LaToya Renee: ‘I think Mc Cain is a very clever strategist but he may have put himself and the party in a lot of trouble.  Brilliant move but wrong pick, I think there are plenty of woman candidates he could have chosen from the Republican Party, that are already known to the public and had a broader range of experience.  I also believe that a man with Palin’s same qualifications and credentials would be laughed at. ...

I think for McCain’s game the move had to be shocking.  Elizabeth Dole, say, wouldn’t be shocking enough.

I don’t think McCain is trying to offer a Republican Hillary.  I think he’s trying to be a Republican Zorro.

Rus7355, August 31 at 7:33 am #

I pity you.
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You PITY me for refusing to forget the last 40 years of GOP policy?

You don’t remember the “Southern Strategy”? That was what Nixon called it.

You don’t remember “Law and Order”, Nixon’s speeches?

You don’t remember Ronald Reagan’s mythical “Welfare Queen driving a Cadillac”, a woman who was never found?

You don’t remember George H.W. Bush’s “Willie Horton” ad that catigated Dukakis for a work release that resulted in a murder despite RR having done the same thing with the same result in California?

You don’t remember George W. Bush’s push-poll in 2000 in South Carolina to sink McCain “Would you still vote for McCain knowing he fathered an illegitimate Black girl?”

You don’t remember Florida’s SecState deliberately finding ways to negate registrations in predominantly Black areas in 2000 and 2004?

Or the Ohio SecState doing it in 2004, too?

You don’t remember the dirty ad against Harold Ford (a Black candidate) of a pretty blonde saying “Harold, call me”?

You don’t remember the 10,000 nasty lying racist things that have been said on Faux Noise just this year about Obama and his wife? (like “ObamaMama”)?

I stand by my assertion that for the last 40 years the GOP has played the race card every which way it can, that the GOP is now the party that’s home to racists, and has been for 40 years, that racist Democrats either left the party for the GOP or recanted their earlier racism in word, deed and votes.

Just saying I am “hate-filled” because I find your absurd, false and deliberately twisted “facts” and logic offensive doesn’t make it so.

But I do have to admire your bravery (or naive stupidity) to post here, on an openly and clearly stated progressive blog.  I suppose if you wanted posters to agree with you, you’d post on Rush Limbaugh’s or Ann Coulter-geist’s sites.  There’s always RedState.com for you.

Rus7355, August 30 at 8:16 am #

Yes, I am disgusted.
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ROFLMAO!

You belong to a party that for the last 40 years DELIBERATELY sought to be the new home for the Southern dixiecrat racists.  Nixon called it “The Southern Strategy” and used the term “Law and Order”  as code words for suppressing Black Americans. And you defend a selection of VP based solely on two factors: Her gender and her lock-step right-wing-nut positions.

We have had 8 years of slander, lies, criminal wars, destruction of our civil rights and a trashed economy.  We have seen the spouse of the Democratic candidate called “Obama-Mama” and all kinds of other pejorative terms. Both of them have been dressed in in cartoons in INCREDIBLY racist ways and yet, somehow, that’s OK.

Yet somehow, in your twisted mind and logic, I’M the bigot because I don’t accept ANY of the Faux Noise and RNC bullshit at face value.  I trust it: I KNOW it’s lies thrown against the wall just to see what sticks.

With all that you’ve posted here it’s hilarious that you DARE to try to claim some civil, decorous high moral ground.

But let me leave on a high note:

Have a nice day!

Rus7355, August 30 at 4:59 am #

Where are all the “open minded progressives”? ]

Dealing with your neo-con hypocracy.

It didn’t take long to find out that Sarah Palin has 18 months as governor of a tiny state, wants to kill polar bears despite their being endangered, is in the NRA, opposes ANY abortion even in cases of rape and incest, wants “creationist” superstition taught in schools instead of science, and thinks drilling in ANWR will solve our dependence on foreign oil.

What else is there to know to realize that she is wrong for America?

Rus7355, August 30 at 4:59 am #

Where are all the “open minded progressives”? ]

Dealing with your neo-con hypocracy.

Rus

Maybe you should explain a few things to the fearful and bigoted progressives. Like why we should open our arms to Gov Sarah. Lets see,

Explain why I should support a woman who wants to go to the house of a rape victim and inform them that they cannot abort the bastadized fetus they carry because an unbelievable act of violence was committed against them? Or that they carry a fetus with horrible genetic malformity(downs syndrome) that, despite our best intentions, will be treated like an animal most of it’s life?

Explain why we should not give gays the rights enjoyed by all citizens of our free republic?

Explain why, instead of chasing down the people that attacked the US in 2001, we choose to bomb the shit out of schools and wedding partys in a third world country? And prop up tin pot dictators that wrap themselves in the American Flag and commit atrocities on their citizens?

My my this is a lively thread. Let’s see John McCain’s first wife was a beauty model who got disfigured in a car crash, so he through her over and got a second beauty, a beer heiress at that! Now in his latest presidential bid he picks a former beauty queen model to be his vice-president. Do I detect some kind of pattern here?

I do not believe that John McCain picked Sarah Palin in a vain attempt to woo Clinton supporters. No, this is instead, as some have already pointed out, a shoring up of that evangelical extremist base that has become synonymous with the Republican party. Governor Palin’s bizarre views will be tolerated by the intolerant people who believe in them. Her lifetime membership in the National Riffle Association assures those tried and true believers, that the Republican agenda is what it is always been about: Guns, God, and the Gays (who are always coming after YOU!).
This is decrepit cynicism plus.

The republicans are throwing this election.

This VP choice was not designed to win voters but to placate the conservative Christian base of the party; that way they’ll be on board when the republicans take back control in 2012.

Assuming the dems win in November, they’ll inherit an economy that is doomed to a catastrophic collapse. We’re headed for an extra strength recession (i.e., a depression) to correct for the last two speculative bonanzas, the dot com bubble and the housing bubble. In fact, a correction may not even be possible at this point. We could be looking at a permanent and severe reduction in the standard of living for most Americans. This is what the next administration will have to look forward to and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. The housing market is a wasteland, the dollar is a house of cards, and the rest of the world will soon see our phony baloney economy for what it is. When countries like China decide to stop financing our debt and start consuming their own products, then it’s lights out. The broke and unemployed voters will then take it out on the incumbent party, and the republicans will be all set to step right back into power.

Only this time they’ll be taking over the country at a time of universal anger and economic dispair, just the conditions needed to establish a full-scale fascist police state, with massive military build-ups, extensive curtailments of civil liberties and targeting of minority and immigrant populations. Arab-Americans will be hit especially hard.

Earlier today I wrote that this seemed like a stupid choice of VP for the republicans, as no one would vote for McCain when the person who would replace him in case he checked out is so obviously unqualified to take over as president. But the more I think about it, the more it seems that’s exactly what the republicans want, knowing as they do (because they’re the ones who set the stage for it) what kind of economic apocalypse will greet the next president. Had they picked a “cultist” Mormon like Romney or some pro-abortion republican in an attempt to appeal to moderates and independents, they would have lost a good chunk of the religious Right. But with their choice of Palin, they give the Christian Right someone to fawn over, thereby keeping them in the party fold, and also help ensure a loss in November ... only to take back control in 2012 with a vengeance.

to Big B
re: “Would a poster of a bikini clad woman, pistol whipping a baby seal in front of a church be considered tacky? “

amazin’..., do you work for Homeland Security?
have you been monitoring me & my buds..
almost that exact phrase came up… too damn funny!!

to One Little Victory

thanks, I knew that,,  I left out the ‘not’ in the sentence…
it does smack of being desperate…. I think I heard somewhere
that McCain hardly knew her, maybe had met her once or twice, and basically
chose her over the phone ‘last minute’... she even gets an official ‘maverick’ title..

as if a younger & female version of McCain is somehow going to be different from the old Repub B.S…. but the TV types will eat it up.

Oh, sure, sneer at the LEFT BEHIND series, Ed. A good sale of a hard cover book in the US is a hundred thousand.  The lEFT BEHIND series in all its manifestations sold SIXTY MILLION copies.  You just don’t get more literary thatn that.

A now we have one of their very own as a candidate.  It’s no wonder the American people don’t believe in reality.  It’s too surreal.

To Inherit The Wind:

Hehe Hehe…  Who thinks I could’ve been elected… TWICE!!!

Hey Big G,

“If you’ve got a holocaust joke you can jam in here somewhere you would earn my eternal admiration.”

Hehe Hehe… Them National Socialites used to call my granddaddy Prescott the Venal Solution!  Hehe Hehe… Does that count?

re: By Inherit The Wind, August 29 at 7:43 pm:

I’ve had some pretty sharp differences with ITW, but I’m with him on this one. This is just the stupidest choice McCain could have made - God bless his little heart.

What a gift to the Democrats. McCain just lost not only the Hillary supporters, but also many Jewish pro-Israel supporters who might have been thinking about crossing party lines to vote McCain:

“Let’s see — I’m Jewish and fiercely pro-Israel - but let’s say it’s 2010 and the feeble McCain has just died of some likely cause - do I want to live under a President Palin, whose bedtime reading is the latest “Left Behind” blockbuster?...”

Remember Paris Hilton’s riposte to McCain’s “Superstar” ad?  Wrinkly old white guy now running around with a babe to “out-babe” his wife.

Who thinks our kids should be taught Creationist religion instead of science.

Who thinks it’s fun to wipe out the polar bears.

Who (actually) thinks ANWR will solve our oil dependence on the M.E.

Who opposes abortions EVEN in the case of rape and incest.

Who has 18 months of experience as governor of one of the smallest states in the Union.

Who was mayor of BumFuck, Alaska, a town of 8,500 people.  NYC has high schools nearly that big!

Who fired a bureacrat because he REFUSED to fire her ex-Brother-in-law.

Who is being investigated for using official power to settle a personal score.

Who is going to have to be replaced on the ticket, like Thomas Eagleton had to be replaced in 1972.

WTF was McCain thinking ?!?!?!?!?!???????

Obama didn’t vote against the death penalty, he was present.Hey Rus, the whining starts here, on TD. Go to the wgn.com and listen to how Obama’s people want to silence any story about him that might expose the truth, they were even allowed a chance to rebuke anything that might be considered untrue, no one showed up, they would rather just silence the media that speaks out.http://wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44075&Itemid=99999999
this link will take you to the results of the annenberg papers…..

In a national election, most people vote for image.  Thus all the chatter about Palin’s character and political positions is irrelevant.  What matters is that while Obama, who is supposed to be the reformer, the renewer, played it safe and picked an old White man, McCain went out on a limb, reinforcing his “maverick” logo and neutralizing the “McSame” charge.  A risky move, but if he wins, brilliant.

This is a big FU to America and the Democrats.  The Republicans are saying: “Hey, we are the party of power, we can nominate anyone, we can nominate a dead dog and beat you, and if you think that the president or the VP is really calling the shots, you’re nuts.”

Let me get this straight——McCain’s first wife was a beauty queen; his second wife is a Barbie doll; and his VP selection is a former Miss Alaska——-personally I can’t wait to see his cabinet!!!

She’ll shore up the kooky-Right vote for him, and do a better job of bringing all those “social values” issues to the table than he can.

But she’ll also drive a lot of actual conservatives (as opposed to Republicans) away…not necessarily to Obama, just away.  Bob Barr might have a better run than expected.

Whether it was or not, it sure looks like a gimmick.  And he’s sure gonna look really old and doddering next to her.

I think that there may have been a mix-up: she was picked as the next trophy wife from the “lonely Republican wives club” on the internet.  Some intern cross-filed selections…and by then it was too late to fix it.

I remember Palin well from my years in Alaska.  She is a maverick, an effective state leader (so far), and a very likable woman.  She is going to charm the pants of the conservatives.  In another 8, 12 years, she may even be Presidential material. Right now, she is not, and that is the first qualification for a VP.

She is just a laughable choice. This is a gift to the Democrats.

Hey Gutles Witless Hitler!

If you’ve got a holocaust joke you can jam in here somewhere you would earn my eternal admiration.

I have not had a chance to do much research on Sara(h), But a creationist you say? And a gun nut? and ex-beauty queen?

Would a poster of a bikini clad woman, pistol whipping a baby seal in front of a church be considered tacky?
This shit is just gonna write itself.

But in all seriousness, someone believes in biblical creation that’s not under the age of eight?

It takes all kinds.

McCain just lost the election.
Why? Because he picked a hard-core right-winger as his veep, even more right-wing than she is.  She’s a Creationist and an anti-abortionist.

She was mayor of a town of 9,000 people—podunkville, USA, then mayor of one of the smallest states in the union (only 3 electoral votes) for 2 years….way, way up in the frozen North.

McCain needed something to grab Middle Americans, and he went to shore up support with the ultra-right instead.  So she’s a woman.  BFD.  I got news for you: 99.99% of the woman going for Hillary are PRO-CHOICE and will NEVER vote for a “Pro-Life” woman.  So there’s 18 million votes locked in for Obama.  Last election Bush got 62 million—and McCain just gave 1/3 of them to Obama.  Plus, add up all the Black voters from previous elections with all the NEW Black voters going for him, that’s got to be another 15-20 million votes. That means Obama ALREADY has 50 to 60% of the votes.

So now Obama just needs to tie up 25-30 million more votes and he’s The Next President.

Thanks for the freebie, John!  Great choice! Governor of a state with 3 electoral votes yer gonna win anyway, from the West like you, and more right-wing than you are.  I’d say Dems are good at shooting ourselves in the foot but you are even better!

Ed, the Republicans enjoy displaying how out of touch they are with reality and mainstream America. This lady is specifically a distraction and a call for disaffected women/values voters. It’s pathetic desperation.

Aegrus…

Let’s also note what Obama is NOT….

1. A womanizer who cheated on his first wife and has a second wife who steals drugs
2. A flip flopper of mammoth proportions
3. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong on the Iraq War
4. An advocate/apologist for torture
5. A member of the Keating Five
6. A hothead who loses his temper in situations requiring clear thinking
7. Someone who believes that America’s problems are in our own heads (thank you, Phil Gramm)
8. Someone who consistently fails to support the troops that he professes to love
9. Someone who tells rape jokes and thinks they are funny
10. Someone who can’t tell Iran, Iraq, Sunni and Shi’ia apart

These are the types of things we could expect from a McSame presidency.

She’s a creationist beauty queen with an undergrad degree in journalism from U. of Idaho.

And she’s anti-gay and anti-abortion. She also campaigned against classifying polar bears as an endangered species, a very smart political move — maybe she can pander to the anti-dolphin demographic next….

Let’s see, just who is the female voter who was planning to vote for Hillary and will now vote for McCain because he has selected Palin for veep?

Have you ever met such a creature? Does she frolic with the unicorns and the leprechauns in a land far away?

1)Death Penalty Reform
2)Ethics Reform
3)Universal health care for children
4)Nuclear Non-proliferation bills
5)Tax reform

To name a few. Also, he was the president of the Harvard Law Review, showing his understanding of Law and the constitution. He taught Constitutional Studies as a professor in Illinois. He also managed to put himself through several tiers of education by himself because he’s a self-made man.

O my God. I can’t believe the Democrats’ good fortune. This woman is completely implausible as someone to take over the presidency in the fairly likely event that McCain is incapacitated.

Rus, I linked to you a whole associated press biography that listed accomplishments. You chose not to read. You could read his website too. The only reason Obama supporters are asked is to discredit anything. I saw Hannity do it on Wednesday. It’s a poor game we don’t have to play because we have the ace in the hole and you’ve got a joker.

Rus, I’ve provided plenty of evidence for Obama in the past, citing experience and accomplishments. Obama could have cured cancer, and people like you would shrug it off as something diabolical or disqualifying. You’re weak because you purposely state fallacies about Obama.

John McCain will lose, so you better get used to Obama quick. You have a lame duck candidate with no leadership ability. Obama united millions around America, and John McCain squeaked by his nomination process. McCain can’t motivate anyone, and he certainly has no interest in doing so because the neoconservative agenda is to sedate Americans into submission.

You said it, Rus!  I sure can empathate with you.  They never hear what I’m “saying” neither.  They just listen to the words that come out of my mouth and make judgments about what I mean based on how those words are arranged.  Don’t worry, Turd Blossom (Hehe Hehe… that’s my nickname for Rovie) is gonna turn loose the swuftboats on O’Bama (must be one of them Black Irish) like he did on Johnny Liver Spots back in 2000.  Personally, I think Johnny should of chosen Mayor Guido 911.

Big E… she is not pro-choice… she is as ideological as they come from the Republican right.

Clinton supporters who move over because of her are not people who were going to vote for Barack anyway. She will not make a dent in Obama’s support.

the 1st thing I heard with the ‘talking heads’ on the news channels
was ‘will Biden have to go easy on her during the debates because she’s a women?’ After all the coverage of equal rights issues that have been on the ‘news’ .....that’s the 1st reaction of the network experts?
It’s pretty lame & condescending for ‘experts’ & pundits to assume that simply by choosing a pro-choice women,,  Dems & other women are going to vote for her ‘just’ because she’s a women….. as if the rest of the issues of the campaign suddenly don’t exist.

Man, I wish I could get on TV and ask some questions of everybody!!!!!!!!

She seems like she can handle herself on the political stage, remains to be seen how it turns out. Dems would do well by not underestimating her and treat her as any other Repub V.P. candidate. If there is anything negative going on, the press will dig it out for 24x7 coverage.

Rus, I don’t have to assume. If you knew Obama, you wouldn’t lie about his experience, accomplishments or qualifications. You continually state he has none when he has many. I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by crying ignorance, but I guess you’d rather get the label of spin doctor.

John McCain has no leadership ability. A president should be a guide and leader for the American people, and McCain has no ability to lead. He’s a poor politician and party hack. The choice of Pain is purely to take the eye off McCain to buy more time to re-cast him in a new and improved spin.

Hey Blackspeare,

Hehe Hehe…. Heckuva post, Blackie!  Only there ain’t nothin’ wrong with birthin’... er… “special” kids.  If every woman aborted every child that had them… er, ah…  undersmarts, you wouldn’t be enjoying the economic growth I presided over for the past eight years (Hmmm, presided…. I wonder if that’s related to presadint?).  That’s right, I’m the Presidifier!  Besides, I think it would be a good change for this country to have a VP that can actually handle a gun for a change.  Hehe Hehe… Er, don’t tell Dick I said that.

There’s a rumor that the head meter maid in Pheonix rejected McCain’s offer.

Republicans lowered the bar in 2000; dems followed suit this year.  Next time around it will be the mayor of kalamazoo vs the city council president of pine bluff.

looks like Tina Fey will have to make some guest appearances on SNL for a few months when they parody the debates.

Rus, you just deny any accomplishment Obama has, or won’t read anything about his life or experience. Why? Because you don’t want to. You’ve made the choice to be anti-Obama. That’s fine. You’re an American, and its your right to vote however you wish.

You are, however, not well-informed. Above all, Obama has Leadership Experience. John McCain can’t lead America. No one cares about anything he does except when he is publicly insulting his wife. If anyone gave a damn about John McCain, we would remember Keating 5, his numerous flip flops (So much so that his campaign has stated “John McCain doesn’t speak for the McCain campaign.”), his lack of judgment, his hot temper and warlust.

Please. McCain cannot lead, only follow the Neoconservative Agenda.

McCain-Pain. HAH!

re: Aegrus
I agree that she is in the camp of those interests that you speak of. But what I am trying to speak to is the superficial perceptions of the candidates being constantly foisted upon the general public by the mainstream news. How else can McCain still be in contention, unless the “genuine war hero” stuff has worked? The Governor of Alaska is of course a media circus driven device, but unfortunately it just may help his candidacy, and not just among those moose eating, anti-abortion, lifetime female members of the NRA. The hockey mom is not the pit bull of the GOP? What is this universe coming to?

Re: By steve, August 29 at 8:30 am #
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  Excellent pick Mr. McSame, I sure am glad you
  picked someone with lots of foreign policy
  experience.  Then again, Mr. Obama picked up
  Mr. Credit Card as his Vice President.  Why
  can’t we get interested in Third party
  candidates!!!!!!  Why!!!  With the two corporate
  parties so screwed up, we need another
  alternative.  Go Nader!!!!

My Sentiments exactly.  Saw Nader on Democracy Now! and he quoted Eugene Debs about voting for someone you don’t want just because he/she is going to win is throwing your vote away.  Voting for someone you support despite the fact that he/she will lose is honoring your voting right.  If Nader or McKinney gets enough votes, that will certainly send a message to Washington.
One last thing Debs said, as reported by Nader, was that in the end Debs was disappointed in the American people,  They could have so much yet settle for so little.  After WWII, Europe rebuilt with Health Insurance, a serious minimum wage, vacation time and a several others quality of life items.  Here we are, 60 years after Truman suggested Health Insurance and we’re still scared of Socialism or afraid that the “Rich People” won’t like us anymore.

Hehe Hehe…. Actually, Palin’s husband is only a quarter Eskermo.  But that’s still more Eskermo than I am Texan or Dick is human.  Hehe Hehe.

Yeah Rus, and all those accomplishments in just TWO SHORT YEARS as Gov of Alaska! I suspect you would have supported a hotdog if McCain had picked it.

Thanks, no long rebuttals…I am familiar with your approach to posts from others.

Rus, I’m glad you’re as happy as I am because putting a vice presidential candidate against a presidential candidate just shows that you have no faith in McCain. Most people don’t have faith in McCain. He’s a man of political expediency, and thinking he actually decided who his veep would be is ridiculous. It was picked for him by Rove.

McCain-Pain 2008!

hahahahahahahaha

Now if McCain really wanted to pander to the electorate he should have picked a black woman——but we’re stuck with Palin!  Who is this gun-toting, neo-conservative, ex-beauty queen?  If McCain is thinking that he will absorb the disaffected Hillary supporters he’s sadly mistaken for this woman is no liberal.  And, in one fell swoop, he has killed his argument that Obama lacks experience.  Actually he would be hard pressed to find a person with less experience.

But here is a woman who is so anti-abortion that she knowingly had a child with Down syndrome and what an inspiration she is to others in a similar situation.  Oh, wait a minute——-let me see she birthed the handicapped child and was back in the governor’s office three days later——what a sacrifice!  Too bad others don’t have the same resources to provide nursing care to such affected children.  No doubt Governor Palin is using or will use all her PI to secure governmental finance and support for her challenged child as he matures.  Down syndrome individuals usually have severe medical problems that require virtually constant care and huge sums of money that ordinary folks just don’t have and for Palin to advocated an anti-abortion philosophy based on her own situation is a bit over the top!

Dr.Beer, you should also observe that she is a shock pick to get media attention focusing on the Republicans and mitigating the absolute success of the Democratic National Convention.

The only reason she was picked is to be a media story. She’s a shill for the oil companies despite tough talk against the supreme court. If she really wanted to do something about it, she could have made an appeal to the Supreme Court for more. She’s got less experience than Obama. She abuses her power. She’s out of the mainstream of America.

This VP choice is proof that John McCain wants to win women’s votes. To call this desperation is silly. All these candidates are desperate, if they want to win.
Some observations: Governor Palin is opposed to abortion, but has five children, including her latest, born with downs syndrome. Governor Palin has a son in the Army, Track, about to be deployed to the Middle East. Governor Palin’s husband is an aboriginal Alaskan, what we use to call an Eskimo. Governor Palin opposed the infamous “Bridge To Nowhere” and as the state executive, brought it to a halt. Governor Palin objects to homosexuality, yet she vetoed legislation that would have denied benefits to same sex partners. Governor Palin denounced the Supreme Court ruling for reducing the damages against Exxon-Mobil, for the Valdez oil spill.
Palin being elected Governor of Alaska, was accomplished by defeating both republican and democratic entrenched interests.
Ridicule only works up to a point.

Grasping for icicles. Good choice, McCain. Picking a veep who is currently under investigation for abuse of power. Thanks for the election!

Obama/Biden 08!

multitude of blacks voting for Obama JUST because he’s black. Multitude of whites voting for McCain JUST because Obama’s black. Now a multitude of women voting for McCain JUST because of the gender of his running mate. Ain’t democracy grand? Glad we all participate.

This is the judgement of experience?

What if something were to happen with McCain and she becomes president, a very scary proposition.

Idealogue. Creationist. Anti-environment and pro-oil. Zero relevant experience. McCain really did choose a younger, female version of himself. Thankfully, she will be of utterly no strategic importance in the electoral battle. Obama is putting some of McCain’s states into play, and Palin won;t make a serious dent in that.

Yeah, that’s all we need in the WH. Another supporter of BIG OIL. It seems to me that the American people should be fed up with oil barons…we already have two in the WH that have literally destroyed this country’s position in the world. Their accomplishments include: starting a war of choice, (just for OIL) shredding the constitution, tax breaks for big oil, tax breaks for the rich at the expense of those less fortunate, ignoring the middle class, ignoring the education system, ignoring the environment, and the list goes on and on. I believe the American women portion of our society will not be so naive as to fall for what McCain is trying to do: pander to all those women voters he needs to win in November. You can bet his choice as VP will lock arms with him to: prevent women from getting equal pay for equal work; work for repeal of Roe Vs Wade; continue the war in Iraq; continue the economic policies that have laid waste to the middle class; continue to pack the Supreme Court with GOP operatives; and the list goes on and on. WE DO NOT NEED FOUR MORE YEARS OF BUSH!! Don’t let his choice of a VP obscure that this is exactly what McCain will bring to the WH, irrespective of ANY choice for his VP!

John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin is a SOLID one for REAL Conservatives, and announcing the pick today is a strategic masterpiece, knocking out Barack Obama/Joe Biden’s after convention euphoria!:

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ breaking-news-its-unofficially-official.html#links

Gov of Alaska, that’s comforting and makes me feel good about her being a heartbeat away…...