Now lets really get to business!

Many people (e.g. Hilary supporters) wanted a woman candidate because they believed that a female perspective has been sorely lacking. Finding someone who is biologically a woman, but otherwise makes Dick Cheney look compassionate and progressive is a slap in the face to our mothers and their mothers who worked so hard to further women’s rights.

Even if it is in their own (eg. gays) interest to vote Democratic, I think a lot of people will not be able to overcome their racial prejudice and vote for Obama. In the privacy of that voting booth will they be able to vote for a black man? (Maybe if they think he’s half white)

So, they will try to pretend that this Alaska governor is somehow real, admire themselves for voting for a woman, and ignore that she is just the perverted creation of Karl Rove and his ilk.

However, most Americans are not that dumb and I’m betting that our next president will be a Democrat.

Palin should not be attacked on lack of experience. That would be a huge mistake. They should attack her on the fact that she does not support choice and older women will remember pre-Roe V Wade and may be less likely to vote for her.

They should attack her for favoring drilling in ANWR, where even in this period of high gas prices, most Americans do not favor.

Those are two just to get going.

Democrats need to stop playing nice, grow a spine, and start attacking. I’ve been saying for years that they have to throw the sand in the sandbox just like the Republicans do.

Finally, the Republicans appeal to their base; the Democrats need to do the same.

You are mistaking confusion for panic, my friend. After such a despicable, yet successful run this summer with Rove-ian character assignation ads, I was panicing. The convention eased that tremendously, as did Obama’s speech in front of 84,000 people, watched on TV by 38 million. I was baffled by McCain’s pick Friday. it seemed so…stupid. It’s now clear that it is a risk taken out of desperation.

The polls don’t reflect the whole story because they aren’t polling cell phone users. So the polls reflects the middle-aged and seniors. If 49% of them support Obama, imagine the landslide when we add in the youth vote.

McCain blew it when he decided to cozy up to the evangelicals. And Palin sealed the deal on that fumble. No Hillary supporter is going to vote for a woman who is against birth control and the enviornment and thinks women HAVE to have babies created by incest and rape.

It is well known political fact that a VP pick rarely helps a candidate (last one, Lyndon Johnson), but can often hurt a ticket. When your ticket has someone at the top of the ticket who is living in God’s waiting room, the VP pick matters.

Of course, the Olberjerks will say few Hillary voters will go to McCain because of this pick, but in this close election, 5% of Hillary voters is all it will take.

At least admit it, boys. Obama got completely upstaged on this one.

Spread your legs and shut your mouth, honey.

That’s what McCain said last night. HAHA!!!!

She was elected Alaska ‘s governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.

Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.

She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000.

She is opposed to gay marriage, equality of benefits and civil unions.

Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.

She’s doesn’t think humans are the cause of climate change.

She’s solidly in line with John McCain’s “Big Oil first” energy policy. She’s pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won’t be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.

How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.

McCain/Palin to America: Stop whining. The economy is sound. We will stay in Iraq until we “win”. And women who get pregnant through incest and rape MUST give birth to that child, but the government will not help you support the child they FORCE you to have.

Flashback: Palin Said She Didn’t Like Hillary’s “Whining”

By Greg Sargent – August 29, 2008

Today in Ohio, new McCain veep pick Sarah Palin made a big play for Hillary voters by referencing her now-famous “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling” quote.

But Newsweek reports that back in March, at a Women and Leadership event held by the mag, Palin’s view of Hillary wasn’t quite as charitable:

Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state’s entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton. (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn’t support a woman, but she didn’t like Clinton’s “whining.”)

This Vagina gravitates towards other Vaginas especially if they’re fair, intelligent and as down to earth as Sarah seems.

By the way it’s Sarah not SSarah.

To McCain, a vagina is a vagina. The younger and prettier the better. He was born three quarters of a century ago and his views of women remain clearly fixed in the 1950s.

Nothing else can explain such a dismal and obvious choice of tokenism. This is a gigantic insult to Hillary Clinton and her supporters.

What further proof do you need that Bush and McCain are one in the same?

Anyone else notice the annoying Canadian accent she has?

If you are gonna pander to women, at least pick someone like Condi Rice.

I can’t even imagine what the VP debate between her and Biden is going to be. I will not miss that one.

Maybe the world is just too complicated to fit into the boxes you build for it.

Log Cabin Republican
Libertarian southern Black
Right wing female

God help us

We Democrats are toast!

I seriously doubt you’re right about that.