Wow....It's amazing the stupidity.

Petulant self aggrandizer.

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Dumb small town bitter Americans. Clinging to God, guns, and hockey sticks

Keep it up Hussein

mysogeny, they name is Obama.

What foreign policy experience does Obama have? Besides kissing up to Middle East terrorist leaders, that is?

The problem is that now cuts both ways. It makes it harder for McCain to attack Obama's lack of experience. Experience (or lack of) may just have become a moot issue.

re: #6 Cygnus

What foreign policy experience does Obama have? Besides kissing up to Middle East terrorist leaders, that is?

He took Michelle and the Girls to EPCOT

a heartbeat away from the presidency

Obama subconsciously concedes defeat! Drinks are on me!

NoBama is going to get beat by a great Mama.

re: #8 Shug

He took Michelle and the Girls to EPCOT

LOL

She is smart with ultra-sharp judgment.

How refreshing to see the dems have grown up a little - not!

Pot, meet kettle. I thought that "hope and change" were all you needed and experience is passe. Only for the Dems I guess.

Party bosses attacking mother of five children who happens to be the Governor of the largest state in the union.

A real tin ear after what they did to Hillary.

Oh my goodness listen to the Obamabots spin, spin, spin - she can't pull over those Hillary voters!

/The female newsanchors seem really enthusiastic about her.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

The problem is that now cuts both ways. It makes it harder for McCain to attack Obama's lack of experience. Experience (or lack of) may just have become a moot issue.

I guess McCain will have to attach Obama's track record. CAC, public housing, etc.

re: #8 Shug

He took Michelle and the Girls to EPCOT

"It's a small world after all..."

That's right. Attack Palin because she's not a Chicago machine politician who surrounded himself, either by choice or accident, with terrorist scum in the form of Bill Ayers, racists in the form of Rev. Wright, and whose experience can be summed up thusly *crickets*.

Palin is head of the National Guard.

And she STILL has more executive experience than Sen. Obama or Sen. Biden.

Her husband's pretty hunky himself, it'd be fun to watch....

[Link: dwb.adn.com...]

re: #7 Killgore Trout

The problem is that now cuts both ways. It makes it harder for McCain to attack Obama's lack of experience. Experience (or lack of) may just have become a moot issue.

That's something I'm worried about too (as mentioned on the previous thread). It dulls the edge of one of the more effective offensive weapons in McCain's arsenal. However, given that the Obama camp foolishly jumped out immediately and started shouting about "experience", it appears they've taken the bait.

Yesterday , The Democratic Party put a former community organizer with zero foreign policy experience (except Merci Beaucoup ) an election away from the presidency.

re: #4 Shug

Dumb small town bitter Americans. Clinging to God, guns, and hockey sticks

Keep it up Hussein

I resemble that remark! I have all 3 of them. Pennsylvania, you know....

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Pretty damn silly when you consider that a former community organizer with zero foreign policy experience is in the running for the presidency, and that former community organizer put a do-nothing senator, much older than he is, a heartbeat away from the presidency on his ticket.

Stuff it, Barry!

obama- you want to make an issue of experience- bring it.

While we're at it, let's compare accomplishments.

I hate this pick. I hate it.

So does Karl Rove.

"With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished," Rove said. "I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America."

re: #17 Who Watches the Watchmen?

I guess McCain will have to attach Obama's track record. CAC, public housing, etc.

That's a good point. Palin's track record of reform is much better than Obama's.

re: #22 tradewind

Her husband's pretty hunky himself, it'd be fun to watch....

[Link: dwb.adn.com...]

First Dude! Yeah baby!

If the Democrats had an airline, the captain would be just out of flight school, and the co-pilot would be the one with years of experience.
And they'd criticize the Republican airline because the co-pilot had just moved up to large airliners after flying commuter planes.

Who do you want to fly with?

Official Obama campaign reaction"

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. *sob, sniff*

/no fair, McCain bold, We were our typical yellow bellied coward selves.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."

As opposed to the Obamessiah, who has zero foreign policy experience, less than a hearbeat away from the presidency.

Sarah Palin - Former mayor and CURRENT GOVERNOR of the State of Alaska.

Barack Obama - Junior Senator for 4 years, never held a hearing in the subcommittee he chaired. Hasn't represented the interests of the people of Illinois in the Senate because he hasn't been there. Voted "present" plenty often as senator in the Illinois Senate.

The Obama Campaign may want to reconsider the experience issue.

The left is freaking out.

/you can watch it if you have a TV

arrogant and stupid all at once. Anyone surprised?

re: #27 Sharmuta

obama- you want to make an issue of experience- bring it.

While we're at it, let's compare accomplishments.

Indeed.
What experience does Obama have in the private sector? Has Obama ever run a successful business?

Alaska is how many miles from Russian nukes?

Alaska borders what nation?

Sarah Palin has more experience on the front lines of foreign policy than either The Fascist Tool Barack Obama or Joe "Isn't the Atlantic Ocean a foreign entity?" Biden.

Couple her with McCain's experience with "diplomacy carried out by other means," and they're miles ahead of Smugs and Plugs.

How many States has Obama governed?
How many cities (even small ones)?
Has Obama actually governed ANYTHING at ALL?

I predict that McCain and Palin will drop a huge Bunker Buster on team Obama joe Biden

More than 5,000 online...

People this stupid shouldn't even drive, much less command a nuclear arsenal.

Obama's foreign policy experience: backstabbing the war effort.

Obama joe Biden... get it?

/chortling at my own jokes

Hey all! The hamsters are still working overtime, I see. Taking forever for LGF to load. Not as bad as last night.

So it is a woman! Does she have an opinion on whsy drilling for oil will do to the environment in her state? Has it's upper regions melted away due to globull warming?

Obama, you're fucked

I trust her more than I could trust a thousand Obamas.

First off, Palin comes from an oil producing State and she must have some knowledge of the international oil markets.

Second, she is a mother with brains and good looks. Along with Cindy, McCain knows how to pick em.

5000 on line. Palin's selection has energized the party in a way Romney or Pawlenty never could have.

Alright...how much money do I need to donate to get a bigger server?

Town of 9000, and Governor (executive experience) of a state with only slightly fewer people that Delaware (Biden's state) and just as much foreign policy experience as Barry Hussein.

If you are the mayor of a town of 9000, the citizens will know you directly, and you will not be able to present yourself through a media-political machine the way BHO has.

BHO is toast.

Biden's foreign policy expertise gave us the stupid partition plan for Iraq. He said the only way Iraq could survive was to split it into 3 parts. That was a profoundly bad idea now residing in the trash can. But don't look for anyone in the MSM to ask him about that failed initiative of his.

re: #31 Kosh's Shadow

If the Democrats had an airline, the captain would be just out of flight school, and the co-pilot would be the one with years of experience.
And they'd criticize the Republican airline because the co-pilot had just moved up to large airliners after flying commuter planes.

Who do you want to fly with?

She actually has a floater plane!

HAHAHAHAHA !

The Obama campaign is in deep dooo dooo now!

They can't attack her lack of experience for the 2nd spot when the top of their ticket has no more experience than she does.

They can't attack her good looks because they would appear sexist (alienating any chance to take the Hillary vote)

They can't attack her age because they have already been saying McCain is too old.

Exceptional choice. The Democrats must be feeling nauseated today. he he he

re: #34 Dahveed

As he is my senator (ach!) I know what I am talking about. I hate when the MSM states he has been a senator for x years.

He has only really been a senator for about 90 days. The rest of his term, he has been running for president.

I am surprised Obama's camp took the bait that fast.

Obama has already been tagged as inexperienced. Nothing that happens between now and November will change that. His only hope is to change the subject. And apparently they are too foolish to understand that.

But considering she is the "top executive of an organization with 20,000 employees and a 6.6 billion dollar budget" I don't think she has too much to worry about if they question her ability to lead.

Babies, guns and Jesus - hot damn

re: #44 ggt

Hey all! The hamsters are still working overtime, I see. Taking forever for LGF to load. Not as bad as last night.

At this rate Charles is going to be buying food pellets by the truckload.

Sarah Palin.

100% of the Republican base.

/100% of the bitter, clingy, NASCAR vote

re: #38 looking closely

good point. And if you look upclose, even from a distance, at Chicago and the Southside in particular, you will find a trail, that stretches far as the eye can see, of corruption, malfeasance and graft mixed into the rubble of failed policies, failed "housing projects" and failed 50Million dollars in Annenberg Foundation monies misspent on "public education" SPENT BY NONE OTHER THAN THE "LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND" HIMSELF, Barack Nero Obama with close assistance from ....Bill "Underground Weatherman SDS" Ayers.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

Not at all. McCain can still work the experience line because Obama has to make the tough decisions - and he never had to make them.

A tough decision that Obama passed on: distancing himself from Ayers.
Another tough decision Obama passed on: distancing himself from the Rev. Wright's church.
Another tough decision Obama flubbed: skipping Hillary and going with Biden (sure, dealing with the ego would have been an issue, but Obama/Hillary would have been a winning ticket). Now? Not so much.

Ms Palin can make this election a rout. That makes her a very powerful woman right now. And can pave the way for the first Woman President. So this pick is very significant for that, as well as giving the moonbats loose bowels.

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

As opposed to the Democrat Party and MSM Machine putting a "community-organizer" who has spent his entire career getting elected to the next higher office in position to be POTUS? A empty-suit know-nothing elitist claiming to be Hopey & Changey but selects a 30-year in the Senate blowhard Gaffe-Master?

Hope! McCain! Change! Palin!

Si...se....puedes!

re: #53 mich-again

Biden's foreign policy expertise gave us the stupid partition plan for Iraq.

Hey, he also had the "let's send a $200 million check to Iran to show we don't hate Arabs" plan!

re: #7 Killgore Trout

The problem is that now cuts both ways. It makes it harder for McCain to attack Obama's lack of experience. Experience (or lack of) may just have become a moot issue.

I don't see that at all. She has plenty of executive experience, something that Obama has a total lack of. And what exactly is his great foreign policy experience? Talking about meeting with thugs, autocrats, tyrants, and terrorists?

Hands down she has more experience than Obama or Biden combined.

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Quick, we need to get Ms. Palin on a trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany with lots of press tagging along.
/

So I suppose we're supposed to trust a "community organizer" versus someone who actually RAN a city government.

HO-kay!

CNBC's Maria Bartiromo will have an interview with Palin that she did just yesterday on her show at 3pm today.

Not to sound TOO over the top, but...

I'm getting the sense that this is an historic moment- for the GOP, and for US politics in general.

Just watching Palin give that speech, I can only imagine the fear that is running rampant in Obama's camp right now. She would not only handle Biden in a debate, I honestly think she'd KO the Obamessiah.

Perfect pick. Perfect time. Life is good.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

The problem is that now cuts both ways. It makes it harder for McCain to attack Obama's lack of experience. Experience (or lack of) may just have become a moot issue.

How does it make it harder? She's the VP nominee, not the Presidential nominee. And she already has a hell of a lot more experience than Obama.

I really don't get this line of argument.

The Democrats going to point out that the Republican VP pick is just as inexperienced as their PRESIDENTIAL pick?

Especially when the Republicans can just put up a list comparing Palin's achievements and experience with Obama's?

In fact, I think I might just make up those lists myself & send them to the McCain campaign.

I am lovin' this. It is something I have been praying for.
McCain-Palin-08
D.D.

I bet she didn't vote 'present' 95% of the time like Obama had.

re: #35 Killian Bundy

The left is freaking out.

/you can watch it if you have a TV

I was hoping to watch things from here.

re: #40 Charles

More than 5,000 online...

Yow!

Hmm. I wonder how many houses igloos she owns?

...as the REAL [paleo lib] knuckle draggers stand up and moon the audience...

re: #40 Charles

Hmm, need to bring in more hamsters!

re: #22 tradewind

Her husband's pretty hunky himself, it'd be fun to watch....

[Link: dwb.adn.com...]

They call him the 'first dude' in Alaska...

By the way, McCain made sure to use the word "executive" in his introduction of her.

Let's not forget, she happens to be an executive with a 90% approval rating, too.

I do hope they use that word all the time in the next 67 days.

Bigtime slowdown on LGF, the site's getting hammered!

re: #54 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

She actually has a floater plane!

Well, it's not an A-4, but I think the best Obama and Biden can claim are paper planes.

Hillbilly Geek, did you make your way to this post? Because I wanted to reply to your post about leaving off the sarc tag, but it's hard staying connected here, there must be a million people trying to access this website. Anyhoo, no problem on the sarcasm.
Team McCain/Palin!

Hillary spoke of the 18 million of her supporters.
Say 50% of them are women. That's 9 million people.

Palin might be able to pick off 10% of them because she appeals to their sense of decency over the way Hillary was treated. That's 900,000.

In a close election, that's a swing of 1.8 million. Heck, even if 5% of the Hillary gang goes against the Democratic ticket, that's a 900,000 vote swing. In close states (the purples), that is the difference between winning and going home.

Her oldest son enlisted in the US Army on September 11, 2001.

I cried when I heard that and the crowd roared! USA USA USA!

The Democrats just held an entire convention with only one message: John McCain is George Bush. The Democrats are trying to run the 2000 and 2004 elections all over again. Their bitterness knows no bounds.

Who knows what Obama has planned if he were elected. He's certainly in no position to explain it. He's running an "I Am Not George Bush" platform.

Well, Governor Sarah Palin grew up in a small town to a working class family. She's part of the small town "clinging to their faith and to guns" crowd that Obama has alienated so badly.

She's also accomplished in her executive experience in Alaska.

Unlike Obama, she's not just a name or an empty celebrity suit.

She also ran against an incumbent governor in a primary and won it before winning the state election as governor. One of the issues was a private jet that the former governor used for his travel. She SOLD IT OFF after being elected as governor.

Sarah Palin is a governor with more integrity about having her own jet to use than Obama or GORE.

While I don't think Obama would have won anyway, I'm a lot less worried about his chances today. He will keep making mistakes while running a two month "I Am Not George Bush" campaign that will end up looking foolish against John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Well, lets see... first, I am to be 'pitied' because I am from the country and I have a 'bible in one hand and a rifle in the other', and now that Senator McCain has picked FEMALE as his V.P. candidate, she is incompetent and 'disqualified' because she is also from a small town....

oh yes, I forgot...I live in 'flyover' country of the U.S.....We are 'rednecks' and inbred and poorly educated per the Ohio State Communist "liberals"....silly me!?

I can hear the McCain camp's response now:

We got it right and you got it wrong. We have the experience at the top of our ticket and the new blood on the bottom, and you've got it just the opposite.

re: #40 Charles

More than 5,000 online...

Yes, and I'm starting to detect the smell of burnt circuits all the way through the internet.

I'm excited about my party again. Now- I can't wait to vote for this ticket.

Ah, I see the Obama disdain for "flyover country" folks continues.

Obama and Biden were in the Senate while as they and the rest of the Democrats claim the Bush Administration ran amok. How did they use their power to actually do something about it?

Thats what cracks me up about the Democrats diatribes about Bush. If he was so bad for the Country why didn't they do anything meaningful to oppose him.

You know about those small town people. They cling to their guns and religion with antpathy toward others.

/sarc off

Quick, we need to get Ms. Palin on a trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany with lots of press tagging along.
/

She's already been there, visiting the AK Nat'l Guard...BEFORE she was running for national office.

re: #82 Kosh's Shadow

That's float plane ,

unless it has a boat hull and lands directly on the water in which case it is a

flying boat.

Catalina flying boat

re: #79 HoosierHoops

He looks like a guy straight out of Most Dangerous Jobs on Discovery Channel.
Just a bonus, all I'm saying....

It’s McCain’s birthday and the Palins’ 20th anniversary today.

re: #90 Son of the Black Dog

Yes, and I'm starting to detect the smell of burnt circuits all the way through the internet.

Isn't that burnt hamster?

No "foreign policy" experience? Well, Barry, unlike you, Sarah visited the US troops in Germany.

There are a lot of Democrats that know deep down in their hearts that Obama is pure crap. And Ms. Palin might be able to make them confront that inner knowledge.

I'm guessing that McCain's tip jar got hit pretty good within the last couple of hours.

re: #91 buzzsawmonkey

Sweet.

re: #87 Adina in Judea

We need a campaign poster with Sarah holding a shotgun in the Alaskan Wilderness. REAL WOMEN will love it. (and a few men, I suppose)

There is another big issue here we are missing.

By the time of the election, both McCain and Palin will have/had children serving as grunts in Iraq. This is huge and will completely disarm the "you just want to get more American's killed" argument about the war.

re: #92 Sharmuta

I'm excited about my party again. Now- I can't wait to vote for this ticket.

In the end, that is the most important part of this pick. You and I would have voted McCain not matter what. Now we can do it with a smile on our faces and in our hearts.

BTW there is absolutely no way the Dems can now say that "McSame's" VP choice is another Dick Cheney (their favorite whipping boy). So THAT tactic's out the window now too.

Still waiting for the adulation from the NOW leaders on McCain picking a woman.

Waiting....

Waiting....

McCain had a classy ad to congratulate the empty suit last night and then you get a snide reaction like this from them.

Palin has blown their minds.

The Illustrated Results of Obama's "Community Organizing"

would you want to live there?

re: #85 lawhawk

And more than that- what of the number of Republicans who were not thrilled with McCain that will now be boosted by this pick?- Republicans who might have stayed home but are now going to go and vote.

Just because I'm not voting for Obama, doesn't make me a racist! But in an effort to not sound racist, I think we have crossed a line that will never allow us to nominated two white guys for president and vice president again. This is disturbing to me since it may just keep us from ever electing the two most qualified people to office ever again. I'm afraid this will only lead to more affirmative action type politics. I mean why not put a black women in a wheelchair, that is a lesbian. Where will this madness stop?

re: #96 Zevy

She's already been there, visiting the AK Nat'l Guard...BEFORE she was running for national office.

Sweet.

You can't make this stuff up.

How did Rove pull this off?

The hamsters ate my post. I'll repeat - What a weak response. I think Palin is such a dark horse, and McCain did such a masterful job of obfuscation, that the Obama campaign had nothing prepared against her. Whoever was responsible for that is going to be fired this weekend.

Look at the Alaska state website, prominent display about a gas pipeline (Called Governor Palin's AGIA) they negotiated with Canada. Good luck getting things to load today. Are we under a DNS attack?

re: #116 doppelganglander

299 advisors still left

Obambi, do you want some cheese with that whine? Obama, you had your chance and blew it. You made your choices, now live with them. I do hope that you continue slamming Palin, as that shows you as the petty individual you truly are. I think Obambi's loss might be worse than McGovern's.

"...Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."

You know that this is an authentic presentation of the Obama campaign because it fairly reeks of the same Snobbery that Obama and all his retinue have exhibited over and over again.

Like this quote from Obama's recent ESPN interview: "...Who he'd (Obama) root for in a Cubs-Sox World Series: "Oh, that's easy. White Sox. . . . You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. South Side."

Jerk, utter jerk.

re: #117 lifeofthemind

Look at the Alaska state website, prominent display about a gas pipeline (Called Governor Palin's AGIA) they negotiated with Canada. Good luck getting things to load today. Are we under a DNS attack?

This put Alaska on the map. Does Obama know it is a state yet?

re: #119 Perplexed

all 57 states gone.

re: #121 Nevergiveup

This put Alaska on the map. Does Obama know it is a state yet?

All Obama knows is that it's a tiny little state. It's even smaller than Iran.

As if we really need reminding of what Obama thinks of small towns.

I hope they replay her speech later. I"d like to see it in it's entirety again. She's a breath of fresh air. I'm psyched!
Where do can get McCain/Palin '08 t-shirts?

re: #67 rightwinger3

Quick, we need to get Ms. Palin on a trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany with lots of press tagging along.
/

And maybe a speech in front of the Victory Column in Berlin? That would really 'level the playing-field", wouldn't it?

Governor Sarah Palin announced the State of Alaska will join the multi-state amicus brief authored by the State of Texas in support of the Second Amendment right of individual Americans to bear arms.

Time to pull in the relief hamsters --is that steam coming from Charles's ears?

Can he temporarily turn off something to accomodate the traffice --archived spin-offs or something?

The political brilliance of this move is already making The Obamanoids crazy.

re: #109 DesertSage

Still waiting for the adulation from the NOW leaders on McCain picking a woman.

Waiting....

Waiting....

Oh, the MSM and the rads will tear into her like she was just another old, white dude. She's a conservative, after all. I sure hope she's prepared for that. It will be ugly, of that I'm certain.

The kos kids are actually making comments about her down syndrome son!

* [new] Not to mention
a meteoric rise in the number of Down's children.

Choices
I certainly respect any parents who choose to raise a child with Down's, but I do think it is fairly selfish to decide to have a fifth child in your forties, given the much higher risk of Down's

I am about to blow my cover over there! I have a special needs niece and this is unforgivable!

C-SPAN is replaying the Obamafest from last night. We know which side their bread is buttered on.

re: #86 NoSubmission

Her oldest son enlisted in the US Army on September 11, 2001.

I cried when I heard that and the crowd roared! USA USA USA!

I thought she said he enlisted 9/11 of last year. And he's being deployed to Iraq on 9/11 this year.

I just love that her nickname is Sarah Barracuda.
;)

re: #126 dmh0667

And maybe a speech in front of the Victory Column in Berlin? That would really 'level the playing-field", wouldn't it?

No need. All she needs to do is go to visit her son serving his country!

Channeling McCain:

Sahar Palin is, like myself, a maverick, a reformer, anti-corruption, and anti pork barrel earmarks, and she is a proven chief executive with an 80% approval rating in her home state. Like myself, she is concerned about our dependence on foreign oil, and advocates increased domestic production to help to wean us off that dependence. She shares my social values and my strong support of our nation's efforts in the global war on terrorists. I chose her as my running mate not because of her gender, nor in spite of it, but without regard to it, viewing her as the best fit out there with which to complete my ticket.

Absolutely loving the irony over that statement...

I'll tell ya, I'm really stoked about McCain/Palin...Johnny Mac made a solid VP pick, in that he didn't choose one of his former rivals (like Obama did and probably regrets now) or one of the party favorites, but someone with executive experience (she may "only" have been governor of Alaska for the past year and a half, but that's a helluva lot more executive experience than any of the others on both tickets) that fills a lot of gaps for McCain.

re: #109 DesertSage

Still waiting for the adulation from the NOW leaders on McCain picking a woman.

Waiting....

Waiting....

*crickets*

re: #48 snowcrash

5000 on line. Palin's selection has energized the party in a way Romney or Pawlenty never could have.

I guess it's fun to be excited, but this pick is risky. Palin has never been through a national campaign and does not understand how much she will be pilloried.

The Islamists of the world seethe!

I'm LOVING IT.

alaska is around 100 times the size of delaware ...

/just sayin'

Palin has "no foreign policy experience"? And isn't Big O the one who suggested talks with Amadmanonajihad?

He tempered that earlier comment in his speech last night, saying something like "we will have tough talks with Iran" that will get them to stop making nuclear weapons and start doing our laundry instead. I forget the details exactly.

re: #140 DeafDog

I guess it's fun to be excited, but this pick is risky. Palin has never been through a national campaign and does not understand how much she will be pilloried.

I think she and her family can hold their own!

I really do think that Obama got outflanked in this one. Do you really think he knows about Alaska? I can hear him now asking, hey how come I didn't see Alaska flying over the states, where the hell is this place, I didn't even see it flying back from Hawaii as a child?

re: #140 DeafDog

I guess it's fun to be excited, but this pick is risky. Palin has never been through a national campaign and does not understand how much she will be pilloried.

I don't think she's quaking in her boots.

It's a Beautiful Day!
HAHAHAHAHA

Good going McCain.
Sending you some money.

re: #103 Cartman

I'm guessing that McCain's tip jar got hit pretty good within the last couple of hours.

Yep.

Obama, dem candidate for president, has zero foreign policy experience. Biden, dem candidate for VP, has a lot of foreign policy experience.

McCain, rep candidate for president, has a lot of foreign policy experience. Palin, rep candidate for VP, has zero foreign policy experience.

Who will make a better president? hmmmmm?

I loved the fact that her flag pin was HUGE. No squinting trying to figure out if it was even a flag. I still haven't figured out if Obama's teeny pin was actually a flag.

re: #146 really grumpy big dog Johnson

I don't think she's quaking in her boots.

And I bet she has some Pretty normal hockey mom boots also.

Do they really want to bring up "experience"? Really?

I'll bet Palin was never a "community organizer."

I'm Finn, so I am not voter in this election of yours. But I am interested in the matter because it will affect me indirectly anyway. Anyway, I have for long thought that the quality of president (yeah, I liked Bush better than those he was running against in his two elections for president and I liked some of his decisions too. Not all but some.) would now go down as I was not impressed by any of the candidates of any of the parties. Frankly, I was not too happy and kept hoping for McCain winning only because I am notimpressed with Obama and I am certain that he would be downright detrimental to my interests. Yeah, I am selfish like that.

When I first heard about the possibility of Sarah Palin as VP candidate, I searched for info about her and I have to say that I am impressed. And I got jealous too for you having such good politician when we have so few here (we have good ones too, like Alexander Stubb, but still). And when this became certainty, I began to feel better than I have felt a long time. This does give me a hope that USA has good president (McCain picking her as VP says good things about him to me.) and excellent vice president. With the Russian bear growling next door and Iran blustering, I sure like to have someone with strength of character and McCain/Palin has that much more than Obama/Biden. I also like her being fiscal conservative and all that jazz. I really hope that McCain is influenced by her as I really think she is what USA needs and what is good for the rest of us too.

In short, this is the hope and change I can believe in ;).

For those concerned with the attacks on Palin experience, McCain's campaign is way ahead on this one already coming out with experience comparisons of Palin/Obama. Really the pick is brilliant on this point alone. She has a significant list of accomplishments that make postage stamp resume Obama look silly trying to argue the point.

As opposed to a negative, her short career is actually a positive by bringing to play Obamas non existent accomplishments.

Late to the party. But doing the math...4 years as governor = 4 x 365 = 1460 days of executive experience.

So, roughly 10 times Obama's 143 days of Senate experience?

And that's only our co-pilot!

Well, seems that the Obama camp only considers it "Change" if it's a black man and not so much when white women are some where on the bill. That was clear when he didn't pick Clinton (who wouldn've been a much more solid pick than Joe "Likes to drone" Biden, in my opinion) and now making such an ignorant statement about Palin. You guys might consider this post a bit extreme, but as a white woman, I have to wonder what the hell "change" really means to the Obama camp. Not that it *totally* matters, because I gotta say, I am super fired up now that he has picked Palin. I have been saying since the spring that she was my choice. I know, I know, only a Gov. for a couple of years, but I have to agree with McCain's assertion about her being tenacious. I also liked that she was willing to go against the grain and out one of her republican peers. To me, that is what change in the white house is about, being able to stand up for principles in the face of wrong doers and call them out and seek justice.

Also, I find it quite rich that the dems have elected a man who spent a year and a half of his term as senator campaigning and the other year and a half being a yes man, cmoing up with nothing all that innovative in terms of policy making. He is a plane jane at best. I think Palin's record, though young and new, has proven that she is not affraid to face tough financial situations and even enviromental issues head on with the goal to come up with long term solutions, not just something that will quickly fix and appeal to the microwave crowd.

Anyway, end of my rant, I am very excited, and as a young white conservative female, I am super excited to see McCain take a shot at an up and comer with A LOT of potential. Also, Pat Buchanan can blow it out of his rear end. He's the LAST person that should question someone's ability to run the country. Keep tryin' for last place there, ol Pat!

re: #105 ggt

We need a campaign poster with Sarah holding a shotgun in the Alaskan Wilderness. REAL WOMEN will love it. (and a few men, I suppose)

Most women will love it. Most men will too.

Someone sent this to Glenn Reynolds: I concur completely--

As a conservative, disenfranchised from the Republican party due to their pork barrel spending, I find myself excited at the prospect of Sarah Palin as VP. Her stands against corruption, her focus on fixing issues affecting America, instead of political maneuvers to gain and hold power for power's sake, make me excited to vote for her.

The only memes that grab my attention with the Obama campaign are when he talks about reforming Washington, but his statements are so vague and his friends are so leftwing, that I suspect his rhetoric is code for changing to a more socialistic model. Whereas Palin would bring reform which would more closely resemble what Reagan would enact.

McCain has hit a homerun, possibly a game winning homerun. Her introductory speech brought a positive emotional response from me, very very rare.

re: #100 Tigger2005

Isn't that burnt hamster?

Hmm ! Smells just like chicken!

On one of the threads last night someone asked for a comparison of Obama's Senate voting record to McCain's. I was also interested in light of Obama's comment about McCain voting 90% of the time like Bush.

So I dug into the Congressional record and nothing like introducing a few facts. I only analyzed the last congress (the 110th):

1. There were 638 total Senate votes.
2. Obama and McCain voted the same (either yea or nea) 70 times (11%).
3. Both had "no vote" meaning they both did not vote on 238 items (37%).
4. There were 221 times (35%) where one voted (either yes or no) and the other did not vote.
5. There were 109 times (17%) where one voted yes and one voted no.
6. Obama voted for his party's preference on 335 votes (52%), against 14 (2%) and did not vote 289 times(45%)
7. McCain voted for his party 208 times (33%), against 26(4%) and non voted 404 times (63%).

If you add the times Obama and McCain voted the same way plus the times the both did not vote it is 47%. So they essentially half of the time impacted the vote the same way. Also if you assume that the GOP preference for each vote is what the President wants, McCain's times of voting against or not voting is almost two thirds of the time.

So, QED here......Obama's statement just doesn't match those nasty old facts. I do realize that some votes are more important than others but sometimes even those "inconsequential" votes such as approving a district judge or the like can ultimately be historically large.

How petty! its all over for these clowns and also for the drive-by media.

re: #151 ciaospirit

I loved the fact that her flag pin was HUGE. No squinting trying to figure out if it was even a flag. I still haven't figured out if Obama's teeny pin was actually a flag.

It was. And it had 57 stars on it.

She clings to guns and religion as well.

CNN is also "forgetting" that she is a governor when they list her qualifications in a sidebar.

The Obama campaign will rue the day they put out this press release. It's not just another example of them belittling a female's accomplishments.

The McCain website is overloaded "Server is too busy" except for the first page and lesser used features.

[Link: www.johnmccain.com...]

re: #130 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are actually making comments about her down syndrome son!

I am about to blow my cover over there! I have a special needs niece and this is unforgivable!

Yup, you stay classy, Kos. What a bunch of libtards.

This woman is SOOOO much more qualified than either Obama, or the ditzoid that is currently 2 heart beats away from the White House, Ms. Pelosi. She has principles, she operates her life arround those principles, she hunts, she births and raises her children, and an executive to boot. Now we need to get the Dem majority out of the way.... find a Sarah Palin from your home district and get them on the ticket. TAKE BACK WASHINGTON FROM THE CAREER POLITICIANS !

I need a picture of her with a musket held high like Heston.

re: #154 cicero05

I'll bet Palin was never a "community organizer."

Probably never ran with the SDS crowd, either.

re: #143 A440Hz

Was that talk merely tough or talk really tough? Not the dread sternly worded note Ihope?

I've got a girl crush on Palin.

And her hubby is hot.

Just sayin'.

And the Kos kids who attack her for having a Downs syndrome child, it just proves what I have been observing about a lot of self described liberals: no true compassion for their fellow human beings.

Some are sexist, racist, and prejudiced to the core. Everything they claim only describes Republicans.

re: #105 ggt

We need a campaign poster with Sarah holding a shotgun in the Alaskan Wilderness. REAL WOMEN will love it. (and a few men, I suppose)

A few men? Geez! Sarah Shotgun, poster girl! If she sticks to questions of reform, national defense, and traditional values, she'll do great.

I do hope that Mrs. Palin will not be the presidential science adviser as well as VP. That's not her strong suit. The Republican party has an albatross: the sector of politically active citizens who think that in order to defend freedom of religion, keep the schools from teaching amorality and blowing off geography, history, and algebra, and generally in order to stand for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, it is necessary to prevent the schools from teaching evolution, the antiquity of the earth and the universe, and the chemistry and physics of global warming.

This is not necessary. It isn't even possible. When Kansas Republicans of this stripe gained control of the state school board and installed their curriculum, the main body of Republicans defected. In the next election, a Democrat was elected governor, and the school board was replaced with people who accepted science.

re: #106 jester6

If you were anymore correct, I think... I think my head might explode. Thank you for bringing up this point. When I was reading the MSN gar-bage about her, they mentioned this and that was the first thing I thought of in terms of these two. Thanks again for pointing this out!

Gad, you should here the two librals on WTKK Boston, they are near apoplectic. Many elitist Freudian slips being uttered. One, making fun of Alaska alluded to Hawaii also being a backwater. Duh, the Obama seems to hail from theere iirc, lol.Also ranking on her for having,GASP, young kids to take care of, and McCain is soooooo old, she may have to step in before inauguration.Isn't Biden pushing 70, or does he fib about such things?

This is the kind of idiocy that is flowing like a river from the KosKid Keyboards today .

I don't buy this
having an unqualified, anti-woman VP is not progress, even if she is a woman. The fact that she was picked because of sexist assumptions about women and has a horrible anti-woman record underscores this.

She's anti-woman? That's the party line?

re: #169 taxfreekiller

First on the Democratic Party Commie MSM, Jessie High Jackson list will be "has she been open enough" has she imbraced diversity,,,,,!

He hasn't had an opportunity to blackmail her. shakedown.

OT: I wasn't able to post this earlier due to hamster fatigue, so here is the list of lizards who donated to McCain last night, plus or minus a couple of days. In no particular order:
1. I Heart the USA
2. Spirit93
3. PSGInfinity
4. rawmuse
5. Occasional Reader
6. reine.de.tout
7. mattm
8. Kosh's Shadow
9. capitalistincharge
10. the lizard
11. Russkiltlover
12. kevinmumaw
13. vbspurs
14. runrabbit
15. doppelganglander

Thanks to all, and feel free to post or email with updates. I hope the Palin selection motivates more of us to dig a little deeper. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we only have until next Thursday to donate directly to McCain; after that you can still contribute to the RNC.

And on the day after he was delivered unto his followers amongst pillars of plank, the Obamessiah unleashed his mighty bolt of stupidity upon the young foolish gun-clinging mother.

So it was written, so it will be told.

/the dumbass comes fast and furious from Obama/Biden/DNC

re: #85 lawhawk

Hillary spoke of the 18 million of her supporters.
Say 50% of them are women. That's 9 million people.

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This election cycle was all about identity politics. I've seen statistics that black men are like 80-90% for Obama and white men are 70-75% for McCain.

My only point is that the % of hillary supporters who are female is much higher than 50

re: #150 Golem Akbar

Obama, dem candidate for president, has zero foreign policy experience. Biden, dem candidate for VP, has a lot of foreign policy experience.

McCain, rep candidate for president, has a lot of foreign policy experience. Palin, rep candidate for VP, has zero foreign policy experience.

Who will make a better president? hmmmmm?

It is pretty incredible that Obama's campaign would talk about experience. Ain't they got any mirrors over there?

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Yesterday, the Democrats nominated a former Alinskyite Community Organizer with zero foreign policy experience to the presidency.

How's the work for ya' Burton?

re: #113 theblakester

Just because I'm not voting for Obama, doesn't make me a racist! But in an effort to not sound racist, I think we have crossed a line that will never allow us to nominated two white guys for president and vice president again. This is disturbing to me since it may just keep us from ever electing the two most qualified people to office ever again. I'm afraid this will only lead to more affirmative action type politics. I mean why not put a black women in a wheelchair, that is a lesbian. Where will this madness stop?

Yeah- God forbid McCain pick an independent, intelligent woman who's taken on government waste and energizes the base. He should have picked a fuddy-duddy we'd all yawn at. Give me a break.

I can't take it anymore, I'm going to give the hamsters a little relief.

Have a great day all!

re: #164 Walter L. Newton

It was. And it had 57 stars on it.

Are you sure? I thought there were 57 crescents.

She used to hunt moose with her Dad...hmm. PETA will be pissed, but they're always pissed.

Maybe we should change the name of the GOP to the "Bull Moose Party," which was once the party of "progressives" in this country. A maverick Prez, who often goes against the Party-grain, with a gun-totin', straight-talkin' young woman as the Veep...that's pretty progressive, when you think about it.

re: #178 mich-again

This is the kind of idiocy that is flowing like a river from the KosKid Keyboards today .

She's anti-woman? That's the party line?

I love that the democrats have these idiots as their core constituency.
perfect.

yea, Nevergiveup, Communists Liberals better pay attention or they are libel to get the Hockey Stick shoved up their A**es

re: #151 ciaospirit

I loved the fact that her flag pin was HUGE. No squinting trying to figure out if it was even a flag. I still haven't figured out if Obama's teeny pin was actually a flag.

She also wears a Blue Star pin.

re: #150 Golem Akbar

Obama, dem candidate for president, has zero foreign policy experience. Biden, dem candidate for VP, has a lot of foreign policy experience.

McCain, rep candidate for president, has a lot of foreign policy experience. Palin, rep candidate for VP, has zero foreign policy experience.

Who will make a better president? hmmmmm?

Biden has "experience" but none of it good. If we were to have followed his advice on Iraq, it would indeed have been a quagmire followed by civil war and genocide.

Palin has executive experience that neither Obama nor Biden have, despite Biden's tenure as a Senator. Longevity is not the same as knowledge or experience. Biden was chosen because he can't overshadow Obama, whereas the other prospective choices would have overshadowed Obama (Hillary, Richardson, etc.), or further highlighted his deficiencies.

I actually thought that Obama/Richardson would have been a stronger ticket than this since Richardson would get the hispanic vote, plus provide executive experience. Obama's people seriously miscalculated in an attempt to wholly divorce themselves from the Clintonistas.

Folks, this pick is genius. This is the hail mary pass, yes, but it's going to be caught in the end zone after being tipped up in the air by both teams. OK, enough with the analogy...

Here's why it's genius - because all the elitist Obama-philes in the media (mostly men) who pissed off Hillary voters with their sexism and elitism and put-downs of small towns and guns and religion are going to step in their own doo-doo with this....their condescension toward Sarah Palin will be their own undoing. Because THAT is what will piss off women voters enough to get a whole BUNCH of them to vote for McCain.

John McCain, chess-master. This is a checkmate type move. Now watch as the snobs on the Left step into the trap and reveal themselves to be the elitists they really are.

I can't even believe how brilliant it is. But you doubters, you'll see....the trap has been set, and the Left is about to step right in it. Nice!

On Fox now a spokeman for the Obama campaign said Sarah Palin is NOT Hilliary Clinton. THANK G_D!

re: #144 Nevergiveup

I think she and her family can hold their own!

I'm with her, but you can expect an attack on her that will make the attack on Obama look tame (Dems are viscious). There are lots of different ways it could play out. If Palin ever tears-up, she will not get the sam sympathetic reaction that Hillary got.

re: #130 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are actually making comments about her down syndrome son!

I am about to blow my cover over there! I have a special needs niece and this is unforgivable!

Yeah, well son A-hole named Reggie on the previous thread (comment #247) just wrote that Palin has 4.25 kids, which I interpret as a derogatory reference to her Downs Syndrome child. I'm trying to ding it down and report it as objectionable, but the system isn't responding.

LOL @ this chick Anita Dunn on FNC.

"She's just not ready."

Wait a minute, besides cutting "attack dog" Biden's legs off at the knees, I just realized something....

Sarah Palin is the "Anti-Pelosi"! The Pelosi Neutralizer! Yes! I barely know her and I'm loving our next Vice President!

This Obama broad on FOX just said Obama co-authored some anti-proliferation treaty? Did I miss something or are they making crap up again?

All that Obama and Biden have are stories about how strong their parents were and how they suffered.... Palin beats them on that first-person experience as well.

Jeesh. Sucks to be a Democrat.

Oh this is tooooo rich...savor this one lizards:

poster on kos:

Proves McCain is nothing more than an opportunist
Proves McCain is nothing more than an opportunist and that this woman has an ego far above her station. What in God's green earth makes this woman think she is ready to be President should the situation arise? Why in the world would she think for a skinny minute she is prepared for that. Obviously she is also delusional!

Obama needs to get all over this....

re: #131 really grumpy big dog Johnson

C-SPAN is replaying the Obamafest from last night. We know which side their bread is buttered on.

No, they know where their noses are.
And that ain't butter they're smelling.

re: #180 doppelganglander

I dropeed a $100 spot 2 weeks ago via mail, and will do it again today after this wonderful VP selection!

re: #150 Golem Akbar

As Governor of Alaska, she has a lot more day-to-day management of Foreign Relationships then one would immediately think;

- lots of Fisheries and Marine Resource issues (Russia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Philippines, etc.)
- a complex relationship with Canada
- just negotiated an international pipeline deal
- high percentage of Native Americans with some sovereign rights, and
- lots of transient international workers.

re: #146 really grumpy big dog Johnson

I don't think she's quaking in her boots.

I don't want her shaking in her boots, but I hope she's prepared. I know nothing about her other than the glowing bios that have been coming out. The pressure will be high. This ain't alaska politics.

She will probably be on all of the Sunday talk shows, so we should have a better feel for that next week.

re: #167 Piglet-U93

FLOOD of contributions, I'll bet. Republicans are excited for the first time in a long time.

Alaska is one of the "57" states Obama. And, Sarah is the GOVERNOR of this State and an extremely competent one. Way to go "Sarah" because I think you blind sided Obama and he might actually be a little afraid of you -- he should be!

re: #174 armytramp

I've got a girl crush on Palin.

And her hubby is hot.

Just sayin'.

And the Kos kids who attack her for having a Downs syndrome child, it just proves what I have been observing about a lot of self described liberals: no true compassion for their fellow human beings.

Some are sexist, racist, and prejudiced to the core. Everything they claim only describes Republicans.

I'm sure that they are highly critical that she chose to birth this child. Maybe they should say that to her face, in person. I hate gutless liberals, and believe me, that's pretty much what they are.

re: #193 stanleymberg

Folks, this pick is genius. This is the hail mary pass, yes, but it's going to be caught in the end zone after being tipped up in the air by both teams. OK, enough with the analogy...

Here's why it's genius - because all the elitist Obama-philes in the media (mostly men) who pissed off Hillary voters with their sexism and elitism and put-downs of small towns and guns and religion are going to step in their own doo-doo with this....their condescension toward Sarah Palin will be their own undoing. Because THAT is what will piss off women voters enough to get a whole BUNCH of them to vote for McCain.

John McCain, chess-master. This is a checkmate type move. Now watch as the snobs on the Left step into the trap and reveal themselves to be the elitists they really are.

I can't even believe how brilliant it is. But you doubters, you'll see....the trap has been set, and the Left is about to step right in it. Nice!

From your fingers to G-d's ears.

Palin will convince McCain to change his position on drilling in ANWAR and that will be a winner with the voters.

And being an Alaskan, she will also be able to make the case covincingly to the swing voters who may be on the fence when it comes to ANWAR.

re: #178 mich-again

This is the kind of idiocy that is flowing like a river from the KosKid Keyboards today .

She's anti-woman? That's the party line?

They got nothin'. Absolutely nothin'. They're grasping at straws.

Palin has just thrown the Dems for a big loss. For you old-time Dallas Cowboys fans, she is the new Too Tall Jones of this campaign.

re: #204 de La Valette

As Governor of Alaska, she has a lot more day-to-day management of Foreign Relationships then one would immediately think;

- lots of Fisheries and Marine Resource issues (Russia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Philippines, etc.)
- a complex relationship with Canada
- just negotiated an international pipeline deal
- high percentage of Native Americans with some sovereign rights, and
- lots of transient international workers.

All those issues are way over Obama's pay grade!

Funny how earlier this month the Obama crowd was cooing over Sarah Palin because she actually said a few kind words about Obama's energy plan, (the part about expanding natural gas production in Alaska.)

re: #199 Nevergiveup

This Obama broad on FOX just said Obama co-authored some anti-proliferation treaty? Did I miss something or are they making crap up again?

Co-signer, I think that's Lugar's legislation. One of those pie in the sky get ride of nukes ideas..

re: #198 Dripping Sarcasm

Wait a minute, besides cutting "attack dog" Biden's legs off at the knees, I just realized something....

Sarah Palin is the "Anti-Pelosi"! The Pelosi Neutralizer! Yes! I barely know her and I'm loving our next Vice President!

She's also the anti-Cheney...at least when it comes to charm.

Some of Obama's Hollywood advisors are running around for a copy of North to Alaska but will end up with Abbot and Costello's Lost in Alaska. Another is interviewing the production team from Northern Exposure. The arts graduate learns from The Edge that they are all crazy up there and finally some old guy assures them he remembers Jimmy Stewart in the Far Country and all that goes into Alaska is bacon and whiskey and all that comes out of Alaska is gold and dance hall floozies.

re: #130 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are actually making comments about her down syndrome son!

I am about to blow my cover over there! I have a special needs niece and this is unforgivable!

They don't want kids for themselves
Children are punishments to those that have them so they don't understand why anybody wants them. They can sorta see people who want to have one or two, but as icky as they are, why would anyone want five?!?

They don't want kids for their neighbors.
Also, children are resource consumers and carbon footprint makers, so they don't want their neighbors having many either. Zero is preferable, but they can kinda let people slide on one or two, as long as they recycle and turn off the water while brushing their teeth. But five?! That's just a selfish waste of earthly resources.

So of course, if they see people only as burdens on the world, never for the simple value of human life, or for the wonders they can contribute, they cannot fathom who would purposefully choose to bring a bigger "burden" into existance.

Scratch a liberal policy, find anti-human life at its core.

re: #196 Son of the Black Dog

It's been deleted!

I guess the Obamabots figure they have miscalculated. Here's the "new and improved" statement from the Obama campaign, "congratulating" Governor Sarah Palin on her nomination for Vice President of the United States of America -

Dem Ticket On Palin: "Old Barriers Are Falling"

Barack Obama and Joe Biden issued a joint statement a few moments ago welcoming Sarah Palin to the WH contest:

“We send our congratulations to Governor Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the republican nominee for Vice President. It is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward Governor Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign."

re: #214 jcm

Co-signer, I think that's Lugar's legislation. One of those pie in the sky get ride of nukes ideas..

So all bullshit no reality?

She's no Hillary Clinton

Do you really want to pursue that argument?

/bring it on dumb talking points regurgitator person

re: #167 Piglet-U93

The McCain website is overloaded "Server is too busy" except for the first page and lesser used features.

[Link: www.johnmccain.com...]

Contribution page up and running.

I am in now, as McCain may be showing some management skill after all. Let us see if the gender/race issue is as important as the left has made it out to be. A white guy and a white woman vs one and a half white men......
Shouldn't even be close.

re: #130 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are actually making comments about her down syndrome son!

I am about to blow my cover over there! I have a special needs niece and this is unforgivable!

If you're 100% committed to Right To Life, what choice do you have?

We would never have dared to risk a late-30's child if amniocentesis and abortion in the event of Down syndrome had not been an option. The strain on the family would have blown the lid off, ruining the chances of our other children.

Still, the odds were 20 to 1 or better that the child would have been just fine. Bearing and raising children such as her other four, and such as the more likely result of a fifth pregnancy, is a contribution to society, and Palin will not leave it to the State to provide the financial resources for the long term support of the unfortunate fifth child.

re: #140 DeafDog

I guess it's fun to be excited, but this pick is risky. Palin has never been through a national campaign and does not understand how much she will be pilloried.

Something tells me that this woman has a core of stainless steel.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

The problem is that now cuts both ways. It makes it harder for McCain to attack Obama's lack of experience. Experience (or lack of) may just have become a moot issue.

Moot? Obama is running for the top slot and has none. Can't Palin get some OJT before McCain drops over.

Mayor of 9,000...

Isn't that exactly 9,000 more than you've ever led in anything but a reading from the book of "What's Wrong with Amerikka"?

Go back to the parthenon, Zeusy-baby...

Ace responds to the Obama campaign:

Just curious: Before Obama was a junior senator for sixteen months before he decided he knew enough to be President, he was a state legislator.

How many people did he represent? What was the size of his district? 15,000? 20,000? Is this the hill he wants to die on?

And note, once again, that Palin's experience was as the executive of that small town, the leader, the top dog, the decider, the chief law enforcement officer, whereas Obama was... a backbenching nobody in a body of hundreds, none of whom had ultimate responsibility for anything they did.

She governed that town; Obama merely represented his district in committee.

Oh, and he was corrupt. She wasn't.

I do admit he has more experience dealing with terrorists first hand... but we don't need to talk about William Ayers and his Manson-enthusiast wife Bernadette Dohrn right now.

Perfect.

re: #220 Nevergiveup

So all bullshit no reality?

re: #220 Nevergiveup

So all bullshit no reality?

Anybody see this from the DNC Website? The Next Cheney She wasn't even on their radar.

Rush is saying that you will see people posting against her down syndromes son.

He doesn't know it yet, but they already are.

This is a solid pick, although at first I worried about because of the experience thing. However, I'd rather have her "inexperience" then a Chicago machine politician.

I am here to eat some crow. I argued with several other lizards on this, saying that there wasn't any way this pick would happen due to realpolitik of McCain needing to pull more populous states than Alaska.

Instead I am both amazed and proud that principle won over pandering, and that a Governor from my state will become the next Vice President of the United States.

Kudos to all those lizards who were pulling for Sarah in the comments, I just didn't believe it would happen. This impresses me even more about McCain.

re: #199 Nevergiveup

This Obama broad on FOX just said Obama co-authored some anti-proliferation treaty? Did I miss something or are they making crap up again?

It is essentially true. He and Lugar co-wrote the amendment.

re: #215 Ringo the Gringo

She's also the anti-Cheney...at least when it comes to charm.

She's Dick Cheney without the Dick!

(Hopefully she won't shoot anyone ;~)

re: #207 Miss Molly

Alaska is one of the "57" states Obama. And, Sarah is the GOVERNOR of this State and an extremely competent one. Way to go "Sarah" because I think you blind sided Obama and he might actually be a little afraid of you -- he should be!

I think he is more than a little afraid of her. His campaign issued a negative statement within minutes of the time that it was confirmed that she would be the choice - even before McCain had introduced Sarah Palin. Then Obama made a further negative comment afterwards. And half his campaign bots have been on TV dissing her.

Now that it is apparent that they are being taken for a ship of rude, boorish fools with no manners or class, they have issued a "congratulatory" note.

The difference between John McCain and Barrak Hussein Obama could not be more clearly illustrated than in the actions the two men have taken in the last twenty four hours.

Guns, Baby's and Jesus

Hot Damn!

-Rush Limbaugh

re: #201 Typicalwhitey

"Oh this is tooooo rich...savor this one lizards:

poster on kos:

Proves McCain is nothing more than an opportunist
Proves McCain is nothing more than an opportunist and that this woman has an ego far above her station. What in God's green earth makes this woman think she is ready to be President should the situation arise? Why in the world would she think for a skinny minute she is prepared for that. Obviously she is also delusional!

Obama needs to get all over this...."

Man, you can almost smell the fear......:)

The whiney brats need a CHANGE...of their diapers. And she's just the one who can do it...she's got 5 kids and still finds time to run a government.

re: #99 jill e

It is also the anniversary of Women getting the right to vote.

re: #16 galloping granny

Oh my goodness listen to the Obamabots spin, spin, spin - she can't pull over those Hillary voters!

/The female newsanchors seem really enthusiastic about her.

The Hillary STAMPEDE from The Messia over to McCain is deafening...

[Link: www.hillaryclintonforum.net...]

re: #210 Ringo the Gringo

Palin will convince McCain to change his position on drilling in ANWAR and that will be a winner with the voters.

And being an Alaskan, she will also be able to make the case covincingly to the swing voters who may be on the fence when it comes to ANWAR.

Now that is a vote winner!

Palin is an affirmative action selection and the Dems can't be heard to complain. But I don't believe in affirmative action. You pick the best person for the job.

re: #178 mich-again

This is the kind of idiocy that is flowing like a river from the KosKid Keyboards today .

She's anti-woman? That's the party line?

Republican blacks aren't "really" black and Republican women aren't "really" women, to them.

In other words, they presume all blacks, women, etc. think and act a certain way, so if someone thinks differently, that someone cannot belong to that group.

Classic bigotry, thinking that an entire group is alike.

I have a new report from zombie, but traffic is so high I haven't been able to post it - keeps timing out scaling the images.

re: #235 Thanos

I am here to eat some crow. I argued with several other lizards on this, saying that there wasn't any way this pick would happen due to realpolitik of McCain needing to pull more populous states than Alaska.

Instead I am both amazed and proud that principle won over pandering, and that a Governor from my state will become the next Vice President of the United States.

Kudos to all those lizards who were pulling for Sarah in the comments, I just didn't believe it would happen. This impresses me even more about McCain.

No need to eat crow...here have some moose lol.

I am THRILLED with this choice.
I have to say, and don't make fun of me and call me an obamabot, but I did get chills and a few tears watching her speech.

Very big moment for some of us....ahem....seasoned women.

re: #247 Charles

Whee!
(for you have received the post, NOT for the problems)

re: #239 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Guns, Babies, and Jesus

Hot Damn!

-Rush Limbaugh

Gosh, I hope the Goddess didn't see that!

Let the Kos Kidz post about her Downs son. They just went from ghoul to super-ghoul status. Ah fuck, they were already there years ago. Can you say "pond scum"?

The main theme of the koskids is that Sarah is a "token" choice.
How ironic is that?

I can't even imagine how much it'll frost the left if the first woman as VP is a conservative Republican!

re: #247 Charles

I have a new report from zombie, but traffic is so high I haven't been able to post it - keeps timing out scaling the images.

Oh, you mean the [x]'s all over aren't my NSFW filter (GRIN)? It'll take more than 5 hr energy drink for the hampsters today!

re: #235 Thanos

Indeed- I was skeptical it would happen, but I've never been happier to tip my hat to my fellow Lizards who were trying to show the way. McCain at Saddlebrook was winning me over. Today- I'm completely convinced.

McCAIN/PALIN 08!

re: #251 EIDE_Interface

There is no greater hug than the hug of a person with Down's Syndrome. Period.

re: #243 Max Darkside

Beautiful comments!

PALIN SHOULD CHALLENGE OBAMA TO DEBATE their relative foreign policy experience and credentials.

I would love to see that. She already is going to rip poor old Slow Joe Biden to shreds in the vice-presidential debate.

You'd think an "articulate and clean" guy (not my words!) with all that experience, appeal and charisma like Barack would welcome a debate with the GOP veep nominee.

She would eat his lunch.

Obama already ducked a debate challenge from McCain. How do you think he'd look if he refused to debtate the "former mayor" of a town of "just" 9,000? (contrasting Obama's sole executive experience as the figurehead editor of the Harvard Law Review).

Our small town mayor would whup your big-time community organizer.

So she doesn't come from the fleshpots of Chicago "community organizing". And this should bother most of us...because?

re: #252 Typicalwhitey

The main theme of the koskids is that Sarah is a "token" choice.
How ironic is that?

She sure didn't sound very "token" during her speech this morning, imo!

re: #230 taxfreekiller

never mind... I was pondering black holes and their propensity for sucking everything around them into nothingness but it might be unwise to discuss theories of the universe in relation to BO.

re: #247 Charles

I have a new report from zombie, but traffic is so high I haven't been able to post it - keeps timing out scaling the images.

SCALING ,,,

(way too easy )

AP reporting that Palins experience rivals Obamas
LOL

Palin speaks to newsmax.

My gut feeling is that Hillary isn't too happy about this. She may want McCain to win this time around, but Palin as VP may become the anti-Hillary candidate in 2012 or 2016.

re: #196 Son of the Black Dog

Yeah, well son A-hole named Reggie on the previous thread (comment #247) just wrote that Palin has 4.25 kids, which I interpret as a derogatory reference to her Downs Syndrome child. I'm trying to ding it down and report it as objectionable, but the system isn't responding.

I downdinged it and reported it. It's now been deleted. Thank you Charles. Reggie is a total b*****d.

re: #250 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Gosh, I hope the Goddess didn't see that!

What's it worth to you for me NOT to bring it to her attention?

/hey, KosKiddie, wanna see a REAL opportunist? Huh?

the left are so devoid of originality and actual dialog all they can spew is DNC talking point: "McCain is Bush - he's Bush II - She's Cheney..."
Ad nauseam ....

So tired.

Can't even get to the Hillary forum. Lots of servers on their knees today.

re: #71 wccawa

Not to sound TOO over the top, but...

I'm getting the sense that this is an historic moment- for the GOP, and for US politics in general.

Just watching Palin give that speech, I can only imagine the fear that is running rampant in Obama's camp right now. She would not only handle Biden in a debate, I honestly think she'd KO the Obamessiah.

Perfect pick. Perfect time. Life is good.

I heard the news about Palin in the car and was so psyched. I arrived home and told my husband, "I finally feel like a part of the GOP." I've always voted Republican but it did get frustrating waiting for a woman to be on the ticket. This is definitely a historic day.

Mark my words: Joe Biden will soon be under the bus. He'll withdraw from the race for "personal" reasons next month.

re: #226 Son of the Black Dog

Something tells me that this woman has a core of stainless steel.

I hope you're right, but I've never seen LGF this gushing for anyone except maybe General Petreus or Ambassodor Bolten. (and both of those two guys have looong track records). This level of Palin-love makes me nervous, but it's fun for a day or two.

Dem logic: Vote for the V.P. with the most experience, however, forget experience when selecting the President..it's about change.