Re: McCain announces a weird choice for VPrazy

On Aug 29, 11:57�pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Crisstti <crissttigalda...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 29, 9:19 pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
UsurperTom <Usurper...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 29, 5:19?pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At least Americans were made aware of Obama at the 2004 Democratic
convention and months of campaigning in the primaries.

Obama spent those four years in the Senate running for president.

I found this in a Google search. Feel free to dispute the details:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/21/164117/783/290/461422

Very interesting.

It seems to me McCain is making a similar decition than Obama did.
They have chosen people who are kind of their opposite...

In terms of experience, yes. �But the more I read about Sarah Palin, the
more I realize that she could not have possibly been chosen to woo
disgruntled Clinton voters.

I think you're wrong, Rich. I think she WAS chosen to woo Clinton
supporters, but it amounts to the same type of logic that led Frank
Sinatra to cover "Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling" to appeal to
"the kids." The McCain crowd obviously thinks women will support ANY
woman, regardless of her stand on the issues.

The woman is anti-choice, anti-evolution, and anti-science in general.
I think it's fair to say that she is farther to the right than any
Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidate that either party has put
forward in my memory.

Women who understand Clinton's positions on the issues and supported her
because of it will be insulted at the thought that Palin's selection is
somehow supposed to attract them to McCain's campaign.

I think this was a huge mistake on McCain's part. �He may shore up his
base, so to speak, but repel the independent voters who were otherwise
inclined to support him.

I agree. I think his choice of a running mate was so transparently
motivated by the desire to be elected that it will backfire. I though
the lesson of Dan Quayle was that the most important political
variable in the choice of a vice presidential candidate is what it
tells the electorate about the judgment of the presidential candidate.

And before the right wingers bring it up, yes, I felt the same way
about the Geraldine Ferraro pick. But the biggest difference between
1984 and 2008 is that McCain had some decent options (Hutchinson of TX
would not be facing the same criticism from me) and that while Mondale
obviously had to throw the long bomb, being two touchdowns down,
McCain decided to run the Hail Mary with five minutes to go in a close
game.

Two years ago, this woman was the mayor of a town with under 10,000
population. Calling that and her short time as governor of the
country's most sparsely populated state "executive experience" is like
hiring a high school yearbook editor over a New York Times reporter to
run your city desk.

The Arranger
The Arranger

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