latimes.com - 8/30/2008
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She should appeal to conservatives and to women. But she's light on experience - the same criticism McCain has leveled at Barack Obama. And her unfamiliarity could haunt the GOP campaign.
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DENVER -- John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate poses high risks for the Republican presidential hopeful.
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John McCain Does Not Have The Judgment To Be President
Daily Kos —
There's a most interesting reaction to the Sarah Palin choice this morning. Though John McCain clearly concluded that Palin could attract female voters and grab his campaign some Barack Obama-style media buzz, he also is taking a risk that in elevating a largely unknown figure, he undermines the central theme of his candidacy that he puts "country first," above political calculations. Having swallowed the insult (it's my country) of watching McCain fail the "a heartbeat away" test with someone who thinks drilling in Alaska will make ...
The Saturday Word: Assessing Palin
The Caucus —
... , and ultimately undercutting his fundamental criticism that Senator Barack Obama is not ready to be president. “Senior Clinton advisers said there had always been one big card that McCain could play to exploit the rift between Clinton and Obama supporters — and McCain played it,” write Juliet Eilperin and Anne E. Kornblut in The Washington Post in a ...
McCain the Risk-Taker
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Why do I bring this up now? Well, on August 30, 2008, the Los Angeles Times ran an article titled McCain’s choice of Palin is a risk: ...
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