She is a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda.

[jackshoegazer]

In an interview Sunday with Fox News' Chris Wallace, John McCain made said he's still happy with his vice presidential pick:

WALLACE: But while people are interested in Governor Palin, there seem to be growing doubts about her qualifications to be vice president. According to the latest fox news/opinion dynamics poll, people now say Palin makes them less likely to vote for you by a margin of 40% to 32. Back in September, those numbers were exactly reversed. Senator, as a cold political calculation, hasn't Governor Palin become a drag on your ticket?

 

MCCAIN: As a cold political calculation, I could not be more pleased. She has excited and energized our base. She is a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda for America. She has a wonderful family. She's a reformer. She's a conservative. She's the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America and when I see the enthusiasm and I see the passion that she has aroused, I am so happy.

Comments

[the2ndhandkid.livejournal.com]

Oh, well if she's a REFORMER...why didn't you say that before??

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I don't care if she's a Transformer, she's *not* running my country.

[hello-momma.livejournal.com]

I think he would be doing a lot worse without her. He pretty much needed her to shore up the Evangelical vote and she has made him seem less stale to conservatives. What scares me is that I am certain she will come back as the presidential candidate next time around.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think if he'd picked Mitt Romney or Kay Bailey Hutchison, he'd be doing waaaay better. If Palin had turned out to be intelligent, he'd be doing better, but as it stands, he's an idiot and doing very badly now that the Palin Bubble has popped.



I don't think we'll see her again. She's going to get blamed for McCain's failed campaign.

[hello-momma.livejournal.com]

Well I think the spin would be that they blame it on McCain. Those angry mobs at the rallys aren't just mad at Obama, they are mad at McCain. They love Palin because she will attack Obama and doesn't have an "off-limits" policy, unless it applies to her personal life. I'm not sure how they ended up with him to begin with, because it seems like the main base doesn't really support him much. The problem with Romney was that he wasn't conservative enough for the Jesus first fanatics and he also doesn't have the right religion. I sincerely hope that I am wrong about her coming back next election, but I have a lump in my bowels that tells me it could happen.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Actually, the more I see Palin at rallies, the mroe I think she will make a 2012 run as the uber-conservative candidate. She keeps going against the campaign line and I can't help but wonder.

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

She has a wonderful family. She's a reformer.

Well, it's good to know my mother, sister, and other family and friends don't count as either of those.

Jackass.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I know - right? This is right along the lines of their new campaign meme - the "real" America, implying that somehow only Republican Americans are "real" Americans. Bastard!

[fishsanwitt]

Your McPalin icon is *fabulous*. Could you tell me where you got it?

Thanks!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It's available in the latest post of my iconomicon. The actual artwork I found in an Obama community and unfortunately can't remember the artist's name :(

[la-tante.livejournal.com]

ugh. the melanoma can't work fast enough for me.......

[alovelyfeather.livejournal.com]

lol!

[cameragirl88.livejournal.com]

O_O
...
Does he even know what he's saying half the time??

[irishspongie.livejournal.com]

Be fair - he is about 93 years old ;D


And she'd be but a heart attack away from having her finger on the button, should they win. Oh, pants.

[cameragirl88.livejournal.com]

oh god oh god please dont fuck this up america

[irishspongie.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind so much except for the fact that, with her lack of foreign policy experience (or, indeed, any experience of forn parts), she's likely to want to nuke Britain because she can't tell the difference between us and Bosnia*.

(* I'm guessing she's likely to be a little behind the times, given the time it must take her to read ~everything~)

[cameragirl88.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha but she "reads any and all of the media" !!
It's so scary that she'd be a heartbeat away from the presidency...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

And you know the first thing she'd do is nuke all the gay moose.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I think he's so hopelessly schizophrenic about who he is anymore that he just spouts off whatever crap is floating in his drug & PTSD-rattled brain.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Are there conservative feminists? :P

[schmecky.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to be grateful he said it out loud, or HORRIFIED he's gotten as far as he has.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

What is horrifying is how negative he's going. He was attacking feminism on the campaign trail today, his surrogates are being blatantly racist, he and Palin are calling Democratic parts of the country un-American, and calling for an investigation into Obama's fund-raising because he can't believe that many Americans would donate to him. Sour grapes much?

[schmecky.livejournal.com]

I guess it's the jaded cynic in me, for better or worse, but I prefer the blatant stuff over the veiled tactics. Let voters hear what all the stump speeches are really masking, and decide based on that.

[explodingalice.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. If those two somehow get elected, they are going to set this country back 100 years and I wouldn't doubt it if we'd be looking at an America that looks like a disgusting crossbreed of Handmaiden's Tale and 1984.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

At least he admits it?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

What bothers me is that he says it was a cold political calculation to fend off the accusations that he's an impulsive gambler who doesn't think through his decisions, but in doing so admits that he didn't pick her because he thought she'd be a good VP or because she is the best choice for America, but because she was a political choice - she was the best thing for his campaign, and that's it.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

The pick has always been troubling, but you're right that it does insinuate more sinister things. He really didn't plan ahead and I think that alone will hopefully cost him the election.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I think he being a creepy, PTSD-riddled bastard is going to cost him the election.

Someone made an excellent point - Palin is the type of woman that a fighter pilot would be attracted to. There's the video of him staring at her ass while she's giving a speech. When he's with both Palin and his wife, he constantly and unconsciously fiddles with his wedding ring. McCain might have used his head when picking Palin but it wasn't the head with the brain in it.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

I never really thought about the pick that way before, I didn't want to think it would really be about that. If that's true it's utterly pathetic.

You know the worse the outlook gets for him the more I see him as a tragic guy failing spectacularly at his last big push for greatness because he was corrupted by the desire for power.

I hope he loses.