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Open thread on McCain’s veep pick

August 29th, 2008 at 08:25am Pat Cunningham

I’ll be gone from Applesauce World Headquarters for a while this morning and likely will miss John McCain’s announcement of his choice for a running mate.

Discuss it among yourselves until I get back. (And please refrain from digressing to the boring arguments of late over who got banned from some other forum on this Web site for whatever reason. Nobody else cares.)

UPDATE: It looks like it won’t be Pawlenty or Romney. There’s some buzz that it might be Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Or will Joe Lieberman get the nod?

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1. Craig Knauss | August 29th, 2008 at 8:37 am

I hope it’s Allen Keyes. A perfect matchup!
2. Milton Waddams | August 29th, 2008 at 8:41 am

I think that if he wanted to pick a Beauty queen for his running mate, he could have gotten Miss Buffalo Chip a couple of weeks ago…you know the nude pageant he offered his wife up for. I don’t think Lieberman would get the nod because of his pro-choice stance. Unless he has changed that too. Which would make him an even better fit for McCain, since he’s changed his stance on lots of things…
3. Peter Gunn | August 29th, 2008 at 9:04 am

Thank God, “Nobody else cares” The Cyber Stalking has finally ended.

Now on to the Races…….

Pawlenty is McCains friend and probably his best choice.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a campaign gimmick to make the HRC rejection an issue

Sounds like a McCainiac tactic and could very well be

However, As I said in an earlier post, I think it’ll be Lieberman.

My reasons ….

First:
Because George Sez:…..

Because Dubya wants McSame to pick Joe Lieberman, And with McSames voting along with George W Bush more than 90% of the time why would he change now ????

Second:
The Kiss

No two Senators have been in such an intimate situation together with the Boy King than these two.

Both obviously also enjoy this overt display of man love.
It’s a Menage-a-Trois
( That’s French Folks),
Of Presidential Proportions.

So unless I’m proved wrong in the next couple of hours.
What Dubya Wants, Dubya Get’s, and he wants this Menage-a-Trois to Continue.

So, Lieberman it is and McSame will seal his fate as the Boy Kings Successor !
4. LD | August 29th, 2008 at 9:16 am

It’s Palin for the Pumas.
5. LD | August 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am

McCain, a former POW, just can’t resist those former beauty queens.
6. Milton Waddams | August 29th, 2008 at 9:48 am

Apparently, he has announced that he has chosen Sarah Palin as his mate, oops running mate. Pretty gimmicky to try and get the women who voted for Hillary. Hopefully it is seen by them for what it is, an insult to their intelligence. The idea that they would completely compromise their values and ideals, and vote for someone antithetical just because he picked a woman as his running mate. The idea that they would vote for a well known misagynist, who believes that Viagra should be covered by insurance, but the Pill should not simply because he has chosen a woman on his ticket. Your attempt to appeal to Hillary’s women voters is just another gimmick and it will fail. Despite the best efforts of the media to drum up controversy where none exists.
7. Peter Gunn | August 29th, 2008 at 10:18 am

Found this on the Dallas Morning News Site
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/08/five-reasons-wh.html

Five reasons why Sarah Palin is a laugh-out-loud choice for VP

Seriously? Sarah Palin for VP? It’s one thing for millions of voters to put forward a sitting senator as a possible commander in chief, but for John McCain to hand-pick a first-term governor of a tiny state is bizarre. Here are five reasons why, if she is the pick, this is a huge mistake:

1. There goes McCain’s best argument.
He cannot say Obama is not ready but she is. Obama started organizing his campaign for president the same month she was sworn in to lead the third-smallest state’s government.

2. She has no base of support.
Obama won his senate seat with 3,597,456 votes, that’s more than five times the population of Alaska. He has won more than 18 million votes in a long, tough primary that tested him and prepared him. How has she been tested? She lost her first bid for statewide office, then won the governor’s office with 114,697 votes, not a majority, but enough to take office. And apparently, enough to set her up for the Oval Office.

3. The “woman card” will backfire.
She’s no Hillary Clinton. And this is such an obvious ploy. It would be different if she were known to anyone or qualified or something.

4. Alaska, a corrupt hinterland.
Yes, she is a hard-nosed, tough reformer. But the McCain campaign will have to deal with the fact that Alaska seems like a foreign land as corrupt as Louisiana. It’s longtime senator will stand trial smack dab in the middle of this campaign season, and McCain may have to vote to remove him from office. Yes, they can spin it that she is someone cleaning up the mess up there, but what Americans realize is that they don’t know much about what goes on up there. Will they be comfortable with her?

5. Was this McCain’s choice?
It seems clear that McCain wanted to go with Lieberman but was talked out of it by the right wing of his party. Rove admits calling Lieberman to ask him to pull his name out. Bush lost his way because he never stood up to Rove et. al. McCain is headed down the same path.
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So, Is McCain gonna run with the Rush
Limbaugh Lunitics and continue to play
the “Operation Chaos” HRC Card by
picking a women in Sarah Palin ???

Or Is he Gonna do what Daddy Sez and
Pick Lieberman ???

Me, I’m sticking with Joe Lieberman
8. LD | August 29th, 2008 at 10:37 am

But she’s pretty and McCain is a POW!

I suppose they think she will be Fightin Joe Biden’s kryptonite?
9. O. Henry | August 29th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Who’s ever heard of Sarah Palin before now (besides Alaska residents)? McCain didn’t help his cause with that pick.

Go ‘Bama, go!

@Peter Gunn - Pat asked to refrain from boring arguments. All you’re doing is bringing problems on yourself with comments like “Thank God, “Nobody else cares” The Cyber Stalking has finally ended.”
10. Henry | August 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

It’s official, the guy’s a chick magnet. Where’s all the wingnuts posting about what a brilliant choice this is. She might be in step with the ‘base’ of what’s left of the GOP, but that ‘base’ support isn’t going to be enough to win a general election.
11. O. Henry | August 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

Quote by Henry “Where’s all the wingnuts posting about what a brilliant choice this is.”

This is a liberal blog. You actually think they are going to post here?
12. Pat Cunningham | August 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

O. Henry: The host of this blog, yours truly, is a liberal, but many, if not most, of the commenters decidedly are not. We get more than our share of right-wing nuts here. And they’re usually more than welcome. They provide comic relief, if only unwittingly.
13. O. Henry | August 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

What I should have stated is. “You actually think they are going to post what a brilliant choice this is?” That’s what I meant.

I know the wing-nuts post here.
14. Pat Cunningham | August 29th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

O. Henry: Why would I say it’s “a brilliant choice” when I don’t think it was? I think it was a desperate gimmick, and I expect it will turn out to be a failure.
15. hokumboy | August 29th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

Brilliant move? Pathetic attempt?
I’m still not sure.
What I do know isYahoo News could have picked a less sleazy sounding headline for this story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_veepstakes
16. Pat Cunningham | August 29th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Hoke: I find that countless newspapers and Web sites also used the unfortunate “McCain taps” headline. Apparently, lots of people aren’t familiar with the vulgar sense of that term.
17. Peter Gunn | August 30th, 2008 at 7:41 am

So It’s O. Henry now huh : |

As for Palin, I’m STILL laughing my self
to tears. Guess they don’t call him McInsane for nothing

This 73 year old man with a history of a serious skin cancer picks a novice as his running mate who’s already said

Quote:
“I have NO IDEA what the VP even does”

Then there’s the ethics investigation and her far right ideology which is at least three miles Right of Attila the Hun.

Nice Job McSame, Biden will personally
thank you for this one shortly after the
Veep debates
18. Henry | August 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am

Peter -

Not that it really matters, but O. Henry and Henry are not the same person, though we may have similar views.
19. Peter Gunn | August 30th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Quote Henry:
“O. Henry and Henry are not the same person”

Henry, Never said they were, Did I ?
And it DOES MATTER, by the way.

I’m still laughing my arse off over McSames pick for Veep ! :) :)