• Death Penalty
• Corporate Agriculture
• Drug War
• Telecommunications Deregulation – Giveaway of public broadcast spectrum to private companies.
• Bank Deregulation and Banking Reform – Do I hear sub prime mortgage anyone?
• Expanded (Global) Corporate Power Trade Agreements and Institutions (NAFTA, FTAA, CAFTA, WTO)
Now look at the issues that both the Republicans and Democrats both oppose:
• Global Warming – Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• National Health Insurance
• Real Campaign Finance Reform & Publicly Financed Elections
• Electoral Reforms & Democracy
• 2000 Florida Election – Congressional Investigation
• Reform of the Presidential Debate Commission
• Strict Standards on Genetically Modified Organisms
Now let’s look at where the Republicans and Democrats differ but only slightly and not enough to make a difference in our lives:
• Increased Accounting Oversight – Republicans oppose, Democrats opposed until the Enron scandal broke and then they changed their stance in order to grandstand
• Labor: Wages and Unions – Republicans Oppose raising minimum wages and have worked to weaken unions and labor standards.
• Democrats have very minimal support for workers through incremental minimum wages increases, claim to support worker’s rights but refuse to overturn Taft-Hartley Act restrictions on union organizing. Democrat Platform is silent on Taft-Hartley and living wages.
• Clean Water – Republicans oppose clean water. President Bush wants to delay a 9 month order to reduce arsenic in drinking water. Democrats have weak support for clean water. Bill Clinton delayed action for 8 years before signing an order just before Bush took office.
There is one issue however that there is enough difference between the two parties to merit a reasonable debate:
• Right to choose – Republicans oppose, and there is questionable support for the right to choose in the Democratic Party. Former President Bill Clinton signed the same ban in November, 1999. Al Gore favored outlawing late-term abortion in the US. Sen. John Kerry is opposed to a ban on partial-birth abortions.
Is this REALLY the only issue that matters? No wonder why Corporate America has been steadily eroding the quality of our lives and the security of our nation is at an all time low. Come on people. Wake up! Stop bickering over the color of the paint while the termites are eating away at the foundation of our society.

I think America will come to know more about Sarah Palin … very graceful of her for kinds words for Hillary and Geraldine..

And maybe the worst part about that is it victimizes Palin. If she’s seen as just a stunt, then her political future will be pretty much over.

This pick WILL re-energize the GOP base … change the electorate map !!!
…but of course possibly put off people like Omentum and Paul
…but that this is the whole idea..

Back to McCain’s temperment, here’s how the Washingtonian once wrote about it:
John McCain bursts out of the cloakroom and onto the Senate floor. His face red, he rips off his glasses and gets ready to pound a table. Senator Hothead is mad. Again.
“He just comes out and blows up every once in a while,” says a congressional correspondent, who didn’t want to be named. “You can almost see the steam coming out of his ears.”

ReapItDems: “Judging by the awesome amount of fear and whining I see on the left side of the Internet today…”
Huh, I guess that’s just another example of Republicans seeing what they want to see. I was wondering why the boards have been so dead, and was assuming this announcement just hit too late on a holiday Friday.
But, please, continue to see it anyway you want to.

McCain’s pick of Palin, a woman with very little executive experience, a woman who has approved a 26 billion dollar oil pipeline to Canada instead of the United States shows that McCain’s decision was made from an adlolescent place of “I’ll show you mentallity” instead of one of wisdom and judgment and will be a disaster because this is not a game but serious, deadly business! Maybe McCain really is senile and confused and incapable of making sound judgments. This woman will be a heartbeat away from being in charge of the highest office in the land. If she was Qualified, that would be different but she is not and that is the bottom line. Not to mention that his argument that Barack has no experience And Is not Ready is out the door, his strongest argument against Barack.
Is this decision Historic or Hysterical or a mockery to our political system? A game changer or a roll of the dice? And should a Presidential candidate play russian roulette with the people’s business? It is sort of sad to me personally, that McCain with all the problems we face here, did not have the People’s interest at heart but rather a desire to win for winning’s sake and did not think of the consequences of his actions and what it would mean for this country if she had to be sworn in as President of the United States!
However, in this evil ploy to pull Hillary women from Barack with no consideration as to whether or not this woman has the ability and experience to lead the United States here and on a world scale shows a very adolescent way of thinking, and a lack of sound judgment and as McCain’s first executive decision, a disaster! Through this pick, McCain has just shown that he is NOT READY TO LEAD!

Traveling pantsuits,
Really funny. Do you think Hillary is laughing at the possibility that, given McCain is 72, another woman with even less foreign policy experience than Obama might get the chance to be the first female president of the United States?

This IS a GAME CHANGER !!!
Out of the box thinking … I will be a happy voter this FALL

Someone above wrote: “That’s it, geniuses. Keep attacking Palin.”
Do Republicans just prepare their comments, and then go around looking for message boards to post them?
This is the second one like this we’ve seen, and the funny thing is I don’t recall seeing her attacked that much. Maybe I missed something.

Paul…this is what is fact…Palin equals 2 years executive experience as a governor was elected as major of Wasilla, AK in her early thirties Obama equals zero, Biden equals zero, McCain equals zero…
By your previous comments about McCain being a man for the oil companies, by the way Obama gets oil also, THIS MAY INTEREST BIG OIL NAY SAYERS:
In 2003, as Ethics Commissioner on the State’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she RISKED her rising political star by RESIGNING her position in protest of ethical misconduct within the state’s REPUBLICAN leadership as well as then-Gov Frank Murkowski’s acceptance of the impropriety..Though this briefly made her an outcast within the party, within a year several state REPUBLICAN heavyweights were reprimanded for the conduct she’d decried
When was the last time Biden or Obama put their “political raising star” at risk for doing the right thing within their party?????
Article written by David Paul Kuhn, Politico.com, “Three women who could join GOP ticket.”
I SAY PALIN FOR PRESIDENT

Curious: “When was the last time Biden or Obama put their “political raising star” at risk for doing the right thing within their party?????”
Let’s see, Obama opposed the Iraq invasion while running for the Senate, though most in his party didn’t agree.
Oh, and Obama stood in front of a teachers union and advocated merit pay, though knowing the union and his party didn’t want to hear it.
Obama was and remains open to nuclear power, assuming we can safely store waste, when few in his party wanted to hear that.

Also, how about Biden and his Iraqi federation idea? That was a bit of a risk.
And as for putting rising star’s at risk, I don’t know if anyone can top Biden, who simply didn’t show for his swearing in.
“Delaware can find another senator, but my boys can’t find another dad.”
Here’s a guy who won election, but was willing to step away to care for his family, and had to be convinced to accept swearing in from the hospital room his sons were in.

SARAH PALIN??????????????????????????
What happened to Romney?? Or Loserman???
McBadJUDGEMENT JUST LOST!!!!!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!
McBush just commited political suicide!!!!
Who is responsible for this NONSENSE??????
THEY NEED TO BY FIRED!!!!!!!
WHAT AN OLD FOOL!!!!
The ONLY VIABLE choice now for President, Barack Obama 2008!!!!!!!!!!!

Goodbye Howard Dean. Goodbye Barack Obama. Goodbye Nancy Pelosi. Goodbye Donna Brazile. You have not only lost the White House for the Democratic Party. Today you have brought the Democratic Party to the brink of irrelevancy altogether. John McCain has played you all like a piano.
Today we say GOODBYE to the OLD Democratic Party. The OLD Democratic Party has led us to DISASTER. John McCain and Sarah Palin will win in November by a landslide.
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Hello to a hero and his qualified VP who is not old wash DC and knows how to fight the “good ole boys”. Welcome! Sarah you from the big state of Alaska …to the BIG TIME!

Those PUMAS are in a real quandary now. With two notable exceptions in modern history, presidents get two terms. So if McCain gets elected, Hillary would have to face a sitting woman VP in 2016. Those PUMA woman must be having hissy-fits all over the country as they try to get their panties unknoted over this one!

Mary, where do you come up with so much vitriolic hatred?

LOL, yeah, things have been going so well for the last 8 years, lets have more of the McSame.

HP, are you one of the 28% that approves of Bush? If so, I can understand why you like McCain. He has voted with Bush 90% of the time. Check the record.

Very true, Tony. So we’d have a former mayor of a town of 8,000 and two years as governor of one of the most corrupt states in the union as Commander in Chief. YIKES!

HP, are you one of the 28% that approves of Bush? If so, I can understand why you like McCain. He has voted with Bush 90% of the time. Check the record.
Posted by: DublBogey | Aug 29, 2008 2:58:52 PM
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I am an EX democrat, been independent for 4 months now!
I watched the slime bush ravage McCain last time around. Now that the Dem’s have totally self destructed I may as well help JOHN he deserves the revenge of kicking shrub outta the filth he piled in the WH!

DublBogy,
Goodbye Howard Dean. Goodbye Barack Obama. Goodbye Nancy Pelosi. Goodbye Donna Brazile. You have not only lost the White House for the Democratic Party. Today you have brought the Democratic Party to the brink of irrelevancy altogether. John McCain has played you all like a piano.
Today we say GOODBYE to the OLD Democratic Party. The OLD Democratic Party has led us to DISASTER. John McCain and Sarah Palin will win in November by a landslide.
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We vote McCain………

There’s always Bob Barr!
Posted by: DublBogey | Aug 29, 2008 3:07:39 PM
OR NADER!!! I CHOOSE McCAIN!/PALIN! 08

Hey, at least she was a former beauty queen. LOL

I can see it now, somewhere out there will be a pic of her when she was runner-up for Miss Alaska, in the bathing suit competition! I can see the caption under the pic: Do you want this person a heartbeat away? But hey, at least she got Miss Congeniality!

McCain must be getting senile to make this pick

Hey, at least she was a former beauty queen. LOL
Posted by: DublBogey | Aug 29, 2008 3:12:16 PM
+++++++++++++++++=
And the Governor of a HUGE state and COMMANDER of it’s NATIONAL GUARD!
Along with 5 children and more courage and grit than all the hair plugs on Joe Biden’s HEAD!

Right, HP. And all the women working hard in this country to advance their rights to equal pay, and smashing the glass ceiling, are going to just love those beauty contest pix!

Right, HP. And all the women working hard in this country to advance their rights to equal pay, and smashing the glass ceiling, are going to just love those beauty contest pix!
Posted by: DublBogey | Aug 29, 2008 3:18:41 PM
Well you just eat your heart out honey.
I am sure you will enjoy the pics even more. I like you well enough…DUBBIE!

Well, Dubl, she is a sitting governor. Let’s give her some benefit of the doubt.
The part that’s ironic about all this is that she may be a promising talent, but if this pick is seen cynically as a token woman for women, and eye candy for men, then her political future could be derailed by this campaign.

Looking forward to the VP debate. Joe will eat her up.

Honey? Hate to disappoint you HP, but I’m not a woman. LOL.
Posted by: DublBogey | Aug 29, 2008 3:25:09 PM
No poop ///BUT I AM!

The bloggers who make nasty remarks about McCain and his senior citizen status and political experience are childish and stupid. My grandparents and parents were healthy and intelligent when in their late 80′s and 90′s. Obama could drop dead tonight from his nasty smoking for 30 years. My granddad was mowing his own lawn and growing a garden in his late 80′s and walked several miles nearly every day.
In other words, aging is an individual’s process. Some die at age 6, some die at age 98 as my uncle did and my great uncle at 102.

Both McCain and Palin can proudly point to a lot of friends and associates in their past history Unlike Obama here are no gaps to hide or run away from. What was most notable at the Democratic Convention was the lack of anyone who could stand up for Obama. No one from his days in Hawaii, no one from his days in college or law school, no one from his days as a community worker or at his church of twenty years. No one from his days as a politician in Chicago. The only people we saw were a lot of celebrities like Oprah. Below is an article from the the real barack obama that further discusses Obama’s curious lack of friends that were there to stand up for him at the Dem convention.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/