Hey, she is a Maverick!

So we have Maverick the POW and Maverick the Hockey Mom...

 

"Maverick and Maverick" sounds like a FOX TV series. Maybe have it at 10pm eastern on Sundays...

No, she's unqualified. 

Why isn't anyone-- any Dem-- saying this? Repeat after me:

THIS PERSON IS NOT QUALIFIED ! 

I don't find the vague notion of qualifications to be very important when choosing a president.  What matters to me is their positions on the issues.  In my opinion the only reason Palin's qualifications are relevant is because McCain was harping on Obama about his lack of experience. 

Unqualified relative to whom? The top of the democratic ticket?

The corporatist conservative Republican Party controlled new media wants Liar McCain to be elected, and they want Liar Palin to be the vice-president.

You should have seen the pro-Republican grin that GOP-GE-NBC's/MSNBC's Republican David Gregory showed every time he mentioned this far right wing homophobic fascist racist hate hag's name. 

David Gregory wants McCain to be elected to because he is a right wing Republican himself, anming one reason. 

Wow, racist hate hag.

Besides offering some firm examples of why you chose the words you did, care to explain why it's ok to use sexist terms against a GOP woman?

Seeing it real myself, I think she is no maverick.  She is nothing but a self-loathing auntie Tom!  A republican hack!  A female sellout!

How dare she call herself a 'woman' when she is a hunter of furry little creatures, refuses to have a feminizing abortion to avoid a needless pregnancy and is proud of her faith, which by the way, isn't wiccen nor islam, the only two acceptable religions of a true 21st century american woman!

All the 'real' pro-female women are of course allowed to call her the most vile names because she claims to speak for women.  Why rather than destroy the girls who are attacking her man, she actually stands up for an abused woman and removes her perpetrator from the state police!  What kind of a supposed woman would actually protect a victim from the tormentor without regard to her own political gain?

And most disgusting of all, she has done this without growing cankles!

Let's us all move forward to attack her on being a weak representative of her gender, without regard for the quality of her character, shall we?

Seeing it for real,

Juan Williams

actually, she really did not "oppose" it in the 2007 press release.  she basically said it's "not the answer" because they couldn't get the congressional funding. 

Did she ever oppose it? Or is she just claiming she did?

Claiming sounds right.  Or hate hag Palin flip-flopped.

Either one fits.

it doesn't really sound like she ever opposed it.  it just sounds like she said it wouldn't get built because the federal money was not there.

She was for it before she was against it?

OK.

Whichever promotes her current agenda. Kinda like how JC is doing on his radio show in regards to Hillary, Obama, and Palin

JC?

Jesus Christ, AnneS. Wuss gets the show every night through his shower head.

This is easy.

She didn't oppose the bridge all in all, she just opposed taxpayers in Mississippi having their dollars go to it. You should appreciate her unwillingness to take pork barrel money.

She made a remark about great earmarks are and how Alaska should get more of them. Even worse,

SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED !

Dems-- start saying this! Over and over again. Or else. 

If she's more qualified than Obama, then how come HE'S running for POTUS and SHE'S running for VPOTUS?

 

Just a thought...

"If she's more qualified than Obama"

Except she isn't more qalified.  And he's running because his party nominated him.  Her's didn't nominate her.  What part of the "democratic process" don't you understand? 

That was sort of my whole point. It was me "accepting the GOP premise" then questioning the scenario under which it happened.

 

IF was the key word.

 

 

To me, experience isn't an issue with Obama or Palin. A rookie can be just as effective as a tested veteran IMO.

 

And while we're at it, if she was running for POTUS, would she have gotten the GOP nomination instead of McYoda?

"And while we're at it, if she was running for POTUS, would she have gotten the GOP nomination instead of McYoda?"

Speaking as a "not a Republican" - I'd say the best answer to that is that neither she nor ANY OTHER woman even TRIED to seriously run for the R nomination.  Surely they know their own party better than I do.

I have no problem saying it at all:

RIGHT WING REPUBLICAN HATE HAG LIAR SARAH PALIN IS NOT QUALIFED TO BE THE VICE-PRESIDENT, AND IS ABSOLUTELY UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT!

Any person in this country who votes for McCain-Palin is even LESS qualified to vote for ANY candidate for AN office in the United States of America!

I'll give you the answer the MMFA hacks give about Obama's complete lack of experience:

Sarah Palin has reached her 35th birthday and is a natural-born U.S. Citizen.  She therefore is qualified under the U.S. Constitution to be President of the United States.

There's something to that, which is why talking about how she's not "qualified" is the wrong tack.  If anyone's going to say that she's not qualified, while Obama is, they're drawing a pretty thin line.  It won't play well, and will come off as hypocritical.  The real point is that McCain's the one who's been talking so much about "experience", and this pick makes him look hypocritical.

Carlile and SeeItReal are volunteering to turn McCain's hypocrisy back around on Democrats.

You're talking about two different things: Constitutional qualification and experience.

Palin and Obama are both Constitutionally qualified.

But by picking Palin, McCain has completely undermined a pillar in his campaign against Obama: EXPERIENCE.  McCain has taken his favorite attack line and rendered it null and void. 

Where did you hear that, Dex? From the quotes here it seems she was anxious to get the bridge built before federal funds dried up.

If you saw the look on Liar McCain's face, it's obvious to the non-Republican partisans and the hateful DINO PUMA Republicans that he never even HEARD of Sarah Palin before today.

 

I heard this one tonight on Hannity and Colmes as well.  My favorite line of the night was about how McCain reached out to the West - way out west - with this pick, which is important to Republicans.

Are these people serious?  As if he had picked Pawlenty, they would have been at risk of losing Alaska's three electoral votes, and people in Montana and Idaho and Wyoming would have revolted.  And McCain is from Arizona, in case nobody noticed, which was a western state the last time I checked.

This is not going to work.  He gains nothing by picking someone from Alaska.  Two of the primary criticisms of Obama is that he's "radical" and "inexperienced".  Picking someone who supports Creationism in schools and whose primary experience is as a small-town mayor severely undercuts those criticisms.  The day after Obama says he'll get in a debate about who has the judgment to lead this country, McCain makes an announcement that puts his own judgment in serious question.

The only positive here is that he has a hope of drawing more women voters.  The problem is that it's so damn obvious that this is the purpose of the choice, it's going to be viewed as cynical and manipulative.  Obama has a strong argument that this is actually insulting to women, just because McCain expects women are not bright enough to see the obvious nature of this pick.

You hit that out of the park.

Thanks!  To be fair, it was an underhanded pitch (double-meaning intended).

Second that, Brab. I seriously don't even understand the concept of a potential Hillary Clinton voter going over to Grampy out of spite for Obama. Even more crazy is that same voter voting GOP because they found a shrill fetus-fetish PTA mom to liven up McCain's "Weekend at Bernie's" style campaign.

This is pretty disturbing.

Craig, that is bizarre. It looks like a bunch of freepers going into full method-actor angry Hillary-supporter mode.

There have been a few posters here with that same vibe--Never posted as HRC supporters, but showed up after Obama's nomination, with all of the misspelling and fury of the far right wingnuts.

Are they actually creating entire websites for their little puppet shows?

And, BTW, Craig, thanks for linking in a new window. It's a little thing, but I appreciate it.

Col,

Just a tip, but if you hold down the "shift" key while left-clicking on a link, it will open up in a new window regardless whether it is programmed to do so (at least on a PC using MS internet explorer).

And on Firefox you can right-click the link, which will give the option to open in a new window or a new tab.

Plus, Palin is in the midst of an "abuse of power" investigation which is no small thing, and otherwise has an extremely poor record as an Alaskan mayor/governor, according to some of the links posted over at kos.

I also heard that while she praised Hillary today, she previously referred to her as a "whiner".  So if that is the primary purpose of the choice (and I'm sure not seeing any other purpose), all Obama has to do is point that out.  I'm envisioning it coming up in the debates, where Palin compares herself to Hillary and Biden points out that she called her a "whiner", having an effect like the famous "you're no Jack Kennedy" line (and I know Quayle became VP, but Bush 43 doesn't have Reagan's coattails, and Obama is not Dukakis either).

I haven't caught up on her full history yet, but I really don't think her effectiveness as Governor makes much of a difference.  If she's not effective, then that's obviously bad for her.  If she's good at the job, then it makes McCain look like an ass for questioning Obama's experience.  Palin is intelligent, so she can learn - well, Obama is intelligent, so he can learn.  She was a small-town mayor and became a good Governor - Obama is a U.S. Senator and can become a good President.  Anything that can be said about her potential or abilities can be applied to Obama, which makes any argument about experience worthless.

Has the McCain campaign really not thought about this at all, or what? 

Well, Brabantino, you're the soul of kindness.

It is true that Obama can learn. I believe we've watched him learn throughout the primary season; clearly he's always been capable of learning but my point is, now I'm convinced of it.

But Palin was not vetted in the primary season ... she's been snuck in under the radar. We don't know if she can learn, we don't know anything about her except that Rush likes her looks. You do her a great favor by putting her on the same level as Obama and assuming she can learn, but before you apply any more generosity in your decision-making process, you really otta check out some of the posts over at kos, coming from some not-to-impressed constituents out of Alaska and her home town.

I'm not being generous to her at all.  I'm just saying that any argument that McCain or other Republicans make in her defense can be applied to Obama's amount of experience as well.  It's about how "if she's a good Governor" that it doesn't help McCain anyway.

QUESTION:  Where are the Democrats who oppose a bridge to nowhere? IN fact, where are the Democrats who oppose ANY bridge to ANYWHERE?

You seem puzzled by the existence of fiscally-conservative democrats. Well, we've always been right here. Right here.

Those spend-thrift republicans you are used to associating with, however, can be found at St Paul by Monday. You need to get moving up that way yourself, soon too, or you'll miss your share of the KoolAid.

"fiscally-conservative democrats"

That line sure sounds like you've been drinking the Kool-Aid in Denver for the past 4 nights.

"fiscally-conservative democrats"

Name ONE currently in office.  I can think of a few who are long gone:  Daniel Patrick Moynihan might be one.

I guess if it comes to national defense than yes the Democrats are downright miserly.

Hah! First, you name me a fiscally-conservative republican!

Toodle along, you'll lose your place in line for the Kool-Aid!

I guess if it comes to national defense than yes the Democrats are downright miserly.- noleftturns

NoLeft, the most horrible attack on U'S' soil in our History happened on a Republican's watch.The Republican in the White House was explicitly warned of this and failed to defend the country.

What's your point, that Republicans spend more and do a worse job than Democrats in this area? I'd agree. It's true in a lot of other areas too. 

Great reporting.

You are indispensible to the safety of Democracy.

 

Thank you for what you do.

Come on people this isn’t a beauty contest it’s for the future of our country. She was what?  OK it is.  I forgot this is the era when before long the only newspaper left that can afford to do anything close to what was once called investigative reporting will be the National Inquire.  Great.... I hope Biden can swing a baton.