John McCain to Sarah Palin: I Choose You!

OBAMA/PALIN 08

Jill @ 08/29/2008 at 5:12 pm Here’s The Deal @ 08/29/2008 at 2:37 pm
This move will sure pick up a few of the Hillary Clinton voters!
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LOL maybe five or six at the most. Palin is rabidly anti-choice. She’s Hillary’s polar opposite. Anybody who thinks women are going to desert Obama and vote for McCain just because Palin is his running mate is an idiot. Lest you all forget, Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro for his running mate. Fat lot of good it did either one of them. Bush Senior won in a landslide.
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I really, truly hope you’re right. Unfortunately, as you can see by some of the posts here, some of the “Hillary supporters” are just that stupid. And I actually know “Hillary supporters” who will vote for McCain just because they’re bitter at Obama for not choosing her as his VP. (I know—-don’t ask.)

Some people who call themselves “Hillary supporters” will now definetly vote for him just because Palin’s a woman. It’s sad, but true. Of course, those people aren’t REALLY Hillary supporters—-because if they were, they wouldn’t vote for a woman who’s anti-choice and the jackass that picked her.

Like I said, Jill, I hope I’m wrong and you’re right. Fingers crossed.

Hillary Clinton just congratulates to Sarah Palin and called it “historic nomination”. Go McCain/Palin 2008.

I’ve got to be honest; I was a diehard Hillary supporter, and there were DOZENS of things Obama did during the course of the primaries that left me with a major distaste for him — topped off by some obscenely hypocritical moves he’s made since capturing the nomination (flip-flopping on FISA, pandering to the center with his support of the Supreme Court tossing DC’s handgun ban, and after months of attacking HC on her early support of the war, picking a VP candidate who was if anything even MORE strongly in support of the war—not to mention apparently his new slogan being “change you can believe in, unless of course I’m struggling in the polls, in which case I’ll choose one of the old white-guy Washington insiders as my running mate”).

I have never cast a vote for a Republican, and I will not do so in this election, though I will absolutely have to hold my nose when I cast my vote THIS year.

That said, I have a certain amount of curiosity about what a McCain-Palin administration would look like, and if abortion rights were the only thing at stake, I might even be willing to put my vote where my mouth is. (Keep in mind, the administration can’t OUTLAW abortion, they can only replace an outgoing Supreme Court liberal–and Stevens is 88–with someone who would tip the court in favor of overturning Roe v Wade, in which case it would be left up to the individual states to construct laws governing abortion in their state.)

As a Pennsylvania native, I know a fair amount of Christian women Democrats who respect McCain and aren’t much impressed by Obama’s speechiness, and who (unlike me) supported HC *in spite* of her positions on abortion, gay rights, not *because* of them. I would not be surprised if even an apparent “gimmick” like this is all it takes for them to cross party lines and cast their votes for McCain.

Wow…..Mccain is a DumbA$$…… Biden is going to woop Palins A$$ at the VP debate. She has no Experience at all! When McCains old A$$ dies…i sure as hell dont want her to be President. Her last name might as well be bush.

Talk about using someone……….. Thats all Mccain is doing….Using her to win over Hillary Supporters….What a Douch

It’s very sad that someone would think that Hillary supporters would vote for another person strictly based on gender. But in McCain’s view he did right. She was a former sports reporter, a runner up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant, a co-owner in a commerical fishing operation. She also has a degree in journalism. She has had executive experience being a mayor of a town of what 7,000 two terms and governor for 1 year and 8 months. Bush was also a governor and look where it got us. But after all the GOP ranting and raving about the lack of Obama’s experience, I expected more. However, big oil companies might be happy with his selection given her state’s resources.
On another note, Obama has been right on more foreign policy issues than McCain so far; maybe it might be due to some experience in Congress where foreign policy issues are addressed. The fact is that the Bush has set a time line for withdrawal of troops from Iraq and is planning to send more troops to Afghanistan as suggested by Obama.
As a former Hillary supporter, I look for substance and will support Obama in 08!

to el @ 08/29/2008 at 2:57 pm ;
you say that obama has done nothing but compete with hillary clinton; then obviously you dont’ understand the problem or perhaps you just chose not to pay attention. for the record; our anger towards obama goes much deeper than that. yes, i heard both Clinton speeches and they were both excellent. except for on important point. i do not believe for one moment that either bill or hillary support obama for president. and as long as hillary does not truely support obama then i and others that i know will not.

also; what i find irritating is the assumption by obama supporters that those of us who supported hillary must now automatilcally vote for obama. what aggorance! obama has done nothing nor said nothing to earn my vote. and nowhere in his acceptance speech did i hear him ask me and all the other suppporters of hillary to support him. you notice i say ask not demand. as far as i am concerned who i vote for is open for debate.

As a female and a Hilary Clinton supporter, I’m really offended by this pick. Not because I do not fully support the idea of a women in power. But because McCain picked Palin with the intention of luring Hilary Clinton supporters to his side. Does he honestly believe that women are that dumb? That they are mindless sheep that will follow a women simply because she’s a women? Well, McCain was very wrong when it comes to THIS women.

I wasn’t for Hilary because of her gender, I was for her because of her beliefs and because of her determination and because I thought she had what it takes to be a strong and firm President.

Maybe McCain is right. Maybe some women will vote Republican because of his choice as Vice President. But those women were never Clinton supporters in the first place. Otherwise they would have realized that everything this women stands for is conflicting with everything Hilary stood for.

Hilary Clinton is a one of a kind women, and I think it’s an insult to her as well for McCain to believe that the support she recieved can be easily imitated just by putting a women on his ticket.

McCain/ Palin will win. Just wait and see.

Obama is the one that doesn’t have much experience and what experience he does have it’s weak and shows very little accomplishment.

I mean how can an editor of the Harvard Law Review (which Obama was) not have published one single piece of legal scholorship…..not one!!

This guy is only good at filling big arena’s and putting on a show. And from the looks of it, his firework display was puny compared to Beijing.

Putting on a show that looked dinky compared to the Chinese is probably the best look for a man who wants to be POTUS.

The problem with choosing Palin as VP is not the fact that she doesn’t have alot of experience (which she does not) but the fact that they have been harping on Obama for his lack of experience and then they go and choose someone that has even less than Obama. Also, you have to really think of what is going to happen if god forbid something happens to McCain. If something does happen, Palin will be the next president. Is that what all of you really want?? Someone that is mayor of a town of 7000 and then governor of a large state land wise with a population of less than Delaware who is caught in a scandal that reminds me of a bad episode of Maury is not someone that I want to represent the US in the foreign arena! God, I would be more comfortable with Romney and I’m a liberal!

Plus, just because she is a woman and I am one as well does not mean that I will vote for her. Even trying to make that argument is insulting to woman everywhere!