Palin

[neadods]

If ever I needed proof that McCain's little red trolley has run off the tracks, it's his nomination of Palin for Veep.

Apparently convinced that all Clinton supporters will vote for anything with boobs, he has decided to woo liberal feminist Democrats away from the party by nominating an anti-choice, anti-gay rights, anti-environment, anti-science woman. Basically, a woman who stands against anything Clinton stands for.

Having shot himself in the foot with the Clinton supporters, he's put a bullet in the other foot by bringing a woman into the party that has already had some horrifically sexist things to say about women in politics and who has a fraction of the political experience of Obama... which is already too little for McCain.

And just to ice the cake - he's restoring dignity to office by nominating someone about to come under investigation.

Way to go, McCain.


On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I woke up in an alternate reality. Pat Buchanan raving with praise for Obama? A female VP nomination from the Republicans?

Comments

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

She doesn't appeal to your political reality. She's aimed at other voters.

I agree though that the political manipulators in both party think that women will simply vote for any woman - not anything else that might affect them like work, schools, children. It's a very simplistic way of slotting people into nameless votes and sticking them in the slots.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about that. McCain picked an ultra-conservitive that would appeal to "the grassroots." And if Ms. Paldin was Mr. Paldin, I bet she would.

It also doesn't fill me with confidence that McCain and Paldin met, thrice, tops, before he picked her as a VP. If you leave your VP pick to your advisors, what the hell else are you leaving to your advisors?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

If you leave your VP pick to your advisors, what the hell else are you leaving to your advisors?

Apparently you leave your economic advice to them or don't have any at all, between his former-but-still-in-contact econ guy calling Americans "a bunch of whiners" while McCain himself doesn't know how many houses he owns. That's a real good way to be in touch with the heartland, where bills are always tight and businesses are failing.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

So... movin' with me to Ireland?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

My job doesn't port well. But if I do end up moving, you can visit me in London.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Well, I have my own theory on McCain's choice. Certainly a surprising one, and I see that many within his own party think he's taken leave of his senses. It'll be fascinating to see how that plays out - will she be another Quayle? Or worse? Or will she surprise everyone and turn out to be an asset to his campaign?

But, yeah, if he's thinking that she'll appeal to Clinton women... he needs a new set of advisors ;)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

She's only an asset to McCain's campaign if you're running on a solid platform of babies, bibles, and bullets - which he *is,* but that's also 180 degrees from his last campaign (cute hoor indeed, and reason enough not to vote for him. Just what the hell DOES he stand for in the end?)

And indeed, it looks like the evangelicals are suddenly much happier with him... but they are not, as they like to think, American kingmakers. Especially after the disaster of the last king crowned by them.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Would it be permissible of me to pimp out my own perversion of the current political process?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm very uncomfortable with RPF.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Think of it as a MAD Magazine satire without pictures.

Or, more to the point, as a parody of RPF, which it was kind of intended to be.

[ionlylurkhere.livejournal.com]

Pat Buchanan raving with praise for Obama?

OMG, I seem to have managed to totally miss this. All I can find from Google is stuff dating back to the Jeremiah Wright business. Is there a link anywhere?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Fru4dZLGA&eur

The gobsmacked looks on his co-anchor's faces is priceless.

[ionlylurkhere.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I am now on the look out for signs of the apocalypse ...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Buchanan's old enough to remember regime changes. I think his co-"reporters" can't remember last week, much less 10 years ago.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

He could have picked Phyllis Schafly. Yes, I do know I'm spelling her name wrong.

*Ducks and runs*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but at least Schafly has more experience in Washington.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

They are blatantly trying to appeal to the 20-whatever
percentage of Hillary voters who have "sworn" to vote for
McCain. Now I'm sure that 90-whatever percentage of them
are actually just grousing in a huge way, & will not actually
vote for McCain, but McCain is obviously hopeful that they
will. Palin's "18,000,000 cracks in the glass ceiling" remark
is so blatant a reference as to be unmistakable.