After the debate, Republicans who had been bailing on Palin rushed back to the fold. They know her relentless ambition is the only hope for saving a ticket headed by a warrior who is out of juice and out of ideas. So what if she is preposterously unprepared to run the country in the midst of its greatest economic crisis in 70 years? She looks and sounds like a winner.
You can understand why they believe that. She has more testosterone than anyone else at the top of her party. McCain and his surrogates are forever blaming their travails on others, wailing about supposed sexist and journalistic biases around the clock. McCain even canceled an interview with Larry King, for heaven’s sake, in a fit of pique at a CNN anchor, Campbell Brown.
Alaska’s self-styled embodiment of Joe Sixpack is not a sulker, but a pistol-packing fighter. That’s why she draws the crowds and (as she puts it) “energy” that otherwise elude the angry McCain. But she is still the candidate for vice president, not president. Americans do not vote for vice president.
So how can a desperate G.O.P. save itself? As McCain continues to fade into incoherence and irrelevance, the last hope is that he’ll come up with some new game-changing stunt to match his initial pick of Palin or his ill-fated campaign “suspension.” Until Thursday night, more than a few Republicans were fantasizing that his final Hail Mary pass would be to ditch Palin so she can “spend more time” with her ever-growing family. But the debate reminded Republicans once again that it’s Palin, not McCain, who is their last hope for victory.
You have to wonder how long it will be before they plead with him to think of his health, get out of the way and pull the ultimate stunt of flipping the ticket.
She has more testosterone than anyone else at the top of either party.
There I fixed that for you.
Quite a few states have election laws that require the candidates names be on the ballot by a certain date. You can bet the farm that if McCain dropped out the democrats would challenge the “change” of putting Palin in the President slot.
This will never happen no matter how much you want to dream.
#8 – Multiple
>>And Joe Biden is better? Good lord, the guy
>>has worked in the private sector for what, two
>>years?
That would be two years more than McBush. He was a crash test dummy, then a POW, then a politician. And Palin’s no better, although she dues have that beauty queen experience.
Sure, his wife is a capitalist overlord (of the trust fund baby sort), but she’s not running.
Maybe he should have picked his original wife (the one he dumped and traded in for a trophy model) as his running mate. She seems to have more “private sector experience” than McBush and Palin combined.
#8 “He (Biden) is a perfect example of a career politician.”
Apparently, so is Sarah Palin.
If I had any respect for my own country, it would hit a new low in the notion that “Palin” would be anything except the demonstrated incompetency of John McCain and his evidential expert analysis of the American Public’s stupidity. Its like living in an alternate universe. I think Palin is an excellent example of a small town rural half time volunteer mayor==period, end stop.
I’d cry for my country if there were any tears left.
Well, we are FACING WORLD WIDE REPUBLICAN DEPRESSION II (After WWRD I starting with the Crash of 1929) !!! We can’t afford any more REPUBLICANISM AND THE ***ECONOMIC LOOTING THAT THEY DO***!!! We, the People, need to SWEEP THE REPUKES FROM ***EVERY ELECTIVE OFFICE*** – FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL !!! So, it DOESN’T MATTER WHO HEADS THE REPUKE TICKET, VOTERS SHOULD ***JUST SAY NO*** TO REPUBS AT ***EVERY LEVEL*** !!!
#26 – JimD
Jesus, man. Calm down. You’re going to have a stroke.
Palin’s biggest tell is that she freezes under pressure just like Bush did on the 9/11 morning. Let’s face it, if Katie Couric can drop her dead in her tracks then she isn’t ready.
# 27 Mister Mustard, don’t you think a WORLD WIDE REPUBLICAN DEPRESSION is something to get excited about ???
#29 – Excited? Yes. Panicked like a prom queen with a fresh zit on her nose… not so much.
#28 – Bush dropped dead in his tracks when he was told of a deadly attack on New York City. Palin dropped dead when asked what magazines she reads.
#24 QB: #8 “He (Biden) is a perfect example of a career politician.”
Apparently, so is Sarah Palin.
True… but Biden is a career politician because he’s good at it and wants to get the job done. Palin just wants the job.
I never thought I’d see a serious bid by a candidate worse than Bush, but by golly, there actually is a greater danger to our nation than Bush. You betcha.
This is too funny !!! From Huffington Post, Borowitz column:
“Elsewhere, Sen. John McCain’s practice session for the second presidential debate was cut short when his pants burst into flame.”
Nobody pays attention to Frank Rich. See No. 9
You betcha, she says. The earth is 5,000 years old because I’ve seen footprints in the dinosaur footprints. Witchcraft will see her through the tough times, I’m sure.
Just thinking…Troopergate might just put a halt to all this wonderfulness later this month.
#32 – EJ
>>Nobody pays attention to Frank Rich. See No. 9
Heh heh. In your dreams. Frank Rich’s column is always at the top of the “most read” and “most emailed” list on the NYT web site.
Of course, you probably claim nobody pays attention to the NYT, right? All the wingnuts are reading World Net Daily and similar hate rags..
Heh.
how about we get rid of all of the top 4 and just have a giant write-in election? noone else is appealing out there attm, we might get people to think about this…
Oh for the love of Pete, the GOP never stole an election. At the very worst, they just forced the retards to stop infinitely recounting the same ballots over and over till the end of time in their quest to somehow get a different result, which would have never come.
Okay, now that I’m done with that, I personally hope Obama wins. He and McCain are both democrats, and socialist dictators, but at least Obama is honest about it. After 4 years of Obama hell, maybe we can get a real republican who can begin the process of cleaning up the mess.
Our founding fathers were right to not trust the unwashed public to elect our leaders… isn’t that what the electoral college is all about?
Do you really think the ‘president’ controls anything?
I think not much at all…
Vote if you want but it doesn’t mean a thing.
Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party…