McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as running mate

[lordmaji]

I'm not cool and not on subject. BUT who the hell is this?

[The Fake Shemp]

O-Munn

[MrAngryFace]

This would all matter less if she hadn't been gov for only a year and a half. Every politician has boo boos, but most have them brought up after MANY years of service. Having all these problems packed into such a short period of time doesn't make her look human so much as just a bad candidate.

[siamesedreamer]

The biggest problem with Palin is the hypocritical nature of it all.  McCain definitely shot himself in the foot.

I don't disagree with that at all. But, doesn't Biden fall under the same category? Obama wants to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, yet picks a guy who's son lobbied for a bankruptcy bill that he played an important role in getting passed. And now people are paying the price during this housing mess.

They're going after Palin because 1) she's not Hillary and 2) she's an easy target because she's unknown.

[The Fake Shemp]

WORST VP SINCE QUAYLE?  SURVEY SAYS...

[The Fake Shemp]

I don't disagree with that at all. But, doesn't Biden fall under the same category? Obama wants to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, yet picks a guy who's son lobbied for a bankruptcy bill that he played an important role in getting passed. And now people are paying the price during this housing mess.

They're going after Palin because 1) she's not Hillary and 2) she's an easy target because she's unknown.

You already have shown the problem - it takes far too many dots to connect to make a worthwhile attack against Obama, regardless if they're connected or not.  It's harder to form an attack of BIDEN'S SON LOBBIED FOR A BILL THAT BIDEN HELPED PASS than it is of PALIN'S DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT LOL ABSTINENCE and PALIN GOT PORK SPENDING, McCAIN IS DIRECTLY OPPOSTED TO THAT and PALIN ABUSED HER POWER.

[MrAngryFace]

Supporting Palin despite EVERYTHING shows a huge lack of sense.

[jiji]

I'm just waiting for this pregnancy business to pass so that the media can get down to business on her ties to the Alaskan Independence Party.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9687

[The Fake Shemp]

Women will support Palin regardless.  She has a teen mother - like Juno!  She wears glasses!  She has a vagina!

Let's disregard that she wants to overturn a woman's right to choose, wants to disregard social reforms that women have directly proposed and wants to break the glass ceiling - so she can install an armed turret.

[Madrun Badrun]

How many children at age 17 do you really think aren't sexually active?

*raises hand*

 :'(

meet any hot girls at collage yet?

[FlameOfCallandor]

I'm just waiting for this pregnancy business to pass so that the media can get down to business on her ties to the Alaskan Independence Party.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9687

Why is that a negative.

[TakingBackSunday]

How many children at age 17 do you really think aren't sexually active?

*raises hand*

 :'(

meet any hot girls at collage yet?

Some, but as a habit and lifestyle, I'm just socially inept.  I like to be alone a lot of the time.  I'm trying to talk to some of them though, so eh.

[jiji]

Why is that a negative.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Why is that a negative.

AKIP members apparently hold differing views on the statehood question and it's not clear if Palin was ever in favor of full Alaskan independence.

So she supported a third party. Is that a crime to you people?

[ShogunOfFear]

Supporting Palin despite EVERYTHING shows a huge lack of sense.

That statement could be applied to all four on both tickets.  Problem is we can dig up dirt on them all day, what makes dirt in sandbox a any cleaner than the dirt in sandbox b?  People have to choose someone and the fact is this election will come down to three things.

Economy
Energy
War

Whoever is elected will have sand in their shoe.

[Madrun Badrun]

How many children at age 17 do you really think aren't sexually active?

*raises hand*

 :'(

meet any hot girls at collage yet?

Some, but as a habit and lifestyle, I'm just socially inept.  I like to be alone a lot of the time.  I'm trying to talk to some of them though, so eh.

A girl once called me socially inept.  High-five! 

[siamesedreamer]

You already have shown the problem - it takes far too many dots to connect to make a worthwhile attack against Obama, regardless if they're connected or not.  It's harder to form an attack of BIDEN'S SON LOBBIED FOR A BILL THAT BIDEN HELPED PASS than it is of PALIN'S DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT LOL ABSTINENCE and PALIN GOT PORK SPENDING, McCAIN IS DIRECTLY OPPOSTED TO THAT and PALIN ABUSED HER POWER.

BIDEN'S SON IS A LOBBYIST, OBAMA IS AGAINST LOBBYING

easy really...

[ShogunOfFear]

Palin's weakness is the same as Obama's, inexperience.  Her strength is energy.

[GilloD]

Palin's weakness is the same as Obama's, inexperience.  Her strength is energy.

Incorrect, her strength is that she turns into a polar bear twice a month. A wave of mysterious murders will ripple through Washington!

[ShogunOfFear]

lulz that would make a good coke commercial.

[Positive Touch]

Why is that a negative.

AKIP members apparently hold differing views on the statehood question and it's not clear if Palin was ever in favor of full Alaskan independence.

So she supported a third party. Is that a crime to you people?

she supported a party that wanted her state out of the country, but now she wants to lead the country.  do you see how that is funny?

[GilloD]

I'm pretty sure I could get a bestseller out of a book series that focuses on the nation's first Native American vice president who solves mysteries in his polar bear form.

Let us write it together under a ridiculous psuedonym, like Leonard Flupante.

The series will be called "Under a Platinum Moon".

Book 1: Spirit Calling, wherein Mayor Ursula (URSINE GET IT) Canning, Eskimo woman and mother of three, struggles to deal with the responsibilities of being a full-time Mom while being Mayor of Bear Den, Alaska. When her husband dies under mysterious circumstances, Ursula finds herself tapping into an ancient well-spring of power and uses her gifts to solve the murder. Here's the rub: The killer was an OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVE who wanted to bulldoze Bear Den. Ursula's husband stood up to him. Riding the wave of a successful prosecution, Ursula manages to become Governer of Alaska, setting the stage for Book 2.

[GilloD]

Why is that a negative.

AKIP members apparently hold differing views on the statehood question and it's not clear if Palin was ever in favor of full Alaskan independence.

So she supported a third party. Is that a crime to you people?

You're that kid in Philosophy 101 who goes "I THINK A BRAVE NEW WORLD IS A GOOD IDEA" and then acts smug when no one can argue with you because you just don't get it.

[siamesedreamer]

Here we go:

http://www.intrade.com/#

[Eric P]

have her leave her hippie dippie conservationist man for a new big oil boyfriend which like eat pray love you can use to make a stand about women's sexuality.

somehow

[The Fake Shemp]

This is all irrelevant anyway - John McCain will be President and then we will just look at her sway her MILF bottom through the press.

[Joe Molotov]

This is all irrelevant anyway - John McCain will be President and then we will just look at her sway her MILF bottom through the press.

I approve of this message.

[brawndolicious]

foc, it's illegal for a state to secede.  the problem isn't that she was in some third party that no one has ever heard about.  the problem is that the party that she supported was in favor of denying the authority of the entire constitution.  that's a bad platform for a vp pick.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Why is that a negative.

AKIP members apparently hold differing views on the statehood question and it's not clear if Palin was ever in favor of full Alaskan independence.

So she supported a third party. Is that a crime to you people?

she supported a party that wanted her state out of the country, but now she wants to lead the country.  do you see how that is funny?

Democrats support socialism, something that is the exact opposite of the principles this country was founded on, yet you aren't complaining about them are you?.

[FlameOfCallandor]

foc, it's illegal for a state to secede.  the problem isn't that she was in some third party that no one has ever heard about.  the problem is that the party that she supported was in favor of denying the authority of the entire constitution.  that's a bad platform for a vp pick.

So if a candidate didnt support prohibition during that time he or she should have been laughed at?

[TakingBackSunday]

Errr, the Prohibition is a horrible example.  It was REVERSED.

[Human Snorenado]

The biggest problem with Palin is the hypocritical nature of it all.  McCain definitely shot himself in the foot.

I don't disagree with that at all. But, doesn't Biden fall under the same category? Obama wants to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, yet picks a guy who's son lobbied for a bankruptcy bill that he played an important role in getting passed. And now people are paying the price during this housing mess.

They're going after Palin because 1) she's not Hillary and 2) she's an easy target because she's unknown.

Naw, it's just 2.  McCain totally did this to himself, though.  He wanted to zig when everyone thought he was going to zag, and went with a "surprise" vp pick.  Sure it got a lot of press attention, but he had to know that since she was such an unknown on the national stage that there would be a feeding frenzy to find out who she was and what she'd been up to. 

He's totally backed himself into a corner now, too.  If he sticks with Palin, it shows that he doesn't have the judgment to be President because he made a shitty decision and was too stubborn to admit it.  (sound familiar?)  If he boots her, it proves that he doesn't have the judgment to be President because for the most important decision he's had to make so far in the campaign, he totally fucked it up.

Either way, McCain is fucked and Obama is our next President, which is pretty much as it should be.  People who don't like governing and on top of that suck at it shouldn't be allowed to do so.  Americans can be pretty slow, but they're figuring this out.

One last note- it's absolutely hilarious to watch these GOP flapping heads put their asses on the line defending this pick when it is becoming more and more obvious that Johnny Short Arms done fucked the pooch harder than Michael Vick.  The media and lefty flappers need to consistently throw her record into their faces whenever they try and sell that "reformer" bullshit.  Someone should also be keeping a database of all the dumb shit elected officials and flappy heads are saying in defense of Mayor Boobies McMooseburger so that it can be used to stab them in the back later on.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Errr, the Prohibition is a horrible example.  It was REVERSED.

Well for all we know some day Alaska might secede. Hindsight is 20/20.

[FlameOfCallandor]

My point is that pointing out her past political affiliations is just like point out Obama's Rev. Wright drama.

[Fresh Prince]

Unless Rev. Wright wanted to create his own party, try to secede from the United States and get a whole lot of black people to join him how is this same?

How can you be all for America if you wanted to break away from it?

[Human Snorenado]

ummmm...not really.

PROOF

[tiesto]

have her leave her hippie dippie conservationist man for a new big oil boyfriend which like eat pray love you can use to make a stand about women's sexuality.

somehow

My mom got this book from her friend, and I found it on the kitchen table the other day... started reading, only got 25 pages in... but man, the woman character already makes me sick. Everything I dislike about certain members of the opposite sex rolled up into one. 

[FlameOfCallandor]

Unless Rev. Wright wanted to create his own party, try to secede from the United States and get a whole lot of black people to join him how is this same?

How can you be all for America if you wanted to break away from it?

America =/= American values for some I guess.

Thats like saying "How can you be for America and hate the president."

[Fresh Prince]

The president is not the only thing in America.

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

you can say boboobobo huffington, but she said this stuff. Sigh PROOF?

[Van Cruncheon]

holy fuck, she's a pentecostal? YIKES PLUS.

foc, you don't even know what socialism is -- and there are indeed parts of the constitution (and the bill of rights) that are common to the tenets of socialism. (socialism and democracy are quite compatible, after all.) last i checked, your cult goddess ayn rand wasn't a founding father, although her giant jaw probably coulda beat even thomas paine's in a straight match-up

[Human Snorenado]

holy fuck, she's a pentecostal? YIKES PLUS.

foc, you don't even know what socialism is -- and there are indeed parts of the constitution (and the bill of rights) that are common to the tenets of socialism. (socialism and democracy are quite compatible, after all.) last i checked, your cult goddess ayn rand wasn't a founding father, although her giant jaw probably coulda beat even thomas paine's in a straight match-up

Her adam's apple is second to none also.  Even Ann Coulter's!

[FlameOfCallandor]

holy fuck, she's a pentecostal? YIKES PLUS.

foc, you don't even know what socialism is -- and there are indeed parts of the constitution (and the bill of rights) that are common to the tenets of socialism. (socialism and democracy are quite compatible, after all.) last i checked, your cult goddess ayn rand wasn't a founding father, although her giant jaw probably coulda beat even thomas paine's in a straight match-up

The founding fathers new that democracy was only the means to and end the end being complete personal liberty. Something that will never come close to happening in a huge bureaucratic socialist system. All you have to do is ask yourself why was the american revolution fought. It was fought essentially over taxes, something that socialists have a love affair with.

[Human Snorenado]

holy fuck, she's a pentecostal? YIKES PLUS.

foc, you don't even know what socialism is -- and there are indeed parts of the constitution (and the bill of rights) that are common to the tenets of socialism. (socialism and democracy are quite compatible, after all.) last i checked, your cult goddess ayn rand wasn't a founding father, although her giant jaw probably coulda beat even thomas paine's in a straight match-up

The founding fathers new that democracy was only the means to and end the end being complete personal liberty. Something that will never come close to happening in a huge bureaucratic socialist system. All you have to do is ask yourself why was the american revolution fought. It was fought essentially over taxes, something that socialists have a love affair with.

It was fought over TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IN GOVERNMENT, you fucking mouthbreathing simpleton.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, PUT IT BACK IN IT'S BOX

[Van Cruncheon]

it was fought over TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, dipshit. not TAXES unto themselves. the founding fathers implemented taxation as part of their new government!

and no, they weren't stupid enough to try and push democracy as the first step to minarchy. democracy was their complete goal -- putting the overall power to shape government in the hands of the people, and not autonomous self-rule. hell, something approximating half of the founding fathers were socialists of a fashion -- you know, the federalists? JESUS CHRIST GO BACK TO SCHOOL

[Van Cruncheon]

*fistbumps triumph*

[Positive Touch]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

you can say boboobobo huffington, but she said this stuff. Sigh PROOF?

EVERYONE SAY "WAR MODE"

i guess i should have figured that she was one of those "jesus wants us to kill" types, but it's still just crazy and sad to think that those types of people can get so far in politics

[Van Cruncheon]

assuming foc is some sort of representational average of american political knowledge and not a down's addled outlier like i hope he is, then yeah, i can easily see her getting elected by a hillbilly state full of concrete bunker types and millennialist jesus kooks

[Crushed]

I remember when the Founding Fathers ran away from Washington to give their full support to the Whiskey Rebellion.

George Washington rode his army up to Pennsylvania and said, "Boys, we're with you. Down with taxes."

[Eel O'Brian]

is she one of those snake-kissing pentecostal types

that could be entertaining

my dad and my uncle went to this holiness church up in the mountains when they were younger, for laughs (they were drunk)

he said they dumped a bucket of snakes on the floor and assholes were picking them up and kissing them and dancing around and speaking that crazy gibberish

if she promises to do that in the background during his state of the union addresses, i will vote mccain this november instead of staying home and goofing off on the internet like i was planning

[Eel O'Brian]

or if she promises to serve her term of office in the nude, as god intended

[Van Cruncheon]

eel o'brian, YOU ARE AMERICA.

[Eel O'Brian]

i totally am

seriously, though, where's the nude scandal, mama white is hot

[GilloD]

SARAH PALIN, L33t HAX0R: http://valleywag.com/5044455/sarah-palin-++-beauty-queen-sportscaster-hacker

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.236.com/news/2008/09/02/if_they_imd_loser_vps_1_8648.php

[Brehvolution]

SARAH PALIN, L33t HAX0R: http://valleywag.com/5044455/sarah-palin-++-beauty-queen-sportscaster-hacker

This picture is NOT Sarah Palin. It's Sabine Ehrenfeld from the Overstock advertisements. I know it makes your stories seem more interesting but please check your facts.

[Van Cruncheon]

SARAH PALIN, L33t HAX0R: http://valleywag.com/5044455/sarah-palin-++-beauty-queen-sportscaster-hacker

This picture is NOT Sarah Palin. It's Sabine Ehrenfeld from the Overstock advertisements. I know it makes your stories seem more interesting but please check your facts.

you gotta admit, though, the SEXY PROFESSIONAL WITH GLASSES look is hot hot hot hot!

[Brehvolution]

Ya, I have to admit that the resemblance is pretty close. But it still funny to me that they put up a pic of someone else.

[Van Cruncheon]

i think http://www.hillaryis44.org is replacing the free republic forums as my favorite batshit crazy post-work web stop

[Mr. Gundam]

i think http://www.hillaryis44.org is replacing the free republic forums as my favorite batshit crazy post-work web stop

Those are some certifiably insane ramblings. I can't decipher what they're trying to say.

What's their stance on the Palin selection by McCain? Do they like it?