News reports are flashing now that McCain may have picked Sara Palin to be his VP. If this turns out to be true he not only has my solid vote, he also has my respect back. Sara Palin is much more what America neds than MCCain, Obama and Biden all put together. Shatter that glass ceiling girl!

Passing Pawlenty over will come back to haunt McCain. The electoral map just needs to add Minnesota, Michigan, & North Carolina in its Obama-column to put the senator at 270 presumptive electoral votes.

Avoiding the Mormon Romney, on the other hand, will be an excellent parry for McCain. Joe Biden will make the first Catholic Vice-President ever, a much stronger message than the First Mormon would be.

All along we've said John Sidney McCain the III needs a real woman, not a trophy wife, to pizzazz up his campaign. Governor Palin could turn the trick. She of course replicates Obama's Hawaii-ness by being an Alaskan. She could convincingly challenge Barack to a one-on-one game on the hardwood. Best of all she will symbolize the general perception that the old road is rapidly decaying. We know which prospective President that favors.

Pawlenty was the smarter choice for McCain, as Bayh was for Obama. Along w/ managing a national campaign, choosing a Veep is a Presidential candidate's best indicator of what kind of President he'll make. By their examples, we see that Obama runs a tight fresh ship & errs on the side of caution, while McCain's Swift Boat zigzags w/ the diffidence of growing senility, & -- should he place confidence in the untested Palin -- will err on the side of gimmickry as President.

First woman Veep.

First black to be sworn in as President.

First Catholic Veep.

First Panamanian 72-year-old POW to be sworn in as President.


Stark choices. Obama would've done better picking a woman over Biden, too. Here's hoping McCain picks Palin -- for the sake of my Party. Toss us into any mini-briar patch but Romney's, at least. Happy Birthday to you, John. And many more.

Now ABC says Palin is still in Alaska and not in Dayton. I hope they are wrong.

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Originally posted by SamFicher:
Now ABC says Palin is still in Alaska and not in Dayton. I hope they are wrong.

We're wi-choo, Sam. Keep us posted. BTW, is McCain that fearful of losing Ohio? Obama doesn't even need Ohio to pick up an easy win, w/ North Carolina in play.

Back to Palin again. CNBC has put up a story that claims Palin as the VP pick. And a report from airport staff in Meddileton,OH sounds like Palin arrived there last night on a Gulf Stream that flew in from Anchorage.

Dang! Every conservitive blog and board I looked at is buzzing with Palin as being the thing that could unite the Republican party behind McCain. If he has not selceted Palin I sure hope his people are reading these things and see that she is the only real choice to get him over the top. The base, at least those of us who still cling to relegion and guns, would love for our party to come home to us, and to be the first to break that glass ceiling.

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Originally posted by SamFicher:
... she is the only real choice to get him over the top.

Senator John's been too old for the top-job for years. Get ready for President Palin, if the GOP should win in November. Liddy & Bob Dole must be disappointed.

The Swift Boat already passed McCain over when he dissed Pawlenty & the great state of Minnesota. Palin would be a far better choice than Mormon Romney, but she recalls the desperation that drove Walter MonDale to pick the untested Ferraro as his Veep.

Fox News is confirming Palin as the VP pick. It's offical

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in BHO's room right about now. You know he's pissed because McCain is going for the womens vote. Plus he stole BHO's thunder after his speech last night. This is getting good.

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Originally posted by jb399:
Fox News is confirming Palin as the VP pick. It's offical

Good to see you back, li'l jb. If it's "offical," will you promise to visit us more often as an analyst of this campaign? Palin preaching peacemaking-or-warmongering in Iraq will be a pleasant spectacle. John McCain has just converted his age & backward-looking treatment of women into the major issue of this campaign.

Obama? Obama who? lwgray68, you have only touched the surface of why Palin is the best thing to ever happen to McCain. One of the very large constituancies that Rmony brought in was the Mormons. Love 'er or hate'em, there is a heck of a lot of 'em; escpcially in the West where the real CHANGE is taking place. Guess what Sara Palin's relegious affiliation is? Yup. you guessed it. Only she is a real typical conservitive Mormon, unlike Romney who holds some pretty liberal views.

It is going to be good to love the party again, and Sara is going to be easy to fall in love with. She is the embodiment of the perfect modern American woman. Oh, and did I mention that she is a babe too?

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Originally posted by SamFicher:
... she is a real typical conservitive Mormon...

Spelling-challenged conservatives are one thing. Mormon Conservatives in the historically-racist (they deserve the R-word) church are another. Palin generally calls herself a "Protestant," Sam. Are you sure she really is an acknowledged follower of Moroni?

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... did I mention that she is a babe...?

Would've been a better pick than Romney unless it's true that Palin also is a mammon-worshipping Mormon. McCain's Swift Boat just sank under the weight of tokenism & quotas.

McCain/Palin bring to mind another Bob Dole parallel: Bob Dole picked as his Veep Jack Kemp, who was gay, to appeal to the Log Cabin Republican wing & pepper up his doddering old campaign. Diff being that Dole, natch, was younger than John McCain.

OK, I may have been had. I have been trying to confirm that Palin is a Mormon, but I cabn't find that infomation anyplace. MAybe I read something earlier comparing here with Romney and misunderstood. Any way, I can't find it now so I'll assume I was wrong.

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Originally posted by SamFicher:
I'll assume I was wrong.

The rest of us generally do, Sam. And our assumption generally proves well-founded.

In an earlier post Palin was described as "untested". She is young, and has been politically active a short time. But at least she has been running a fairly large (though mostly empty state). Seem's Mr. Obama has similarly short experience, and to my knowledge has run no organization other than his campaigns.

Fresh horses all around is a good idea.