Comments on: McCain taps outsider Palin to be VP

Republican presidential hopeful picks governor from Alaska--the first woman ever named to the Republican ticket--to be his surprise running mate.

[someguy999]

wow... this is quite possible the worst decision the GOP has ever made. I was watching bloomberg or CNBC this morning and one of the biggest kudos was that she sold a jet on ebay (to prove her fiscal responsibility)... seriously one of the biggest highlights is the fact that she managed how to figure out ebay (like the hundreds of other million people on the planet). not even a term as governor or anything fulfilled above a local city council mayor for a very small city? I'm all for women in power. but seriously did they pick her based on looks or based on a strong track record of proving she could run the country. So basically if you're voting for her you believe the ONLY important thing that she should focus on is the energy issue, becuase that's literally the only thing she's handled ever.

I get that they're trying to get woman voters, but couldn't they have chosen someone with a little more political proven track record (I think he should have chosen Romney, but that's just me). Its a damn shame Maria Shiver isn't an R like Arnold... she's super smart, very politically active, around the same age and quite frankly would have been a much better choice... if you can't get a track record, at least get someone with a track record by association.

[alaskanedwhite]

I live in Alaska, since the late 1960's, before the first oil crisis of the 70's, many people responded by yelling, use solar panels, use ethanol., quit paying O.P.E.C. for oil, get more domestic oil! In the last 30 years we have only used a small percentage of the oil and other natural resources in Alaska. If you do not vote for McCain and Palin, you will choose by default the democratic party. Get used to the same old way of doing business and higher taxes. Technology drives the oil down the pipeline. New jobs and more technology jobs are created in oil exploration. Obama talks about change, McCain creates change.

[The_Decider]

LOL

Thanks for the laughs.

How is extending the utterly failed policies of Bush change?

The only positive with Palin is that she will be totally powerless, nothing more then a puppet. The reason that is a positive is that she won't be able to form her own branch of government that is above all other branches and the people like Cheney.

[The_Decider]

It makes a lot of sense that McSame would pick her. Mainly based on the fact that he contradicts himself daily. The odds that McCain will not finish his term is fairly high, if Obama isn't ready, neither is she. For crying out loud, they had to put experience in the PTA in her resume!!!!!!!

The first thing she does is contradict herself: She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Perfect match with this old fool.

The McCain campaign has been using two rather weak attacks: inexperience and celebrity. In one lame move they completely destroyed those attacks. He also cut the throat of the main message of their convention next week. It was supposed to be how inexperienced Obama is. Now all he can do is say: "Look at me, I am with a pretty young girl, vote for me".

Secondly, her qualification is that she is a woman. Did Obama put his race out last night as a reason to vote for him? Nope. All Palin has is that she is a beauty queen(says something about McCain), could be his daughter(which makes him look even more older), is embroiled in an official abuse of power investigation, and doesn't know what the VP does. Is the Alaska government as large as Obama's campaign? The one thing Obama has proved is that he is an extremely effective executive.

This is the best McCain could do?

Perhaps no one else wanted to hitch themselves to this impending train wreck(based on state by state polls Obama is well over 270 electoral votes). But two were dumb enough and their base are furious: Romney and Pawlenty.

So in one utterly incompetent move he failed to reach Clinton supporters(I do not like her, but there was at least some merit to her candidacy, unlike Palin whose sole reason for being nominated is her gender) with this nutbag looney who stands for exactly the opposite of what Clinton does and has further alienated the reich wing of the party. Does he really thing the fundie wing of the party is going to decide to like McCain because of Palin, a mother of an infant? He made this easier for Obama. Obama will shred McCain in a debate, Biden will eat Palin alive. I am looking forward to the debates.

How in the world does he think this was a good idea? Trotting out a fairly unknown personality(sports anchor, appeared in Vogue apparently) that happens to be in lock step with the thoroughly discredited extreme right wing who is the wrong gender for these same extremists of the party to support and at the same time intelligently pander to the left wing feminist vote?

[Kwasiowusu]

Palin smokes Joe Biden easy.
Joe "gaff a minute" Biden is the bigges joke in Washington.
Even on the very day that he was nominated, Biden stil mangaed to cal Obama, " Barak America".
This same Biden, is the guy, that decribed Obama as ""first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." OUCH!!
And this is the guy Oambi picked?
Gimme a break!

[The_Decider]

If McCain wanted a woman running mate with substance then he had other options. Gov. Whitman from New Jersey might have been not as blatantly pandering and offensive to feminists.

His choice is exactly like the choice of Dan Quayle. Sure she is more intelligent then 'potatoe' boy but she is being chosen for the exact same reasons.

[Kwasiowusu]

At least Dan Quayle didn't make a speech saying he'd been to "57 states with another state to go to" like Obambi did.
If obambi doesn't even know how many states we have in this country, what business does he have runniing for presiden?. He may be better off running for president in his fartherland Kenya, where his thugs will feel a lot more comfortable, given the massive violence in the last elections in Kenya.

[Kwasiowusu]

"Offensive to feminists"? Who cares about ****** feminists? All these "feminists": care about is unlimited abortions for women, and killing unborn babies. We don't need no steenking "feminists".
Meanwhile, chosing Palin has strongly energized the conservative base, which is exactly what McCain needed.

[Kwasiowusu]

Sarah Palin has more executive experience than Obambi has had in his whole life. Obambi hasn't even run a village in his life.
Palin has run the biggest state in this country, managed the state with more and bigger national parks and reserves than any state, taken on the previous currupt governor of the state of Alaska and won, and shown more strength and character than Obambi and "Neil Kinnock" Joe Biden combined.
Palin stands in sharp contrast to Obambi, who cut his political teeth in the moist corrupt, sleazy political machine in the country, the Democratic Party machine in Chicago.
Its over for Obambi. That tiny 4% bump Obambi got in the polls after the Dems convention will disappear even before the end of the Republican convention next week. Dukakis was ahead by 17% this time of the election year, and still got annihitaled in November. So was McGovern. Even John Kerry has a bigger bump after the Democratic concention in 2004 before losing by over 3 million in November
Prepare for President McCain and Vice President Palin.

[ferretboy88]

She is fresh. unlike Biden who is an old fart who has changed nothing for 35 years. Obama is an empty suit.

[assclownbush]

Let me get this straight, Palin was governor for almost two years and managed to create rapid, positive change and about 80% of Alaskans say she is doing a great job. Obama is a senator for LESS than two years, accomplished nothing, absent for almost all votes and is an admitted Muslim who hates America so much that he refuses to wear the American flag on his lapel.
Go Palin!

[Perry_Clease]

" an admitted Muslim "

A damn lie.

[Kwasiowusu]

Sarah Palin's Resume vs. Barack Obama's Resume:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKsSYE4gfck

When you put the Obama Resume up against the Palin Resume, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President of the U.S.

Meanwhile, according to Joseph Biden, Obama is the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

'nuff said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-biden-2008_x.htm

[Kwasiowusu]

Sarah Palin's Resume vs. Barack Obama's Resume:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKsSYE4gfck

When you put the Obama Resume up against the Palin Resume, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President of the U.S.
Obama is but a 2-bit "community organiser", who was aspawned by the most corrupt political machine in the country, the notorious Chicago Democratoc Party political machine.
I am not voting for a guy (Obama), who's poltical career was launched by the most notorious domestic terrorist this country has ever known, Bill Ayers.

Meanwhile, according to Joseph Biden, Obama is the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-biden-2008_x.htm
'nuff said.
If I want to vote for a guy that steals speeches from Neil Kinnock (Joe Biden), I'll go to Britain and vote for Kinnock.

[Perry_Clease]

"When you put the Obama Resume up against the Palin Resume, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President of the U.S."

BS! She makes very poor decisions (just like Bush). Carrying her latest kid to term is one thing, getting pregnant at her age with the much higher risk of a Downes Syndrome baby is another. You can repeat your conservative talking points all you want, but she is unfit to be Vice President much less President.

Whatever, it doesn't matter to you or me, we are entrenched in our political camps and the numbers are close. What matters is the currently undecided voters.

[Kwasiowusu]

@Perry_Clease : "Carrying her latest kid to term is one thing,"

Oh I get it.
In your dream world, every baby that has the slightest thing wrong with it during regnancy should be aborted, no?
Where do you abortion lovers stop with your baby killings? Daef babies should be aborted too? How's about if a baby is gong to be born , blind? Should we call Nancy Pelosi and Obama to come murder that baby before it is born too?
The aborttion loving baby killers of America strke again!

"getting pregnant at her age with the much higher risk of a Downes Syndrome baby is another"

Oh Puleeze!
Grandmothers 10 years older than Sarah Palin reguraly have perectly healthy babies with no problems whatsoever.
Now if you want to talk about "poor decision making", lets talkiabout Obambi, who's first reaction when Russia invaded Georgia, was to call for "restriant on both sides".
That's like calling for restraint on both sides, when a slightly built woman is getting rapped by a hulking 300 lb brute.
Who but No-Executive-Experience" Obama, would talk such nonsense, or chose a VP(Joe Biden), who claimed that Obama was " "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

[Perry_Clease]

"Oh I get it."

No you don't!

"In your dream world, every baby that has the slightest thing wrong with it during regnancy should be aborted, no?"

That should be up to the mother, not you, me, or someone else.

[Kwasiowusu]

@ Perry_Clease : "That should be up to the mother, not you, me, or someone else"

Precisely.
The mother of the baby, in this gcase Governor Palin, being of sound mind, and not having the loony left's insane desire to kill babies, decided to have and love her baby.
So how come Obambi, and the abortion loving left are screaming about it now?
You clowns claim you are "pro-choice", no?
So how come a mother made her own decision to have her baby, and you guys are up screaming about it?
So much for all your "pro-choice" nonsense.
In reality, the Democratic Party is not "pro-choice" at all. You guys are in reality pro-ABORTION. The only choice you support is the abortion choice.