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Jeralyn Merritt is comparing Sarah Palin to McGovern's disastrous selection, Thomas Eagleton.
Althouse — She's taking bets on what day Palin will drop out: Did John McCain just repeat George McGovern's fatal mistake? How long will Palin stay on the ticket? Will McCain recover any better than McGovern? It had nothing to do with Eagleton's particular problems, but how McGovern came to choose him, failed to adequately vet him, and then waffled when the problems arose, effectively costing him the election. Eagleton cost him the election? McGovern lost by an awful lot. But, certainly Eagleton damaged him badly. Anyway: John ...

Mainstreaming the far right fringe
Newshoggers.com — ... Unless Sarah Palin declines the nomination for Vice President, this will be my last post about her.  And at this point I think there is a small probability (<5%) that she will either decline the vice presidency nomination or be strongly encouraged to spend more time with her family in the next few weeks.  There is too much smoke here on too many fronts; the bridge to nowhere lie, the abuse of power history and therefore the ...

Palin’s Pregnant Daughter and the VP Vetting Process
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... because he would not fire Palin’s former brother-in-law as a state trooper. It sounds like, at a minimum, Team McCain valued maximum surprise and buzz from the announcement more than thorough vetting.  Similarly, they seemed determined to avoid further annoying social conservatives, given that pro-choicers Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge were clearly McCain’s preferred running mates. Drawing comparisons with George McGovern’s disastrous choice of Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, Jeralyn Merritt has started a pool: “What Day Will Sarah Palin Drop Out?”  Given Palin’s ...

We Have A Winner
Jules Crittenden — ... done. My initial reaction was that in picking Palin, McCain had taken away the argument that Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be President. I now think my initial assessment on that score was wrong. Over time the McCain team will insinuate that if you think a first term Governor isn’t ready for the number 2 slot, are your really sure that a first term Senator is ready for the number 1 spot? OK, now some underestimation: Sargent at TPM: Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo . TalkLeft pool: What day will Palin drop out . Boston Herald: Bloggers in attack mode get personal . NYT: ...

Left Fantasizes About a Race Without Palin [someone]
Ace of Spades HQ — Left Fantasizes About a Race Without Palin [someone] Faced with the all-too-real prospect of the Obamessiah's defeat, TalkLeft's formerly rational Jeralyn Merritt has has resorted to fingers-in-the-ears lalalalacan'thearyou denial: Pool: What Day Will Sarah Palin Drop Out? What's most amazing may be that a significant portion of her own readers (in the comments) realize how actually disgraceful such fantasizing really is. Of course, the Kos Kids ...

Day By Day by Chris Muir September 2, 2008 “Democrats - What You Say and What You Do?”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... nut job is laughable - but very typical of the LEFT. There is even a pool started by some nutters about Palin dropping out from the race. ...

MORNING READ
News — ... . Unlike Barack Obama, who spent a long period in the public eye during a prolonged primary process, Palin is relatively unknown and has shown herself to be unqualified to hold national office, writes TalkLeft's Jeralyn . She and Daily Kos's ...

Media Continues to Air Far Left Sexist Attacks On Palin
Gateway Pundit — ... One Far Left blogger thinks Palin should drop out because she has a daughter who is pregnant. It's not clear if this blogger would feel that way if Bristol Palin killed her baby with an abortion. ...

Stay Classy Leftists
A Blog For All — TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt thinks that the Palin pregnancy news is going to prod the McCain campaign to dump Sarah Palin just days after announcing her as his running mate. What's in the water there Ms. Merritt? Apparently a whole lot of self-declared progressives are showing their bias openly and overtly. How exactly does her daughter's pregnancy or ...

Palimonium
Riehl World View — ... Wait a minute ... Barack Obama's Father deserted him, he bounced around, having some number of lost years in which we at least know he did some pot and some Coke. He has a family member living in a hovel in Kenya getting by on a buck a month. But Palin's "normalcy" somehow makes her inadequate for the VP slot? ...

What Day Will Barack Obama Drop Out?
Confederate Yankee — What Day Will Barack Obama Drop Out? For reasons only "progressive" minds can fathom, several bloggers on the left think or more likely, are perhaps wishing that Sarah Palin, John McCain's newly announced choice for Vice President, will drop out of the Presidential race. Jeralyn Merritt, probably the most consistently rational member of the leftist blogosphere, is actively promoting a drop-out pool . Merritt claims that McCain must force Palin out because she wasn't adequately vetted, and then quite seriously suggests that Obama was: Obama presented himself for 17 months to ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — HE WAS TOO GUTLESS TO PICK LIEBERMAN AND HE'LL BE TOO GUTLESS TO DROP PALIN Jeralyn Merritt is asking people to bet on when John McCain will drop Sarah Palin from the ticket. I say never. Joe Sudbay at AMERICAblog said just the right thing about the capitulation by the alleged tough guy McCain (citing this New York Times article on McCain's selection process, which says McCain really, really wanted to pick Lieberman or Ridge but was ordered not to): If John McCain was truly the leader he claimed to be, Sarah Palin ...

The Horrendous Mistake That Is Sarah Palin
Comments from Left Field — ... While I appreciate Jeralyn’s enthusiasm in suggesting that Governor Palin will not make it to the actual ballot this November, I can’t agree that it would ever happen.  The only mistake that John McCain could make that would be bigger than picking Sarah Palin would be to allow her to leave the ticket. ...

Red Neck Nation
DownWithTyranny! — ... Right now, office pools around the country are collecting money on two bets-- what day will Palin drop out and who will be willing to replace her? So while Obama basks in his ...

Quote of the Day
Newshoggers.com — ... As for this little pool, forget it. Palin's in for the long haul. As Libby has noted here before, McCain is a gambler, and this pick was all-in. The Republicans are going to have to do their best to try and convince everyone that it wasn't a big mistake, because the alternative of Palin stepping aside to "spend time with her family" will be admitting that it was a big mistake, (not to mention pissing off the folks who ...

On Taking Bets On How Long Palin Will Last On GOP Ticket As McCain Vice President Pick
The Moderate Voice — ... A lively progressive blog is taking bets on how long GOP Vice Presidential candidate to be Gov. Sarah Palen lasts on the GOP ticket. Details HERE. ...

Is There a Particular *Reason* that Former Madrassah Student Barack Obama and his Surrogates Refuse to Acknowledge that Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... than their entire ticket combined by belittling the town of Wasilla, I started getting irritated with their refusal to even acknowledge Governor Palin's current job. After all, Former Community Organizer Barack Obama has been campaigning for President for less time than Palin has been Governor (got that, Former State Senator Barack Obama? She's a Governor. Seriously.), and that allegedly counts as "experience," right? Now apparently Former Law School Professor Barack Obama is getting in on the act: ...

McCain/Palin pull ahead in the latest Zogby poll
COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us — TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt, who had started the pool on when McCain would fire his disastrous Veep pick, or she would, ahem, "save him the paperwork," could not be reached for comment. ...

McCain Leads Obama 54%-44% after the convention
COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us — That's among likely voters. (USAToday/Gallup) Hey, Jeralyn Merritt! How's that Palin withdrawal pool coming along? Splash, out Jason