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September 30, 2008 at 16:46:50

Here Is Why Sarah Palin As VP Works--For Now

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After the first debate the most likely reason for John McCain’s vice-presidential choice suddenly became obvious to me: Sarah is a stalking horse serving McCain’s hidden agenda. What is that agenda, you ask? You probably suspect it already in the deepest recesses of your sub-conscious.

Consider first Kathleen Parker’s recent and unprecedented call for Ms. Palin to withdraw her candidacy gracefully despite having written with unbounded enthusiasm of Ms. Palin’s candidacy just a few weeks ago: “ [Palin is] a "perfect storm of God, Mom and apple pie."

Then observe how many prominent conservatives like David Frum and David Brooks have now concluded that Governor Palin is not ready to be vice president. Add to them Sean Hannity and other pundits. Even the ethically-challenged George Will (who abused his press credentials by passing Jimmy Carter’s debate prep notebook to Reagan’s team) recently admitted that Governor Palin lacks the gravitas and policy knowledge to be a serious candidate for VP.

We also may assume that any astute political operative would require no more than a few moments of conversation with Ms. Palin to conclude what the interviews Palin granted to Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity and Katie Couric so clearly demonstrated.

Wouldn’t it seem reasonable that John McCain and his team could also have discovered these deficiencies with just a few interviews? Of course they could have. And yes, they must have done. So why does Sarah Palin work—for now--as McCain’s VP candidate?

Here’s why Sarah Palin has been placed in this unenviable position: John McCain, the ultimate backroom schemer, knew that the Republican National Convention would never ratify his first choice for VP, so he cleverly offered the Republican National Convention a diversionary move, knowing that Sarah Palen will be forced to withdraw—probably just before Thursday’s Vice-Presidential debate—probably to spend more time her with family’s affairs, freeing John McCain to smile proudly and announce her replacement: Senator Joe Lieberman!

Bingo! No time for another convention. Election’s just a month away. Joe Lieberman for VP!!! Sarah Who?

R. Queisser has been an unabashed progressive activist since the '60s. After 28 years in non-profit health care management he left that field, disgusted at the mess commercial health insurance companies have created. He now resides near the Canadian border where he does ontological work repairing gashes in the fabric of truth created by "conservative" politicians & pundits.

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I am a soldier in the war against my children and their children. The enemies preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. I may not win, in fact I probably won't, but neither will I be silenced by those who wish to do so. Intellect is my weapon, the written word my bullets.
jeff pragerI am a soldier in the war against my children and their children. The enemies preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. I may not win, in fact I probably won't, but neither will I be silenced by those who wish to do so. Intellect is my weapon, the written word my bullets.

Not likely

The vacuous, ignorant, ill-advised, uneducated darling Sarah Palin is the perfect sock puppet for the Neo-Con regime who have no intention of relinquishing power in their extraordinary effort towards Perpetual Rule and Dynasty. Whether legally or illegally McCain will win. This is a Fascist Dictatorship, has been for eight years and isn't changing any time soon.

The people, for lack of a better word and that one's used loosely, are mesmerized by spoon fed lies by a complicit media and prefer them to anything even resembling the truth. The truth requires and necessitates effort and American Idol is the easier voting arena.

by jeff prager (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 184 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:31:52 PM

Retired. Male. Western Minnesota. Social Science/Spanish undergrad majors. Master's in Counseling. Socialist.
Bryan EmmelRetired. Male. Western Minnesota. Social Science/Spanish undergrad majors. Master's in Counseling. Socialist.

Why Sarah Palin works

Oh, I wish this post were true!! Not that Palin would be hard to beat but there are many millions who would just love to vote against Lieberman. He was a part of the problem with getting the recount done on Florida in 2000 and then turned on Gore later. He is a man who sees Israel as the 51st State and he's representing it. Joe Lieberman is a man America loves to hate.

by Bryan Emmel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 221 comments) on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 12:22:17 AM

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