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If he really wanted a woman as a VP, he could've gone with Kay Bailey Hutchison, IMO a much more qualified individual for the spot.
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<p>QFE. Hutchinson would have been a much more reasonable choice. It's pretty hard to figure out what in the world McCain was thinking.</p>
<p>Guys, three points:</p>
<p>1) There was no ideal pic. He would have gained some but lost some with anyone. Romney would have been blasted within minutes. A Wall Street, tall, white guy who is totally loaded? Yeah, that's the image McCain needs... There was no perfect person.</p>
<p>2) KBH is a congresswoman from where again? Oh yeah, TEXAS. What did Obama say last night? "Eight is enough." What word was in EVERY DNC speech? "Change" Changechangechangechangechange. I don't think that a congresswoman from Bush's home state would have been particularly effective.</p>
<p>3) Please stop saying it's suicide. Wait for the VP debates. Palin is known as a good debater. Biden is heavily favored, and I think he might win as well. But she's not going to stand there and do nothing for a month, just waiting for him to destroy her. Plus, we don't have any poll numbers AT ALL. Let's wait a few days before saying this decision was a crap one.</p>
<p>Palin is conservative, which definitely locked the Republican vote if it was lacking.</p>
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<li>I like her story more than Obama's. She's goofy, calling her husband, "first dude". Warm lady. Basketball star, hunting lady, working class, sweet</li>
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<p>Obama traveled around the world when he was young, went to some fancy schools, became an attorney or something, registered voters, got into Washington, and made a lot of speeches</p>
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<li>City council, mayor, ethics commisioner, cutting taxes, exposing the corrupt within her party, enabled a $40 billion natural gas pipeline to secure America's energy.</li>
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<p>What's Barack's record, some ethics reform bill so that lobbyists couldn't swoon him with fancy arugula? :D</p>
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<li><p>Violently anti-abortion... So ironic :D If you think that people supported Hillary because of abortion, you're right, there's no way a Hillary supporter would be able to support Palin's clear stance. On the other hand, if you believed in Hillary as someone competent enough to move this direction forward and were not satisfied with Obama, Palin and McCain's history of bucking their party line to serve the people might move you :)</p></li>
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<h1>3. We need someone with wise judgment to steer the foreign policy issues. Is Barack "tiny" Iran, no preconditions, wise? Years in Washington won't make you smarter, making touch executive decisions can.</h1>
<p>I'm really dissapointed in the partisan hate towards Palin, a principled woman that has defied her party to better her state. She's a great lady :D</p>
<p>She brings nothing to the ticket, honestly. Thank God that McCain picked her, now we'll have 8 years of Obama-Biden.</p>
<p>If I were the GOP Strategist/McCain, I would have picked Cond. Rice. A strong principled woman who's NOT pro-life, and who has actual experience, and who's black, would have given the election to McCain.</p>
<p>Palin, in terms of woman, doesn't get any because she's anti-women's rights and pro-life, so attracting no significant amount of hillary supporters.</p>
<p>She's too conservative, making McCain's image of a Bush-incarnate more real in the minds of voters</p>
<p>And lastly, she's a lightweight. She's like the GOP verison of Obama, but mucchh lighter and without the speaking/inspiring skills. No foreign policy cred. or serious achievment.</p>
<p>Awful choice. Either Rice, Powell, or Romney would have been the best in my opinion, if I were a GOPer</p>
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It sucks that, if McCain wins (which he shouldn't after this) the first woman in the VP seat will be somebody as dumb, underqualified, and anti-women's rights as Palin. Oh well. It won't happen.
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<p>If I were Hillary, I would be P!$$&@ if America votes Palin in as VP.</p>
<p>"Awful choice. Either Rice, Powell, or Romney would have been the best in my opinion, if I were a GOPer"</p>
<p>Romney is out. Last time I checked, Powell was closer to Obama than any GOP candidate. There's no reason to believe Rice would have accepted, or she wanted to be VP at any point.</p>
<p>Plus, consider the reaction. The Dems would have had a field day bashing Rice.</p>
<p>Had McCain picked Rice, all we'd see from now until November is the clip where Rice referred to Bush as her husband.</p>
<p>I think this race is/will be too close to really consider any polls, and Dem vs GOP politics aside, McCain has only met Palin once before, McCain is how old? and how many Presidents have died while in office? I think he took a big risk here...</p>
<p>But a risk that could be worth it.</p>
<p>The Dems gambled on Obama, and won. He was charismatic, an outsider (at the time, not anymore), and young.</p>
<p>Palin is young, charismatic and known to be a good debater (we'll see), and a DEFINITE outsider.</p>
<p>Give her a chance. See what she does with it. Obama did fine, and I personally believe Palin will too.</p>
<p>I'm interested to see the debates between Biden and Palin. Because Biden is known as a very aggressive debater, it will probably seem that Biden is "beating up" on a woman and the media might label him as the bad guy. I'm quite annoyed at McCain's VP pick...what was he smoking? I don't like the way the GOP is going these days.</p>
<p>^I was just about to say just about everything you just said. :)</p>
<p>How did McCain, this so-called maverick of politics, pick an ultra-conservative woman who disagrees with him on many, many issues? So much for bashing Obama's lack of experience. </p>
<p>On the upside, this pick finally convinced my parents to vote Obama. They're not pro-gay marriage, but they could never support anybody who wants a constitutional amendment against it.</p>
<p>I was scared before of having McCain become president, but now I'm even more scared of Palin becoming president (which we all know is certainly a possibility). </p>
<p>I mean, I think we can all agree that McCain has the ability to be president. (Just not one many of us would be happy with). What the hell is gonna happen if Palin has to take over as Commander in Chief? I may have nightmares tonight.</p>
<p>If by the chance that McCain were to die in office, do any of you think Palin will be ready?
The risk that McCain took here has made me reconsider my thoughts of him, it might have been a good political move, however the lack of experience gets to me, added to the fact that McCain and Palin really had no relationship before the pick, from a guy that is know to have a tight circle, this seem to my that McCain put winning the election before the safety of his country....</p>
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I like her story more than Obama's. She's goofy, calling her husband, "first dude". Warm lady. Basketball star, hunting lady, working class, sweet
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<p>A fuzzy personality doesn't give you the qualifications needed to be commander-in-chief, our current president is living proof of that. (And, considering McCain's age, she really needs those qualifications.)</p>
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We need someone with wise judgment to steer the foreign policy issues. Is Barack "tiny" Iran, no preconditions, wise? Years in Washington won't make you smarter, making touch executive decisions can.
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<p>Oh yeah, being governor of Alaska gives you LOADS of experience in foreign policy. I mean, it's sort of close to Russia, right?</p>
<p>REAL poor choice for VP. Obama America is coming soon.</p>
<p>Horrible choice. If he had chosen Romney I would have gone out to vote on election day for McCain-Romney. Instead, I'll be studying sigmatropic rearrangements while Obama wins the election.</p>
<p>mccain just suicided his campaign by choosing palin. Obama's going to win the election hands down.</p>
<p>are you retarded?</p>
<p>palin's considered a reformer of the republican party. she's going to bring over thousands of voters that were on the fence. plus, she's a women. obama has already ****ed off millions of women by not picking clinton as his VP. it was a smack in the face, for women and for her top donators. picking palin will bring over several millions votes our way. </p>
<p>obama will NOT step into the white house.</p>