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  • Posted By: bluetwo11 @ 09/06/2008 11:09:04 PM

    Scary Sarahie has so many scandals going at once it's hard to focus on just one! She isn't allowed to give any interviews so that will buy her some time! I feel that an October suprise maybe on the horizon for this right wing version of Roseanne Barr !!! I hope the media follow her every move in her Great State of Alaska!!!!

  • Posted By: Maripo @ 09/06/2008 10:34:12 PM

    Turns out the media elite is God's gift to John McCain. For once, Michael Moore was right: there is a God! As the NY Times - MSNBC - Washington elite axis discovered: God don't like ugly!

  • Posted By: Knife @ 09/06/2008 10:19:17 PM

    It seems like someone in the elite media is beginning to understand the political climate when they write, "The usual rule is that voters don't trust attacks from people they don't know..." The reason Ms. Palin is able to turn "the adage on it's head" is because of the loathsome, half truths written about Ms. Palin in the media. Voters don't trust the media anymore. They certainly don't need traditional media outlets to interpret the news. They can watch for themselves on You Tube and form their own opinions. Those who ignore the media and make up their own minds certainly embody the independent thinking that has led to American Exceptionalism. There is no better country to live in the world and our choice of leaders will be leaders who have a can-do resume.

    • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 09/06/2008 10:28:59 PM

      Loathsome half truths? Written by the elite media? Lets see, all this writing was before her speech at the convention where she turned the adage on its head? What loathsome half truths did the media print prior to her speech. And I think you cast your net far too widely. From my point of view Palin is just another pygmy on the national stage, hardly worthy of notice in herself. Its McCain's poor judgment that garners attention for her.

  • Posted By: beccajo @ 09/06/2008 10:24:12 PM

    I think it is a shame that Sen. Biden has to tip-toe around Ms. Palin during the debate. So far as I am concerned, if she wants to play with the boys, she should expect to be treated just like the boys. Why should all the men treat her with kid gloves just because she is a woman...oh, of course the mannerly, chivalrous
    Republicans would cry "foul" if she got equal treatment, but that's the way it should be. Beccajo in Ky.

  • Posted By: Libratine @ 09/06/2008 10:12:43 PM

    Yep - The expectation is for her to be treated like a lady!

  • Posted By: OIFVetForMcCain @ 09/06/2008 9:16:33 PM

    Obama had hoped that his negative record ...and non-record... wouldn't catch up to him, but it did because there was a lot of time for it all to come out over the course of a year or more. Governor Palin however is looking at only sixty days to take hits, and so far they have only galvanized her support and increasing support for a McCain presidency. One has to question whether Palin???s bad points are in the same league as Obama???s bad points; if that???s what the election is about, then Obama just lost the election.

    The Obama campaign has been belching smoke and taking on water faster than they can pump it out for months, and now McCain slams another torpedo in their side. Perhaps David Axelrod had better get Obama out of range and just tell his boss to campaign without attempting any more close range shots at McCain ??? and now Palin. Perhaps Obama will be able to keep his seat in the Senate, though that would be doubtful anywhere else but Chicago.

    In the meantime, Palin needs to put her beliefs into arguable form if she wants to hold up to a vicious Congress after McCain moves into the White House. Remember, her beliefs are no different than most American conservatives. No doubt she can do it and still have the support of her constituency. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the McCain cabinet of mavericks will look like.

    ==McCAIN * PALIN 08==

    • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 09/06/2008 10:10:05 PM

      I assume Obama must have told what he hoped, or else you have the ability to read minds. So you are claiming that Obama hoped to elude the press plus McSame???s backroom operation for 18 months? Well that would be foolish, and frankly impossible, so Obama???s negatives are out for all to see. From here they don???t look all that damaging. The comfort you take here is that since there are only 60 days left in the campaign, nobody can ferret out Palin???s negatives, so McCain???s ticket will win. That???s typical conservative thinking, alright. Really doesn???t matter if they have a child at home locked in a closet for the last 13 years, just as long as nobody finds out about it by election day. The press must not inquire. Its nobodies business but McSame.

      Another torpedo? What? You mean about giving up his entire line of attack on Obama for the last 6 months? Obama has no experience. Obama is not ready. So this 72 year old cancer survivor puts somebody with no national experience whatever, is pretty much unknown in the lower 48, and doesn???t appear to have any notable accomplishments at any level a heart beat away from the Presidency? Yeah that???s wisdom alright, the McCain decision making process is looking worse and worse. And that???s what President???s do you know, make decisions.

      Here???s a little from one of Palin???s neighbors on the way she really is. Of course, I know Republicans everywhere will mobilize to get the website down, I hope Democrats will see that it doesn???t happen. This is a starting place for our inquiries.

      http://webpages.charter.net/suasponte/

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 09/06/2008 7:50:00 PM

    To coolrepublica,
    Actually, like everything else in the Republican campaign, you got it reversed. As an Obama supporter from the beginning, I never said experience was the issue. Competence is. The person who made the big issue of experience of Obama not being ready to lead was McCain. Now he has chosen someone with even less experience in public life than Obama.

    The real issue is competence and change. McCain has had 8 years to show us he is a maverick. He rubberstamped every one of Bush's disastrous decisions. He wants us to believe he's an effective commander-in-chief, yet he rubber-stamped the war in Iraq when bin Laden was in Afghanistan. That makes as much sense as invading Paraguay after Pearl Harbor. In the real life, a person with that degree of judgment would have been fired. Even now, according to Howard Finneman, McCain is trying to derail an investigation into Troopergate. The reasons for derailing this investigation, again according Finneman's article, is that McCain does not want an October surprise. Obviously this motivation tells me that instead of being a bad soap opera, Palin really has something to hide.
    So what we're getting is two pheonmoenal incompetents and pathological liars. (After Palin's first speech Newsweek listed 5 pages of Palin's factual errors.) And this is only the beginning. We do not need the phony change that the GOP is trying to masquerade as the real thing. We need a complete change, To parapharase Obama, we need to fire all the GOP and hire me. (and my crew.)
    That's the only way we can save this country.

    • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 09/06/2008 9:24:36 PM

      LOL, its not just this Republican campaign that gets it reversed. I remember when I ventured into the USENET fray a lot of years ago. Every unsavory, shortsighted, irresponsible action that Republicans were involved in, and yes there were a lot of them at the onset of the Clinton administration, was being complained about. Complained about by Republicans alleging that the Democrats were doing it. Such unabashed lying or delusion almost dislocated my jaw.

      • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 09/06/2008 9:38:55 PM

        Additionally, remember what sore losers the Repubs were in '92? I doubt we've seen anything like the explosion of petulant tantrums from the self entitled that we will see after McSame loses this one. The Republican Party's very philosophy of the liabilities of government for the governed render them unable to govern, but they feel entitled to hold the reins of power.

  • Posted By: OIFVetForMcCain @ 09/06/2008 9:16:09 PM

    Obama had hoped that his negative record ...and non-record... wouldn't catch up to him, but it did because there was a lot of time for it all to come out over the course of a year or more. Governor Palin however is looking at only sixty days to take hits, and so far they have only galvanized her support and increasing support for a McCain presidency. One has to question whether Palin???s bad points are in the same league as Obama???s bad points; if that???s what the election is about, then Obama just lost the election.

    The Obama campaign has been belching smoke and taking on water faster than they can pump it out for months, and now McCain slams another torpedo in their side. Perhaps David Axelrod had better get Obama out of range and just tell his boss to campaign without attempting any more close range shots at McCain ??? and now Palin. Perhaps Obama will be able to keep his seat in the Senate, though that would be doubtful anywhere else but Chicago.

    In the meantime, Palin needs to put her beliefs into arguable form if she wants to hold up to a vicious Congress after McCain moves into the White House. Remember, her beliefs are no different than most American conservatives. No doubt she can do it and still have the support of her constituency. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the McCain cabinet of mavericks will look like.

    ==McCAIN * PALIN 08==

  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/06/2008 8:46:09 PM

    TO THE MEDIA: PLEASE INTERVIEW SARAH PALIN AND FIND OUT WHO SHE IS. We, the American Public have a right to know where she stands on public policy and how she voted!! These stories are not coming out of nowhere!!

    Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

    "You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

    Palin's conservative Christian views have energized that part of the GOP electorate, which was lukewarm to John McCain's candidacy before he named her as his vice presidential choice. She is staunchly anti-abortion, opposing exceptions for rape and incest, and opposes gay marriage and spousal rights for gay couples.

    Focus on the Family, a national Christian fundamentalist organization, is conducting the "Love Won Out" Conference in Anchorage, about 30 miles from Wasilla.

    Palin, campaigning with McCain in the Midwest on Friday, has not publicly expressed a view on the so-called "pray away the gay" movement. Larry Kroon, senior pastor at Palin's church, was not available to discuss the matter Friday, said a church worker who declined to give her name.

  • Posted By: jesse77 @ 09/06/2008 7:12:49 PM

    Palin came out swinging the other night. So why should she be treated with kid gloves? Just because she's a woman?? Please...isn't this the same woman who proclaimed herself a pitbull with lipstick...Come on folks, this is politics not full contact football. If she can't handle the heat then she shouldn't have accepted the nomination. Why should she get special treatment from the media and from the other candidate? The Dems need to hit her and hit her hard else she will just go on spouting her lies

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 09/06/2008 8:41:58 PM


      Exactly! Although her record will catch up with her before long.

  • Posted By: Thomasin @ 09/06/2008 8:41:24 PM

    I am convinced I would be a formidable campaigner if I were allowed to lie.
    Palin's description of here record on the Bridge to Nowhere = a lie
    Palin is idnetically comparable to Jesse Ventura. Both stepped into a giant vacuum of power in their state's politics. Minnesotans soon came to hate Jesse and got things back on track. From what I've read, Alaskans are realizing Palin isn't ready for the governor's job either. She is completely indifferent to some essential state functions such as education and social services simply because she isn't interested in them personally.

  • Posted By: coolrepublica @ 09/06/2008 7:30:47 PM

    The most wonderful thing about McCain's choice is that it puts a mirror right in front of Obama supporters. And they don't like it. Everything that is been said about Palin was been said about Obama. But 18 months Obamabots have been calling them "non-issue." Experience did not matter. It's change that was important.

    Now McCain has Palin on the ticket all over sudden all these people who were saying that experience was a non-issue are saying that it's the most important thing in the world. They wouldn't trust a mayor turned Governor, but they were all too willing to trust a community advisor turned Senator. McCain is using reverse psychology and it works.

    Everytime they say that they got 10 million since Palin was announced as the VP for McCain all I hear is a bunch of people who are so ashamed of themselves trying to justify their behavior.

    McCain is going to win this.

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 09/06/2008 8:40:40 PM


      But the mirror points back at you. The argument McCain used, quite effectively I might add, was that Obama wasn't prepared and that was dangerous. But the he went ahead and picked a candidate with less experience! And if you think she has "more executive experience than Obama and Biden put together" then answer me this: Why has she not granted A SINGLE PRESS CONFERENCE or gone to granted a SINGLE INTERVIEW to prove her credentials.

      The McCain campaign wants it both ways; "Obama is not ready and if you dare question Palin's experience you are a sexist." And you think people don't realize this?

  • Posted By: pondfan1 @ 09/06/2008 7:33:34 PM

    Howard - it is up to journalists such as you and the mainstream media to keep on the vetting of this woman that the McCain camp failed to do. She should not be able to refuse interviews or answer questions. We are counting on the media to DO THEIR JOB.

  • Posted By: currie @ 09/06/2008 7:16:19 PM

    I am constantly amazed, and saddened, by the vitriolic talk coming from the mouths, and pens, of Republicans on every blog I have read. It almost borders on obscenity.

  • Posted By: jefflz @ 09/06/2008 7:08:23 PM

    McCain has mobilized the hard right wing of the Republican Party and they are coming out in droves -you know- the Ralph Reed, Phyllis Shattley, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly crowd. They were the power behind Bush and now with Palin they will be the power behind McCain. So we change the name from Bush to McCain but that is the end of the change he now mumbles on about . Furthermore McCain has turned this
    election into a soap opera about Sarah Palin and her family. When people are losing their jobs, their homes, and soldiers are losing their lives McCain wants to turn extremist social issues. Why are we talking about Roe v. Wade again instead of the economy? Why has religious fundamentalism reared its ugly head again instead of a debate about energy or foreign policy? This is the cynical legacy of a fake maverick who has lost the ability to be a straight talker. McCain has turned this election into a three ring circus to avoid facing the truth: We have had eight years of a nightmarish Bush administration and he will bring us four more years of the same economic policies and enthusiasm for war. The McCain of 2000 is dead, meet the McCain of 2008, former war hero who now hides behind his female attack dog! He can run but he cannot hide.

  • Posted By: skucount @ 09/06/2008 6:51:54 PM

    The more the press calls for a Palin interview with a network anchor the more the expectations will be lowered.

    One only has to look at the YouTube video of Palin with Maria Bartiromo or the other CNBC videos pre-announcement to fully understand Palin???s true effectiveness without notes or teleprompters.

    Biden Beware!

    Also, Maria B with Brokaw explaining Palin has a strong grasp of domestic economic issues:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy833gcUcTo

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