I thought I bring this up here becasue as soon as I heard who McCain's VP pick was, I thought about whom she will be debating with, Joe Biden. And then I thought about the 2000 Gore/Bush debate and how Al's over confidence in that debate brought us the following 8 evil years.
I think the Republicans are banking on this same idea that once Joe starts to dump his experience on her, America will feel sad and sorry for her and go for another 4 years of Bush/Cheney/McCain years.
I am not a good writer but let HEAT's comment do the rest.
McCain failed his first test
I really misunderestimated his foolishness. I know I am baised but McCain blew this one. I don't think anyone want this guy near that button anymore. Just to get his base "excited" he sacrifieced his most important job before being elected president.
He "won" 2hours of Breaking news coverage and picked a woman who was a governer of a state for 2min and whose 3rd line in her resume is a runner up of a beauty contest. To be honest in some weird way, I felt bad for him. I am not sure this guy is serious about winning or he just want to FK the republican party. I read many repug blogs and their first reaction seems to support her [I know... republicans]. Whitin hours of the announcement they were scrambling everywhere still trying to pretend that they are excited about the pick but still looking up who the fk she really is - just like me. Aparently McCain met her only once. Most of the repugs pretend now to fall inline but I have found some cool headed ones though that bluntly said "WE are FUCKED".
Advice to Barack...well sort of.
During the VP debate or in between, do not go after her. Joe needs to let her alone and do absolutely nothing. Be nice. Treat her like a good opponent and let the public find out the gigantic resume gap between Joe and Sarah. can't wait to see them side by side. The surrogates need to pretend that she doesn't even exist - don't go too negative. The repugs will find out who she is on their own. The MSM is also equally baffled so they might have already started doing the vetting. But today was a really weird day. I never doubted we will win but boy, I never thought it will be that easy and the help coming from McCain? damn thats priceless.
McCain is a very dangerous person. he really played his mavrick card too much and don't think he needs to be close to that button...especially vis-a-vis Russia Georgia conflict. The girl is a lifetime NRA memeber and just when she got elected one of her accomplishments was firing her brother-in-law because he is in a nasty divorce process with her sister. I know she was a small town girl where everyone knows everynoe and she might tought it is a family business but this is the presidency of the United States. Either the republicans are really drunk or they already lost hope and throwing hail mary. In any case, it was a very strange choice that reveals the character of McCain.
"allow nothing to be in your life that you cannot walk out of in 30 seconds if you spot the heat around the corner". - movie HEAT
This was HEAT's comment...
If I find this diaried somewhere or if HEAT chooses to post one up, i will delete this.