Its Sarah Palin

Politically, it's a great choice.


If the same DNC and media faces try to slam Palin, that's a trap...because those same faces already shredded Hillary in the primaries. Many "liberal" leaders and media pundits spent a lot of their anti-fem political capital by thrashing Hillary Clinton. That won't be forgotten.


Is the Democratic Party one which wants to pay lip service to women...only to reject and attack women when it comes to presidential politics? Here in 2008, they'll get no credit for the Ferraro choice of 24 years ago.


And will the same media elites who ripped Hillary firmly secure their historical place as blatant sexists by slamming Palin at every chance they get? I can really see the Olbermanns and Matthews types getting grilled for a year-long tirade against female candidates. The Hillary voters already hate them....it won't take many attacks on Palin to rekindle their anger.


Also satisfies the conservative base...and the "inexperience" and "lacks national security credentials" won't work against a McCain campaign. The top of ticket is much too strong in both areas.


Palin does need an excellent showing at the convention and a strong performance vs. Biden...but it's a stunning pick with the potential to reshape the race...a lot of guts from McCain and a historic choice.
 
KC,

I don't think the question is prejudiced. Obviously it takes more than just being black to get the nomination (Obama is not the first to try), but I think part of Obama's attraction is not just that he is black, but that he is not so strongly ethnic looking aside from color. He's sort of a Sidney Portier instead of Bernie Mack. In short, I think the deck is still stacked against some people of color in either party.

To push your consideration a little further, Obama actually came out of near nowhere to seize the nomination from a pretty clear front-runner. Could Palin have done the same? I don't think so. The reasons why she couldn't and he did might help to map the non-racial elements that got him the nomination.

For the record, I voted for Hillary in the Texas primary but I've always been fine with Obama. Had he been in contention, I would likely have voted for Biden. This is just to provide a little context about where I am coming from.
 
Very true, TTR, and I am a voter that obviously doesn't prioritize experience. It's highly overrated in almost every arena.

For example, Greg Davis is much more experienced as a Division 1 offensive coordinator than anyone I know. But I have no question that I know multiple people that I truly believe would be better at the job than he is.
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The argument that she is inexperienced just will not work, the comeback will always be that Obama has no experience.

Brilliant move.
 
Mr Wizard is right, this argument only helps McCain. Every time someone brings up inexperience, Obama will be brought up and compared to the GOP VP candidate.
 
I think it's a good choice for McCain, but it's tough when your first decision as commander in Chief is to go for the long shot. He had to pick a women or just let Obama run over him.

VERY GOOD choice considering the main goal was to try and get some focus back on the McCain campaign and more importantly blunt the nearly universal positive reaction to Obama's speech by anyone with the remotest bit of objectivity.

She is attractive, a soccer mom and has a good record in Alaska, she took on the corrupt GOP establishment, in Alaska. I can hardly wait for her to be asked about Ted Stevens, and she if she can give the Dem candidate in Alaska a helping hand.

Her position on no abortion even if gang raped by 14 men for 3 days over the labor Day weekend, is going to be an interesting sell to many women, but will cement McCain with the far right who are still questioning his commitment to them. So this is read meat for that group, and they will send cash to McCain... err the RNC.

While I personally have felt for nearly the entirety of my life that beauty pagent contestants were some of the most vacuous women, there are always exceptions to the rule. Palin may very well be one of those. You cannot help but note her record of achievement, though in a realitively small pond compared to most stages.

Of course had Obama picked a similar person of similar experience the very same folks lauding this choice would be howling and ridiculing Obama. But that's hypocrisy for you.
 
McCain's first big decision as POTUS.

vs.

Obama's first big decision as POTUS


I'm 100% certain Palin is ready to have her hand on the nuke button. But if she asks Putin to fire her ex brother in law and he refuses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then...

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Damn. Obama should have selected Brewster McCracken or Will Wynn to counter. For McCain, it was either Palin or Alderman Baker from Muncie, Indiana. McCain was also considering County Commisioner Dayton from Dade County in Florida, but decided that Palin was the right choice. Also, Mayor Smith from Dancer, Texas population 81 was also an intriging possibility.
 
4 years later, not much has changed here on the West Mall

Palin turned out to be a lousy pick, despite the many who said in this thread and in subsequent ones that she was a good if not great pick.
 
Just because one finds Palin to be a poor choice does not require one to find Biden to have been a good choice.

Neither HHD, nor you (and you're not even addressing what HHD said, but instead are looking at the perceived relative merits of Palin/Biden) are "right on the button".

This is how many address politics on this site and it's boring, frustrating, and reeks of highschool team spirit mentality. Can you smell it? Just because one criticizes one "team" does not mean that one loves the other.
 
I can talk merits of my candidates all day long, can you? Who is your candidate? I would be glad to run down a list of issues and debate where my candidate stands, are you willing to do the same?
 
She was a lousy pick because she didn't do what she was brought onto the ticked to do, which was to bring enough women to the McCain side to give him a chance to win the election and because, after listening to her (especially on foreign policy), not enough people believe that McCain made the best choice to lead this country in the event of his death.

It was a complete reach, one made out of desperation. It was a losing gamble.
 
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