Its Sarah Palin

she did win a beauty contest in alaska, but if you've ever been there, you'd realize all she had to do was be the one that shaved her legs and armpits.One heartbeat is very scary.

Hook'em!!!
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My thoughts:

- As a conservative in TX I was not planning on voting McCain, that has changed - I will vote him now.

- I suspect McCain realizes that his best chance of victory is to win conservatives...Obama will have problems with traditional America and this pick exposes that even further.

- Economy, i.e., gas prices will be one of the biggest issues of the campaign and now we have the Governor of the state of Alaska. This should put ANWR back on the table - a flip flop I suspect much of America supports. Further pts to Obama's weakness on drilling.

She maybe weak on foreign policy and overall experience, but I suspect it is wash vs Obama's pick of Biden who doesn't exactly follow the script of "change" for Obama.

The race is for president, not 2nd fiddle, but I suggest this added some much needed conservative support for McCain and may help with the all important white female vote. Not Hillary supporters mind you, but independent women sitting on the fence.
 
I was just in AK this summer. I'm not saying supermodel, but I think that wouldn't help and would be too over the top.

Healthy, earthy beauty that goes with riding on snowmobiles and shooting moose. Men (by and large) like that kind of beauty better than the smoking hot super model (for a life partner) that you can't help but think, high maintenance.

Now, if you are talking about a one night stand go with the super model. But that's not the point I was making.
 
pretty funny she recently endorsed parts of Obama's engery policy and recently commented she didnt even know what a VP was for...nor thought it was much of a job worth having
 
Biden is going to beat her to a bloody pulp and feast on the remains when their inevitable debate turns toward foreign policy. She's woefully undergunned and outclassed in that area.

And that's a HUGE area.

Internally, just b/c a woman is happy that they have a fellow woman on the ballot doesn't mean they're going to vote for them.

You Rs forget that since day 1 you have been forced to nominate the least weak, least offensive in a field of candidates that is probably the weakest the Rs have fielded in 50 years.

Nobody voted for McCain...they voted against Guiliani, Huckabee, Romney, etc. McCain got it by default.

He's trying to escape that, but he did a woefully sorry job with this pick. But you Rs have been so immersed in a field of bad candidates that someone like Palin actually looks good when, in fact, this is a mistake of IMMENSE proportions.

Never, EVER forget that a VP pick will NOT do a damn thing to win a Presidential race, but they damn sure can LOSE the race for President for you.

She may be a woman, and you may have seen a woman get all excited about this, but a pro-life woman is going to lose every pro-choice woman in the nation, and not only lose, they're going to motivated to CRUSH her b/c woman simply cannot stand another woman who is pro-life. They think of them as someone on the team giving away their playbook to the other team.

~60% of women are pro-choice.

Now, factor in the remaining pro-life women. A large percentage of them are fundamentalist Christians, and the largest denomination in the U.S., and certainly the denomination that has the highest number of fundamentalist, is the Southern Baptist Convention.

The SBC won't even allow a women to be ordained, be a pastor, or have ANY leadership role in the denomination EXCEPT as it relates to teaching other women that their role is to be submissive and honor the "man of the house."

For example, 2 years ago Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary fired the one, and only one, woman that the SBC had teaching theology....she wasn't ordained, but she had a decent Ph.D., decent scholar, was very fundamentalist, scriptural literalist, etc....because the SBC did not think it proper that a WOMAN hold a position of authority over their potential pastors.

They fired her because she was a woman. Period.

Then they changed the curriculum to include cooking classes for woman as well as a classes designed to help woman understand their role as submissive not only at SWBTS, but also NOBTS, SBTS, and SEBTS.

Now, do you think that the SBC is going to line up behind McCain b/c of Sarah Palin given that they won't even allow women to assume a position of deacon or merely head children's ministry in some country church?

You think that they believe it's proper to have a woman a heartbeat away from the Presidency given (a) the inherent authority in the position, and (b) they truly believe by way of written policy that part of President's role is that he is to be a "Christian leader" who will "lead America back to her Bible-believing origins" and that he is to "help lead others to Christ" through his role as President.

And the document is NOT gender neutral. It specifically refers to "he"....and that specific gender reference is intentional.

Trust me....I know SBC politics from the inside and have many friends who are power players in the denomination. I've already fielded 2 calls regarding this matter, and each of them said that this guarantees that they will NOT vote for McCain.

They won't vote for Obama, but their damn sure not voting for McCain. They're staying home.

It's Mitt Romney with a bra.

Massive mistake....huge mistake. McCain has surrounded himself with what has to be the worst staff possible, and unfortunately for him he's listening to them all the way to the point where he's ceased being a "maverick."

Being a "maverick" was his best chance.

This pick is not evidence that he's a "maverick." This pick is signal that he is irrational and desparate. A maverick would have picked Joe Lieberman.

He had to swing for the moon, but he just took strike 3.
 
I'm really looking forward to watching the VP debates now....Biden strikes me as an arrogant dude and, while I know nothing of this lady, it would be fun to watch him eat ****.
 
I don't know what you're babbling about with respect to SBC politics, KE, but I take issue with the notion that pro-choice women hate pro-life ones. My wife, for one, is pro-choice and is positively giddy about this nomination.

And if Biden thinks he can beat up a girl in a debate, he's very wrong.
 
McCain is going to get the inevitable question: You must believe that Palin is prepared to be CIC, so what relevant qualifications does she possess that Obama does not? His answer is going to amount to "she agrees with me," which is going to diminish his credibility. This should be interesting.
 
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