CNN: McCain picks Palin

[Brittain33]

2012 race: Hillary vs. Sarah

HAHAHA

Clinton would rightfully kick no-name's ass.

Clinton would have those glasses on a chain around her neck like a scalp.

[Umengus]

I'm happy. Good choice by Mc Cain. It will be a bounce. With Romney, no bounce.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

3. Doesn't enhance any of McCain's current campaign themes, makes his invocation of his POW experience seem pointless.

Do you not know about her energy background?  Alaska is synonymous with oil.

(Though I have no idea how this has any bearing on being a POW at all.)

[Mr. Morden]

Tina Fey is going to have to return to Saturday Night Live in order to play Palin.

[Flying Dog]

I like Sarah Palin. She seems like a competent leader on fiscal issues and cutting corruption. I wonder how the investigation will play into the race, though. In the end, it probably locked up Alaska for McCain but it'll do little to sway women voters, her avid pro-life record will turn a lot of Independent minded women off.

[perdedor]

Well, McCain has just sealed up the middle-aged conservative dudes who like hot chicks vote. Aside from that, Palin really delivers nothing to the ticket. A better selection than Romney, I suppose.

[useful idiot]

Also one other notable achievement today: Bill Kristol was actually right about something for once. He's been saying she was going to be McCain's VP nom since back when Hilldawg was still in the race.

[Erc]

I like Palin...I think she could have been a great choice 4 years down the line.  (Of course, I said the same thing about Obama, but that's a different story).


As it stands...my first reaction to the choice was negative.  I have a horrible, nagging feeling that the pick will turn out to be a horrible combination of the worst of the Ferraro and Quayle picks, already the two worst picks in history (excepting Richard M. Johnson).

[Mr. Morden]

The Pawlenty and Romney camps are apparently a bit cheesed off:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/29/palin_pick_leaves_bruised_feel.html

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[exopolitician]

Just.....fail.

[Keystone Phil]

Just.....fail.

Meanwhile, it's getting extraordinary coverage and such. McCain could have selected Jesus Christ and you would have said it was weak. 

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Miserable. Guess McCain has no intention of winning this election.

[Sensei]

and there goes the MILF-lover demographic. It's over.

Hopefully Palin is a Ferraro-esque pick.

[exopolitician]

Just.....fail.

Meanwhile, it's getting extraordinary coverage and such. McCain could have selected Jesus Christ and you would have said it was weak. 

It probably would have been.

Its getting more coverage just because McCain basically pulled this pick out of his a$$. Im pretty sure America made a collective.."uh....what?" earlier this morning when it was announced.

[Keystone Phil]

Just.....fail.

Meanwhile, it's getting extraordinary coverage and such. McCain could have selected Jesus Christ and you would have said it was weak. 

It probably would have been.

Its getting more coverage just because McCain basically pulled this pick out of his a$$. Im pretty sure America made a collective.."uh....what?" earlier this morning when it was announced.

And an "Uh...what?" is sometimes a good thing. America didn't know Barack Obama before his 2004 speech to the Democratic convention. America barely knew Bill Clinton in 1992.

[Daniel Adams]

The Pawlenty and Romney camps are apparently a bit cheesed off:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/29/palin_pick_leaves_bruised_feel.html

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Haha, poor Romney. Silver medals are all he gets!

[Person Man]

Also one other notable achievement today: Bill Kristol was actually right about something for once. He's been saying she was going to be McCain's VP nom since back when Hilldawg was still in the race.

lol