Why Did McCain Choose Palin?

Bonnie wrote:

I'm reading that she is currently being investigated for an ethics violation about their State Troopers, her brother in law and his custody battle.

Did you wikipedia that?

Philadelphia wrote:

Senator McCain is playing old politics as usually. McCain thinks that most Democrats are not smart and educated to the point that we will not see that he is not for the people ( John Smith), but for the Fortune 500,(Smith John Co.), etc. I hope people of all race will think about what is at stake (our families, our lively hoods and our children) Game Playing!! We all had Enough!!!

Well Democrats are not smart and are uneducated.

Sarah Palin: Great choice, Nice fresh face in Washington, just what we needed, working mom, young and smart! Lots of young working mothers can identify with.congratulations !!

anna wrote:

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i dont know where to start,
but the fact is even based on education credentials, how can we compared somebody with a college degree in journalism with somebody that went to Columbia, then Harvard. And to top it, not only became the editor of the harvard law review but afterwards became the president.

Attitudes like yours is how we end up with Clintons and Bushes.

anna wrote:

Their education alone shows completely different leagues when it comes to preparation and intelligence

Going to Harvard proves how rich your daddy is, not your intelligence and preparation. Geez I thought Democrats were anti-elitists, for the poor, blue collar and all of that stuff.

McCoy55 wrote:

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George Bush went to Yale, another ivy league school. Did that make him qualified to be president? How did Harvard 'prepare' Obama for being president? I will concede that military experience alone will not qualify McCain to be president, but do not presume Harvard prepared Obama to be commander-in-cheif.

Don't use logic against Democrats, it might explode their head. Actually go ahead, the more exploding heads the better.

mccainpalin wrote:

Palin's son is going to war. John McCain has been there. Did anyone stop to think maybe people with relatives and experience with war is what is needed for a nation at war?
Everyone wants the troops to come home, but in the meantime, how about some experience and maternal empathy to guide tough decisions until we can safely pull our troops out of Iraq.
Just a thought.

...meanwhile there is a 700 billion dollar a year trade deficit and it is exponentially increasing. I hear theres a big national debt too, illegal immigration and all that jazz.

Snax wrote:

http://voices.washingtonpost.c om/postpartisan/?hpid=opinions box1
Krauthammer calls it suicide. When even Krauthammer is criticizing a Republican they're f***ed.

Krauthammer isn't as great as you think he is.

Frank wrote:

How can this guy talk about judgment?
What is he doing?
Somewhere in Arizona there is a village who lost it's idiot

Dont' look at me, I voted against McCain in 2004.(Some Libertarian dude cause I don't do Democratas)

olderndirt wrote:

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Most navy fliers don't lose any planes. To be involved in 5 destroyed planes has to make one wonder. Since he graduated 6 from the bottom of his class at Annapolis, he wasn't qualified to go to flight school. With 20 hours in the air in Viet Nam and spending the war in captivity, how did he get all the decorations??
I wonder what it would take for right wingers to recognize a phoney???

<----Re registered from Republican party to Constitution Party. Don't blame me.

Tenn wrote:

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Me name-calling? Have you heard McCain's ads?
I'm not a Democrat.

You mean those adds where McCain blesses Obama?

Hi! Jesus wants you to vote for me to be VP! Jesus loves the oil companies!

What does a VP do?

Here's a picture of my home town, beautiful downtown Wasilla. I was mayor there!

http://etcetera.the27.com/2008/08/downtown/

I had so much fun spending all that money on the land for the sports stadium! Someday, maybe they can even afford to build the stadium! Tee Hee!

When I'm President, I'll know exactly what to do!

I was commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard for two years! Russia is so close, it's scary!

Jesus wants you to vote for me so we can make those sinners teach creationism in the schools!

Oh, noooo! They told all my oil secrets!
http://yubanet.com/opinions/Sierra-Club-McCai...

Jesus will punish them...Karl..Karl...

I din't mean it! I was joking!
Can't you people take a joke?

They're saying mean things about meeeee!!!
"...This is misogyny -- using a female face to undermine feminist gains. McCain saw how the gender gap was widening and witnessed the Hillary phenomenon and declared: "Oh, you people want a woman on the ticket? Well, here's Sarah Palin for ya!" Palin is an unqualified, inexperienced, right-wing hack who stands against everything for which the women's movement in this country has fought for over the past 40 years. She is a Christian fundamentalist who is anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, anti-environment, and wants a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

With Palin's choice as his running mate, John McCain is telling America's women that he'll sacrifice their reproductive rights with a smile and a nod and the assistance of a "professional" woman who is a fur-wearing former beauty queen. Now THAT'S misogyny!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palerm...

Jesus will get them! Karl...Karl...

This woman was sitting at home content having babies,eating moose burgers and trying to get her brother in law fired from his state trooper job, when McCain and Co. come to her door and ask her if she would like to be a heartbeat (McCain's heartbeat at that) away from the presidency.

This is McCain's first executive decision and the old nutcase decides to put a woman that has never taken stock of the job of president or even aspired to have the job, a heart beat away from running the most powerful nation in the world. After four years of BS from the republican party, McCain starts his whole campaign off with a gimmicky pick as his VP. I pray Americans arent this dumb. I am totally dismayed that anyone outside the politically correct media would even be having a serious conversation about this pick. McCain should have just picked RuPaul. That way he could have appealed to women and blacks. This shit is sad.

CommonSense wrote:

This woman was sitting at home content having babies,eating moose burgers and trying to get her brother in law fired from his state trooper job, when McCain and Co. come to her door and ask her if she would like to be a heartbeat (McCain's heartbeat at that) away from the presidency.
This is McCain's first executive decision and the old nutcase decides to put a woman that has never taken stock of the job of president or even aspired to have the job, a heart beat away from running the most powerful nation in the world. After four years of BS from the republican party, McCain starts his whole campaign off with a gimmicky pick as his VP. I pray Americans arent this dumb. I am totally dismayed that anyone outside the politically correct media would even be having a serious conversation about this pick. McCain should have just picked RuPaul. That way he could have appealed to women and blacks. This shit is sad.

Ron Paul is a free trade Libertarian nut.

What an insult to all women in this country! McCain thnks he can simply throw in a token female and all the Hillary voters will flock to vote for him?

He had met her only ONCE before he selected her? Things that make you go hmmmm????

The guy has had melanoma 4 times, is 72 years old, and selects a VP candidate that has zero foreign policy experience, was mayor over a town of 5,000 people, and received slightly more votes to win the governorship in Alaska then Obama had at his acceptance speech at Invesco field!

What the hell is McCain thinking? The guy has got to be in the early stages of Alzheimers.

What a bizarre pick.

Who Wants Poppers wrote:

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You forgot one important thing:
He's too f*cking old for the job!!! He can just be an "advisor" to the President.

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So much for your credibilty, huh lover boy? Now, WHAT were you saying about the WAR HERO, John McCain?

I can't imagine why anyone would even consider voting for the McCain-Palin team unless their family happens to be in the oil business, is in the upper middle class (LOL...earning 5,000,000 a year), or is very ultra-conservative and doesn't mind having more of his/her freedom and rights taken away.
Plus, there is the fact that Palin is from an oil family and her brother is under investigation in Alaska for corruption. In short, she is not from a family with good moral values.
If people are naive and stupid enough to vote them in, or if there is more cheating that forces them into office...like what happened in the GORE-BUSH election (Gore had many more of the poplular votes, and the election was decided by the SUpreme COurt), happens again, Canada and the Land Down Under will probably get a lot of new citizens.
Enough is Enough! We Americans need to take back our country and elect Obama-Biden.

Angry Beaver wrote:

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Ok so he lost 5 planes? That will affect his leadership how?

It just means he should rely on his flying ability to carrying him into the election, Oh wait, it was the POW thing.

How does that affect his leadership?

BradVitti wrote:

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...and Barry Obama has done what, exactly?

Have you been on topix long? It's been explained time and time again.

You do a disservice to your country for trying to stay willfully ignorant,
do some research!

McCoy55 wrote:

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George Bush went to Yale, another ivy league school. Did that make him qualified to be president? How did Harvard 'prepare' Obama for being president? I will concede that military experience alone will not qualify McCain to be president, but do not presume Harvard prepared Obama to be commander-in-cheif.

Being versed in Constitutional law is big leg up on Bush, who seems not to be aware there is a Constitution.