McCain's Running mate

TheMercenary · 08-29-2008, 10:25 AM

She has a very tough reputation for going against the grain and status quo. That is a good quality. She is a very interesting mix of a person with a myriad of experiences. She is definitely a person from the masses who worked for where she is today. Definitely not an elitist.

Griff · 08-29-2008, 10:31 AM

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Definitely not an elitist.

Is the elitist label sticking to the black kid from the single parent home? McCain's back story screams elitist but the POW thing gives him cover. Is Biden an elitist? I don't know his story.

TheMercenary · 08-29-2008, 10:39 AM

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Is the elitist label sticking to the black kid from the single parent home? McCain's back story screams elitist but the POW thing gives him cover. Is Biden an elitist? I don't know his story.

I didn't really mean to single Obama out in that statement. I meant to single out Obama, McCain, and Biden. She is not a D.C. insider. She is home grown, raised, and has worked in Alaska on the land. For that alone I give her two thumbs up. And on top of that the VP choice for either Obama or McCain is very important, in case neither of them makes it through their term.

Griff · 08-29-2008, 10:42 AM

She does a lot to reinforce his, now shaky, maverick label.

TheMercenary · 08-29-2008, 10:46 AM

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She does a lot to reinforce his, now shaky, maverick label.

How's that?

Griff · 08-29-2008, 10:51 AM

She really is an outsider.

lookout123 · 08-29-2008, 10:51 AM

Everyone was waiting for one of the easy picks to shore up the republican base instead he picks a woman no one has heard of. No whispers, nothing. Also her past looks a bit renegade, her move into the govenor's mansion isn't exactly the normal get your name known kiss some ass long term movement.

TheMercenary · 08-29-2008, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

Everyone was waiting for one of the easy picks to shore up the republican base instead he picks a woman no one has heard of. No whispers, nothing. Also her past looks a bit renegade, her move into the govenor's mansion isn't exactly the normal get your name known kiss some ass long term movement.

From everything I have read she has a kick ass and take no names, "let God sort em out" approach. I like it.

richlevy · 09-01-2008, 02:38 PM

The question is, is there a point at which the candidates private life affects their public life.

After the rumors about he covering for her teenage daughters pregnancy, it is now confirmed that her teenage daughter is pregnant.

One of the reasons McCain picked her was to appeal to social conservatives. Her answers to the 'abstinence only education' question during the vice presidential debate should be very informative. Even without Biden bringing her personal experience into it, the subtext will be there.

When the commentators mentioned her flying home during her 'labor' as an example of toughness, my wife looked shocked. It might actually be better for her if she wasn't pregnant and was covering for her daughter. Trying to sell her to women conservatives as an effective mom and politician are going to be difficult.

It's going to be an interesting two months.

08-29-2008, 10:25 AM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	She has a very tough reputation for going against the grain and status quo. That is a good quality. She is a very interesting mix of a person with a myriad of experiences. She is definitely a person from the masses who worked for where she is today. Definitely not an elitist. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

08-29-2008, 10:42 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	She does a lot to reinforce his, now shaky, maverick label. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-29-2008, 10:51 AM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	She really is an outsider. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-29-2008, 10:51 AM	#7
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Everyone was waiting for one of the easy picks to shore up the republican base instead he picks a woman no one has heard of. No whispers, nothing. Also her past looks a bit renegade, her move into the govenor's mansion isn't exactly the normal get your name known kiss some ass long term movement. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

09-01-2008, 02:38 PM	#9
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	The question is, is there a point at which the candidates private life affects their public life. After the rumors about he covering for her teenage daughters pregnancy, it is now confirmed that her teenage daughter is pregnant. One of the reasons McCain picked her was to appeal to social conservatives. Her answers to the 'abstinence only education' question during the vice presidential debate should be very informative. Even without Biden bringing her personal experience into it, the subtext will be there. When the commentators mentioned her flying home during her 'labor' as an example of toughness, my wife looked shocked. It might actually be better for her if she wasn't pregnant and was covering for her daughter. Trying to sell her to women conservatives as an effective mom and politician are going to be difficult. It's going to be an interesting two months. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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