55 Comments

• 1. WhatChange  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

  Nancy Pelosi is 2 heartbeats away from the presidency.

• 2. Kahn  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

  Union family
  Hunters
  NRA members
  Kid in the Army
  actual business and executive experience
  rooted out corruption
  sold the governors jet
  raised taxes on the oil companies to give money to the citizens
  canceled the bridge to nowhere
  just got a big gas pipeline contact done

  And Obama has run for office and… ? Well what else?

  Oh. And her favorite food is moose stew. Ya gotta love it.

• 3. Lorenzo Sangu  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  Heartbeat away is a very valid point and one that Karl Rove made recently. See below.

  On Face the Nation a couple of weeks ago, Karl Rove argued that if Obama picked Tim Kaine for VP, it would be for purely political reasons and would ignore the responsibilities of the presidency.

  On the show, Rove said the following -

  I think he’s going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice,” Rove said. “He’s going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president.

  What about a pick that on the margin that helps with former Hillary supporters?

  Talking about Tim Kaine, Rove went on to say -

  With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years

  Versus two for Palin

  I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.

  I am not sure where Wasilla ranks in terms of population, but I can guarantee you it’s not even in the top 500 in terms of largest cities in America.

  So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I’m concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?’

  How can the Republicans possibly spin this? Their lead strategist called their VP pick out before they even made the pick.

• 4. FactCheck  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  The left’s attacks on Palin are a sign of them being scared of her inclusion on the ticket.

  By that logic, then you are downright sobbing-in-the-fetal-position terrified of Obama, considering this blog is largely devoted to attacking him.

  Try not to let fear run your life so much.

• 5. arcman46  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  Palin has not only been a Governor, but a mayor, and on the Alaska state board of energy. She has an immense amount of experience compared to Obama, and has been in elected office for over 5 years longer than him. When it comes to a Governor, versus a Senator, I’ll take the Governor every time.

• 6. kimberly4victory  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

  Factcheck cries that this blog attacks Obama. Why would a CONSERVATIVE blog attack Obama? It’s downright silly.

• 7. js  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  you all miss the jist of what palin actually brings to the office of VP….she is a maverick…and will not become on of the “good ole boys”…

  the more people we send to washington like her…the better off america is…

• 8. David Miller  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  Well, let’s see what happens! I think she is a fine choice.

• 9. Kahn  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  Lorenzo Sangu - so, you’ve got a photographic memory? Or you’re cutting and pasting someone elses arguments? You gerbil.

  Union family
  Hunters
  NRA members
  Kid in the Army
  actual business and executive experience
  rooted out corruption
  sold the governors jet
  raised taxes on the oil companies to give money to the citizens
  canceled the bridge to nowhere
  just got a big gas pipeline contact done

  And Obama has run for office and… ? Well what else?

• 10. FactCheck  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

  Factcheck cries that this blog attacks Obama. Why would a CONSERVATIVE blog attack Obama? It’s downright silly.

  I merely pointed out the obvious (look at the tags box in the right column…notice how the Barack Obama tag is far and away the most popular tag, dwarfing the John McCain tag? Care to wager a large sum of money as to whether all those Obama posts are positive or negative?)–and now you’re crying about me doing so. I wasn’t even trying to strike a nerve, and it appears that I did so anyway.

  Anyway, the point clearly eluded you, kimberly, so I’ll break it down for you again:

  1) Matt Margolis claims that attacks on Palin show that Democrats are “scared” of her.

  2) This blog’s primary function by far is to attack Obama.

  3) Therefore, according to Matt Margolis’s logic, he and the conservatives on this blog are terrified of Obama.

  You, like Matt, should try not to let fear run your life so much.

• 11. MattM  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

  Great choice for VP! She’s already:

  Backed OBAMA’S energy plan.
  Created a winfall tax in Alaska for big oil (which McCain is against)
  Been quoted saying she doesn’t know what a VP does all day.
  Being investigated for illegally firing a government employee - and been caught on camera giving multiple different reasons why she fired him.

  Boy! The Dems must be running scared!

• 12. Retired Spook  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  I think one of the things that’s going to become evident as we progress through the rest of this campaign is that the more people learn about Sarah Palin the more they’re going to like her; and the more they learn about Barack Obama, the less they’re going to like him. Actually, the latter has already happened to a significant degree, and we haven’t even begun to learn all the details about his relationship with Bill Ayres, details that the Obama campaign is pulling out every stop to keep from being made public.

  And on the experience angle, Palin is every bit as experienced and qualified to be a heartbeat away from the President as Geraldine Ferraro was in 1984, and Palin’s husband isn’t a crook.

• 13. Matt Margolis  |  August 29th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

  FactCheck, if attacking candidate you oppose means you are afraid of them, then every single lefty blog are a bunch of scared babies.

  but, let’s be honest here. I do fear the idea of an Obama presidency. He would destroy this country. Destroy it. So, you bet your ass I’ll attack him for being an empty suit with teleprompter.

  The DNC/Obama camp attacks on Palin, however, were weak, and stupid. They were caught like deers in headlights and didn’t know how to respond.

• 14. FactCheck  |  August 29th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  I do fear the idea of an Obama presidency. He would destroy this country. Destroy it.

  Again, try not to let fear run your life. You’ll find things are much more enjoyable when you aren’t scared all the time. Also, fear tends to lead to irrational thinking, which I suppose would explain the posting dynamic of this blog.

  That said, your fear and paranoid concept that Obama would “destroy” the country are pretty funny, especially considering you are a Bush dead-ender.

• 15. Kahn  |  August 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  FactCheck, welllll IF the economy is in such bad shape, you think a move to socialism will help?

• 16. New Conservative  |  August 29th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

  I can’t believe Democrats are saying that she isn’t experienced enough to be Vice President. What a stupid argument. She has more experience that Obama. So if she can’t be Vice President how can Obama be President?
  http://www.thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/

  go to my site and grade McCain’s pick for VP

• 17. neocon  |  August 29th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  Also, fear tends to lead to irrational thinking,…Factcheck

  Who else sees the irony?

• 18. kimberly4victory  |  August 29th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

  Backed OBAMA’S energy plan.

  —Actually Obama backed Palin’s energy plan.

  Created a winfall tax in Alaska for big oil (which McCain is against)

  —Wow. And that brought in billions for Alaska. You go, girl! I hope she changes McCain’s mind.

  Been quoted saying she doesn’t know what a VP does all day.

  —You are taking this out of context. She likes being “busy” all day long - and as Governor, she is. If she were being vetted at the time, I am sure she would have researched what a VP does all day. But she hadn’t been … so why should she? It’s really a silly mute point.

  Being investigated for illegally firing a government employee - and been caught on camera giving multiple different reasons why she fired him.

  —I was in HR for over 10 years. If an employee of mine was 1) using a taser gun on a child, 2) drinking on the job, 3) not fulfilling his job responsibilities - filling vacancies, etc., I’d fire his butt too.

  On Yahoo, the top story is about Palin’s eating and workout habits. If she was a man, would they be reporting on that? Ridiculous!!

• 19. gotbrains?  |  August 29th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

  uh, it’s not just your regular media pundits and democrats repeating the “heartbeat” theme. It’s dyed-in-the-wool Bush conservatives like David Frum:

  The longer I think about it, the less well this selection sits with me. And I increasingly doubt that it will prove good politics. The Palin choice looks cynical. The wires are showing.

  John McCain wanted a woman: good.

  He wanted to keep conservatives and pro-lifers happy: naturally.

  He wanted someone who looked young and dynamic: smart.

  And he discovered that he could not reconcile all these imperatives with the stated goal of finding a running mate qualified to assume the duties of the presidency “on day one.”

  Sarah Palin may well have concealed inner reservoirs of greatness. I hope so! But I’d guess that John McCain does not have a much better sense of who she is, what she believes, and the extent of her abilities than my enthusiastic friends over at the Corner. It’s a wild gamble, undertaken by our oldest ever first-time candidate for president in hopes of changing the board of this election campaign. Maybe it will work. But maybe (and at least as likely) it will reinforce a theme that I’d be pounding home if I were the Obama campaign: that it’s John McCain for all his white hair who represents the risky choice, while it is Barack Obama who offers cautious, steady, predictable governance.

  Here’s I fear the worst harm that may be done by this selection. The McCain campaign’s slogan is “country first.” It’s a good slogan, and it aptly describes John McCain, one of the most self-sacrificing, gallant, and honorable men ever to seek the presidency.

  But question: If it were your decision, and you were putting your country first, would you put an untested small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?

  Ouch.

• 20. Mark Noonan  |  August 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

  Got,

  Frum is wrong - Palin a “heartbeat away” is better, by far, than Obama as the heartbeat…

  What have we got - a war hero who has time and again stood against the conventional wisdom.

  - a governor who has gone after corruption and business as usual.

  - a neophyte Senator who arises out of the nauseating corruption of Chicago Democratic politics.

  - a 36-year partisan hack from the Senate.

  We’ve got your side cold, got…

• 21. neocon  |  August 29th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

  Did you hurt yourself?

  I think Bidens comments about Obama are much more fatal.

• 22. keystoneRepublican  |  August 29th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

  Matt,

  Your graphic would make a great bumper sticker! :)

• 23. Joe Bananas...in Pyjamas  |  August 29th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

  What a load of croc from Obama and how typical of an arrogant answer from the Obama camp.

  Come November, I think that the Democrats will have the biggest rude awakening of their lives.

  This should teach them a lesson for letting their party become a party of ego centric leftist- elitists.

  Oh…this Palin chick looks HOT! no suit pants, conservative, smart, loves fishing? WOW, believes in Jesus? WOW.

  Haha…Democrats are scratching their heads at the moment, they thought that the media would have been regurgitating Obamas love fest over and over again, instead every one is talking about Palin.

• 24. gotbrains?  |  August 29th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

  OK, so you reject Frum out of hand, despite his conservative credentials. Well, how about Ramesh Ponnuru over at NRO:

  Cold Water on Palin [Ramesh Ponnuru]

  Both the pros and the cons are pretty obvious. I’m going to focus on the cons, mostly because conservatives right now seem to be paying them less attention.

  The pros: She’s a pro-life conservative reformer from outside Washington, and a woman. The pick signals a boldness and willingness to mix things up that the McCain campaign, like Republicans generally, need.

  The cons:

  Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain’s age raised the stakes on this issue.

  As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.

  And it’s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.)

  Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?

  Compatibility. It doesn’t seem as though McCain knows Palin well. Do we have much reason to think they would work well together?

  Debates. Maybe, as Jonah said the other day, Biden will look like a bully going up against her—and maybe she’ll shine. But I can think of a lot of other picks who would have been lower-risk.

  I am not even sure that the pick will have quite the galvanizing effect on conservatives that it seems to be having now as it sinks in. The concerns I’ve mentioned here—about her readiness and her credentials—are the kind of thing that many conservative voters take seriously.

  You’ve got to admit - she is a token pick. No way in heck does she get the nod from Mac if she were a man. Most women I’ve talked to find it insulting that McCain thinks he can gain their votes just by putting a pair of ovaries on the ticket, no matter who they belong to.

  Certainly there were other, actually qualified Republican women to choose. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Condi Rice, or Olympia Snowe immediately come to mind. But McCain had too many groups to pander to (religious fundies) and too many deficiencies to cover (his advanced age) to find a qualified woman who could fill in all those check boxes. So he went with an unqualified one. This choice is just like Bush’s laughable selection of Harriet Myers to be the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

• 25. Steve Essex  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:15 am

  Deleted - vulgar.

• 26. Magnum Serpentine  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:22 am

  Deleted - scandal-mongering.

• 27. Nate  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:32 am

  k4v, are you serious? could you describe what the vpotus does? palin should have a sense of that. it was not taken out of context, she said it. but it really doesn’t matter until she’s in the office — still surprising that she’d say something that would make her look like she’s clueless about the office.

• 28. cmorr  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:39 am

  nuff said. 25-28 seem like the knockout. on the first day. seeya GOP

• 29. Mark Alan  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:44 am

  Unbelievable ! That’s all I can say about the Obama-Biden and supporters argument about Palin being one heartbeat away from the presidency. Obama is ONE ANEURYSIM away from being on his own with NO experience in the Oval Office!!!

• 30. Dennis  |  August 30th, 2008 at 1:25 am

  Deleted - scandal-mongering.

• 31. Joe Bananas...in Pyjamas  |  August 30th, 2008 at 1:28 am

  >>>You Neocons play war games and ignite world conflict and you think a 3rd rate Governor is ready to lead us into WW3 if need be?

  You sir, are a high ranking idiot, I think the Huffington post is uhm…that way>>>>

• 32. Mark Noonan  |  August 30th, 2008 at 1:44 am

  Got,

  Ramesh is just playing Cassandra there - and he’s quite good at it. But you’re barking up the wrong tree - I’ve been a booster of Palin as VP for a while now and the selection exactly meets the needs of the ticket.

  As for you on the left and your absurdly stupid attempts to both scandal-monger about her and denigrate her accomplishments - have at it; it will backfire on you, very badly. You don’t realise that you’re not up against a liberal feminist robotically repeating whatever NOW and NARAL tell her to say…you’re dealing with a person who holds Reagan as her paradigm.

• 33. kimberly4victory  |  August 30th, 2008 at 2:18 am

  I love this post from a fellow conservative:

  From 1992-1996 when Palin served on the City Council of Wasilla, Obama was teaching part time at the University of Chicago Law School and working in private practice part time.

  In 1996 when Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate, Palin was elected Mayor of Wasilla, AK. Obama worked for legislation that would provide tax credits and subsidies to private developers of affordable housing. Tony Rezko received over $87 million in government funds to renovate and maintain affordable housing units, many of them in Obama’s disctrict. Many of these units lacked heat, had leaking roofs and were infested by rodents. Palin ran her small but growing city with a budget just under six million dollars and about 50 employees, and was reelected in 1999.

  In 2003, Palin was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. When she uncovered corruption in the organization, and was unable to get Governor Murkowski to take action, she resigned in protest and filed charges again the offenders, taking on entrenched corruption in Alaskan politics, This fight led her to run against Gov. Murkowski in the primary, and then go on to become Alaska’s first female governor in 2006.

  In 2004, Obama was elected to the US Senate. The developers who had received government funding as a result of legislation sponsored by Obama served on his campaign finance committee. Many of the buildings they had purchased with government funding were seized for code violations, or foreclosed, and the low-income residents were forced to find housing elsewhere. In 2008, Governor Palin worked with the legislature to provide Alaskans a $1200 rebate from state revenues, and successfully arranged for the development of the Transcanada Pipeline to transport natural gas from Alaska to the lower 48 states.

  Do the Democrats really want to talk about this?

• 34. Dennis  |  August 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am

  http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wasilla.jpg?w=509&h=382

  [The link] above is a picture of lovely downtown Wasilla, for those of you unfamiliar with the area. Behind the Mug-Shot Saloon (the first bar I visited when I moved to Alaska long ago) is a little strip mall. There are street signs in Wasilla with bullet holes in them. Wasilla has a population of about 5500 people, and 1979 occupied housing units. This is where your potential Vice President was two short years ago.

  Can you imagine her negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Discussing foreign policy? Understanding non-Alaskan issues? Frankly, I don’t even know if she’s ever been out of the country. She may ‘get’ Alaska, but there are only a half a million people here. Don’t get me wrong… I love Alaska with all my heart. I’m just saying.

  I, and all Alaskans will be interested to see how this whole process unfolds. This is definitely a gamble for McCain, and in my humble opinion, a gift to Obama and to Joe Biden who just got thrown a big hunk of red meat for the vice presidential debate.

  This is the wedge-issue, desperate ’Hail Sarah’ pass of the McCain campaign.

  from http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/

• 35. Danish Artist  |  August 30th, 2008 at 6:22 am

  Dennis,

  Do you want a community organizer, mediocre state senator, part time US Senator negotiating the same nuclear non-proliferation treaties?

  Obama who had to appear strong in foriegn policy by nominating Biden, is at most equal to Palin on the surface. Palin has more executive experience than Obama, unless you count the executive board he served with Ayers.

  The liberal desperation continues. They have no problem with inexperience being the heartbeat of the presidency, but are scared to death of “inexperience” being a heartbeat away from the presidency.

• 36. Timestar  |  August 30th, 2008 at 8:56 am

  Frankly, I don’t even know if she’s ever been out of the country.34. Dennis | August 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am

  Thanks for the link; would like pictures of the city council chambers if you have them.

  Not sure if I know whether she has been out of the country, but it is coming out she has a passport. It was issued last year.

• 37. Timestar  |  August 30th, 2008 at 8:59 am

  Has anyone heard from Mitt or the Huckster? Experience is nice, but if only they had ovaries it could have been them.

• 38. kimberly4victory  |  August 30th, 2008 at 9:33 am

  Dennis: My cousin has lived in Alaska for over twenty years. It’s not an easy place in which to live. In fact, you’ve got to be tough as nails to live there. I highly doubt you ever lived there, as your argument is, well, WEAK. Obama is a shifty character who would lie and bend over if it meant moving one step higher in power.

  Palin fought corruption. Obama embraced it.

• 39. kimberly4victory  |  August 30th, 2008 at 9:37 am

  DailyKos is listed on the blogroll of the Alaskan’s blog. Since Alaska IS a red state, find a link to a conservative bashing Palin and you might have something to talk about.

  LOL!

• 40. neocon  |  August 30th, 2008 at 10:10 am

  Timestar,

  If Hillary were black, what do you think would’ve been that outcome?

• 41. neocon  |  August 30th, 2008 at 10:13 am

  Can you imagine her negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Discussing foreign policy? Understanding non-Alaskan issues? - Dennis

  Yes I can, and much more effectively than the pandering idiot that is Obama.

• 42. Jim  |  August 30th, 2008 at 10:38 am

  Let’s put things into perspective here. The Democratic Party proudly presented the American people with Presidential candidates from relatively small states…. and from the mega-cities of Plains, Gergia and from Hope, Arkansas. And they are now dissing the Republican Party for presenting a VP candidate from a small town in a “small” state. What a convenient memory lapse.

• 43. Walter  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

  (Deleted - scandal-mongering). That is what some messages say!
  This site looks like Fox TV to me, only propaganda. You are encouraged to call Obama whatever you like, I guess if you do the same to Republicans, your message is quickly deleted.
  Whate a country! Glad I am European…
  God bless America… Let me help you out of your dreams. If there were a God, there would be no Bush’s, Nixon’s as president and mass murderers, starting wars all over this world!

• 44. Pom Pom Girl  |  August 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

  Ditto-
  Sarah Palin has executive experience. Obama does not.
  Sarah Palin has a record of accomplishment. Obama does not.
  Sarah Palin is right on the issues. Obama is not.

• 45. FactCheck  |  August 30th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  find a link to a conservative bashing Palin and you might have something to talk about.

  Okie-dokie.

  Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green (R): “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?” (Green is from Palin’s home town of Wasilla.)

  And then there’s this ringing endorsement:

  Alaska House Speaker John Harris (R): “She’s old enough. She’s a U.S. citizen.”

  She does, however, have the full support of Ted Stevens. You guys should run with that.

• 46. Catfish  |  August 30th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  (Deleted - scandal-mongering).

  look forward to this replacing every reference to ayers then.

• 47. elephie  |  August 30th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

  Hmm.. this choice worries me. Palin seems like a very likeable woman and is right on with all of the social issues, but doesn’t this seem a bit reckless of a choice? McCain only met her once before he selected her.. and she reflects everything that he criticizes in Obama.. I think it sends a message of desperation.

• 48. Matt Margolis  |  August 30th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

  as for tokenism… If Hillary wasn’t a woman and Obama wasn’t a minority would either of them made it so far in the democratic primary? The answer is no. They were the democrats with the least experience. But experience and qualifications matter little to the democratic party which nearly nominated Howard Dean, the governor of a state with a smaller population than Alaska, back in 2004.

• 49. kimberly4victory  |  August 30th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  It’s not surprising that Green would say something like that.

  Green, who has feuded with Palin repeatedly over the past two years, brought up the big oil tax increase Palin pushed through last year.

  See, the thing I really, really, really like about Palin is she fights for what she believes in. Country first, Party Second.

• 50. FmrMarine  |  August 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  Kahn

  >>>And Obama has run for office and… ? Well what else?>>>

  oBOMBa
  got a GAY b!@w job in the back seat
  smoked crack in a limo
  community rabble rouser
  cult member
  mobster friend
  nation of islam friend
  former muslem
  terrorist friends
  racist
  did I say community activest?
  and 140 days in the senate

  WOW what a resume im impressed.

• 51. FmrMarine  |  August 30th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  neo

  >>>If Hillary were black, what do you think would’ve been that outcome?>>>

  She’s NOT?
  but but…..I thought ole BJ was the first black president?
  maybe she is a mulatto………no the other guy is
  …im so confused!

• 52. Catfish  |  August 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  #

  50. FmrMarine | August 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  oBOMBa
  got a GAY b!@w job in the back seat
  smoked crack in a limo
  community rabble rouser

  If this isnt deleted immediately then this site has ZERO integrity.

  and fmrmarine/crntdbag: I thought Leftism was dead and you could attack it on its merits? Why do you need to go homophobic and make up obviously false and ridiculous statements!?!?

• 53. Catfish  |  August 31st, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  Deleted - complains about comment policy.

• 54. Isaac  |  September 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  Sarah Palin may be a heartbeat away from the presidency, but Joe Biden is a full healthy life span away. So let us compare Obama to McCain, but I forgot McCain is dying, so let us compare Obama to Palin but Biden is out till Obama dies and since he did not have cancer he will in all likelihood outlive Biden. All right, now that we know who gets to live and who gets to die let us balance the checkbook. In the “worst” case scenario for the republicans, McCain will die and Governor Palin who does not have the same national experience as Obama Since she has not run for President for such a lengthy time as him, will become president. In the “worst” case scenario for the democrats, Obama lives and Biden gets to sit in the back seat, napping and getting old in the White House. In the “best” case scenario for the republicans McCain lives and Palin gets to learn in the meantime what to do when the time comes for her to take over eight years later. In the “best” case scenario for the democrats, Obama dies and Biden gets to take over. I don’t know about how you feel, but I rather not kill Obama and give a chance for McCain to live.

• 55. Howard  |  September 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  QUESTION:
  IS PALIN QUALIFIED COMPARED TO OBAMA ?

  ANSWER:
  http://townhall.com/blog/g/cba8713c-ef73-4ebc-aa5e-bc53e6596e2a&comments=true