Why Palin Works

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My Clinton-supporting friend who was upset with Obama for not showing more respect for Hillary during the convention: "Someone should tell Republicans that women aren't interchangeable."

I suspected this might be the case. If Sebelius seemed unacceptable, wouldn't Palin be more so (less "qualified", younger, prettier)? But I was always skeptical of the idea that many people were really that against a woman other than Clinton. Maybe I was wrong.

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This pick really got under your skin.

Perhaps you should ask your "messiah" to comfort you in your time of need.

Drop the messiah nonsense.  No one on the forum is saying that or behaving like that.

This is ghostmonkey, of "Hillary!" fame. It's not going away.

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Also, I don't think Hutchison wanted it or would have accepted it.  She clearly wanted to be governor of Texas and then retire.

Exactly. Her reaction to the Palin choice made it very clear that she would not have accepted had she been asked, but she expected to be asked and was highly offended that McCain had not approached her and chose an upstart token woman instead.