McCain picks Alaska governor Sarah Palin for VP slot

[Shana A]

McCain picks Alaska governor Sarah Palin for VP slot
Filed by: Alex Blaze
August 29, 2008 11:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/08/mccain_picks_alaska_governor_sarah_palin.php

The New York Times and CNN are reporting that the scandal-ridden Alaskan governor Sarah Palin has been tapped for McCain's running mate.

From georgia10:

    CNN's Dana Bash just described her as a "young female John McCain."

Ouch!

More on Palin's record on LGBT issues after the jump.

[lisagurl]

How many women voters will vote McCain just because he choose a female running mate? Probably more than 20%. Is democracy really the best form of government? Should there be a literacy test, to determine ability to make rational decisions, to be eligible to vote?

[myles]

I wish I could say "no 20% won't vote for him" but I think you are right. I have heard from what I think are inteligent, articulate women say "I'm voting for Mccain beacuse I can't believe Obama robbed Hilary!"
I just want to jump up and down and say this is exactly why we are going to have a hard time getting a women elected becasue people are affraid that they will do exactly what you are doing acting irrational and vindictive!
Myles
PS I know I have a spelling issue sorry in advance

[deviousxen]

Wow... This lady sounds like another stupid waste of life...

[NicholeW.]

How many women voters will vote McCain just because he choose a female running mate? Probably more than 20%. Is democracy really the best form of government? Should there be a literacy test, to determine ability to make rational decisions, to be eligible to vote?

My guess would be that over 20% of USA women would vte for him because he's Republican with no regard to whom he's chosen as a running-mate.

A corrupt, anti-LTBG, anti-life, anti-choice, anti-education woman will be no woman at all. This scintillating bit of glitz will go south about the fourth time this person opens her mouth. Dan Qualye, William Miller, Sargent Shriver look-out, you all are about to be joined by yet another poor choice for running-mate.

Hopefully this one will have the same history in 60 days that the last-named two above had as their campaigns set all-time lows for support.

Nichole

[lisagurl]

I should have said 20% of the democratic women for two reasons only, one she is female and two, Hilary lost the democratic nomination.

This puts Obama in a difficult position to criticize her no matter what the problems, he could alienate more women. Sometimes emotions make poor choices.

[myles]

I thought I was the only one who used the term anti-choice (I refuse to say prolife), my friends all laugh at me.
myles

[tekla]

Come on, doesn't being mayor of Homer and 20 months of scandal just sound like perfect prep work to step into the White House?  After all, McCain is like real old, so its got to be considered.

[Secretgirl]

I am not an American. However I would never vote McCain-Palin. Palin is a conservative extremist and supported strongly by Christian right organizations.  I hope that voters realize it before election day!

Just to make an prediction: McCain-Palin get larger percentage among male than female voters.

[tekla]

Oh, she is way beyond the Christian Right, way, way right.  She is an outright neopentecostal dominionist.

[Secretgirl]

She is endorsed by Concerned Women of America, one of the leading intellectual anti-trans group.

[tekla]

What ever else they are, they are not intellectuals.

[deviousxen]

Come on, doesn't being mayor of Homer and 20 months of scandal just sound like perfect prep work to step into the White House?  After all, McCain is like real old, so its got to be considered.

HAHAHAHA

*High fives it

[tekla]

Yeah, and its not even Homer, its some suburb, about 8-9,000 people, or less people than Obama gives a speech too.

But people need to look deep at her and wonder, there is a lot there, none of it good.

[deviousxen]

Wow... What a terrible person for the job.

[Secretgirl]

So i think that TS-community has worked really hard to get for example legal recognizition ( in the most states in the USA) and other basic rights. Giving  power to wrong people may destroy all TS-civil right yet earned. 

[Kate Thomas]

She is from Wasilla (in the Matanuska valley) about an hours drive north of Anchorage

Homer (in Kachemak Bay) is a four hour drive south of Anchorage


believe me i have made the drive more than once. the ferry boat just does not make a port of call in Wasilla.

just don't underestimate her, would be the only thing i could say about her.

btw I'm from Kodiak a 10 hour ocean going ferry boat ride to Homer

[Keira]

The democrat have shot themselves in the foot by not selecting Hillary,
I just don't get the tactics of Obama's camp. He doesn't seem up
to the nastiness and cynicism of the REAL WORLD instead of his
fantasy world he wants to change...

As I said before, Obama won on momentum, he peaked at the right time for that primary,
at the end of the primaries, he was running on empty already while Hillary was firing on
all cylinders.

If Hillary had went after the blue collar vote like at the end and had attacked Obama
head on like she did at the end, he would not have won.

He's just too soft a campaigner, a bit like Gore (though gore still got more votes than Bill
Clinton got in both elections..., people forget that).

[tekla]

The democrat have shot themselves in the foot by not selecting Hillary,

You assume she would have taken it, and I doubt it.  She was VP once already I thought.  What she is hoping is that Obama loses, and she can run in 2012.

[Keira]

Ironically, I agree, for her, an Obama loss would vindicate her 1000%
and make the democrat's look dumb again. Its not the first time the
democrats would have picked daftly

And seeing how Obama has campaign at the end of the primaries and now,
I'm thinkiing that there is a good chance that this will happen.
He doesn't seem to have much fire in his belly.

I think Obama needs the Clinton's badly if he wants his campaign to work.