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Sarah Palin, Embezzler?

She won't bail, not in the next three days. That's my snap judgment. She'll have to be kicked off the ticket by McCain. McCain will not do that, not in the next three days.

After that, she'll be on the ballots in 50 states. She's in for the duration.
 
Dr Adequate said:
Then try removing the rose-tinted spectacles.
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Actually Pixy's statement is 100% correct. Republicans love her, and she's driven the Democrats insane. Look at BB's recent posts for evidence of the latter.
 
Brainster said:
Actually Pixy's statement is 100% correct. Republicans love her, and she's driven the Democrats insane. Look at BB's recent posts for evidence of the latter.
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Ha!

You mistake me being bothered by my sadistic thrill at attacking SUCH a soft target! I delight at ridiculing you repubs and sometimes you make it all so easy!

Actually, I am saving the best stuff for when you DO approve her, and about 10 days before the election, but repeating the digs of others here has been a lot of fun, with you especially.
 
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You mistake me being bothered by my sadistic thrill at attacking SUCH a soft target!
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In other forums, it appears to be a common misread of the reaction of Democratic voters.

I'm a solid D, and I'm thrilled with the Palin pick. I haven't had this much fun since Cheney shot that guy in the face.

A secessionist sympathizer? Oh please keep her on the ticket.

The "crazy preacher" routine hasn't even started yet, but I'm surprised that the GOP hasn't rolled out "speaking in tongues" as a foreign policy qualification.
 
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jberryhill said:
In other forums, it appears to be a common misread of the reaction of Democratic voters.

I'm a solid D, and I'm thrilled with the Palin pick. I haven't had this much fun since Cheney shot that guy in the face.

A secessionist sympathizer? Oh please keep her on the ticket.

The "crazy preacher" routine hasn't even started yet, but I'm surprised that the GOP hasn't rolled out "speaking in tongues" as a foreign policy qualification.
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And this time, nobody got shot! (I had a hard time being too gleeful about that one as somebody was actually hurt.)
 
PixyMisa said:
You mean by that, the Republican voters love her and she drives the Democrats insane?

Because that's what I'm seeing.
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I know plenty of Independents and others who were on the fence who now think McCain has totally lost their votes. It's out there and it's real.

In addition, I've read at least two stories which seem to indicate that this decision has actually driven away more women from McCain than it has attracted.

If true, that's bad news for McCain.
 
Brainster said:
Actually Pixy's statement is 100% correct. Republicans love her, and she's driven the Democrats insane. Look at BB's recent posts for evidence of the latter.
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Ah, but is BenBurch a sufficiently large or sufficiently random sample to justify your figure of 100%?

As for these thrilled Republicans, I'm wondering, do you know of any who were saying that she'd be the best pick before McCain picked her? I can see why they're obliged to say so after the fact.
 
Dr Adequate said:
Ah, but is BenBurch a sufficiently large or sufficiently random sample to justify your figure of 100%?

As for these thrilled Republicans, I'm wondering, do you know of any who were saying that she'd be the best pick before McCain picked her? I can see why they're obliged to say so after the fact.
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I had her #2 on my prediction list, with Portman at #1. In fact, despite the supposed shocking nature of the pick, she was mentioned on more ballots in the VP nomination contest thread than Biden was. While I liked Portman and I was willing to accept Pawlenty or Romney, I was nervous that none represented a pick that could take advantage of the obvious problem that Obama faces with women after defeating their candidate.

I said that Pixy was 100% right, but I should have summarized it better: Palin is driving the Democrats insane. Ben's just beaten the traffic.

:D
 
Brainster said:
I said that Pixy was 100% right, but I should have summarized it better: Palin is driving the Democrats insane. Ben's just beaten the traffic.

:D
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Insane with glee.

I'm going out on a limb and stating that I don't think she will make it to the election. I'm crossing my fingers that she does, though. I can't think of a worse choice for McCain.

Well, excluding Ron Paul
 
gdnp said:
Insane with glee.

I'm going out on a limb and stating that I don't think she will make it to the election. I'm crossing my fingers that she does, though. I can't think of a worse choice for McCain.

Well, excluding Ron Paul
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Amen. I think we should have held fire until after the convention. Now she might be gone by tomorrow I am hearing.
 
Brainster said:
I was nervous that none represented a pick that could take advantage of the obvious problem that Obama faces with women after defeating their candidate.
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Are you hoping to court disgruntled Hillaristas with a VP candidate who apparently believes that every zygote is sacred?

I'm not sure that that's going to work out.
 
gdnp said:
I'm going out on a limb and stating that I don't think she will make it to the election. I'm crossing my fingers that she does, though. I can't think of a worse choice for McCain.
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I think she's in it for sure. Imagine the damage that will be done if Palin gets thrown under the bus (gawd, I hate that phrase). No matter how it happens, the christian right will see it as McCain dumping her for some guy (Problem #1) who is not as conservative (Problem #2). The howling would be deafening.

No, McCain's made his pick and I think he's stuck with it....but maybe "stuck" is the wrong word. If she proves to be an effective campaigner and they can get the focus back on Obama/Biden then it may have proven to be a good political move. I'm not gleeful at all about Palin. It's way too early to know how this will play out.
 
SezMe said:
I think she's in it for sure. Imagine the damage that will be done if Palin gets thrown under the bus (gawd, I hate that phrase). No matter how it happens, the christian right will see it as McCain dumping her for some guy (Problem #1) who is not as conservative (Problem #2). The howling would be deafening.

No, McCain's made his pick and I think he's stuck with it....but maybe "stuck" is the wrong word. If she proves to be an effective campaigner and they can get the focus back on Obama/Biden then it may have proven to be a good political move. I'm not gleeful at all about Palin. It's way too early to know how this will play out.
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You are correct. It's far too early to say one way or the other whether she will be a good, neutral or bad choice. Whatever happens, if she manages to hold her own against Biden in a debate, she will probably be at least neutral. Because since Biden has much more experience, he has to win the debate to meet expectations, whereas is she can manage a draw, she will have exceeded expectations. That's tough for Biden. And he can't afford to come off as too aggressive or condescending either.
 
SezMe said:
I think she's in it for sure. Imagine the damage that will be done if Palin gets thrown under the bus (gawd, I hate that phrase). No matter how it happens, the christian right will see it as McCain dumping her for some guy (Problem #1) who is not as conservative (Problem #2). The howling would be deafening.

No, McCain's made his pick and I think he's stuck with it....but maybe "stuck" is the wrong word. If she proves to be an effective campaigner and they can get the focus back on Obama/Biden then it may have proven to be a good political move. I'm not gleeful at all about Palin. It's way too early to know how this will play out.
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If they decide to dump her she will drop out for "personal reasons", claiming it was entirely her choice and no one pressured her to leave. She will then excoriate the liberal press for viciously subjecting her innocent children to brutal attacks. The religious right will then applaud her for nobly placing her family ahead of her political ambitions. McCain will then replace her with a white male.
 
Of course she will drop out for "personal reasons". But nobody with a couple of brain cells to rub together will believe it. The media feeding frenzy would be a sight to behold.

The rest of your scenario sounds likely. But I still maintain she's in it for the long haul.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Here's some more evidence from Gallup that suggests that McCain is actually losing ground with Independent and Democratic women.

Very bad news for McCain.
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And it looks like (very preliminarily) that the "convention bounce" for McCain has been nullified in advance. He may not get any measurable bounce other than the normal signal noise in the daily tracking polls.

He has "screwed the pooch."
 
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