So is there a little disinformation being spread by McCain's campaign, or is he sending Palin out for extra maverick points?

re: #1 OldLineTexan

extra maverick points?

EMP. I like it.

Release the Sarahcuda!

Good....Send her, and her husband.

At least somebody in that camp has a little fight in her.

Let her fight! Let her work her magical common touch. If nothing else- make 0bama fight for Michigan.

that makes me feel a bit better now, since i'm planning to give one of her speeches next week...

Turn her loose!

Sarah to McCain: "Well, John, do I have to drag you into the White House?"

The Pros of staying in MI: keeps Obama bogged down on trying to hold a state that should be a D leaner.

The Cons: Spending money on a state that has gone D the last two Presidential cycles and where it doesn't seem likely that McCain will break through.

The pros of leaving MI: spend the money and time where it will do the most good.

The cons of leaving MI: disspirited GOPers wondering where things went wrong.

I think it's an uphill battle to take MI, but the way they announced the pullout was bad - the timing especially.

Palin needs to really get out there, and do unto OH and PA that she wants to do in MI. They have similar demographics and polling suggests a far closer race there. Take those two, and Obama has a huge uphill battle. Palin could certainly connect there - and she's got to go to town after town all over the heartland to get out the vote and improve the outlook among the rank and file who are out of sorts. McCain has to get his game face on and really hit 'em hard. He needs to get angry - and start laying into the Democrats and their fecklessness over the whole bailout and the events that led up to it.

She's the ideal weapon to win over Michiganders.

She can make an appearance in Dearbornistan, in a short skirt.

/bwahahahahaha!

Since every Democrate is running against President Bush this fall, McCain-Palin should run against the Michigan Democratic leadership in that state.

Contrast their policies with Democratic ideas...the high taxes, over regulation, etc.

re: #12 Ward Cleaver

with her trusty bodyguard, Winchester, of course.

John, are you listening? You could learn a thing or two from that woman. Maybe more than your aids can teach you about winning an election. She has a magnetic enthusiasm you could stand to catch.

OT - I see where the market is barfing over the House passing the "bailout".

Methinks the pols got that one dead wrong. All they have succeeded in doing is postponing the hang-over.

Do McCain and Palin have the same blood type? She should give him a transfusion. He's down a couple quarts.

re: #12 Ward Cleaver

She can make an appearance in Dearbornistan, in a short skirt.

/bwahahahahaha!

And a long jakcet?

re: #16 unreconstructed rebel

i take it the bailout is the 'hair of the dog' sort of remedy?

What is the difference in their ages? 30 years?

re: #11 stuiec

She's the ideal weapon to win over Michiganders.

Shoot, she sounds like she could've come from somewhere north of Saginaw with her accent. I have a feeling she and her husband would connect very well.

re: #18 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

no, a full metal jacket...

Go Sarah! Send her there on her own and let her work those people up. Obama will have to spend time there because she will definitely be effective.

Flip the ticket. I would love to see Sarah in the #1 slot and out from under McCain's thumb and having to stand up for his positions. Let Sarah be Sarah.

We can probably find some folks for her to stay with, save money right there.

That woman could talk me into writing bad checks :)

re: #17 HelloDare

Be nice. He has been in the front line for awhile. She's just in & still has the fire. Just in time, too.

Who do we know in Michigan?

re: #28 FightingBack

calling all great lakes lizards...

Dow is DOWN 150.so much for bailout.

re: #24 engrpat

Flip the ticket. I would love to see Sarah in the #1 slot and out from under McCain's thumb and having to stand up for his positions. Let Sarah be Sarah.

Bad idea. One of the strong points of the McCain/Palin ticket is the Accomplished Actor/Neophyte Understudy aspect of it. Something the Dems got completely backwards.

re: #12 Ward Cleaver

She can make an appearance in Dearbornistan, in a short skirt.

/bwahahahahaha!

Let a flurry of fatwas rain down

Send Sarah and the First Dude into all of the union-strong areas of the state. They're "union folk".

Palin is 44; McCain is 72.

re: #18 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Great song.

Did you know that I am smitten over Gov.Palin.

/go gettem Girl

Why hasn't the GOP taken advantage of Mitt Romney's clout in his home state and asked him to stump for the ticket?

re: #34 J.D.

Palin is 44; McCain is 72.

Send Palin to Michigan, McCain to Florida.

re: #38 FightingBack

divide & conquer?

re: #37 SagamoreGal

Why hasn't the GOP taken advantage of Mitt Romney's clout in his home state and asked him to stump for the ticket?

Hard feelings between Mitt&John?

Sarah should be hitting all the swing states that are culturally sympathetic toward her: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and all the old northwest. I guarantee she'll close the gap there and maybe even flip a few states.

re: #38 FightingBack

Send Palin to Michigan, McCain to Florida.

Got that right!

Sort of OT: I was thrilled this morning. Sarah Palin did a really great job last night in the debate. My high school age daughter, whom I've been training to see how the press is acting as a marketing department for the Dem party, sat down to start her breakfast. She looked at the front page of our local paper and said, "Wow. This paper is really for the democrats, aren't they?" Then she proceeded to start reading out loud snippets (including the headline and first line of the first story on the front page) that she felt sounded like Dem marketing literature. We are a blue state (especially in the public schools) surrounded by a sea of red states, so I'm working to make sure they see this bias (it's actually beyond bias and the Dems should have to report it as in-kind donations) in these breakfast table "news"papers. I'm about to introduce her to lgf, powerline, instapundit, pjmedia, etc. She'll at least be able to spot it before she leave home! She's a good writer; maybe she could be a teen correspondent for pj or something.

Hizballah is a much better community organizer than both Barry and McCain.

And they're pulling for Barry.

No brainer.

Sarah palin is a piece of work. She has been villafied in the most outrageous & gutteral ways. Yet she is enthusiastic, positive & ready to take the fight to the enemy.
McCain needs a wake up call. Let me torture a baseball analogy, McCain is like a starting picther getting lit up. He won't yield the mound to the closer, Sarah Palin.
She is his chance to win.

re: #30 beens21

Dow is DOWN 150.so much for bailout.

DOW was fine until. I had been for this, but folks on the street keep telling me this is not good. Congress is just not listening.

There once was a woman named Palin.
Who worried this country was ailin'.
She held her head high,
And looked to the sky,
And sent her opponents arms flailin'.

You can do it, Sarah! Give 'em what for!

re: #41 Anthony (Los Angeles)

Sarah should be hitting all the swing states that are culturally sympathetic toward her: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and all the old northwest. I guarantee she'll close the gap there and maybe even flip a few states.

And Minnesota!

If you want to help the fight.

[Link: www.newsmax.com...]

somewhere in the "Obama hit by shock and awe can be defeated"

"Obama's Radical Agenda Exposed"

place to donate to the RNC , legal fund to work on the voter fraud

its your country,fight for it

She is tough and tenacious, in politics that is the right stuff. Get her out to the people in MI., have her make some newsworthy fighting statements and reap free news coverage.

She has the common touch- she connects with people in a way no other candidate can do. Use it- it is our greatest weapon this election. People want a real person with real common sense- show her off, let her work the crowds. She can make a difference.

re: #30 beens21

Dow is DOWN 150.so much for bailout.

Expect that to change as credit starts to loosen up when the implementation begins. The big breath-holding period while we waited for passage/rejection is now over. It's also Friday afternoon. Monday could be interesting. Will we close Monday at 11,000 or 9,000?

Go Sarah & Todd

& didn't McCain say

"This is America, nothing is inevitable here."?

Go !

re: #30 beens21

Dow is DOWN 150.so much for bailout.

Buy the rumor, sell the fact.

re: #47 MrSilverDragon

thanks, mr. dragon -- i was wondering how it was pronounced.

re: #37 SagamoreGal

Why hasn't the GOP taken advantage of Mitt Romney's clout in his home state and asked him to stump for the ticket?

Somebody on here said yesterday that Romney was campaigning for McCain in MI (Romney was there yesterday).

Keep Sarah and Todd in WI, MN, MI, OH and PA, with a couple of stops in the CO/NM/NV area. Have her and Mitt team up in MI, especially.

Mac should team up with Joe Lieberman and hit FL like they're planning on moving there permanently.

Where the hell are Huck and Fred? Both of them should be out there hitting the trail.

And send Mac with Rudy on a nine state tour of all the battlegrounds.

They need to get out there and hit it, HIT IT HARD!

When Barry Goldwater picked Bill Miller of New York to run as his VP everybody scratched their heads. Nobody had heard of him. Goldwater said "I like this guy because he drives Johnson crazy." Sarah does the same thing for all dems - especially the Beast. Give her to Michigan and she will devour their resources. Everywhere she goes she will draw a crowd. Every hand she shakes will be a vote in our column. Perhaps Sarah is our October Surprise.

Outside of metro Detroit, and really the city of Detroit proper, she would really connect. Let her go after the Reagan Democrats in Macomb county and downriver.

Sarah doesn't know the meaning of losing until the game is over. I can totally identify with her - and so can lots of Americans.

Are you taking notes, McCain campaign? More importantly, are you planning on letting her do this? If not, you should.

She is the embodiment of the American spirit.

Go, Sarah, go!

As a Michigander myself, I think my state is solidly in the 'wouldn't it be nice if we won there?' column for the McCain campaign. Alas, I don't think there is much hope from a state that brought us the likes of Micheal Moore...

I want her to be out as much as possible so that the PDS crybabies can just hate her that much more. I want people to get used to seeing the first female President of the United States, because she is it.

Well, we'll always have the Hash Bash.

re: #57 Intrepid

Mitt and Sarah in MI, and Sarah with Rudy in other leaning states. I spoke with a couple of libs who liked Rudy- Sarah and Rudy would draw crowds.

Sarah for President!

Related to finance, CitiGroup lost a mere 25 BILLION in market capitalization today (so far) after Wells Fargo stole Wacovia from them in a deal that is good for everyone (except Citi).

Yes, the markets don't like the bailout. Time for the hangover.

re: #57 Intrepid

i like the way you strategerize...

Totally OT: How would you like a really fast wireless network? 802.11n is 160 megabits per second. But researchers have hit 10 gigabits a second.

That's my kind of network.

re: #51 Sharmuta

She has the common touch- she connects with people in a way no other candidate can do. Use it- it is our greatest weapon this election. People want a real person with real common sense- show her off, let her work the crowds. She can make a difference.

Exactly, her very normalcy seems exotic to the MSM & other Libs.
The country gets it & needs to see more of her. She has charm , likeability, attractiveness & smarts.
Unlike Obama people , we don't think that she's god, but a good choice.

Re this bailout: I remember seeing pieces on TV with people who had owned their houses for a long time - paid off even. Their house "value" had gone up so high that they were being forced to sell and move because they couldn't pay the property tax rates. Think what will happen now with yet another layer of govt subsidy. I can't for the life of me figure out how the Dems see themselves as the party with heart when their actions wipe out any any upward mobility among the poorest.

Mass Killings and Human Rights Violations in Syria

Now you know.

Because G-d forbid the American MSM have an Arab Affairs Desk.

Just don't tell anybody.

re: #33 SagamoreGal

Except the Steelworkers, true to form, said they didn't want Todd Palin being referred to as a Steelworker - he doesn't represent "union".

Wonder if they are returning is dues money?

/

OT
! OBAMA YOUTH VIDEO !
If you think the singing children were creepy.....

=O

This made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
(Back to lurking.)

re: #70 Ben Hur

Nancy Pelosi's visit has done much good apparently.

re: #70 Ben Hur

re: #67 vxbush

Cool, but you've got to cross the streams!

re: #5 dgax65

At least somebody in that camp has a little fight in her.

And, at least somebody in that camp is really worth fighting for!

re: #64 Sharmuta

Mitt and Sarah in MI, and Sarah with Rudy in other leaning states. I spoke with a couple of libs who liked Rudy- Sarah and Rudy would draw crowds.

Goodness - wouldn't that be a rally you'd sell your granny to attend?

Waiting for Rezco is like wating for Godot, either the sho drops or not, maybe McCain figures if he has that why risk a gaffe or waste money? If he doesn't have that why risk a gaffe or waste money?

re: #35 Ben Hur

Great song.

Of course, I just want to smack the old fart who whines "I heard it all before and it was so much better in when it was original in the 40s"

'Thinking Cap' turns you into a genius

We're doomed.

Funny, I had 2 pollsters call me after the debate, a Seattle TV station who I answered that I thought Palin won and Iflill was fair. The other was the Washington state Democratic Party. I asked them why they weren't calling a cemetery, homeless shelter or prison instead. They were not amused.

McCain's campaign approach is reminding me a little of Bush I, the time he ended up going on thyroid meds after (didn't I read that)... low energy, not calling out the opponents' follies that would help McCain get votes.

re: #69 Sunlight

Re this bailout: I remember seeing pieces on TV with people who had owned their houses for a long time - paid off even. Their house "value" had gone up so high that they were being forced to sell and move because they couldn't pay the property tax rates.

Ours in MN went from about $3,200 to $5,500/year (ouch!) and we jumped the appraiser (almost literally) and he dropped the valuation some. They just went through our house for another appraisal some weeks ago and we are soon awaiting the statement. It better be about 20% down or it's "Jumpin'" time again.

re: #66 Querent

i like the way you strategerize...

I like strategery....

;-)

Maybe the ticket should read "Palin/McCain"...

Flip the ticket around. Is McCain catatonic?

re: #84 Intrepid

here in the Lizard War Room underneath DIA...

re: #79 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

I've heard it on the radio and didn't know who the artist was.

Tried to search for it but got NSFW sites.

Now I know.

Yipeee!

re: #80 Ben Hur

Uh, I think I'll pass on surrounding my head with a magnetic field, thanks.

re: #85 davinvalkri

Maybe the ticket should read "Palin/McCain"...

Jinx!

where can I find a good demographic breakdown on Michigan population?...I know obama will take detroit and dearbornistan, ann arbor...but I got to think future VP Palin will play real well out of the main population areas and the Upper Peninsula, do the populations of the areas I mention out weigh the rest of population of the state? I know Detroit metro has got to be a couple of million people? or am I wrong?

Why aren't the Republicans pounding the Democrats about the "idiots: memo? Especially in Colorado?

Wouldn't you have just LOVED to have seen a Romney/Palin ticket in Michigan.

Would that state turn red . . . or at least purple?

/sighing for what cannot be.

Oh well, we have to work with what we have. Come on, John Sidney McCain - fight for your country, like your running mate is doing. She can't carry your water all the time!

re: #88 Ben Hur

I've heard it on the radio and didn't know who the artist was.

Tried to search for it but got NSFW sites.

Now I know.

Yipeee!

Lead singer of Cake looks just like one of the guys I work with. We're always messing with him about it.

Because of the economic crisis it sounds like Mike Bloomberg is going to raise taxes here in NYC... And of course, his big news yesterday that he is seeking a 3rd term and is working it out to overturn Term Limits (voted and approved twice by the people)...

re: #81 JHW

Funny, I had 2 pollsters call me after the debate, a Seattle TV station who I answered that I thought Palin won and Iflill was fair. The other was the Washington state Democratic Party. I asked them why they weren't calling a cemetery, homeless shelter or prison instead. They were not amused.

I'm totally amused!

re: #69 Sunlight

Re this bailout: I remember seeing pieces on TV with people who had owned their houses for a long time - paid off even. Their house "value" had gone up so high that they were being forced to sell and move because they couldn't pay the property tax rates. Think what will happen now with yet another layer of govt subsidy. I can't for the life of me figure out how the Dems see themselves as the party with heart when their actions wipe out any any upward mobility among the poorest.

In fact, many DEMs belong to the "I got mine & I'm going to see to it no one else does" club. What is striking is the clever way they fool the poorer. Look, we raised taxes on the super rich that in fact no rich guy actually pays. He hires clever tax lawyers & accountants to see that he does not.
What bugs me is how their constituents keep buying into it.

I posted this on a previous thread, but I think it's also relevant here....

My favorite moment in yesteday's debate was when she talked to the people telling them not to let this happen to them again. For those caught up in the real estate credit frenzy, she was making the classic self-reliance argument without being belittling. She wants to help you help yourself, and not promising that she could solve your problems for you. It was brilliant!

I know BHO promises to solve everyone's problems for them, and for some people they do not want to hear anything else. But if there are any reachable people in the audience, she reached them.

The Michigan economy has been underperforming for years. Why? Well, there are many reasons, but at least part of the issue are govt. programs that promote government reliance. Letting Palin try to reach those folks may work...maybe I'm just dreaming, but it's a happy dream so leave me be.

Hell Yeah, McCain can leave the ring Michigan, but tag in Sarah to clean up and attack the Demwho control the state and major cities. Never Give Up Never Surrender!

This entertainer is a throw back. He's clearly talented, and I've never seen anyone so laid back and at ease on stage. It's like that's where he belongs.

Gentle On My Mind, by John Hartford.

re: #92 lifeofthemind

"idiots: memo?

That's a new one on me...

re: #95 tfc3rid

Because of the economic crisis it sounds like Mike Bloomberg is going to raise taxes here in NYC...

I wish our business could force our customers to pay more when there is a shortfall. Flippin' Gov-ments. CUT SPENDING BLOOMIN' BERG. We do!

re: #100 Archimedes

John Hartford has been a throwback for a long long time.

re: #48 stuiec

And Minnesota!

You betcha, ya.

re: #98 DeafDog

My husband paused the TV when she said that...asked if I wanted to take a moment to cheer before she started back up...that was great

OT:
this is an interesting little blog (not mine, no pimping here)

JUDGE ORDERS OBAMA TO PRODUCE BIRTH CERTIFICATE

re: #80 Ben Hur

re: #95 tfc3rid

Because of the economic crisis it sounds like Mike Bloomberg is going to raise taxes here in NYC... And of course, his big news yesterday that he is seeking a 3rd term and is working it out to overturn Term Limits (voted and approved twice by the people)...

Lovely, just lovely, going against the will of the people. But he'll get re-elected.

/term limits- schmerm limits.

Is anybody else sick of the AP saying Biden won the debate? What the hell are they smoking?

re: #104 Honorary Yooper

You betcha, ya.

It's a Yooper! Ya! Hey, der! "It's da second week of deer camp..." You gotst a couch dat burps?

re: #64 Sharmuta
They would be a wonderfuly team.

wonderful* damn it

re: #57 Intrepid

Keep Sarah and Todd in WI, MN, MI, OH and PA, with a couple of stops in the CO/NM/NV area. Have her and Mitt team up in MI, especially.

Mac should team up with Joe Lieberman and hit FL like they're planning on moving there permanently.

Where the hell are Huck and Fred? Both of them should be out there hitting the trail.

And send Mac with Rudy on a nine state tour of all the battlegrounds.

They need to get out there and hit it, HIT IT HARD!

Huckabee's doing his stupid TV show, playing the gi-tar.