Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous
The lengths the McCain campaign is going to in order to shield Sarah Palin from questioning are reaching truly comic dimensions.
Check out this nugget from the pool report, via Jonathan Martin, on John McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:
McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?") but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say "No."
Palin can't even be allowed to answer a question as basic as this?
What's really sobering is that the McCain campaign continues to block Palin from answering questions even though it's now resulting in reams and reams of bad press for the McCain-Palin ticket. That suggests McCain advisers know that letting her answer even the most elementary questions in an uncontrolled environment is so dangerous that it's worth weathering the current media drubbing they're taking in order to prevent it from happening at all costs.
Has anyone pointed out that McCain has placed Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?
This is reaching self-parody dimensions...
September 24, 2008 1:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't wait for the next SNL skit. Palin is the comic gift that keeps on giving.
September 24, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed. Tina Fey is sure to have a blasty with the continuing story (non-story?) of Sarah Palin.
Although I will concede that Darrel Hammond needs to work on his John McCain impression...
http://thepajamapundit.com/
September 24, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fey doesn't even need to show up for the next Palin skit. All they need is a female figure hiding in the shadows, and McStain's henchmen keeping everyone else away.
Can't speak, but she sure is purdee!
PEACE
September 24, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tina's hoping she won't ever have to play Palin again after Nov. 4.
As funny as Fey was as Palin, I have the same hopes.
September 24, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't wait until the MEDIA begins taking this SERIOUSLY and begins INFORMING the viewer/reader that THIS IS NOT TO BE TOLERATED, and WHY that is the reality.
I assure you, not being a child, I'm not getting ANY laughs out of what is shaping up as a disaster greater even than that of 2000 AND the last 8 years combined.
Do you REALIZE that an UNELECTED candidate and his campaign for FEDERAL office have TAKEN OVER the gov't of a state -- Alaska -- of which the candidate is NOT a citizen, and is engaged in blatant CRIMINAL obstruction of jutice, and the response from some is how all of this is "comic"!?
December 2000 was hilarious too, apparently. And some are still rolling on the floor over 12/12/2000.
September 26, 2008 2:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
in what respect, charlie?
September 24, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
...as invisible flaming poisonous darts fly from her eyes directly at Charlie Gibson's head.
September 25, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg - I have to disagree as to the motives of the McCain campaign. I think they are trying to set up the press by lowing the expectation levels for her debate with Biden to the lowest in history. Then at the debate, she's suddenly be able to speak in complete sentences and recite some pointless talking points and everyone will be "amazed that we were so wrong about Sarah".
The McCain camp can't honestly be that scared of letter her answer something like this, it has to be part of a greater strategy although one that I don't believe will work as well as they would hope.
September 24, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, they just don't want her to stick her foot in her mouth before the debate. Then the questioning will be "Why did you say we are willing to go war with Peru?" This isn't some grand strategy on McCain's part. This is just damage control. They're trying to stumble through to the election, nothing more.
September 24, 2008 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
hmm... preemptive damage control- how novel.
September 24, 2008 2:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
McInsane made a rash, reckless decision, ther was no vetting, and now they are stuck with a fruitloop who isn't qualified to hold ANY public office.
It is damage control pure-and-simple. But LOOK at Alaska for how far they will go in that effort.
September 26, 2008 2:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think she said she wanted to go to war with Frank Perdue. He wasn't plucking his chickens the right way.
September 24, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The problem is, as evidenced by last night's Campbell Brown piece, their strategy is beginning to boomerang on them. The narrative is quickly moving from, "Is Palin qualified to be Vice President" to "John McCain is so old fashioned and sexist that he doesn't believe that his own VP pick can stand on her own two feet and answer questions that should be expected of someone seeking high office". That's a narrative that's absolutely deadly to McCain, but apparently inside their media bubble, the McCain camp hasn't picked up on that yet.
September 24, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the clip of Cambell taking the McCain Campaign to the woodshed.
September 24, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know we think she will get creamed in the debates and McCain's handlers don't think he's ready either. Check CNN - McCain is trying to cancel for Friday night. McCain said it's because he's trying to "focus on the economy."
September 24, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Partly right, I think.
September 24, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I also believe they are trying to lower expectations.
Remember there was a huge firestorm surrounding Palin when she first was selected. There was no access to her, and then she gave a rousing speech at the convention, which sucker-punched all the critics.
I don't think these criticisms will necessarily help the Democratic side very much.
September 24, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would rather make a silk purse out of a sow's ear than teach her to sound like a person worthy of standing next to Biden.
September 24, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where's that guy who said that Biden's gaffes are equal to Palin's incompetence? That guy cracks me up.
Palin is in so far over her head. She makes women look awful - this could be the most powerful woman in the world? Hell, my sisters are WAY smarter, competent, and confident than Palin is. The McCain campaign is coddling her like she's a damn child. So sad.
September 24, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I assume you've seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BrZjANUhx0
September 24, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
That poor little preacher baby. I hope it got lotsa treats after the sermon!
September 24, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uhh...... What?
September 24, 2008 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with Andrew Sullivan on this. We need to be more outraged at this bullshit.
September 24, 2008 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dammit. Aren't I already outraged enough?
September 24, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hard to tell.
I was referencing his Real Time appearance where Bill was like “Calm down, we’re all outraged” and Sullivan responded “We need to be moreoutraged!”
September 24, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. I'll also agree with Campbell Brown...the McCain's treatment of her is really sexist. Any self-respecting woman should be horrified of how they're treating her.
September 24, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Second this. It is the utmost irony that the campaign so willing to bleat "sexism" at the drop of a hat is, in fact, the epitome of sexism.
September 24, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where is Palin's accountability? Honestly, it's also rather sexist to imply, as Campbell Brown did, that the mean old men are controlling her. She's a governor of a state, not a 12-yr-old child. She's capable of making her own choices. If she really wanted to speak, she wouldn't let anyone stop her.
September 24, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well I totally disagree that Campbell Brown was sexist.
Jesus.
What she said was the damn truth and what McLame is doing is sexist to the max.
September 24, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's a candidate for Vice President, and the Constitution specifies that the President and Vice President run together on the same ticket. If she, and McCain, are serious candidates then she (as McCain) must speak. If, instead, this is more like Pat Paulson running for President for decades starting in 1948, then we can all treat it accordingly (and laugh, while voting for Obama/Biden).
September 24, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Constitution specifies no such thing.
Does it REALLY help to make shit up in effort to advance a wishful-fiction? Isn't that what REPUBLICANS do?
September 26, 2008 2:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
YES!
I've been saying this - it's the epitome of sexism.
First McLame, a dirty old man, just hands her a position of potential great power that she isn't qualified for except that she's "hot." (according to some.)
Then his campaign puts her in purdah - and will not let anyone near her.
Who does McLame think he is? Saladin? Is this his harem or what?
September 24, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sullivan has been right about this all along. This is the biggest farce ever pulled in the history of presidential elections. And Campbell Brown's outburst is completely legitimate. The "Free Sarah Palin!" battle cry of the MSM could become the final nail in the coffin of McCain's disastrous campaign and today's interview with Katie Couric won't be enough to calm them down.
September 24, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hate the "Free Palin" schtick because it implies she is a victim -- she is not. She is a grown woman capable of making choices. And "free Palin" also completely absolves Palin of responsibility for the situation: if she's a prisoner, then it's not her fault that she's not speaking to the press. In fact, it is her fault. If she wanted to speak, she would.
September 24, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, then how about this - she's allowing herself to be imprisoned by McLame.
OK?
September 24, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
But didn't the Republican handlers do the same to Dan Quayle? After he embarrassed himself by spelling "potatoe"?
September 24, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't ask me. Evie seems to want to insist that it's sexist to say that McLame is holding Sarah hostage.
Well - McLame is a sexist for god's sake.
September 24, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
And Palin ISN'T sexist?
Please! She's almost literally said that rape is an "act of God"!
September 26, 2008 2:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think that she is just so power hungry, she'll do what she's told until she think's she's elected.
Of course they won't be elected but, their ego's won't let them accept that fate.
September 25, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why outrage? Why not contempt?
Outrage is useful for about 10 seconds, any longer than that and you are bound to make some stupid mistakes.
Look we are all Americans and as awful as the prospect seems McCain and Palin may take office. It seems we have a right to demand that she sit for a frickin' job interview at some point.
Apparently McCain holds the people in such low regard he seems he can deny us that. I have contempt for that attitude. I think the great middle of the country will agree eventually.
Then again if she does an adequate job at the debate,which given all the rules and constraints if very possible, all this may go away. If she performs poorly at the debate or appears evasive or non-response this is going to hurt him very badly.
September 24, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Care to make a bet over whether this goes away, regardless of the debate?
Y'all put way way too much emphasis on the debates. Historically they have meant next to nothing when it came to election day.
The only exception I can think of is Kennedy vs. Nixon - and that was a million years ago.
September 24, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did y'all see the link to this story about Campbell Brown putting the spurs to McCain about shielding Palin?
http://jezebel.com/5054066/cnns-campbell-brown-turns-mccains-accusation-of-sexism-on-its-head
If Palin is so equipped to lead, if she has so much experience, why is her own partner in presidential candidacy keeping her from showing off her experience and knowledge?
Smoke and mirrors, folks. Smoke and mirrors.
September 24, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
So much for all this BS about Sarah Palin being a strong woman -- apparently she's only allowed to speak if McCain says it's OK. She's beginning to make Laura Bush look like Hillary Clinton.
September 24, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ready on Day One indeed.
September 24, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
On one of the cable shows last night someone suggested they are just holding her back until after the debates so that there won't be any specific gaffes that come up during the debate itself. This sounds plausible, especially since after the debate everyone will know she is incoherent so they may as well let her speak rather than suffer the continuing bad press from hiding her away.
September 24, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the reason that they may be holding off as long as possible is that several states have entered the early voting stage. So the longer they can keep her from scaring away already committed voters the better.
September 24, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a waste, a pitbull is turning into a lap dog before our eyes.
I wonder if Palin uses the same make-up artist as McCain?
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/john-mccain-uses-american-idol-makeup-artist
September 24, 2008 2:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well McLame seems to be using a funeral home make-up artist, so if she's using the same one, this will get even creepier -
September 24, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sequestering Palin from the press only makes things worse for her, as every rare non-scripted utterance she makes is then scrutinized even more carefully.
The reason Biden's gaffes are dismissed (besides the fact that he is one smart dude) is that he speaks unscripted frequently.
September 24, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
You just helped me figure it out... Biden is the new Straight Talk Express guy! His gaffes aren't highlighted because the press simply likes that he is speaking with them in an unscripted & informal setting!
September 24, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Absolutely. Additionally, Obama is not trying to remake or repackage Biden into something he is not.
Sarah Palin is like Elizah Doolittle. Unfortunately, the Governor's transformation is not turning out as well, and the consequences of McCain's poor VP selection have repercussions beyond a Broadway stage or movie.
September 24, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's just something that doesn't make sense to me about his choice of Sarah Palin. Were they totally unaware of the financial crisis coming down the pike? Did they really think non-evangelical women were going to be impressed by Palin?
His choice of her seems so much weaker in light of everything that's happened in the last week. If he had chosen Mitt Romney, Romney could have stepped forward and dealt with the press, and credibly so.
If the Bush admin has really been sitting on this plan for awhile, you would think they would have tipped off McCain and his advisers.
September 24, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Were they totally unaware of the financial crisis coming down the pike?
Yes.
September 24, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is reaching utterly bizarre levels. She obviously is capable of speaking. Thinking, we're not so sure, but what the McCain team is doing is making her every utterance that much more important.
Honestly, this whole thing is mind-blowing to me. She has a better than 40% shot at becoming Vice President of the United States -- and yet, she's not capable of speaking to the press except under tightly controlled circumstances? Ever? All we can infer is that she is a lightweight of staggering proportions.
September 24, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to www.fivethirtyeight.com, that would be a 26% chance and falling.
September 24, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks - better than 40% chance? I don't think so.
September 24, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
But evie, a few comments back you were so sure that 'This Strong Woman' would speak if she wanted to speak, after all she is not twelve tears old.
September 24, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did anybody mention that John McCain was a POW?
Now you may continue.
September 24, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR MCCAIN!!!
September 24, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
You've been missed, dear Idiotic! Why Josh himself had to riff off of your signature comment!
September 24, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where the heck have you been? I missed you! LOL
September 24, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's good news for McLame? That he did jail-time, therfore is a jail-bird, therefore is qualified to be Pretzeldent?
September 26, 2008 2:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
To avoid controversy, one should say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
September 24, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just grabbed this soundbite from Palin off of an AP story:
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says the United States could be headed for another Great Depression if Congress doesn't act on the financial crisis.
Apparently she "saw" Wall Street yesterday while Speed Dating. And now is a a financial prophet of doom.
This little tidbit is from an interview with Katie Couric that airs this evening.
Be afraid. Be very afraid! The Ice Queen forecasts economic doom.... unless we obey.
September 24, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
The news keeps getting better and better.
1) In response to K. Couric's question, Palin says we may indeed face a Great Depression if there's no bailout--but she sounds almost incoherent saying so.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Palin_says_country_could_face_another_Depression_without_bailout.html
2) President Bush is giving a nationally televised address tonight!
3) ABC/WashPost has Obama up by 9, McCain's camp pushes back on the "outlier" and two hours later Fox News has Obama up by 6!
September 24, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
So is the prez competing with Palin?
September 24, 2008 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but FOX is both an outlier and a liar.
September 26, 2008 2:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, now having read the actual quote from the Dame of Shame, I now predict: Palin is headed for a Great Depression.
(Do not send this woman to me for therapy!)
September 24, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch! LOL! He shoots, he scores!
September 24, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain and Sarah Palin will put an end to witchcraft in our nation's capital!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4HIc-yfgM
5:00: “We need God taking over our education system. If we have God in our schools, we will not have our kids being taught how to worship Buddha, how to worship Muhammad. We will not have in the curriculum witchcraft and sorcery.”
5:35: “The other area is the media. We need believers in the media. We need God taking over the media in our lives.”
7:00: Palin, on stage, is blessed to be God’s instrument in government, including that she be used as a tool to combat witchcraft.
September 24, 2008 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
To echo Naomi Wolf, I think the degree to which they go to shield us from her and her from us is in direct proportion to the danger she poses to all to us should she get elected.
http://www.alternet.org/story/100069/has_sarah_palin_been_picked_as_the_titular_head_of_the_coming_police_state/
September 24, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
The press is giving them plenty of attention and free advertising... they keep her built up as the mysterious wonder woman that is attractive and interesting and the press are 'whining' about not getting to cover her making her even more popular. I think they are very happy with the situation. Having the media complain while still giving them more than enough press works to their advantage.
September 24, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
You think she's become "more popular" over the past weeks?
September 24, 2008 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
O that's a good one.
September 24, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Check out this "Point" and "Counterpoint" from The Onion...
Can't tell the difference between satire and reality anymore!
September 24, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
A wise man once said that when asked a question and you dont answer, it is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. And just remember SARAH spelled backwards is HARAS...........
September 24, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is the candidate's equivalent of a sleeper cell.
September 24, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pay no attention to that woman behind the old man!
Apparently, McCain's team did not vet the fact that this woman is completely inept, and frankly worse than bush, at answering unscripted questions.
I hope Biden makes a crack at the debates about how he's glad McCain gave Palin permission to answer questions that day. Too snarky? Perhaps.
September 24, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget that magicians have been using women to divert attention from what is really happening. Works quite well if the magician has any talent. You do the math.
September 24, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
BREAKING....
MSNBC is reporting McLiar wants to postpone Friday's debate to "work on the economic crisis."
LAME! OMG! The lame-o-meter just gave it's two week's notice!
September 24, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
My first reaction was reminiscent of John McEnroe in his prime: "You canNOT BE SERIOUS!!"
But I just saw the same headline on MSNBC, and you are serious.
HO-LY MACKEREL. There's some serious lurching around blindly being done in Camp McCain.
Why not just change the subject of the debate to the economy?
September 24, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
O for the love of Pete.
LMAO!
September 24, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember the rumblings from GWB about "postponing" elections if there was some undefined terrorism event?
Is this reminiscent of that scenario, or am I reading too much into it?
September 24, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes.
Look, McLame is not Commander CooCoo Bananas. He doesn't have that much clout.
September 24, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's also a primitive attempt by McCain to assert his position at the top of the ticket. Between the two of them, who is the bigger star right now? That's gotta chap McCain's POW-hardened ass. By funneling the message solely through him (and his surrogates), he reminds everyone that he's the grand imperial poobah, and Palin is just the support.
Her stardom initially benefited him. Now he sees it as a distraction that needs tamping down.
September 24, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha can't stand anyone else getting attention. Remember the Schmidt's Sausage Haus media event in Ohio when Obama was packing 'em in in Europe.
September 24, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame was a POW?
I didn't know that.
That surely must qualify him for public office. Perhaps even president.
Should be an expert in prisonology -- or whatever it's called by the scientifically-minded.
Maybe that will persuade me to vote for him.
September 26, 2008 2:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that this strategy is the best shot they've got. Just like the convention, let everyone whine then get her into a controlled setting where her personality can shine through (and put to test "doubts" about her. I have little doubt that she'll do very well in the debates. Then they'll get another Palin bounce.
Don't get me wrong, it's governing malpractice, but I think it works.
September 24, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like Sarah will never get her GED in foreign policy if they keep this up.
September 24, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
She says she's not goin' ta Washington to seek their good opinion.
She's not goin' ta Washington at all.
September 24, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Part of the problem is that the Republican platform is gone. The financial crisis delivered the final blow to what was a weak platform to begin with. Now McSame can't speak freely since everything has changed. Palin the puppet can't talk until gramps has a chance to ponder it all for a few seasons.
September 24, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hit Outrage Overload Nov 2004 and it's pretty much been redlined ever since.
The answer to "How low can you go?" no longer surprises me, though often (as now) it is amusing.
Caligula for President!
September 24, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Told ya. Palin is McCain's Harriet Miers. Or, perhaps McCain is McCain's Harriet Miers.
September 24, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Daddy, can I PLEASE answer the nice reporter's question??? Please!!!
NO! Now go to your room and do your homework!
I know, I know. It's sexist to say that.
BUT, isn't it MORE sexist to behave that way?!?
I mean, come on! Talk about paternalism. This is ridiculous!
September 24, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why don't we just suspend the campaign until after the election?
September 24, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is not parody. It is predictable. She will not attend any debates, she will not answer any questions in a non-scripted format this is the way she will be as President.
She will never answer any press questions, ever.
And no, this isn't seen as a sign that she is scared. It is read as a sign by her supporters. that she is strong, stronger than everyone. She is applauded on the Right for putting the traitorous Press in their places. She's "schooling" them of what to expect - crumbs if they are lucky! Kicks are what they deserve!
McCain has canceled the debates because he knows he is ahead and is just going to ride out the clock!
You "Leftists" just don't get it, according to the Right. Well you'll learn when you're all paying for your treachery, especially you minority homeowners who ran out on your mortgage payments and created this crisis.
(Seriously - how is America even going to remain as one nation after this election? The Palin/McCain supporters literally dwell in another world, where facts end up meaning totally opposite things.)
September 24, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is why they are suspending the campaign. She must be much worse than even they imagined. They are trying to abort the VP debate as we speak.
September 24, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is quite simple: they consider her answering questions to be more dangerous than her refusing to answer questions.
The End.
September 24, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, the constitution just says that the same electors cast a vote for president and a vote for vice-president, which makes party tickets the natural way to campaign, but it's not strictly necessary.
September 24, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Before there were parties there were no parties. And before that the Constitution was framed and ratified. Regardless how many candidates their wre, the person who got the most votes was president. The person who got the second most was VP.
The were not always from the the same "party".
So there's no requirement that they campaign together.
September 26, 2008 2:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Unbelievable.
I wondered how Palin would
ditch the big debate.
http://thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/september-24-2008-4/
September 24, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is so not ready! Watch video of the interview with Katie Couric
September 24, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is excellent news--FOR SARAH PALIN!
September 25, 2008 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, just a heartbeat away, and he's already brain dead to boot! I am surprised nobody has mentioned this to date. Another case of the press giving McBrainDead a pass.
September 25, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Two words you will never hear Sarah Palin say: "Next question."
September 25, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
The interview with Katie Couric was a graphic example of why they won't let Sarah be in a situation where she has no choice but to answer questions put to her. That was a disaster! She's better off in situations where she can pretend she didn't hear the question and run away. It terrifies me to think somebody would seriously consider her vice president material.
September 25, 2008 5:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
uhm, dude,
you're holding that poll the wrong way
you're looking at the graph upside down
sarah palin is goin DOWN in the polls every time she speaks
when America hears her condesending little "I'll get back to you" quip to Katie Couric, most of America is gonna say "Don't bother"
September 25, 2008 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe their scared someone will ask her about her relation ship with AKIP, who's founder said 'The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for America'
Here's an interview with the AKIP Chairman on Palin's involvement
http://www.newsone.com/elections/article/akip-interview-on-palin
September 25, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The lengths the McCain campaign is going to in order to shield Sarah Palin from questioning are reaching truly comic dimensions."
Comic!? Are you out of your mind? This is terrifying, and the media is practically treating it as normal -- ACCEPTABLE.
How bad must things get before DENSE ASSHOLES cease speaking of the dire as "comic"?
September 26, 2008 2:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
And palin ISN'T sexist?
Please! She's almost literally said that rape is an "act of God"!
September 26, 2008 2:18 AM | Reply | Permalink