he's heard Palin refer to John McCain as her "running mate,"

She draws the line at "soul mate," though.

Well, that certainly would be in line with her past history of stabbing in the back those who have raised her political fortunes...not sure why this comes as any kind of surprise.

McCain should probably employ some food tasters.

He wanted a slick, sultry Republican wench out front shakin' it for the choir, and he got one.

Can we call Palin a political diva now?

Please?!

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She is so clean and articulate.

Could you please defend that verbage, Orwell?

More and more I believe that this is the name of the game:
McCain gets elected and resigns for health reasons. Palin becomes president and the neocons keep her under tight control. They think.

OK, I have to admit that last night I actually watched the celebrity news show "Entertainment Tonight". Embarrassing as that is, I found it quite interesting that there were two stories about Sarah Palin and the host of the show actually referred to her as a celebrity.

I guess it's official.

Orwell, what does that even mean?!?

I'm assuming you're trying to make some obscure point about Biden's comments about Obama, but honestly, what in god's name are you actually driving at??

p.s So how's that mid-twentieth century distopian literature working for ya? It's like eerie and stuff isn't it?? Have you gotten to the part in 1984 where there's like, a book, WITHIN the book?? Trippy huh?

Hey, did you know that Matt Laird's character in Hackers is named, like, Emmanuel Goldstein? Deep.

shouldn't you be in homeroom right now?

I know it is hard to resist her. She is so clean and articulate.

That is sexist, Orwell. Why do you hate women?

whenever someone takes Orwell's troll-bait seriously, an angel gets the clap.

Presumptuous, yes---but "celebrity?"

Nope---she's already anointing herself as Empress-in-Chief. Her audiences are doing it, too. Why do you think I keep referring to them as "Palin/McCain?"

And all those "low-information voters" who are leaving in droves when McCain starts to speak are leaving because they're no longer needed as trench-war-fodder by the Fundies and Pentecostals who are "driving them like cattle" into these "rallies."

These aren't political rallies; they're politicized theocratic revival gatherings---and they're merely a wee hint of what's to come, under a Palin "presidency-for-life...."

I call shenanigans on Orwell.

No one could think that Palin is articulate.

(Find a sentence longer than a sound bite and try diagramming it. She mangles the English language almost as well as Bush does. Where does the Republican Party keep finding these people who are lousy at public speaking but get the base to go crazy for them? Maybe the base think they're speaking in tongues or something...)

articulate? apparently you did not hear the verbal diarrhea here

During her acceptance speech Palin made two odd references. The first was to Harry Truman. It has widely been thought that she was referencing Truman's small town roots, but that reference really doesn't fit. Truman had been a successful and well known senator before 1944 and had a lot of experience running a metropolitan county with more people than Alaska. It has to be noted that Truman became president 89 days after being sworn in as VP.

The second odd reference in the Palin acceptance speech was to McCain as being like those men named on war memorials in nearly every small town except he came back from the war.

I think Palin is really winking at the Republican base. Her message seems to be "elect the old man and I will be president in short order."

After listening to her answer questions from gibson and now her (what should be) embarrassing synopsis of the energy situation, can it be any more plain to all of America that we are looking at yet another stupid governor from an oil producing state?

It's so sad to hear that McCain is such a drag on the ticket!

Last night Howard Fineman said that if McCain thought he could shunt a vp Palin off to the far reaches of the administration, he's dreaming and that she would be out there organizing the evangelical conservatives to have a major impact on a McCain presidency.

Well, that certainly would be in line with her past history of stabbing in the back those who have raised her political fortunes...not sure why this comes as any kind of surprise.

Eve Harrington?

OT, and Im not going to link to it, but did anyone see this asinine editorial in Investor's Business Daily today?? Guess who they blame this crisis on??
Hint: its not the Republcian Congress from 1995-06.

Okay give up? Its a former President.

If you have the stomach to read it, can someone please tear this articles logic apart??

I've aleady seen bumper stickers that have "PALIN" as the name on top (sic) with 'McCain' in much smaller typefont below it. Car with female driver.

Palin is articulate? That's hilarious. I read the text from her interview with Hannity, and it is confusing as hell. She trips over words, can't get a full thought out without starting another one. It's English, but barely.

It's extremely telling that crowds are streaming out before McCain can finish his speechifying. At first this whole Palin thing had me really worried, what with all the attention she's getting. But, with controversies looming, and the inability to string an answer together between the two of them, I think McCain is going to be kicking himself. Good luck getting THAT genie back in the bottle.

McCain is in the position of all those towns in Westerns where they hire an evil gunslinger to clean up the town. Then, in the blink of an eye, they're under the thumb of the evil gunslinger.

(Why did Palin run for mayor as the "Christian" choice? Riddle me that, Republican apologists. Now, transpose the action to a Democratic candidate, say. Maybe a black Democratic candidate for president. )

Palin could start a death cult in South America, and most of the people at her rallies would kill themselves if she asked them to.

Judging by the right's reaction to Palin, they have found The One. Palin's ago apparently agrees.

Zealous Harpy! Oh well, she's all yours America!

Maybe she's Australian. G'day, mate. Fair dinkem.

Seriously, these ultra petty attacks on Palin are counterproductive. If one's a running mate, so's the other, as I understand the Queen's Swahili.

For all those who laugh at the comment about Palin being "articulate," consider the following:

Take any one of Palin's "speeches." They're not making sense, that's true enough; but if you take a Palin speech and redact the gobbledygook, you're left with some pretty serious "coding" to the denizens of WingNuttia.

Palin isn't a reformer but she does have consistent record or biting the hand that feeds her. Ask the former Mayor of Wasilla. Ask Murcuosky (sp?). Maybe I am overreading it, but I am not seeing the same chemistry there that existed during the first days on the campaign trail.

Her message seems to be "elect the old man and I will be president in short order."

Tippecanoe and Barbie too.

I get the sense that the right knows they are going to lose and decided to set up their next mascot for 2012 and beyond.

Honestly, I just don't see the Republicans winning this year. What they re doing is setting the foundation for the next election cycle.

I get the sense that the right knows they are going to lose and decided to set up their next mascot for 2012 and beyond.

Honestly, I just don't see the Republicans winning this year. What they re doing is setting the foundation for the next election cycle.

Arrr Mates!! Ye ol' bilge rat Orwell has his ugly head dumped in the chumbucket yet again!

HarHarrrr!

Why is Palin cancelling campaign appearances in multiple states?

On ice for the Veep debate? 1040 issue over per diems? Something else?

Don't laugh but many conservatives support this GOP ticket on the presumption that:

a). McCain will croak in office
b). He will not run for a second term at age 76.

The power of positive thinking quickers turns the power of wishing fantasy into reality for conservatives

Isn't it a good rule of thumb that a vice-presidential candidate never overshadow the man at the top of the ticket? Yet that's exactly what's happening here. For a lot of people it's Palin/McCain and not McCain/Palin without any sense of irony.

Palin/McCain:
Ticket to Nowhere - Thanks, But No Thanks!

Wow... we've found a politician demonstrably thicker than GWB. That's quite an achievement for the GOP; I imagine they're quite proud of themselves.

Helluva job, Johnny,
-Z

i think orwell may be referencing an illustration kurt vonnegut did for one of his books.

If McCain really believed half the stuff he's been spouting the past couple of years, and if he had the "honor" he claims to have, then he'd simply step aside right now for a Palin-Petraeus ticket. The Reform-Victory ticket: Hail the Conquering Amazon.

The more this happens, the better it is for Obama. Not only does Palin energize our base as strongly as she does the 'Christian Conservative' part of the Republican base, but I have no doubt that she scares the living hell out of most Republicans away from that base -- and the CCs have never had that much real power in Republican circles, they've always been a 'connable bunch of sheep' who respond to the 'right words' and who don't notice that nobody's actually following through on them.

The last thing that most Republicans want is someone who will actually try and do what they say. The second last thing is someone uncontrollable, as Palin is proving to be. The third last thing is someone who is both scandal-plagued and a ruthless Eve Harrington type.

I am pretty damned sure that if this keeps up, while Republican office holders will continue to say they support the ticket, all those little things that they can provide to help wil be missing. Every politician has a 'machine' a grpup of supporters who work for him and energize people. The Republican 'machines' are going to be awfully quiet the more Palin comes to the fore, the more McCain seems to be visibly failing, the less remote a "President Palin" becomes.

(In fact, while the Diebold menace is somewhat exaggerated to my way of thinking, I'd guess that if there was much 'vote-flipping' going on, it will be in the opposite direction.)

So the more "Palin-McCain" talk there is, the stronger Obama will look.

She'll be presumptuously packing her bags back to Anchorage on Nov 5th. If I were McCain, I'd say hit the road biotch.

She wouldn't be satisfied to stay in the #2 spot. She obviously didn't do her homework and her hubris won't let her be anything less than an Alska interests first, co-President.

She's no Maggie Thatcher or Indira Ghandi.
More like GWB in dress.

More like GWB in dress.

Worse: Rick Santorum in a dress.

,
-Z

I'm with Luther.

Nothing to see here on the "running mate" thing. What SHOULD she call him?

Giving herself top billing in the administration is kind of amusing, but there as so many bigger fish to fry... Let THEM fixate on nitpicky details.

We got big, honkin', whopper flaws to point out. (e.g. a woman proven willing to use the law to impose her religious view that sperm+egg = human on anyone who doesn't agree being a arrhythmic heartbeat away from the presidency)

I think the correct word for Palin might be "uppity."

As misogynistic as McCain is, calling him Palin's bitch will make him implode like Rumplestiltskin before the first debate.

Ridiculous. Can someone please just fast-forward us two months in time?