Schmidt is a bald-faced liar. And, like most repugs, he lies unashamedly and with righteous indignation. Much better to stoke hatred and resentment in your base by blaming the "liberal media". Yeah, those millionaires who work for Time-Warner, Viacom, General Electric, Disney, and other renegade, "outside the box," progressive corporations.

somewhat off the topic, it strikes me that we are witnessing an arranged marriage between bristol palin and levi johnston (who indicated on his myspace page that he 'wasn't ready for kids'.

if clarence thomas was a 'high tech lynching' this is a 'high tech shotgun wedding'.

and now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

"The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process."

What about your short and phone-it-in process? Any comment on that?

"If this is how John McCain picks the person who would replace him in an emergency"... the mind boggles at the quality picks McCain would put into all those appointee slots. Oh, and the Cabinet and that Supreme Court thingy.

Truly contemptuous. That he could have such disdain for both the political process, the office and the American people is just mindblowing.

entheo... is it a shotgun wedding when your future mother-in-law is next in line for the codes to the ICBMs?

I know it's been mentioned before but it bears repeating:

McCain became the presumptive nominee on March 4th of this year. He had essentially six months, half a year to make this pick.

even if we buy his story about the thorough vetting of Palin last week, one has to ask: what on god's green earth was your campaign doing for six months???

McCain wanted Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge as his running mate. The Rove machine did not permit McCain to select his running mate. They chose Sarah Palin and McCain had no say in the matter. McCain does what he is told and says what he is told. He is nothing but a burnt-out shell of a man, a subservient puppet of the same gang of career white collar crooks who put the CheneyBush regime in power.

What the selection of Palin tells us is that the Rove machine has given up on appealing to "independents", "centrists" and "disaffected Hillary Clinton Democrats". They are staking everything on the extreme lunatic-fringe so-called "Christian" right. It's all they've got.

Whether or not it will be enough to get them close enough to steal the election with voter disenfranchisement and fraud, remains to be seen.

"even if we buy his story about the thorough vetting of Palin last week, one has to ask: what on god's green earth was your campaign doing for six months???"

Apparently, they were masturbating to VPILF pictures.

"The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process."

I'm sorry, but just because a Google search may take up to 20 seconds to return a result, doesn't mean you get to call it a long and thorough process.

With McCain as prez, think of the money we'd save on surveillance agencies -- close 'em all down and just use The Google! Here's a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

beep.. true, something more potent befits the Machiavellian drama

-Who is responsible for these? What is their fault?

http://imagenvideo.blogspot.com/search/label/War

--Please don't see this if your heart is weak.

McCain's campaign just admitted that McCain himself had no say in the process of picking his own VP. McCain has admitted in the past he doesn't know how to Google.

We need a button or a bumper sticker that reads

"I'm a Murphy Brown Republican".

Quick.

McCain wanted Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge as his running mate. The Rove machine did not permit McCain to select his running mate. They chose Sarah Palin and McCain had no say in the matter. McCain does what he is told and says what he is told. He is nothing but a burnt-out shell of a man, a subservient puppet of the same gang of career white collar crooks who put the CheneyBush regime in power.

The scene: a hut somewere in the wilderness. MCCAIN sits at a table, clad in black pajamas and wearing a bandana tied around his forehead. Facing him are ROVE and SCHMIDT, also in black pajamas. A revolver sits in the middle of the table.

MCCAIN: I...I think I'm gonna go with Tommy Ridg...

SCHMIDT: Dee dee mao!

MCCAIN: Uh...uh...or Joe Lieber...

ROVE: Dee dee mao! You pick Palin! Sarah Palin!

MCAIN: No, I see, I want Tommy or Joe...

SCHMIDT: Mao! Mao! Dee dee mao! Palin! You pick Palin!

MCCAIN: Alright! Alright! Palin! I'll pick Palin! Please for the love of god just stop, stop, I'll do anything you say!

Worst! Shotgun wedding! Ever!

Excuse me... but this has got to be one of the most embarrassing moments in campaign history:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/212890.php

That's the current top post at TMP. You've got to see McCain's behavior to believe it:

The grabbing of hands like a pastor. The arms about young Levi and Bristol simultaneously. McCain is aping a Justice of the Peace!

The spectacle he is making of these young people reaches a level of depravity never before seen in American politics.

Oh my god...
The shame of it.

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Steve Schmidt, announced, "The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process."

"Long and thorough" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, good one!

Oh! You were serious???

oh mhr, we've missed you.

let's talk. if Sarah Palin is nearly as competant as Secretary Rice, Justice Thomas or AG Gonzales, we are in for a hootenany of four years!

Two points: I fill out the vetting form each time I donate blood...."Have you ever paid for sex"....(give me a break).
Second, it took the blogs less than 12 hours to track down issues of suspect school absence plus more. Why couldn't McCain's crew do that much?
Look, you give the press/people an empty bag, they're going to fill it with relavent & irrelevant tidbits. McCain played the same card with Paris Hilton ads.
I feel sorry for the kids; at 17 I was in no position to handle the microscope 1/100th that size.

Poor Levi. These days there's little shame in having sex before marriage. But having your picture taken with a self-confessed Republican ? He'll never live this down ...

In other news, I understand negotiations are underway to revise the format of the VP debate: in place of the usual opening statement, each candidate will have 2 minutes to kill and dress a moose.

other Steve Schmidt: Look, the questioning about our vetting process has actually taken longer than the vetting itself. can we stop talking about our candidate's credentials and start talking about how Obama is a Muslim again? I liked that much better.

Consider what they did to Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Alberto Gonzales and now, Sarah Palin. --mhr

Clarence Thomas - Intellectually incurious, hates his job and rarely speaka to ask questions of the attorneys presenting the cases, and just goes along with the conservaties.

Condi Rice - the most incompetent and disastrous secretary of state ever. She veritably defines the expression "out of her depth." She is supposed to be an expert on Russia and the old Soviet Union, but via mixed messages contributed to the mess in Georgia right now.

Alberto Gonzales - An incompetent boob who politicized the Justice Department, so incompetent he didn't know what Goodling and Sampson were up to while they were breaking the law right under his nose.

Sarah Palin - a right-wing, dominionist theocratic, hypocritical lunatic who may have secessionist fantasies and is parading her teenage daughter and the hockey-goon baby-daddy around like they are the poster child for family values.

Yeah. I see what you mean. We are way out of line here.

Dumbass.

The Obama campaign has figured out how to slime Palin without appearing to do so. Rather than complain explicitly about Palin's family issues, the campaign complains about McCain's vetting process. This allows Obama to sling mud while pretending that he's not. I think this tactic is quite brilliant, and Obama's media pets are following him down this path rather predictably. Sleazy in the extreme, but brilliant.

Perhaps McCain thinks that he'll go along with whatever it takes to get elected, and then assert his independence once he's president. If so, you can forget all that codswallop about the importance of experience - his admittedly lengthy time spent in politics would have taught him nothing. By that time, he'd be a bought-and-paid-for Company whore.

From the late 1930's to as late as the early 1960's, the British Government was extensively penetrated by Soviet intelligence operatives; well-known examples were those of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald MacLean and John Cairncross (although they could not properly be said to be in government, some served abroad in British embassies). In fact, the director of MI5 from 1956 to 1965, Roger Hollis, was himself suspected of being a KGB mole, although it was never proven. Anyway, it happens, even in spite of vigorous screening.

I'm not suggesting Sarah Palin is a spy for the FSB (the inheritors of the KGB mantle) - but what if she belonged to some subversive group? How would the McCain campaign know? They stepped on their dicks with the Alaska Independence outfit, and plainly knew nothing about it.

On the other hand, she does live "right up there next to Russia".

And Stefan, that was some funny shit right there. I bathed the entire side of the room in a fine mist of coffee droplets. Thanks for the laugh.

I think she and the rest of her clan have done a fine job of "sliming" themselves with no ones help. If you think the moderate republicans who elected Nancy Boyda and Dennis Moore and Claire McCaskill and Kathleen Sebelius - i.e. my neighbors - are going to vote for someone who put this woman on the ticket who reminds them of the white trash neighbors t the edge of the neighborhood that they wish would just go away - ride that pony all the way to November. Please.

This allows Obama to sling mud while pretending that he's not.

Assuming, of course, that the family issues are what Dems primarily care about. Hint: just because that's what the republicans would focus on, that says nothing about the Dems. They actually give a damn about her lack of experience and her insane ideology.

I know you'd like us to be as petty as you'd be in the same place, but Josh is right. The only people pushing Palin's family issues in everyone's faces are the McCain campaign.

the campaign complains about McCain's vetting process. This allows Obama to sling mud while pretending that he's not.

Hey, it isn't Obama's fault that McCain demonstrated so much incompetence in how he picked Palin that it distracts from her own extremist right-wing views.

Ah, mhr and DBL haven't posted their predicable right-wing drivel in a while. Sleazy in the extreme, but stupid.

The Palin vetting team, late as it is, still isn't very good.

It is a no-brainer to conclude that much of what they've been sent to do is bury or steal original documents and cover-up inconvenient, easily accessible facts. (Think George W. Bush's missing cocaine probation files, or his missing Alabama National Guard records).

That's what Republican vetting crews do -- feloniously fiddle the records.

Still, it was an act of pure negligence that they waited until AFTER landing in Alaska before instructing Levi Johnston to take his MySpace pages private. While they diddled, various computer-savvy bloggers were busy. Here are just three of a dozen or more --

Archive of Sarah, Bristol, Trig Palin MySpace Pages

same -- different source and format

New York Post

etc. google it etc.

Now, anyone with a brain who works with teenagers -- especially the kind of teenagers who get "in trouble" in various ways, sexually and otherwise, -- knows the FIRST place to check out what a kid is REALLY doing is MySpace and Facebook. Hard for adults to believe, I know, but these immature children (or mentally stunted young adults like Levi) seem to think they inhabit the Earth by themselves and only their closest friends will view their MySpace and Facebook drivelings.

( Here's a tip for all parents out there, courtesy of every juvenile probation officer I know: Insist that your teen show you ALL of his/her MySpace and FaceBook pages. Prepare to be shocked. Really, really shocked. If the child refuses, take the 'puter away and lock it in the trunk of your car.)

If McCain's crew really was vetting Palin thoroughly in advance, they would have known this at once and made a simple call to Levi at least the day BEFORE McCain announced his ridiculous pick.

Even if the vetting crew didn't have a clue until after McCain made the decision to send them, they would have made that call BEFORE hopping a plane to Anchorage.

It is literally true that Levi's MySpace page wasn't taken down or privatized until AFTER the vetters had arrived in Alaska. I saw it happening even as it was being privatized. I was downloading pages late the other night when suddenly poof! they were gone. I checked, and that would have been within a couple of hours after the vetting team landed.

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