appropriate and ironic given Palin's 400k incentive to sidestep a 1973 ban on aerial hunting- so hunters could collect a 150$ bounty on wolves forelegs.

Paraphrasing Jay Leno, the difference between McCain and Charlie Gibson is that Charlie interviewed Palin. Ouch.

Karl Rove made the following remarks on Meet The Press on August 10:

"I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president."

"With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America."

"So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'"

Karl Rove made the following remarks on Meet The Press on August 10:

"I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president."

"With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America."

"So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'"

Here's the McCain team's lead dog...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cd-BDFeF14

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I often wonder: If Obama had picked Hillary as his running-mate, would McCain have picked someone other than Palin? I think so.

Sites like GrasstopUSA are trying to turn the tables - asking who vetted Obama? They list a few skeletons.

But they forgot that Hillary exposed all those matters many months ago. The guy's been seriously vetted.

Might not ever happen but I'm curious whether any photos of Palin are floating around showing a little more than a hint of cleavage? Her church background suggests otherwise. However, she did battle in beauty contests, was a cheesecake TV news reader and generally saw fit to use her beauty to make it in the world. Agents, photographers and other hangers-on have a way of influencing young, beautiful, impressionable women, convincing them baring a little or all will provide that lucky break they need. Or money. Or both. Far less obvious people have surprised the public with such episodes from their past.

I'll never really understand why McCain didn't think to do this before inviting Palin onto the ticket

Oooh, oooh, I know! Pick me!

Because McCain is as not just as dishonest as George W. Bush, but as incompetent to boot?

The $150 wolf bounty required you turn in the left front paws for proof. Both McCain and Obama are left-handed aka bounty pawed. Will Palin expand the bounty program?

That's Just What I Said

"Another liberal stunt: Some guy promising to pay for Bristol Palin to have an abortion. I guess maybe they thought that the progressive liberals wouldn't go after her family."

Do you even know who Doug Stanhope is? Go listen to some of his stand-up. He's a sick, sick man. Very funny, but very sick.

Nobody is addressing it because it has NOTHING to do with the campaign.

Even if the Obama campaign DID send a crew to AK to vet Palin, at least SOMEONE did. That would merely show how much more qualified for the presidency Obama is than McCain.

Instead of seriously looking into Palin before she was nominated, the RNC is now sending a crew of lawyers to block any serious vetting by anyone, including a court of law.

McCain's campaign has sent at least one dozen researchers and lawyers to Alaska to pore over Palin's background

It's a two-fer. They are also in Alaska to 1)subvert the justice system and 2)stymie the troopergate investigation and 3)smear former commissioner Walter Monegan while 4) lying that the investigation that was proceeding through a bipartisan committee prior to her VP nod is 100% partisan. Come to think of it, guess that makes it a five-fer or six-fer.

That would make a great joke: McCain complains that Obama is sending people to Alaska to vet Palin, so Obama replies, "Well, SOMEBODY had to do it!"

Isn't it odd how Palin was agreeing to cooperate in the "Troopergate" investigation and then all these "high-priced" eastern lawyers went up there in the backwoods and started nosing around and suddenly Palin doesn't want to cooperate and is fighting tooth and nail to derail the investigation. Now, if it were Obama lawyers, or Democratic National Committee lawyers who had been snooping around I could see the fear of this thing suddenly turning partisan, but they were McCain lawyers doing the snooping and now fighting the investigation as if their very life depended on it. Makes you wonder what McCain found out that he should have known before he picked Palin, eh?

Building on ckelly's theories above, yet another reason for the McCain camp to accuse Obama/Democrats of sending investigators to Alaska was to *deter* Democrats *from* doing just that -- which was exactly the effect they *achieved*, based on the response of the DNC/Obama: "Who, us? We didn't/wouldn't do that!" (no, seriously, that was their response; TPM's David Kurtz posted this a week ago (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/215480.php), along with a parenthetical note: "Why didn't the Dems dispatch a team to Alaska?")

The answer, of course, being that once Republicans accuse Democrats of doing something politically strong and effective, Democrats have three ingrained responses:

1) "Oh, we'd never do that." (Yeah, no shit; you're *Democrats*.)

2) "Well, now that we've been *accused* of doing something political, we really can't do it."

3) "And I suppose we shouldn't even suspect our good friends the GOP of doing the same goddamned thing they're accusing us of, yet again."

Now that the campaigns (or do I mean camp pains?) have diminished their focus on all things Palin, I am reminded of what Sarah's meteoric rise reminds me of, just that, a meteor, a shooting star, a bright flash of light that catches one's attention but then fades as quickly as it appeared in the night sky.

I know that was a long sentence. But then again, it's been a long detour these past few weeks.

Now we have to look down the barrel at, probably the single issue that will define the rest of the camp pain (oops I mean campaign) season.

Yes, we will pontificate about the endless war.

Yes, we will gnash our teeth over the need to drill for oil closer to home.

Yes, we will wheeze about the lack of affordable healthcare.

Yes, we will impregnate the debate with the moral versus immoral aspects of abortion.

Yes, we will wax and wane over the definition of marriage and love for another being and families.

But with the financial house of cards fluttering in the hot winds of a virtual meltdown, all of us have to ask ourselves is lipschtick really what our leaders should be about?

The good news? They finally found that planeload full of cash that went missing in the Iraq War--and shipped it off to Wasilla to pay out the hush money.

Look, she's trainable (maybe) and pre-corrupted. Needs not help there.
Since dickdom will stay they need no one for that job anyway.Why bother.
Her job is......well.....whatever they decide she is semi-good at then train her.

Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin rally was held his past Saturday.
There was an amazing turnout of like-minded women (and men and children)!
Pics here: http://laurainak.blogspot.com

Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin rally was held his past Saturday.
There was an amazing turnout of like-minded women (and men and children)!
Pics here: http://laurainak.blogspot.com

Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin rally was held his past Saturday.
There was an amazing turnout of like-minded women (and men and children)!
Pics here: http://laurainak.blogspot.com

If so many are anti-McCain then why care if he vetted her or not? The old "heart beat away" line - not working. Meet the Teflon Gov. Palin.

The McCain campaign did not understand the racist and sexist attitudes that run through the liberal communities.

Meet the Teflon Gov. Palin.

Um, "Orwell," Palin's favorables are, as Mark Kleiman put it, "dropping like a stone."

I know ignoramuses like you love her and no amount of information not doled out by right-wing bullshit factories penetrates your feeble brain, but the more everyone else gets to know her, the less they like her.

Jackass.

orwell: Meet the Teflon Gov. Palin.

did you know...

that mccain is older than...

Spam...penicilin...the golden gate bridge

and...

teflon..