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McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate
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ScuttleMonkey
on Friday August 29, @03:49PM
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Many readers have written to tell us about McCain's choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his VP choice. "Palin, 44, a self-described 'hockey mom,' is a conservative first-term governor of Alaska with strong anti-abortion views, a record of reform and fiscal conservatism and an outsider's perspective on Washington. [...] If elected, Palin would be the first woman US vice president, adding another historic element to a presidential race that has been filled with firsts. Obama, 47, is the first black nominee of a major US political party. The choice of a vice president rarely has a major impact on the presidential race. Palin will meet Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a debate in October."
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Quote from the Future (Score:5, Funny)
Joe Biden: "Governor Palin, I served with Dan Quayle; Dan Quayle was a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Dan Quayle."
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Re:Quote from the Future (Score:5, Funny)
Joe Biden: "Governor Palin, I served with Dan Quayle; Dan Quayle was a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Dan Quayle."
In this case, that quote would be a great compliment.
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Re:Quote from the Future (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, that's what we in the humor biz call "the joke".
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A female Dan Quayle (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Insightful)
"when they shamelessly pander to the stupid lobby?
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You mean like anybody that has pandered to the anti-nuclear lobby?
Guess what they all do.
And I have not problem with creationism being taught as long as it is taught as science. So every bad fact they have can be pointed out.
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Funny)
The Republican ticket is now complete
Yeah, I still couldn't get the voice of Darth Vader out of my head for that.
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Insightful)
In addition to that, she's also pretty rabidly pro-life. This is, among other things, a definite carrot toward the more religiously-oriented part of the conservative base - you know, the part that doesn't thing McCain is conservative enough (in the fundamentalist sense) for them...
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Interesting)
how can anyone take a candidate seriously when they shamelessly pander to the stupid lobby?
I don't know, it doesn't seem to bother the Obama supporters.
Waiting to be modded as a troll while the OP gets modded as informative or interesting. Even though both took shots at the other side.
No bias to see here.
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Insightful)
They all pander to the stupid lobby, it's their biggest constituency. So really, you should be asking "How can anyone take any candidate seriously?" The answer is, you can't unless you're stupid.
Look at Obama for instance. He couldn't even wait until he was nominated to betray his stated principles and vote for immunity for telecom's who illegally tapped phones. If you expect him, or any other candidate to remain true to his campaign promises, you're part of that stupid lobby.
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Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Well-rounded? (Score:5, Insightful)
Just a little something I read about the government not being allowed to outlaw or advance any particular religion. And, yeah, any form of ID? Yup, that's a religious belief, not a scientific one.
And for strict biblical literalists, teaching a heliocentric model of the solar system is going against their religion. Are we supposed to teach geocentrism in public schools, as well?
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Re:Well-rounded? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's not what the Constitution says. Besides, I learned about different belief systems back in public high school in my world history class. You can't ignore religion and the Constitution doesn't require that it be ignored.
Yeah, history class, not science class. You want to teach different theologies in history class? Be my guest. I loved learning about all the Abrahamic religions in my high school world history class.
You want to teach that in science class? Screw you, you're not teaching your religion as though it's science.
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Re:Creationism (Score:5, Insightful)
Because when people talk about presenting "both" sides of an issue, they usually don't mean the "informed" and "uninformed" sides.
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So, what are your front page setting again? (Score:5, Interesting)
Face it, though, neither Palin (a self-admitted creationist) nor Biden (a proponent of stronger police powers) is a 'nerd-friendly' pick.
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Re:Good choice (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Good choice (Score:5, Insightful)
Seeing as if he (McCain) somehow manages to get elected, I give his remaining lifespan a duration somewhere between James Garfield & William Harrison's presidencies. The good news is we'll have our first woman president. The bad news is she has experience leading about 670000 people total (9000 if you just want to go by her mayoral experience), is rabidly pro-life & loves Big Oil. It will be kinda like Bush, but with a vagina.
And don't bother to rail on me either, I'm voting for Barr. I've given up on the Republicrats, the only thing that will make our leaders stand up & take notice is another political party coming to power & taking it away from them.
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Re:Good choice (Score:5, Insightful)
The ability of a VP to become President has to be considered. 9 VP's took over for the president. Out of 43 presidents, that is 20%.
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Re:Good choice (Score:5, Insightful)
I am not so sure this is a great political move by McCain.
One of the things the Democrats have been hammering McCain on is his lack of judgment. I can easily see Palin as another example of poor decision making.
While selecting a VP as a strategy to win the election is part of the decision tree (going after the disenfranchised Hillary votes), choosing a VP is also about having someone that can step in and do the presidents job competently.
I have a feeling this is going to backfire.
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Re:Bad Choice (Score:5, Insightful)
I think you overestimate how much the people will care.
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Re:Bad Choice (Score:5, Informative)
She tried to get a state trooper fired for divorcing her sister and after that failed, fired his boss for not firing him.
True, she has been accused of this. But so far, the only people implicated in trying to get this state trooper fired are members of her family and staffers in her office, without her knowledge. The only documentation of any action by her pre-dates when she was elected governor.
I don't think it's going to get traction, because the state trooper isn't exactly a sympathetic figure. He was suspended for using a stun-gun on his 10-year-old stepson, and is alleged to have threatened Palin's father (among other things).
Story here, with links to background material: http://www.adn.com/politics/story/468174.html [adn.com]
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Re:Hahahah (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, given the title, I am tempted to assume you're joking. But the capacity of Republicans and their supporters for self parody can't be down played. Perhaps you're actually serious. Next you're going to be going on about Palin's experience and readiness to be president in a job that is, as they say, a heart beat away.
I think that the opposite of your claim is true: McCain is doomed. He just destroyed the "Obama doesn't have the experience to lead" meme. Sure Palin is a hard right social conservative. But she also happens to be an ex-beauty queen with an ethical scandal in Alaska. The social conservatives claim that women should be at home, not running for the Vice Presidency. Of course they're a bit inconsistent on this. I think that you'll find that Palin and her big breasts are a huge liability for McCain. If nothing else, she'll emphasize that he's very old.
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Re:Pandering to the Vagina Vote (Score:5, Insightful)
What's sad is that when Democrats run women, it's looked at as somehow genuine but when Republicans run a woman it's looked at as pandering.
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Re:Pro Life (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:nice pick (Score:5, Funny)
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