The Institute of VP leaks, tips, and speculation (GOP edition)

[Storebought]

And I owe an apology to J.J. CNN's website swept away all trace of Obama's speech and the DNC convention. I take it, this was a genuine shock for them to report.

[emailking]

And now FoxNews.

[Hash]

Holy crap. I can't believe this.

Wow. That's all I have to say.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

given there was NO surprise in the Dem pick - McCain had the opportunity for the WOW factor. I don't think he made his choice until after Obama picked Biden.

It's a big pick - woman, young, and governor for less than two-years..... wow.

[Meeker]

Suddenly this election feels like a gporter thread.

[CPT MikeyMike]

Suddenly this election feels like a gporter thread.

OMG...SHOW ME A MAP!!!!

[Brittain33]

WAKE UP, TORIE!

[Rococo4]

Palin is not in Alaska.  It;s 6:25 am there if not earlier.  They wouldn't be able to confirm that she is there at this time anyway.

The planes were real!

correction, Alaska is 3 hours behind central time, so now it is still only 5:38 am in Alaska.  Ain't NOONE confirmed Palin is in bed at 5:38am.  Forget the reports, believe in the planes.  Palin is in OH and she is the pick.

Credit where credit is due.......great job

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I wonder who Lobbynoise is.

[2952-0-0]

or who Young Trigg is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Young_Trigg

[Mr. Morden]

This remains a legendary thread.  Again, kudos to jmfcst for picking up on the "mystery plane from Alaska" hours before the national media did.  Also kind of funny how everyone was doubting that it was Palin until the last second.  Not to pick on Lunar in particular, but this is kind of amusing in retrospect....posted mere hours before the Palin announcement:

Y'all have to chill on the Palin train.  Whitman is far more likely as at least McCain gave her a call-out on one of he three most trusted advisers and at least she does representative interviews/commentary for McCain.

[Lunar]

I admit I got hilariously blindsided by that and I constantly reference my insistence that I'd eat my own hat if she got picked as evidence of my own fallibility.  She had so many flaws, which eventually got exposed (so I was vindicated in a way), and I figured there were better "risky" candidates.

[Lunar]

I admit I got hilariously blindsided by that and I constantly reference my insistence that I'd eat my own hat if she got picked as evidence of my own fallibility.  She had so many flaws, which eventually got exposed (so I was vindicated in a way), and I figured there were better "risky" candidates.

Her only flaw (though it was HUGE AND FATAL!!!) was that she knew shockingly very little about the world outside of Alaska.  She was an extremely effective governor, and on top of her Alaskan game.  But I don't think the chick ever tuned into national/internation news in her life.  Can't really blame her for that though, with a very busy job and raising all those kids.

I actually cited that early on as a potential flaw.  I said specifically that I wasn't sure if she knew some of the basic national and international stuff that the average citizen wouldn't know, but we expect our politicians to like the three major religious groups in Iraq and whatnot.  I was actually hilariously attacked by some GOP types on the forum for saying that and being a big-city elitist (nevermind my hometown has 3,000 people).
 
But you totally kicked ass predicting that pick