VP pick of Palin.. what does it mean?

True Saddam had nothing to do with Al qaeda very probably hunted them down but Saddam did sponsor Palastinian Terrorism with $20k checks to the suicide bombers family and did not help himself when playing strange games like showing intent by launching increasingly longer range higher payload modified scuds towards Israel and continually jerking the UN inspectors around for years by letting them in, kicking them out driving them in circles not taking them where they wanted to go until they got fed up and left.

There is no question Saddam had Nuke ambitions either with the Israelis having to bomb his almost complete Nucler reactor and in all fairness to the intelligence community how could anyone outside know exactly what was in Iraqs closed borders and many Warsaw pact built bunkers but the UN with their hords of hand wringers and thumb twiddlers weren't capable of doing much about about him.

 

I do agree she is pretty good looking, but that's about all she's good for. If McCain and Palin win, then expect the same downward spiral we've been headed the last eight years to continue.

 

YEE HAW!
You guys are GREAT!!! :biggrin:
I have almost forgotten that horid "Who hates Harley?" thread now!
Keep it up! THIS is what America is all about...expressing your beliefs in (the newest version of) the Town Square (the internet).
Rock on, Kids! :wink:

 

Spoken like a true Cana-duh-ian!!! Enough said. LOL!!!

 

I heard of some rumors of new candidates running as independents. At first I thought it was crazy, but it could actually work. Chuck Norris for President and Jessica Simpson for VP. Why not? I bet they might get a few republicans to sway their way.

 

Just found out that McCain is going to be at the debate tonight. I think that is a great decision. He would have gotten even more bad publicity if he had decided to stay in Washington working on the bailout plan. Hopefully this debate will be a telling one for all American voters. Neither candidate can dodge issues, and if they do they are going to be sorry they ever went on national TV for this debate. This is what really counts, not the VP's.

 

Pretty funny Reg

 

My wife thinks Obama is hot. Really . . . ? Anyhow, I think she supports McCain because, as she says, "He has cojones." I am voting for Obama. But we still get along great at home. What do we know that the rest of America should learn?

 

Hey there, mello dude. John McCain picked Sarah Palin to energize the social conservative right of the Republican Party. She will not get creamed with those voters. No way!! She will do very, very well with that group. The Karl Rovian conventional wisdom says that a Republican cannot win unless the Republican candidate carries those voters, and Palin will do a good job there. The big fat question mark is whether she can appeal to the undecided and independents - I am not sure about that. All I know is that the Alaska political landscape is littered with the bodies of political insiders who underestimated Sarah Palin!

That said, I don't like her. She seems like a phony to me. I like McCain well enough, but I don't like her as Veep. If - IF - I could be sure that McCain would serve out his term all the way I would consider voting for him over Obama. But, NO WAY is Palin a player for POTUS in my book. She is a liteweight and she and I disagree on some key issues. I wish McCain had picked someone like Christine Todd Whitman - THEN I would have seriously considered him. Not now. He pandered to the social conservatives and lost me. Good luck to him, but he don't get mah vote.

 

I bet she'll wipe out Biden in a debate. Biden is even more of a phony than Obama. At least Obama has no real Senate experience so he has an excuse for having no answers. Biden has been in the Senate for years & he can't remember what he did 1 year ago or who was POTUS & whether or not they had TV in the 30's during the depression.

I think everyone is underestimating Palin. There is a trail of political bodies all over Alaska of people that tried to cross her & failed. He interview with Charles Gibson is a perfect example. He asked a completely BS question & she threw a completely BS answer right back. You could see it on her face. She deliberately gave a BS answer just to piss Gibson off & it worked.

KC-10 FE out...
lane: :usa2:

 

"a trail of political bodies all over Alaska"??? That's hilarious. You are kidding though, right?

Palin wiping out Biden in a debate? Might want to reconsider this. If you are serious (just not sure because of the "phony" comment - which again is hilarious), try to use your logic and reason in your judgements. We all know she won't be wiping anybody out. McCain tried with Obama on tv and it didn't work. How would she be able to do this? Obama is still inching forward in the polls after the debate. McCain should have left the "what Sen. Obama doesn't understand...blah, blah, blah". He couldn't even face him during the debate.

Again, I don't want to keep bashing Palin because I don't find her really worth the effort, but please think logically and with reason about her helping lead our country (which far exceeds the boundries of Alaska).

 

Yet another "context"-



I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."

* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local sportscaster, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

* If you teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.

* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now..

 

McCain is likely too old to survive the first term.. If he couldn't run his campagn, manage a debate and deal with the economic crisis at the same time, do you think he would be able to deal with Iraq, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, etc... among with all the rest of the domestic crisis all that at the same time?

How many consecutive hours do you think McCain can stay awake without seriously damaging his health?

At least Obama is likely to stay alive longer to deal with crisis.. can you imagine Palin to be president when McCain gets overworked?

 

What exactly are you getting at here? If you want to call me stupid or such, at least have the common courtesy to come right out & say it.

I have thought about it. Thanks for proving you have done exactly zero research before chosing your candidate. If you had done any research, you would know that SP has cleaned corruption out of AK faster than just about any politician in history.



This is the way I look at it. It's a pretty solid conclusion that the "Status Quo" politicians HAVE NOT got the job done. The bail out plan rejected today is a pretty good indication ot that.

With this in mind, how bad, seriously, think about that, how bad could Palin possibly be? Since we as a nation have proven many times over that politicians aren't accomplishing squat, why not give a business person a shot? That's why I supported & still support Mitt Romney. Unfortunately, Romney is not running any more so we don't have a business person to give that chance to. Now, that leaves an "unexperienced" politician as the only other option. This is illustrated by both Obama & Palin. So then, why not give the shot to a team that has an extremely experienced person & a relative unknown? Obama is nice & presentable & articulate but has no real experience no matter what the lefties with their heads in the clouds lead you to believe. Biden has lots of experience but doesn't know who was POTUS during the depression in the 30's or that TV didn't even exist at that time. This is the answer? Maybe for a question that someone else asked, but certainly not a question I asked.

KC-10 FE out...
lane: :usa2:

 

KC-10 FE has it right about underestimating Palin. Every Good 'Ol Boy up here who underestimated her is in the gutter, heading for the sewage treatment plant. I dunno what that says about Palin, Alaskans, or the gutter. Ironically, she is MUCH less popular up here now after McCain's campaign has muzzled her. The campaign would be better served by letting her speak out and be herself. She is a social fundamentalist and she will energize that segment of the voting public who isn't excited about McCain IF the McCain campaign will let her be herself.

Obama/Biden cannot attack her (obvious) ignorance on national and international affairs without suffering. If they attack her, they are Meanies. If they try to credit her with a shred of legitimacy in national/international affairs, they are condescending. Although she is completely unqualilified to be CIC, a certain category of voters distrust the political insiders. She poses a tough problem for Obama/Biden.

BTW, just so you know, I preferred Biden and Clinton and Richardson over Obama for the Democratic nomination.

 

KC-10. I am not calling you stupid. I know everyone has their own opinions about politicians, that is one thing I have always loved about politics in this country. I also am fed up about how they never seem to get anything accomplished because of bipartisan differences (such as the bail out today). It is frustrating and I think we all are looking for something to change. Our country is headed in the wrong direction and has been for years.

I HAVE done the research on SP and understand she has stood up to many in Alaska. I don't think this qualifies her for such a jump in position. I would hate that someone used as a ploy to get votes from Hillary's supporters would actually be the cause of McCain getting elected as our new president. That is all. I mean no disrespect. If McCain is to be president, then it should be because HE is the best candidate, not SP. Same with Obama. If he wins the election I would hope it was because of his stand on issues, not because of Biden.