In the Race

I can't stand Hillary but the Clinton machine would beat the tar-nation out of Palin and look for seconds.

Why is the GOP base falling for this crap?  This choice is ridiculous.

You mean to tell me that McCain has the opportunity to put a guy like Pawlenty on the ticket and he goes and chooses the Govenor from a state that has less people then the Milwaukee metro and whose only worry is to figure out how to spend the windfall oil and gas tax revenues they generate on a yearly basis?  

Look, I've been a McCain guy from the very beginning.  But the man's almost 80 years old and now his back-up plan is a person who wouldn't know "big-time" if it hit her square in the nose.  This whole fiasco is the work of Republican establishment, which means McCain is pandering just like the other suckers he beat out to get where he is today. McCain couldn't spell "Palin" 2 weeks ago and now she's his running mate?  Gimme a break.

He's toast.

I don't know, Josh.  I think this one is not going to be as easy as you think.  I think you are going to have to dissect the USA on this one.  Almost have to first divide it into quarters.  And then after that, divide that with a north and a south/male and female for later use.  

First you have to figure who really is going to come out to vote.  There are more women voters...that is a proven fact.   How will they vote?  This is a very though one this time out.  If it was just Obama vs McCain...I would have put bets on Obama.  Can't do that now.  There is no direct answer, is there?  We just don't know.  

You might not like it, but there are going to be women who like Palin.  And, while I don't like it, there are going to be women who vote for McCain just because he has a woman on the ticket.  Just for the same reason that I don't like that people will vote for Obama because he is black.  

But there will, unfortunately be those who will refuse to vote for those same people for those same reasons.  Now that is where my equator comes in.  There is still that group with old south good old boys mentality in this country.  

Then there are people who go for the little things.  Those family issues.  Having children who are in the service, having children with special needs.  One out of ever 155 kids has autism in this country...having someone in the White House who has a child with a disability, even if it is a VP - may mean something to a parent with a child with a disability.

McCain's toast?  This election is a free-for all.  At least unless something awful happens between now and November.  

Obama is still just a new kid on the block...he's been around a little longer than Palin...but he's still green too.  He is not right for President of the United States.

Maybe there's a manual in the Oval office...

You're right.  This whole thing reeks of pandering to the uninformed voter.  Politics as usual.