McCain’s Baked Alaska
This New York Times piece by Gail Collins is far and away the best response to McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for VP that I have read today.This one, I kid you not, is worth copying and making a flyer of to send to everyone you know. Why use a bludgeon when the small, sharp knife of wit honed in fact is so effective.
Greg Mitchell’s Huffington Post report on what two Alaskan newspapers are saying about Palin is also indispensable.
Posted: August 30th, 2008 under McCain.
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Comment from Sasha
Time: August 30, 2008, 7:35 pm
You know I wouldn’t bet a nickle agains BDR who said “I’ll bet anyone a pint that John McCain develops “health problems” by the end of September and a whole new Rescue Pig Team is on the ballot come November.”
Comment from Max
Time: August 31, 2008, 4:34 am
I found this:
A list of Republican women more qualified.
So why did he choose her? McCain has been making a lot of weird announcements that have been given a pass by the MSM. And I am convinced McCain played a big part in starting that war that Georgia started against Russia. Is he bonkers? OK, let’s have this women doe something really stupid on TV. Even Republican owned networks couldn’t pass that up.
Comment from Josh Hammond
Time: August 31, 2008, 6:08 am
The Alaska papers story is worth reading. Palin has George Bush’s approach to personnel, firing people for personal reasons. These Palin stories also re-raise the question of the need for more constitutional qualifications for president and vice-president. We have been lucky that these dimwits were chosen by candidates who survived long enough to serve out their terms. But it is not if, but when, the nightmare will happen.
Comment from Shark
Time: August 31, 2008, 8:31 am
Talk about life imitating art!….anybody remember a TV show a couple of years ago called “Commander in Chief?” Geena Davis played a woman who was selected by a Republican as the Vice President. When the President died, she became the first female President of the United States. At the time, wingnuts charged that ABC developed the show in an attempt to aid a Hilary Clinton run for the Presidency. With McSame’s naming of Palin, how ironic is that? (BTW, the show was such a piece of crap that it lasted just one season.)
Comment from timr
Time: August 31, 2008, 10:07 am
John very interesting. I did some digging on the net and came up with a story about her time as mayor when she fired the police chief and the town librarian because they did not support her enough. Seems they were for someone who was running against her. Once more, truth becomes stranger than fiction.
John, I have a question about the overseas voter. Do you get absentee ballots from your US home of record? That is what I did when I was out of the US, but I voted in whatever state that I happened to be stationed in otherwise. Just curious about the nuts and bolts of how you guys vote.
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