Logical Question #1: Do you think that Biden was Obama's first, or possibly even second choice? I think it's pretty obvious that Obama wanted Kaine.
There are no news reports, or anonymous quotes, indicating that Kaine, or anybody other than Biden, was Obama's first choice. There are, however, reports that McCain wanted Ridge or Lieberman, but was vetoed by his political team for whatever reason. Why did McCain allow his political team to pull his strings as if he were a puppet? I thought McCain was not like Bush in that he was his own man who called his own shots...
They obviously made the decision without properly vetting her. What does that say about their decision-making skills? This was the most important decision to be made during this campaign, and they screwed it up...
If they simply trusted the word of an ambitious politician, instead of getting to the source, then they all deserve to be fired. Reports now indicate that not a single person in Alaska was asked about Palin by his vetting team. It does appear they may have blindly believed the word of this ambitious politician during the entire process...
Yes, and her ambition is hurting the ticket and the Republicans' chances in November. Your family ought to come before your political ambitions.
At this time, we have no idea if there are any sexual imbroglios of any sort in her past, or if there are other accusations of abuse of power as mayor and governor. The Republicans better hope there will not be more revelations in the week or two before Election Day - otherwise, they will lose big. What a risk!
The Troopergate Incident indicates that she may not be pretty clean after all. Where there is smoke, there may be fire....Do Republicans really want to risk hearing the fine details of this incident in the days leading up to the Election?
Maybe there's another DUI story that was covered-up ala Bush circa 2000?
These stories are not going to go just go away with the hurricane, either...
She's seriously hurting the ticket less than a week into the campaign. Her inexperience (There are THOUSANDS of mayors of towns of 9000 people or less) takes away McCain's tactic of going after Obama on experience. The fact that there are far better qualified candidates out there is rubbing people the wrong way; it looks like McCain is simply pandering to women, hoping they will vote for him simply because his running mate is a good-looking woman. That is quite insulting to many women, as anybody who has talked to regular voting women this past weekend can attest to.
What are the many advantages of a Palin pick? She's a woman, so women are instantly more likely to vote for the ticket? Nonsense.
If there are advantages to this pick, do they clearly outweigh all of the negatives that have started to trickle out, with potentially more to come? And do any advantages make up for the simple fact that there are clearly MANY other candidates, including many women, who are far more qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? Let's not forget that McCain is 72 and has had three or four bouts with cancer (it's been so many times I've lost count)...
McCain's first and second choices were reportedly Lieberman and Ridge. Why would McCain allow his political team to veto his preference once again after this debacle?
