Why Sarah Palin was really picked...

I can specuate several reasons why Sarah Palin was really picked to be John McCain's running mate:

1) She was a beauty queen contest runner up in 1984. I looked at her pic from that year, and she basically looks like a deb in the pic. Yesterday I got to see a pic of her with her husband after they'd just gotten married, and he looks like a jock (that could have just had his mullet cut off because he was about to go into the service) - I definitely feel an All-American undercurrant.

2) Picture the world famous portrait "American Gothic", only superimposed with John McCain's and Sarah Palin's faces. The two in the painting were father and daughter (though many mistake them to be married). That leads to this thought - I believe McCain chose her because they have a father/daughter image, and the McCain camp is trying to put a juxtaposition in our minds alongside Obama's children - playing the family card in other words. Except that the family image that he and Palin portray are closer to the American Gothic image, which is subdued and detached, to say the least.

The last one is obvious - we know that, not only has she been chosen to further McCain's candidacy, but we also know just which head he was thinkin' with when h chose her - let's just say, to be polite, that she has not been selected because she's a woman with a brain (although she does go a little further into the social conservative base than McCain seems to do). However, I don't believe Biden has to walk on eggshells at all during the VP debate.

Thoughts, purple party people?

She is a women.

I'm still trying to figure that out. So are some people from Alaska:

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/

Scroll down to read the responses by some Republican State Politicians. I guess they hadn't received their talking points memo yet!

eaglebear4839 said:

SUPRMAN said:

shanti0608 said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I'm still trying to figure that out. So are some people from Alaska:

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/

Scroll down to read the responses by some Republican State Politicians. I guess they hadn't received their talking points memo yet!

In defense of Palin, I give you Cindy McCain and Pawlenty:

As to Palin's lack of national security experience, Cindy McCain said, "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So, it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here. It's also about making decisions and be targeted in what she thinks. She has a great mind. And she has a very serious direction in where she goes."

Also defending McCain's running mate choice was Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, passed over by McCain for the No. 2 spot. He called Palin "a maverick with a record of reform."

As to Palin's lack of national security experience, the Minnesota governor said: "In fairness to Governor Palin let's do the same analysis for Senator Obama — What is it in his background that would give him the same sort of requisite wisdom and judgment on national security matters?"

"Palin is commander in chief of the Alaskan National Guard," Pawlenty added.

Re: Cindy - they are not REALLY going to use the 'Russia is near Alasaka' thing to give her a credit for experience, are they?

DiminutiveRocker said:

In defense of Palin, I give you Cindy McCain and Pawlenty:

As to Palin's lack of national security experience, Cindy McCain said, "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So, it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here. It's also about making decisions and be targeted in what she thinks. She has a great mind. And she has a very serious direction in where she goes."

Also defending McCain's running mate choice was Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, passed over by McCain for the No. 2 spot. He called Palin "a maverick with a record of reform."

As to Palin's lack of national security experience, the Minnesota governor said: "In fairness to Governor Palin let's do the same analysis for Senator Obama — What is it in his background that would give him the same sort of requisite wisdom and judgment on national security matters?"

"Palin is commander in chief of the Alaskan National Guard," Pawlenty added.

Re: Cindy - they are not REALLY going to use the 'Russia is near Alasaka' thing to give her a credit for experience, are they?

DiminutiveRocker said:

In defense of Palin, I give you Cindy McCain and Pawlenty:

As to Palin's lack of national security experience, Cindy McCain said, "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So, it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here. It's also about making decisions and be targeted in what she thinks. She has a great mind. And she has a very serious direction in where she goes."

Also defending McCain's running mate choice was Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, passed over by McCain for the No. 2 spot. He called Palin "a maverick with a record of reform."

As to Palin's lack of national security experience, the Minnesota governor said: "In fairness to Governor Palin let's do the same analysis for Senator Obama — What is it in his background that would give him the same sort of requisite wisdom and judgment on national security matters?"

"Palin is commander in chief of the Alaskan National Guard," Pawlenty added.

Re: Cindy - they are not REALLY going to use the 'Russia is near Alasaka' thing to give her a credit for experience, are they?

Though I appreciate your posting about who's not going to the RNC, dude, this is a Prince fansite - if I was being graded for my work, then maybe I'd look at other threads. I wrote this thread to "throw spaghetti on the wall and see if it sticks" If you're gonna tell me "check out my thread first" (which is what you're doing, Blanche), you can save that ish for youtube.

SUPRMAN said:

eaglebear4839 said:

According to some reports, Sarah Palin was not McCain's first choice for VP.

http://www.dailykos.com/s...707/581011

According to Andrea Mitchell at NBC and MSNBC, McCain really wanted to have Joe Lieberman as his VP running mate, but that idea seriously pissed off the GOP state party chairs and the extreme right wing of the party. He would have settled for Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty, but Karl Rove apparently was advising on this and said that neither of those people would rally the Republican base, so he suggested that he go after disaffected Hillary Clinton voters and pick a woman as his VP choice. The problem is that he picked a very underqualified woman to run as VP. He could have easily picked Senator's Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe of Maine, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, or even Condolezza Rice, but he went with the candidate with no foreign policy experience, no urban policy experience (sorry, but Wasilia, AK, a town of 6,700 people, isn't exactly an urban stronghold), no experience in health care or social programs, and her only energy experience is working for the oil and gas commission in Alaska, which is essentially a mouthpiece for the major oil companies. Just the fact that he caved in to Karl Rove for the VP pick shows that he doesn't have the judgment to lead this nation.

you missin' da point, bru-mane - I ain't gotta be checkin' nothin' n ish fo' I post my shiznit on dis heyah mess.

SUPRMAN said:

I'm a democrat, I don't really care. But her shit is hitting the fan right about now isn't it?