McCain’s ‘Hail Sarah’ Pass

This has to be the most myopic piece of horse patooey that i've read in Newsweek in at least a day or two. Point number one, Palin has more real world experience than the MTV/media created Democratic PRESIDENTIAL candidate and is a breath of fresh air when you look at the Bidens of the world who are giving Congress a 9% approval rating. I suspect Jonathon Alter is peeved that the Republicans chose not to smear a woman in a primary campaign, ignore a womans 18 million votes, and then demean other women by suggesting that Palin will fail. To the contrary, in most instances you don't have to do anything to become a senator except be wealthy, kiss the butts of your party, be a lawyer, or have a family name like Kennedy.or Daley, and HER approcal rate in her home state is about 10 times that of Congress. She will ear Biden alive, get the PUMA as well as most of the woman vote in this country, as welll as that of the the 30-40,000,000 hunters, fishermen, and gun owners in this country-and probably that of the military. The Dems can attack all they want because they know they don't have any more chance of winning in November as McGovern, Dukakis, Kerry, or Gore.

Two Questions for McCain:

1) If Sarah Palin had been a male, with the exact same qualifications, etc. that she has, would you have chosen him?

2) When running against George W. Bush for the Republican nomination, in a debate with Alan Keyes and Buch, you stated that the government should not absolutely forbid ab abortion in the case of rape, incest, or possible severe physical damage to the pregnant woman. Bush agreed, and you then demanded that he work to change the Republican platform, which called for abortion to always be illegal, no matter what. You called Bush a hypocrite for not attempting to make that change. Now you are the candidate. Will you have the change made, or have you now adopted the "abortion should always be illegal" view of your running mate?

see the video of the debate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2198320/

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-backs-aw.html


Watch the McCain-Bush sparring here.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4823197

I don't know if I should be insulted that the McCain campaign thinks we're all that stupid, or terrified that THEY are that stupid and could possibly end up in the White House.

Three strikes, you're out, My Friend (TM).

You giddily accepted endorsements by Parsley and Hagee to pander to the Evangelicals and have since had to backtrack when it came out that they were nut jobs. You just rolled out Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee as the face of your Hispanic Family Values tour (and don't even realize yet how poorly that will play out - por Dios, que alguien le explica que significa gasolina!) Now you've picked a woman with the thinnest of resumes hoping to pander to the female vote. On a professional level, she doesn't have the education or experience to be President. On a personal level, what kind of mom puts that kind of ambition ahead of her family when she has a four month old with special needs? As a professional woman and mom, I would be circling my family wagons and making sure that all my kids were OK with such a huge adjustment and just spending as much time as I could nurturing my new baby. I guess that's why the Republican slogan is "Country First" and why I am a Democrat.

As a single working mom, I totally support John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Whether you need the help or not, Newsweek seems perfectly willing to give it.

You guys are putzes. If some rag wasn't paying you to spew liberal crud and criticism of all-things-republican, you're opinion would be stuck in the audience of the "cubicle next door". There's a big difference between a Presidential candidate lacking experience, versus a Vice-Pres candidate lacking experience. One is IMMEDIATELY unqualified, and the other will unlikely ever have to prove the fact that she's fit to lead. The O'Bama ticket can't escape the fact that it's ticket would be stronger if O'Bama was the VP in support of someone who has substance AND experience. Yada yada yada.

The media infuriates me with their obvious bias toward Barack Obama! If he had chosen a Governor, with Sarah Palin's qualifications the media would think that it was great. Also, if Mrs. Paulin would have been a Mr. there would have been no reference to the 5 children, one of whom has Down's Syndrome, possibly being a hinderance to that candidate performing his responsibilities. I an sick to death of hearing the media's opinions----just report the facts, and let us form our own opinions!!!

Word on the street is "Pretty good choice!" -What a Trump!

You guys are putzes. If some rag wasn't paying you to spew liberal crud and criticism of all-things-republican, you're opinion would be stuck in the audience of the "cubicle next door". There's a big difference between a Presidential candidate lacking experience, versus a Vice-Pres candidate lacking experience. One is IMMEDIATELY unqualified, and the other will unlikely ever have to prove the fact that she's fit to lead. The O'Bama ticket can't escape the fact that it's ticket would be stronger if O'Bama was the VP in support of someone who has substance AND experience. Yada yada yada.

Boy, I am sorely disappointed in the vehemence directed to Sara Palin. Let's stop trashing her until we really can make an intelligent descision, rather that one that is based on a lack of knowledge and obvious hatred. No matter who McCain picked the Obama supporters would have found negative and hateful things to say. I am glad McCain picked a non Washington DC person. It is a true opportunity for fresh insight and new ideas.

once again, liberal media-ites take a good ,lovely, qualified VP candidate that is a woman and make her as a pawn in MCcain s` quest for the presidency. She is the face of REAL feminism. You media elitists that are unashamedly in bed with th d emocrats/ liberals, will charaxterize hillARY as a pioneer, a trailblazer, qualified, surely destined for the Presidency . Meanwhile she never was anything of the sort. Why do you thnk she will fail? They will destroy Obama in the fall.

obvious who reads Newsweek and MSN and where their votes lay...still nothing new

Markky, Mark. We Dems don't need Newsweeks help. Old John is helping out just fine.

Newsweek might as well just come out and say 'we will do everything we can to elect Obama' these days...

They seem to have long ago given up any semblance of neutrality.

"Fair the well, OLD John McCain, Fair the well, I'm gone."

John, you could have picked a more experience religious righty to help you out with the base.

Trophy wife, Trophy VP. Thanks, John.