McCain makes decision on running mate

Larry Craig?

It's Sarah Palin

Al Gore?

Ted Stevens. He could wear his famous tie. He only has one house, but it's a nice one.

While the media is hitting McCain because he couldn't recall how many houses he has, perhaps they could ask him what it was like to rot in a POW camp for our country or perhaps start asking some serious questions on Obama's past.

It's Sarah Palin

I agree, good choice!!!

Downtown Hpt wrote:

While the media is hitting McCain because he couldn't recall how many houses he has, perhaps they could ask him what it was like to rot in a POW camp for our country or perhaps start asking some serious questions on Obama's past.

The one house that McCain will have is the White House. Obama will not!!!

(Downtown Hpt) McCain's time in Vietnam should, of course, be recognized and honored, but that was 40 years ago, and has no bearing on whether or not someone should be elected to office. Besides which, it is time to move on....Vietnam is over, and if anything, his horrible experience in that absurd and pointless conflict should point out just how incredibly moronic it is for us to be in Iraq.

It's a choice of an okay 70+ year old guy who will continue things 'as they are' or a 40 something guy who, AT MINIMUM, offers a new look, something refreshing, something that might restore some dignity to this country, much like the dignity that McCain has earned for himself in the past.

Love the Ted Stevens comment, by the way...

Tector wrote:

(Downtown Hpt) McCain's time in Vietnam should, of course, be recognized and honored, but that was 40 years ago, and has no bearing on whether or not someone should be elected to office. Besides which, it is time to move on....Vietnam is over, and if anything, his horrible experience in that absurd and pointless conflict should point out just how incredibly moronic it is for us to be in Iraq.
It's a choice of an okay 70+ year old guy who will continue things 'as they are' or a 40 something guy who, AT MINIMUM, offers a new look, something refreshing, something that might restore some dignity to this country, much like the dignity that McCain has earned for himself in the past.
Love the Ted Stevens comment, by the way...

Tector,
Some day you will wake up and understand that 72 years of living on this earth brings a lot of experience and knowledge to the table. I for one can tell you that Obama’s new look will hurt this country of ours.

Just me wrote:

It's Sarah Palin
I agree, good choice!!!

I disagree. Bad choice. Right now. Four years from now it might be a good choice. If he selected her now, it just takes the whole "inexperience of Barack card" off of the table. She has even less than him.

I'm scared he's going to do something stupid.

Also, so Vietnam is old news now. Four years ago it wasn't. All we heard about was how John Kerry had served with honor (or not, depending upon who we believed), and how Bush had dodged. Now it's not important what someone did 40 years ago.

Sarah Palin would be a smart choice.

If MCCain wanted to pick a Minnesota governor who would make the whole campaign intersting, he should pick ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. There's a guy who had some serious nad and wasn't afraid to tell either conservative or liberal that they need to shut up and think before they act. I doubt he'd pipck him, though, because a lot of the GOP is still ticked at the whole Ross Perot thing from 1992, and Jesse was the most successful elected official from that movement. Ventura would be a master stroke that would pull a lot of the centrists back to McCain. Oh well, let's see whether McCain is "his own man" or if the far right-wing special intersts have got him by the short hairs.

Bozo the Clown. He would be appropriate in this circus we are calling an election.

Please…why would anyone be surprised that Obama is bought and paid for by the same greedy bastards who paid for McCain and Hillary (and W, for that matter?)?
That’s why he’s still “in it” to begin with. We all know what happens to candidates who don’t take wall street’s money - they get run out of the race, smeared all over town, get denied honest press coverage (as if there were such a thing), their party turns their back on them, etc, etc, etc.
There is no candidate besides the Wall Street candidate - no matter who you pick Wall Street wins - and so does the Federal Reserve, Big Oil, and last but by no means least - Israel. Those are the only true winners in a modern American presidential race. We, the people, lose every time.

Just me wrote:

It's Sarah Palin
I agree, good choice!!!

I concur!

Just me wrote:

It's Sarah Palin
I agree, good choice!!!

Care to elaborate why? Is it because she's a she?

Because remember, in this "free" country, Black Men got the right to vote before women did.

Some prejudices run deep.

willy meeks wrote:

Bozo the Clown. He would be appropriate in this circus we are calling an election.

Bozo died this past year. Have to find a new clown for the show.

For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory),
the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for
Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two
Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.

"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran
of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs --
the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall
of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals
out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat.
There were infantry guys -- grunts on the ground -- who had more than
7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and
situations where I'm sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good
to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that
number of medals for not being shot down."

During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five
U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat.

McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus
Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by
the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom.

McCain's second crash occurred while he was deployed in the
Mediterranean. "Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, took out some power lines which led to a spate of newspaper
stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an
admiral."

McCain's third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying
a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game.

McCain radioed, "I've got a flameout" and went
through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one
thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the
plane slammed into a clump of trees.

McCain's fourth aircraft loss occurred July 29, 1967, soon after he
was assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While
seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting his turn for takeoff, an
accidently fired rocket slammed into McCain's plane. He escaped from
the burning aircraft, but the explosions that followed killed 134
sailors, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, and threatened to sink the
ship.

McCain's fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North
Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a
surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both
arms and a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truck.

Michael Steele.

He's clean and articulate, too. And he likes puppies.

Oprah! Wouldn't that be a hoot?