[Ford Prefect]

I particularly like the strategy of trying to win Clinton supporters with a female candidate who is generally her ideological opposite, including being staunchly anti-abortion. I was really worried that the Republican party might do something that's insulting to women's intelligence, but at this point, I figure all they have to do is ask America's women to hurry up with the ****ing pot roast and they've got this locked up. I wonder if she'll show us her tits if McCain can get her drunk. Take that, glass ceiling!

[BengalTiger]

I particularly like the strategy of trying to win Clinton supporters with a female candidate who is generally her ideological opposite...

I particularly like the strategy of trying to convince everyone that getting former Clinton voters to swing to McCain being the reason he chose this candidate for VP and not a different one.

Perhaps it was to tackle the problem with Old Navy's age, as a much younger VP will have a clue of how E-Mails work, and possibly attract the voters that say a grandpa is too old for running a country.
Perhaps it was because McCain needs someone who's pro-drilling in Alaska for oil independancy, at least untill the US switches to other energy sources.
Maybe it's because she's a conservative.
Maybe because she doesn't believe in big government, which could attract libertarians to vote for McCain.
It could be a million reasons.

[Al Tarket]

il pretend i didnt see the last part of that message ford.. *shouts in an empty room* THATS DISGUSTING!.

im glad im living in israel far enough away from these strange skin jobs like nuke and flipside . i can only wonder what their objectives are...

[Ford Prefect]

I particularly like the strategy of trying to convince everyone that getting former Clinton voters to swing to McCain being the reason he chose this candidate for VP and not a different one.

Perhaps it was to tackle the problem with Old Navy's age, as a much younger VP will have a clue of how E-Mails work, and possibly attract the voters that say a grandpa is too old for running a country.
Perhaps it was because McCain needs someone who's pro-drilling in Alaska for oil independancy, at least untill the US switches to other energy sources.
Maybe it's because she's a conservative.
Maybe because she doesn't believe in big government, which could attract libertarians to vote for McCain.
It could be a million reasons.

Except for the first item, those are simply requisites for even being considered to be McCain's running mate, and he passed up a lot of people with much longer résumés who met them. And forgive me if I find it difficult to believe that he would sacrifice so much footing on the experience issue just to put a young face on his campaign, especially when her acceptance speech was so directly aimed at women who wanted Clinton or no one.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

are yousaying im a cylon? would explaing where i get my love for nuking planets

Hey, at least Axem thinks that Cylon nukes are great terraforming tools.

The vice-presidential candidates this year are pretty interesting too.

[TopAce]

Uncyclopedia compares the Pope to Palpatine.

Such comparisons can be drawn about Palin. Look:

Palpatine.

[watsisname]

Even at the risk of turning nerd populace to vote McCain, I have to say this is pretty hilarious.

  That's the greatest thing I've seen all day!

[NGTM-1R]

This actually neatly helps to solve the Republican problem of proving they intend to institute meaningful changes, so it was fairly shrewd.

[Scorpius]

This news is, not surprisingly, huge here in Alaska.  She was also mayor of Wasilla a few years back (which also is the meth capital of the state.)

[Nuclear1]

When she dismissed Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan on July 11, Palin said she wanted to take the commission in a new direction.

A week later, Monegan told NBC affiliate KTUU of Anchorage that he thought it was likely that he had been dismissed because he resisted pressure from Palin’s staff and husband to fire the trooper, who was involved in a bitter custody battle with the governor’s sister after their divorce in 2005.

Point: the trooper threatened to kill a man, used a taser on his stepson, and broke the law.

Justification for firing him?  Yes. 

Coincidence his wife was the sister of the governor?  Yes.

I'll wait until the investigation is over before jumping to power-abuse conspiracy theories.

[General Battuta]

It was a genius choice on McCain's part, and it exploits Obama's biggest mistake so far: not selecting Hillary as his VP.

However, vice presidential choices actually have almost no impact on the outcome of the election, believe it or not.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I think the reason why Obama didn't choose Hillary as VP is because they already have issues with each other during the start of the year, when both of them were campaigning to be the Democrats' candidate for president. They must definitely have known a lot about the other side during that campaign.

[Al Tarket]

i do not think that is it at all, as an outside looking in. i think this is that competitive streak where pride is put above the good of what right, imo mostly half or more of the american populace has been brought up to become ruthless and care for nothing but yourself and what you stand for, this i have seen before. obama wont take hilary for this reason, she will exploit everything obama does so she can grab power when the next election comes up they both know they dont care for one another. she knows she has womens rights under her arm and if she can get the rest and pull the carpet from underneath obama and take his senators, who have backed him in his party hilary will become the next president as long as she has done everything which the party asks her to broadcast. i also suspect this what i said is a political threat to office.

i think obama made the right choice giving the potential risk outweighing the potential profit and greater risk.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

i do not think that is it at all, as an outside looking in. i think this is that competitive streak where pride is put above the good of what right, imo mostly half or more of the american populace has been brought up to become ruthless and care for nothing but yourself and what you stand for, this i have seen before. obama wont take hilary for this reason, she will exploit everything obama does so she can grab power when the next election comes up they both know they dont care for one another. she knows she has womens rights under her arm and if she can get the rest and pull the carpet from underneath obama and take his senators, who have backed him in his party hilary will become the next president as long as she has done everything which the party asks her to broadcast. i also suspect this what i said is a political threat to office.

i think obama made the right choice giving the potential risk outweighing the potential profit and greater risk.

You have your points, Al, but I think Obama has even better reasons for his actions. He's definitely a lot smarter than I am.

[Al Tarket]

i said what i said if i was in barack obama's shoes through the limitations of what i perceive whats going on. and yes hes more smarter then you or i, he went to harvard law school or some place like that to study for his political degrees, find some substantial backing and a lot of talking that would make your throat dry up and close by the time he was finished .

[Hellstryker]

Just don't confuse inteligence and common sense... people do that too often these days

[Nuke]

liberals have had their heads up their ass for quite awhile now. thinking for them usually involves a bowel movement.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

That explains why I get a stomachache every morning.

[MP-Ryan]

He picked a VP which is nothing but a purely political choice.

Palin has been a governor for a short time and a mayor before that.  She has no federal experience, no foreign policy experience, and exemplifies every single one of the staunch conservative values (anti-abortion, anti-Science, pro-drilling, pro-2nd amendment).  Frankly, her selection as VP running-mate is a disaster... perhaps not for McCain, as Americans don't tend to vote based on the abilities of their leaders so much as their promises, but certainly if the Republicans do get another Presidential term this woman has the potential to do even more damage to the USA's international reputation.

She's a terrible choice in all practical terms, and I sincerely hope this obviously political move doesn't pay off in the slightest.

There are far more qualified and far better balanced women he could have chosen.  Frankly I'm somewhat surprised at a choice this poor.

[Flipside]

It's all the hot bottled water he had when he was a baby