Barney Frank: Sarah Palin's family life is fair game

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devons wrote:

After reviewing some of what was said last night at the RNC I have to say that I now understand why Palin was picked to run for VP. They needed someone to that would change the campaign from concentrating on the big issues facing this country to the typical cat fight about abortion and gay rights again. It's again going to be about fear. It saddens me. I had really hoped that this year would be a little different where most of the talk would be about the economy, health care, education and on how to get out of Iraq.

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devons wrote:

After reviewing some of what was said last night at the RNC I have to say that I now understand why Palin was picked to run for VP. They needed someone to that would change the campaign from concentrating on the big issues facing this country to the typical cat fight about abortion and gay rights again. It's again going to be about fear. It saddens me. I had really hoped that this year would be a little different where most of the talk would be about the economy, health care, education and on how to get out of Iraq.

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nhjeff wrote:

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Why on earth do you think Republicans would want to talk about the economy, health care, education, or the war? Get real!

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wolfman wrote:

<quoted text>You have something to be proud of...you people are the dregs of all society. You're are not fit to critize anyone for anything!

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devons wrote:

After reviewing some of what was said last night at the RNC I have to say that I now understand why Palin was picked to run for VP. They needed someone to that would change the campaign from concentrating on the big issues facing this country to the typical cat fight about abortion and gay rights again. It's again going to be about fear. It saddens me. I had really hoped that this year would be a little different where most of the talk would be about the economy, health care, education and on how to get out of Iraq.

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wolfman wrote:

<quoted text>You have something to be proud of...you people are the dregs of all society. You're are not fit to critize anyone for anything!

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Pastor1 wrote:

You know I am sometimes ashamed to read these posts. Some on the posts are doing and saying the same things the GOP are accusing of doing.
If you think what they are doing is wrong why do you do the same thing. Personally I think it is wrong for both the GOP and the DEMOS.
There are issues on both sides of the fense. What everyone should be interested is not what is wrong with someone's family, but what is at the heart of the person. We all have skeletons. Politics is no excuse to expose every skeleton.
There are fellow Americans, not your enemy. If we keep this up, we are going to behave just like they do in other countries divided by political or religious parties which are in civil wars.
I think it is great if you have a problem with a candidates political view, but leave their families out of it.

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ScottyMatic wrote:

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That may be their hope, that the Palin pick would shift the conversation... but in all the news coverage I've seen so far, reporters are having no trouble finding former McCain supporters who see McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as shortsighted and lacking judgement. Every other interview I hear is with some former McCain supporter who took one look at Palin, and for a multitude of reasons, has chosen to stop supporting McCain.
No, this itself isnt' the trick. This is the set-up. This is a preparatory move, putting things in place for whatever they have up their sleeves. But already, the whiplash of controversy is eroding GOP support. Thanks to Sarah Palin, Americans have learned what is for most of them a new word: vetting. It has been added to their vacabulary in all of the following contexts: "Did they even vet this person?" "McCain says that Sarah Palin was thoroughly vetted." "McCain aides insist that their vetting process was comprehensive." "Voters are asking whether the campaign considered the current investigation in their vetting process."
As much as the GOP bline loyalists shower McCain and themselves with flowery compliments for their brilliance of picking Palin, the several negative elements about the choice are making Republican political analysts turn grey (well, the ones who don't already have white hair anyway.)
Barney Frank is right--her family is part of the question because THEY made "family" a wedge issue to begin with, and Sarah Palin's public position is anti-sex education, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-war, and pro firearms--all issues that directly impact American family life. I think it's a fair question: "If she wants to tell people how their families should live, then where's her proof-of-concept?" It has to be her own family, and from what we're seeing, her own policies have not had the desired result in her own home, so we extrapolate that those ideas may not be right for anybody else either.
Sarah Palin doesn't shift the conversation--she merely reminds us at every turn that her only real experience is as a working mom, very recently the former mayor of a town of under 2000 people, and 18 months as a wet-behind-the-ears governor of the fourth LEAST populated state in the U.S.(with only North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming having smaller populations.) Family is the only thing she's REALLY qualified to talk about, and the general opinion is that she is no superstar in that arena either.
The republicans will lose, despite their screwball politics, and Obama/Biden will be the winning ticket in November. Which ultimately means that, regardless of wht the conversation is now, the ELECTION will have been about the economy, health care, education and on how to get out of Iraq because the Obama administration will start working on all of those issues from day one.

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Pastor1 wrote:

You know I am sometimes ashamed to read these posts. Some on the posts are doing and saying the same things the GOP are accusing of doing.
If you think what they are doing is wrong why do you do the same thing. Personally I think it is wrong for both the GOP and the DEMOS.
There are issues on both sides of the fense. What everyone should be interested is not what is wrong with someone's family, but what is at the heart of the person. We all have skeletons. Politics is no excuse to expose every skeleton.
There are fellow Americans, not your enemy. If we keep this up, we are going to behave just like they do in other countries divided by political or religious parties which are in civil wars.
I think it is great if you have a problem with a candidates political view, but leave their families out of it.

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Pastor1 wrote:

You know I am sometimes ashamed to read these posts. Some on the posts are doing and saying the same things the GOP are accusing of doing.
If you think what they are doing is wrong why do you do the same thing. Personally I think it is wrong for both the GOP and the DEMOS.
There are issues on both sides of the fense. What everyone should be interested is not what is wrong with someone's family, but what is at the heart of the person. We all have skeletons. Politics is no excuse to expose every skeleton.
There are fellow Americans, not your enemy. If we keep this up, we are going to behave just like they do in other countries divided by political or religious parties which are in civil wars.
I think it is great if you have a problem with a candidates political view, but leave their families out of it.