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The Dirty Vicar Veep?

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1. Comment by kid bitzer —
   August 29, 2008 @ 9:20 am

   weird–an unknown governor?

   this suggests to me that the mccain people have fallen for their own propaganda over the puma women. they planted a few women who shouted “hillary was robbed! let’s vote for mccain!”, and now they think there’s a substantial demographic of women who will vote for him? and that it will grow by the addition of an unknown female governor?

   well: bring it on! this is a campaign strategy in its last throes. and when mccain introduces his new vp choice by calling her a ‘trollop’, that will win a lot of votes, too. (and whatever that other word was that he used).

2. Comment by Jim Henley —
   August 29, 2008 @ 9:50 am

   Interesting issues here, kid. With the Veep pick, McCain can do one of

   1. Gratify the base;
   2. Try to peel off a Dem constituency;
   3. Gratify himself personally by picking someone he likes.

   If you go for option 2, your choices are

   a) blacks
   b) women
   c) Jews
   d) the white working class.

   I’m leaving out urban hipsters, public employees and academics. Needless to say, option “a” is not really an option either.

   Now McCain, like it or not, already seems to have some appeal to group “d.” So if you don’t think that’s enough, you try to peel from b or c. Thus the Palin and Lieberman talk. I think Palin makes more sense because:

   * Jewish Americans really are very liberal;
   * American women are much less reliably liberal as a demographic, with married white women pretty willing to vote Republican;
   * to paraphrase Billy Carter, there are a hell of a lot more women than there are Jews.

   Palin is pro-life and anti-gay-marriage and appears to be an evangelical of some stripe, so the base can deal, AND she might have a little crossover appeal to the “wavering white chick” demographic.

   Oddly enough though, as of the UPDATE to this post, we have on-the-record denials from people around Romney, Pawlenty and Palin. Which leaves Huckabee – and Lieberman.

3. Comment by Stocks —
   August 29, 2008 @ 9:52 am

   I dont know anything about the Minnesota man, probabley for the convention more than anything! BUT!!! ROMNEY BETTER BE THE VP!! or I will pass up this election! 3 elections in a row for prez, hell!! arent there any Ronald Reagans out there?? yet McCain & Romney could definetly do some good things for this country!! so pleaz make it Romney!! as for those dems?? wow! i couldnt listen to any of them for 2 minutes before I started dry heavin, lookin for a quick channell change remote. did the daughter write the obamas momma’s speach,?? pathetic

4. Comment by Jim Henley —
   August 29, 2008 @ 9:54 am

   I believe you are a real person because most bot programmers can punctuate reasonably. Mitt Romney is an assclown. Granted, John McCain is an assclown too, but that’s the point: he needs to balance the ticket.

5. Comment by mds —
   August 29, 2008 @ 10:22 am

   Which leaves Huckabee – and Lieberman.

   Huckabee finally genuflected before the altar of Borrow More from China Club for Growth, but I wonder if that would be enough for the moneymen. Part of me would be afraid, because of the folksy “common man” persona, but part of me would be gratified because of the national sales tax nonsense, his defense of Jeremiah Wright, and Wayne Dumond. I’m thinking that Huck would prefer to sit this one out, then come riding to the rescue on his own terms in 2012, but…

   Now, Holy Joe has yet to throw reproductive rights completely over the side, but I’d figure he can just have a tepid “Come to Jesus” moment about it. After all, we’re talking about the evangelicals who hailed McCain’s vacuous, Bible-illiterate pandering at Saddleback. And Joe would be attractive to the zero-information mushy middle; people on both sides are upset with him, so he must be okay. On the other hand, his 2006 TV commercial where he lied, “No one wants to end the Iraq war more than I do” could be useful, and his BFF Hagee would be back in play.

   Pawlenty might be useful if Minnesota is close. Portman ditto for Ohio. The primary reason McCain would have for picking a flip-flopping Mormon who once ran to Teddy Kennedy’s left would be as an ATM.

   Hey, why not cement the “maverick” bit, and pick J.E.B. Bush? If anyone could get away with distancing himself from the incumbent by picking his brother, it would be McCain.

6. Comment by LCI —
   August 29, 2008 @ 10:44 am

   Who is Sarah Palin?
   Tuesday June 10, 2008
   If that name is unfamiliar, don’t worry; I didn’t know who she was either…until About.com US Conservative Politics Guide Justin Quinn casually dropped her name. (He breathlessly revealed he’d had a conversation with her press secretary. At least his email to me sounded breathless.) Apparently he was quite taken by her – Palin, that is, not her press secretary.
   So who is this mystery woman, Sarah Palin?

   I’d go into great detail if Justin hadn’t already done so in his post “Draft Sarah Palin!”

   Let’s just say that conservative Republicans (like Justin) are ga-ga over her, she’s the governor of Alaska, and if John McCain listened to her breathless fans and named her his running mate tomorrow, it would steal the Dems’ thunder. Sarah Palin as the Republican VP nominee might put additional pressure on the Obama campaign to consider Hillary Clinton for the number two slot. (And then, who knows? Maybe the two of them might give that TV summer reality show American Gladiators a run for its money when it comes to battling broads.)

   I don’t know how likely John McCain is to pick Sarah Palin. But I do know that even if he did choose a female running mate, that choice doesn’t make up for for a serious gaffe earlier in his campaign which was, in essence, sanctioned misogyny; he laughed when a female supporter – in reference to Clinton – asked, “How do we beat the bitch?”

   He beat the b*tch all right. (Or rather, Obama did.) Now does he have the b*lls to ask another to stand up with him? And if he did, could she – as a woman – comfortably share the GOP ticket?

7. Comment by bdr —
   August 29, 2008 @ 10:48 am

   Miles Copperthwaite emptying McCain’s drool bucket?

   Sweet!

8. Comment by Charles —
   August 29, 2008 @ 10:58 am

   Does John McCain really think nobody is going to see through his pathetically desperate attempts to win over Hilary votes by selecting a woman as his VP? This really goes to show how extremely low class the republicans are in an effort to try anything they can to get votes. I’m not saying she is not a good person, just that there one and only one reason why Mccain chose a woman, to try and make and draw some attention to himself – “Look at me – Look at me!!” I chose a woman and Obama didn’t. I think in the long run this is really going to back fire for him because people are smarter than Mccain gives them credit and will see through his scam. Typical republican tactics – disgusting.

9. Comment by Jim Henley —
   August 29, 2008 @ 11:06 am

   Some otherwise disgruntled right-libertarians who lean Republican but lack enthusiasm for McCain seem to be big Palin fans. And her evangelical background and pro-life record will play well with the social-con base. She’s white as white can be, in a white state on a white background, so they don’t lose the coded color appeal possibilities that Jindal would foreclose. And let’s face it, all the other options sucked too.

   I don’t think it was the worst pick he could have made.

10. Comment by Jim Henley —
    August 29, 2008 @ 11:09 am

    Admittedly the slash fiction’s going to be icky.

11. Comment by mds —
    August 29, 2008 @ 11:17 am

    Some otherwise disgruntled right-libertarians who lean Republican but lack enthusiasm for McCain seem to be big Palin fans.

    Since her statist authoritarianism is reserved for the rights of (other) women, those who are not fundamentalist Christians, and challenges to corporate power, I can see the appeal. But hey, I hear she’s involved in distributing oil proceeds to the citizenry; now that would be a right-libertarian policy I could get behind!

    Does John McCain really think nobody is going to see through his pathetically desperate attempts to win over Hilary votes by selecting a woman as his VP?

    Yes.

    Anyway, I guess it’s time to break out her ties to the rest of the corrupt Alaska Republicans, and play up her virulent anti-choice positions for the presumed targets of the pick. And I guess that this spells an end to all the talk of “thin resumes,” “empty suit,” and “lack of experience,” right?

12. Comment by mds —
    August 29, 2008 @ 11:39 am

    Hmm, I had forgotten that she also opposed the closure of an unprofitable state-owned dairy. Why, she’s basically a hot young female Milton Friedman! Direct state ownership of businesses: another cornerstone of the right-libertaran agenda that I can embrace.

13. Comment by kid bitzer —
    August 29, 2008 @ 11:55 am

    shouldn’t you update your update, to read:

    “on yes it is!”

    or whatever you like, so long as it’s misspelled.

14. Comment by kid bitzer —
    August 29, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

    you know, in the positive column, with her looks and pageant background, she’s quite a celebrity!

15. Comment by Thoreau —
    August 29, 2008 @ 12:55 pm

    I vaguely recall that the last time I paid attention to DONDEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO he was all about Palin. Not sure if she actually has a political appeal to right libertarians or DONDEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO just has a personal fetish for her.

16. Comment by Jim Henley —
    August 29, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

    I think the part of the H&R crowd that thinks blowjob jokes are appropriate every time Kerry Howley or Megan McArdle get cited are pretty high on Palin. So there’s your right-libertarian boomlet.

17. Comment by abb1 —
    August 29, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

    That’s about time for a pageant queen to become President. World peace is near!

18. Comment by H&R Crowd —
    August 29, 2008 @ 1:33 pm

    OMG! A girl running for VP!

    Hey, baby, I’ve got a pipeline….

    Hah, wasn’t that so funny?

19. Comment by bill —
    August 29, 2008 @ 7:27 pm

    She has charisma, her social conservatism appeals to the base, she’s photogenic, and the Pumas just might go for her even though she appears to be the anti-Hillary.

    She doesn’t have any birth certificate or race baiting issues, she balances McCains geriatricity and she has executive experience.

    I’d say its an inspired choice for McCain and will push the Repubs out ahead of the Dems, even before the convention bump.

    Although apparently she was a Buchanan supporter in 1999.

20. Comment by Idi Amin's Last Meal —
    August 29, 2008 @ 8:07 pm

    Geraldine Ferraro says it’s going to be tough for Sarah Palin to get ahead ’cause she’s not a black man.

    Also, GF to be cast in a sequel to Do the Right Thing (in pre-production*).

    *May not be true.

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