In order to run a campaign like the one John McCain and Sarah Palin have run, the first order of business is to shed your capacity for embarrassment.

That's pretty much true of the entire GOP, isn't it?

They really believe their business connections translates into more money, which means more ads.  Add to that a belief that perceptions can be infinitely manipulated by those ads, and any sense of embarrassment only becomes a liability.

I'll go with 'brazen.'

They rely on the assumption that their average supporter is too low-info to actually look anything up on their own, and their memory is too swiss-cheesy to retain anything past about a week ago.

Besides - Palin's fans will accept anything at this point. Who cares if today she said the complete opposite of what she said a month ago? They agree with what she says today, whatever that might be.

Is it just me or is everyone else experiencing 2-3 minute delays when they post a comment? All I get is an hourglass symbol for the longest time.

Both incompetent and brazen. There are two people on the ticket, you see.

Oh by the way, did anyone see one of the pundits on MSNBC this morning say that Palin's camp was shocked her SNL appearance didn't bump her up in the opinion polls.

Do these morons not realize she was BEING RIDICULED for the entire country to see while she sat there????

Nah, she was too busy waving her hands in the air to even realize she was being humiliated.

Of course she does. However, there's this:

“Gov. Palin’s negative rating is the highest for a vice-presidential candidate as measured by The Times and CBS News. Even Dan Quayle, with whom Mrs. Palin is often compared because of her age and inexperience on the national scene, was not viewed as negatively in the 1988 campaign.”

Ouch.

Caribou Barbie makes Dan Quayle look like a Phi Beta Kappa.

We can all agree she doesn't have a clue what she's talking about and is just vacuously reciting words put in front of her? Right? Ok. Good.

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I'd go with incompetent and brazen.

Incompetent because they really think it doesn't matter if anyone notices. Brazen because they don't care.

sorry for the OT, but i got forwarded this (from a one-time republican!) and it seems like a good idea:

Bill Clinton Steps In For Obama Rallies!

Ha! Got your hopes up, didn't I?

Many of us, especially in New York, just heard the news that Barrack Obama is going to the bedside of his ailing Grandmother. We thought first about his Grandmother, then for Obama, then for the campaign...asking ourselves immediately, well, "Where's the Bill?"

Michelle Obama is set to cover for her husband...why? Nothing against Michelle Obama - at all. But we need a politician. The right politician.

Bill Clinton...
- show us you're not bittersweet in your support of Barack!
- show us you're not putting hurt feelings of loss ahead of the bigger agenda!
- show us your presence, especially in Ohio, at the end of this week!

Already, we admit we've been disappointed with Hillary's half-hearted appearances, and your not-so-visible support. This is the moment to step up.

CALL Bill Clinton if you're for Obama
The news broke late yesterday that Barrack Obama leaves the campaign trial this coming Thursday and Friday to be with his ailing grandmother. While we pray for their family, we also pray for the nation and an Obama win! Leave the Obama family do what's right, and you do what's right...it's time for us to step up!

Call all day tomorrow. You can just show up too :)
55 W. 125th Street 14th Floor, New York, NY 10027-4526, tel: 212-348-8882 fax: 212-348-9245

He should have done this on his own, but oh well...we'll ask for what we want. Ohio hangs in the balance, and was scheduled for Friday.

thing is, that number is the clinton foundation. is there a better way to get in touch with bubba?

Palin has no gravitas to be making foreign policy attacks on Obama - it just doesn't work. Sure her true-believers eat it up, but it's not those supporters that need convincing.

John McCain should be making these attacks, and if not McCain then they should bring in a FP attack dog (and not Rudy).

Then again what FP experts could McCain use in this role? Most are connected to Bush/Cheney/Rummy - I guess Luger or Hagel, but both don't seem to be too supportive of the McCain ticket. I mean you can't burn your credibility to go on and attack Obama for not being ready when Palin is on the GOP ticket.

The amount of tolerance for cognitive dissonance that it must require to be a McCain-Palin supporter these days cannot be measured by any known mathematical calculations.

McCain/Palin--Mavericks (we make it up as we go along)

McCain and Palin are proving to be a great comedy team...but, frankly, their act can never make it to the White House.

Palin is all over the lot as she tries to build some sort of base for her 2012 run.

I think even the McCain campaign realize her future plans make her too risky to send anywhere but venues that will have no impact on the results.

Oh how I hop she would face Obama in 012 head on. So he can put the final dagger in the Reagan devolution.