“By this time tomorrow, we’re going to find out she introduced AIDS to the human population in between fabricating the moon landing and overthrowing the Shah.  “

Win!

Serious question:

Is John McCain trying to lose this election on purpose? He was climbing ahead, panicked for no apparent reason, and picked a trainwreck of a VP choice.

WHY?

By this time tomorrow, we’re going to find out she introduced AIDS to the human population in between fabricating the moon landing and overthrowing the Shah.

She also caused the potato famine in Ireland and gave Yul Brynner lung cancer.

So SHE’S why I’m going bald!

By this time tomorrow, we may be hearing about McCain’s new vice presidential pick.

They can’t get her off the ticket now. “Republicans in Turmoil” story would be too much. They have to sleep in the bed they made. Besides, no one is going to hitch themselves to THAT sinking rock after this.

But she has executive experience! EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“But she has executive experience! EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! “

James Carville on CNN just now held up a photo of Wasilla City Hall on and said it “looks like a bait shop in south Louisiana”.

I gotta say its nice to have the Clintonites on our side again.

The Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey’s grave!

They may have weathered Bristol’s pregnancy and Troopergate, but I doubt they can paper over someone who’s first action in the Big Chair could very well be reducing the union to 49 states.

And then there’s this!

(sorry, don’t know the actual source)

Kinda clashes with that “country first” theme, doesn’t it?  I really, really can’t wait to see what talking points they’re going to come up with for this one!

Yup. The motto of the AIP is “Alaska First, Alaska ALWYAS”.

I heard she was a member of the trilateral commission. And that she once negotiated a secret deal between the Hapsburgs and the Windsors to sell off their collections of Fabergé eggs to Chairman Mao.

Palin just has a massive Putin crush and wants Russia to come back in to reclaim their “ancestral lands” and generally be her sugar daddy.

Or…. she can lead the breakaway Republic of Alaska and bring her mammoth foreign policy experience to bear in the upcoming war with Russia. She will utilize all of the Wolverines’ Red Dawn playbook, from shouting “WOLVERINES” for no apparent reason to enlisting Powers Boothe to packing C. Thomas Howell’s rectum full of C-3, turning him into a living bomb to take out their Siberian nuclear installations.

She’s a human document dump.

Is it too much for me to ask that they make a reasoned, considered decision on the VP candidate based not only on what is best for the election (which this wasn’t, anyway) but also what would be best for the country, whether he/she served as VP throughout or had to step in temporarily in a health crisis or permanently in the extreme?

I heard she secretly wrote Shakespeare’s plays.  She’s the dark lady!

Sarah Palin was called on to take care that little “Jimmy Hoffa” problem when she was only eleven.

(Happy Labor Day, Pandagon.)

To be completely fair, the McCain/Palin motto is “Country First.”

It doesn’t say which one.

As soon as I heard the absurd “Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard” line in proximity to the “foreign policy expert because next to Russia” claim, I was trying to get a gag started about the breakaway republic of Alaska.  And then Sarah Palin outran satire.  Again.

Wasilla City Hall… “looks like a bait shop in south Louisiana.”

So? Every building in Wasilla looks like a bait shop.

And Palin’s nominal workplace in Juneau, the Alaska State Capitol, looks like a bank. And not a very secure bank.

She’s the dark lady!

Eh?

Also, Juan Stoppable, are you any relation to Ron Stoppable, by any chance?

she’s sorta like ron paul but with a uterus

I can’t WAIT to see the sibling rivalry between those two!

I’ve already read a Paulbot post that ends by saying, “At least maybe McCain won’t call her a c*nt, the way he did his wife.”

This could get really, really good.

sunsin: If it ends in mutually assured destruction, I’m all for it.

I think she’s Serena Joy.

I’m torn: on the one hand, as in so many other cases, I can see the RNC and McCain being so recklessly incompetent in their due diligence that they’d let such a flawed candidate get by; on the other, perhaps this was done on purpose, in order to give low-info voters the impression that the GOP actually gives a damn about women and younger people and Xtian fantasists before “discovering” Palin’s intractable problems and replacing her with the white wealthy Boomer neoCon male that McCain really wanted.

I mean, really—4 days for this to fall apart. I wonder if that private jet that whisked Palin down to MN from AK ever powered down its engines.

Sorry, the first theory is the correct one. Mr. McCain (well, the Republican Party actually) desperately needs to lose this election. He can now, if he chooses, blame the religious extremists for his defeat which might weaken them a trifle, thanks to Palin.

The winner of this election will be given the collapse of American economic and foreign policy on a tray. No amount of helicopter rides and shiny smiling photo-ops can rescue a President from that.

Is John McCain trying to lose this election on purpose? He was climbing ahead, panicked for no apparent reason, and picked a trainwreck of a VP choice.

Ben D.:

You think she’s a trainwreck of a VP choice. I think she’s a trainwreck of a VP choice. But there’s no evidence yet that most Americans consider her a trainwreck of a VP choice.

I’ve made the mistake before of assuming that most Americans will see what I see, in the way I do. Instead I’ve found that they are much more influenced by images on TV and the tone of people’s voice. I won’t make that mistake again.

But there’s no evidence yet that most Americans consider her a trainwreck of a VP choice.

No, there’s actually ample polling showing that independents and undecideds are super-sour on this choice, and they’re turning away from McCain in droves. Obama’s ahead by eight points - five ahead of where he was a week ago. It’s a pretty dramatic shift.

Contrary to the “everything that happens is good for McCain” crowd here, these latest revelations are the nail in the coffin. Belonging to a separatist group? This is like if Obama had joined the Weather Underground. She’s sunk McCain. Even if she’s replaced tomorrow, the narrative is McCain’s bad judgment.

Atheist-

The focus groups, even when run by Republican extraordinaire Frank Luntz, have been abysmal for Palin.

So yes, the rest of America thinks shes a trainwreck.

Sarah Palin is a real Caribou Barbie doll.  All she has to do is stand in front of the camera and smile.  That’s the basis for her qualification to be VP and be only a heartbeat away from running the most powerful, wealthiest nation in the world.  A feeble hearbeat at that.

“Sorry, the first theory is the correct one. Mr. McCain (well, the Republican Party actually) desperately needs to lose this election. He can now, if he chooses, blame the religious extremists for his defeat which might weaken them a trifle, thanks to Palin.”

This could be a 2-way street: If McStain dumps Palin, and the Dobson crowd orders their followers to stay home on Election Day, then, yes, McStain gets to blame the religious right for his defeat. But Dobson, et al, can also say, “See? SEE!? You needed us to win! Try to defy us again and we’ll screw you right back!” (And needless to say, Bush and Cheney get to sneer that it wasn’t their fault the Rethugs lost, either.)

In this particular little paranoid scenario, every ugly GOP faction gets to engage in what Nixon used to call “Plausible Deniability”. Evading responsibility no matter what: It’s the Republican Way!

Yeah, this all demonstrates that McCain still needed to shore up his base, by accepting a VP ultimatum from the Dobsonites.  This pick helps firm up Talibornagain support.  And if the secessionist bit gets around, it rallies that portion of the base that still thinks the wrong side won the War of Northern Aggression.  Seriously, how many times has Governor Palin said “states’ rights” so far?  The problem is, this was a bad year for the Dobsonites to demand that the piper be paid, because McCain needed to be able to perform the “move to the middle” two-step, and now that’s gonna be really hard to do.

On the other hand, perhaps the pro-Gilead crowd thought it was worth a gamble; after all, if Obama wins, they can spend four years shrieking about the baby-killing Muslim atheist traitor, throwing around more bullshit to impeach him over, and raking in the donations all the while.

Is anyone reminded of Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in HP and the Order of the Phoenix (film)? Of course, Umbridge in Rowling and in the film doesn’t seem to be married or have a family (shudder).

Was that the one in which Staunton gave abortions?  That’s different from Palin, innit?

“secessionist Alaskan party”
Perhaps that’s what they meant by “foreign policy” experience. She supported a policy to become foreign.

“They can’t get her off the ticket now. “Republicans in Turmoil” story would be too much. “
Except the pwned media would report it as “McCain just and wise in his responsiveness to base/voters/chihuahua owners”