Palin Is Ready? Please.

from alternet.com:

I was convinced that John McCain had made one of the all-time campaign season blunders, that he had acted impulsively and out of utter desperation in choosing a cross-eyed political neophyte just two years removed from running a town smaller than the bleacher section at Fenway Park. It even crossed my mind that there was an element of weirdly self-destructive pique in McCain's decision to cave in to his party's right-wing base in this fashion, that perhaps he was responding to being ordered by party elders away from a tepid, ideologically promiscuous hack like Joe Lieberman -- reportedly his real preference -- by picking the most obviously unqualified, doomed-to-fail joke of a Bible-thumping buffoon. As in: You want me to rally the base? Fine, I'll rally the base. Here, I'll choose this rifle-toting, serially pregnant moose killer who thinks God lobbies for oil pipelines. Happy now?

Thank you for yhour courage and honesty.
Andrew Arato
New School for Social Research

Fareed, A very well thought out and crisp piece. It was indeed McCain's folly to have thrust Gov Palin in a spot which she is not prepared for. Why Gov Palin, when he could have asked Ms Condoleeza Rice to be in the VP spot. Few would have a quibble with that.

Well written article - these points are clear, but I unfortunately, I don't know how well rational and logical thinking will sway voters. But I will tell you that with McCain's old age and his extensive history of health problems, having Palin one heartbeat away from the Presidency scares the heck ouf of me. Comments welcome: http://whenelephantsfly.blogspot.com

With the Road to Nowhere, Bridge to Nowhere and Sarah's pet earmark's, I think that the press is just beginning to do what they are supposed to.

I cannot wait for Sarah Palin the fraud to be exposed.

Qutie true. It also speaks of one other thing people aren't saying about the elephant in the room.
John McCain has been getting away with calling himself and her "mavericks". What people say quietly is that John McCain appears erratic when he makes the decisions he has made, Sarah Palin for Governor, going back to Washington DC to involve himself in the 700 billion bailout; no one is saying he is dangerous.

AS McCain would be the oldest person to be elected as afirst termPresident, that puts Palin one heart beat away from President. If that in not enought to terrify you I don't know what will.
SJ

As Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin ordered the town hospital to make women who were sexually assualted or raped pay for their own forensic investigation kits. The federal law that Joe Biden got passed through Congress specifically prohibited this. Alaska state legislators had to pass a state law requiring Wasilla to stop this practice. We need to ask her why Wasilla did this to women in the first place.

Fareed, A very well thought out and crisp piece. It is not fair for Gov Palin to have been put in a position that she is unable to handle. What was McCain thinking? He had the choice of bringing in a brilliant statesman - Ms Condoleeza Rice to be the VP on the ticket (assuming she would have accepted). No one would have had a quibble with that.

Palin is exactly what this country needs. I'm not surprised by the author, for he supports a man, B. Hussein Obama, whose best friend is William Ayers, a former Weatherman whose group was responsible for a bomb killing a police officer, and recently had his photo taken STANDING ON THE AMERICAN FLAG, and a pastor who hates white people. So why does it not surprise me he doesn't support a strong, intelligent, white woman?

What is not said in all the discussion about the feminist warrior of the frozen north is that she's a sleaze and a liar. Everyone comments on how ill-prepared and-- well, there'sl no way to say this nicely -- stupid she is. How is it that no one is paying any attention to the graft she has taken, the abuses of power in her roles as small-town mayor and small-state governor, the lies about her holier-than-thou rejection of earmarks? How is it that you Palinistas suck up her myth and never even consider the reality of what a bad choice she is? Can you really be that stupid?

It is absolutely appalling how the press has given up their obligation for informing the public and are blatently trying to force Obama on us. If you guys only did 1/10 of the reporting on Obama as you have on Palin there would be more than enough evidence to show he is unfit for the presidency. He has absolutely no clue what he's doing and has no executive experience doing anything. He's the lipstick on the same old 60's crap that is already been proven it doesn't work anywhere it's tried. Your affirmative action lending programs are repsonsible for this mess we're in now. Putting that empty suit in office will only further wreck this country.
Do your job, Newsweek and start doing real journalism.

Fareed: It seems that Pailin is too "Un New York" for your taste. Maybe you should write a book titled , "Why They Hate Us", about the feeling the rest of the country has for Manhattan.

Well and good to have a glimpse of what the RepubliCONs are putting up for VP. But don't fall into the trap of spending a lot of time on Palin, this contest is McCain vs. Obama. They have both demonstrated the soundness of their judgment in their VP picks, and this article makes clear that McCain is sorely lacking good judgment. There are a modicum of Democrats that claim Obama made the wrong decision in not selecting Hillary as his VP, but to me that just further increases his stock. Instead of making a decision based on political expediency, he judged that he and Hillary would never have a working relationship with her as number two. As I said you can bash McSame for his VP pick with good effect. Bashing Palin is really what Steve Schmidt wants you to do, keeps the heat off McCain and allows him to scream about how Democrats are disrespecting Motherhood, God, and Apple Pie. Palin will self-destruct every time she gets in front of the camera's and has to respond to something that can't be answered in a Schmidt spun sound bite that she's been required to memorize. God, I bet they are panicking about the Palin-Biden debate at campaign headquarters.

Considering the responses from the wingnuts here, they know the score. There is simply no rational defense to McCain's VP choice, it was pure political expediency to bring the religious wingnut faction onboard. Listen to them, they are where they belong, in the outer darkness where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. That's where they will be after Nov. 4th. for sure.