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VP Who?
Matthew Yglesias —
Okay, this confirms what I’d only inferred earlier — John McCain’s barely met or spoken to Sarah Palin, and other key McCain aides have never met her at all, with some of his main supporters being as ignorant about her as any normal person would be:
As Chuck Todd says at the end of that clip, this probably won’t matter politically. The Palin choice was a savvy news cycle gambit on one of the few days of the campaign in which VP picks make a difference. If all you care about is “winning” the news cycle, then I guess you don’t need to know the ...
John McCain's gimmick: He doesn't even know Sarah Palin. They've only met once, maybe twice.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
So, Sarah Palin doesn't know what the V.P. does. That's bad enough. It gets worse. John McCain doesn't even know Sarah Palin, but he thinks she could lead our nation if something happens to him. (And, by the way, McCain is 72 years old today and has had cancer numerous times so we're not talking about some remote possibility.) Watch this video Jed compiled. No one knows Palin: Chuck Todd is right: "It's gimmicky." This is a gimmick -- a pure political gimmick. John McCain put politics before the best interests of his country.
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Did McCain Just Throw A Dart At A Boardful Of Republican Pols To Come Up With Palin?
DownWithTyranny! —
Palin endorsed Pat Buchanan in the 2000 GOP primary-- instead of John McCain. And McCain doesn't even know her-- neither do any of his close associates. Lindsey Graham seems to think that she's qualified for a job that puts her a heartbeat away from the presidency because "she hunts moose at 3 in the morning." He's one silly, silly goose, giggling like a little girl. ...
Judgment, Experience, Honor, Country: McCain’s Epic Palin Fail
Firedoglake —
Presidential candidates have a single task to perform expertly between securing their party's nomination and Election Day: the choice of a running mate. Everything else is politics and speeches. (And, by the way, wasn't our guy's just swell?)
Campaign appearances, photo-opportunities, and even debates are grist for Villagers and other rubes who read into them all kinds of sillliness as they fondle and interpret them. But the only thing a presidential candidate actually does that the American people can really evaluate is this: pick a running mate who doesn't embarrass yourself, your country, your dignity and your ...
Livin' Palin And The New GOP Icon: The Daddy Baby
DownWithTyranny! —
In 2004 22.1 million viewers watched the coverage of the GOP convention. Last night it was 21.5 million who watched, not a terrible loss of audience share but considerably less than the 26 million who watched Hillary Clinton in St. Paul last week. (Around 40 million had watched Obama's speech on the final night of the Democratic convention. Maybe McCain will catch up.) And you can't even say it's because the Democrats have all the celebrities. The Palin family are the biggest celebrities in America... on the cover of every supermarket tabloid in the country. In fact, fabulously trashy celebrity sister Jamie Lynn Spears from Red Neck ...
