Randi Rhodes Message Board > Sarah Palin, the "Harriet Miers of VP Picks"

ChiffonBreath

Aug 31 2008, 01:28 PM

Good point, Miss Jacki:

Frankly, I'm shocked my more conservative friends online aren't downright mortified by McCain's choice for VP. Partisan politics aside, she's got nothing to offer on the national security front. She's a social conservative, but of frightening - almost lunatic - proportions. She's unqualified, unprepared, and an unbelievably inappropriate choice. She's the Harriet Miers of VP picks. Smart conservatives should be outraged their candidate is willing to gamble with the safety our nation for the sake of possibly pulling in a particular demo. It's dangerous and irresponsible, and McCain - and his supporters - should be ashamed.

bushwa

Aug 31 2008, 01:39 PM

From your link:

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We're at war. I'd like to know how often she's traveled abroad, met with foreign leaders, or studied world affairs.

Steve Doocey at Fox has this one nicely handled. She's from Alaska, he notes, "Way up there in the north, right next to Russia! She has plenty of foreign affairs experience!"

As Jon Stewart of the Daily Show note, this also gives Palin strong international relations with Santa.

FanFiltration

Aug 31 2008, 01:47 PM

QUOTE (bushwa @ Aug 31 2008, 02:20 PM)

From your link:

Steve Doocey at Fox has this one nicely handled. She's from Alaska, he notes, "Way up there in the north, right next to Russia! She has plenty of foreign affairs experience!"

As Jon Stewart of the Daily Show note, this also gives Palin strong international relations with Santa.

I was

over this segment! Here is the link if anyone has not seen it. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...ooses-a-running

ChiffonBreath

Aug 31 2008, 01:49 PM

QUOTE (bushwa @ Aug 31 2008, 02:20 PM)

From your link:

Steve Doocey at Fox has this one nicely handled. She's from Alaska, he notes, "Way up there in the north, right next to Russia! She has plenty of foreign affairs experience!"

As Jon Stewart of the Daily Show note, this also gives Palin strong international relations with Santa.

And Canada, too, don't cha forget, eh?

QBC

Aug 31 2008, 01:53 PM

QUOTE (ChiffonBreath @ Aug 31 2008, 01:09 PM)

From Jacki Schechner

Good point, Miss Jacki:

Frankly, I'm shocked my more conservative friends online aren't downright mortified by McCain's choice for VP. Partisan politics aside, she's got nothing to offer on the national security front. She's a social conservative, but of frightening - almost lunatic - proportions. She's unqualified, unprepared, and an unbelievably inappropriate choice. She's the Harriet Miers of VP picks. Smart conservatives should be outraged their candidate is willing to gamble with the safety our nation for the sake of possibly pulling in a particular demo. It's dangerous and irresponsible, and McCain - and his supporters - should be ashamed.

One big difference.

With Miers, the conservative base hated the choice. With Palin, the conservative base is happy with the choice.

egghead

Aug 31 2008, 01:58 PM

Palin has direct line to Santa?

Santa used to make my little girl cry.

Bad choice, John McCain.

brotherdavid

Aug 31 2008, 01:58 PM

QUOTE (QBC @ Aug 31 2008, 11:34 AM)

One big difference.

With Miers, the conservative base hated the choice. With Palin, the conservative base is happy with the choice.

Funny, that's not what the conservative OC colleague and husband with whom I spoke at last night's assignment say, nor the conservative First Gulf War vet down the hall from me says, nor the Oklahoma aunt who has never voted Democratic a day in her life says. They are all appalled.

The Evangelical sector of the conservative base, that dwindling clutch that represents a significant portion of the 20-something per cent who still support Shrub, yes, they may buy this transparent ploy for their favors, but that's about it.

She's unlikely to make it through the convention, because the vetting process that normally occurs before a candidate is announced is happening after the fact, and if there isn't a floor fight in Minnesota, there'll be a Thomas Eagleton-esque withdrawal 'ere long.

Because she isn't the Harriet Meirs of VP Picks, I'll give you that.

She's the Monica Goodling.

ChiffonBreath

Aug 31 2008, 01:59 PM

QUOTE (FanFiltration @ Aug 31 2008, 02:28 PM)

I was

over this segment! Here is the link if anyone has not seen it. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...ooses-a-running

Beautifull.

"little hood"

tx for the linkie.

airbor504

Aug 31 2008, 03:30 PM

Steve Douchey, what a butt kissing moron.

greenmoon

Aug 31 2008, 03:36 PM

She's had a passport for just over a year:

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Ms. Palin appears to have traveled very little outside the United States. In July 2007, she had to get a passport before she visited members of the Alaska National Guard stationed in Kuwait, according to her deputy communications director, Sharon Leighow. She also visited wounded troops in Germany during that trip.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/30veep.html

bee

Aug 31 2008, 04:03 PM

QUOTE (ChiffonBreath @ Aug 31 2008, 01:09 PM)

From Jacki Schechner

Good point, Miss Jacki:

Frankly, I'm shocked my more conservative friends online aren't downright mortified by McCain's choice for VP. Partisan politics aside, she's got nothing to offer on the national security front. She's a social conservative, but of frightening - almost lunatic - proportions. She's unqualified, unprepared, and an unbelievably inappropriate choice. She's the Harriet Miers of VP picks. Smart conservatives should be outraged their candidate is willing to gamble with the safety our nation for the sake of possibly pulling in a particular demo. It's dangerous and irresponsible, and McCain - and his supporters - should be ashamed.

QBC

Aug 31 2008, 04:05 PM

QUOTE (brotherdavid @ Aug 31 2008, 01:39 PM)

She's unlikely to make it through the convention, because the vetting process that normally occurs before a candidate is announced is happening after the fact, and if there isn't a floor fight in Minnesota, there'll be a Thomas Eagleton-esque withdrawal 'ere long.

Do you have a link supporting your claim that she is being vetted after the fact?

bee

Aug 31 2008, 04:44 PM

QUOTE (ChiffonBreath @ Aug 31 2008, 01:09 PM)

From Jacki Schechner

Good point, Miss Jacki:

Frankly, I'm shocked my more conservative friends online aren't downright mortified by McCain's choice for VP. Partisan politics aside, she's got nothing to offer on the national security front. She's a social conservative, but of frightening - almost lunatic - proportions. She's unqualified, unprepared, and an unbelievably inappropriate choice. She's the Harriet Miers of VP picks. Smart conservatives should be outraged their candidate is willing to gamble with the safety our nation for the sake of possibly pulling in a particular demo. It's dangerous and irresponsible, and McCain - and his supporters - should be ashamed.

bee

Aug 31 2008, 04:48 PM

Funny you should bring up Harriet Myers...My first thought was that Palin is the gop's October surprise in that she ultimately will not be his final running mate. I think she will resign with some kind of tearful parting about her dedication to her family and McSame will then pick Romney - getting all kinds of attention and credit for having been willing to pick a female as his running mate. Just like Harriet Myers was not Bush's real pick for supreme court.

bushwa

Aug 31 2008, 04:54 PM

QUOTE (FanFiltration @ Aug 31 2008, 11:28 AM)

I was

over this segment! Here is the link if anyone has not seen it. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...ooses-a-running

I can NEVER link directly to videos at TDS, and you seem to have no trouble! (I always get stuck linking just to thedailyshow.com then having to describe where the specific video is found.)

Can you show me where you first enter to end up with these links?

Incidentally, if I could make viewing every day's edition of TDS mandatory for RRMB membership, I think it would be a great idea.

bushwa

Aug 31 2008, 04:56 PM

QUOTE (QBC @ Aug 31 2008, 01:46 PM)

Do you have a link supporting your claim that she is being vetted after the fact?

Wouldn't it be easier to link you to the reports that, according to her own office, the extent of her having been vetted was the request for copies of her speeches in 2006? And I've provided that previously.

Which is not to say they haven't googled her - which is I suppose why her eyes look to be wide with surprise. (yuk-yuk!)

ChiffonBreath

Aug 31 2008, 04:59 PM

QUOTE (QBC @ Aug 31 2008, 02:34 PM)

One big difference.

With Miers, the conservative base hated the choice. With Palin, the conservative base is happy with the choice.

I dunno. time will tell. the Conservatives in the media may be doing the happy dance, but people were calling into Action Point who know the Christian base and suggest Karl Rove may have finally mis-stepped, thatthe hard ore still believe a woman's plae is in the home. they did say, tho that the BushCobots who do whatever BushCo tells them to do may vote for her, that 20% of the GOP base that is aka Conservatives without Conscience, but that's about it.

They suggest the announcement of Palin was instead used as tactic to get people to forget about what they had recently heard Obama say during his speech...a distraction.

We'll have to wait and see who guessed right

FanFiltration

Aug 31 2008, 06:25 PM

QUOTE (bushwa @ Aug 31 2008, 05:35 PM)

I can NEVER link directly to videos at TDS, and you seem to have no trouble! (I always get stuck linking just to thedailyshow.com then having to describe where the specific video is found.)

Can you show me where you first enter to end up with these links?

Incidentally, if I could make viewing every day's edition of TDS mandatory for RRMB membership, I think it would be a great idea.

What I did was go to this page here > http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/videos.jhtml then found the segment, then I clicked on the segment to get to that segments page, then I just copied the URL from my address bar, then pasted that URL here as a link.

Hope that makes sense and I helped.

Peace.

QBC

Aug 31 2008, 08:12 PM

QUOTE (bushwa @ Aug 31 2008, 04:37 PM)

Wouldn't it be easier to link you to the reports that, according to her own office, the extent of her having been vetted was the request for copies of her speeches in 2006? And I've provided that previously.

Which is not to say they haven't googled her - which is I suppose why her eyes look to be wide with surprise. (yuk-yuk!)

If that is all you have to go on, I must challenge the assertion that she has not been properly vetted.

IVEATCH

Aug 31 2008, 08:46 PM

QUOTE (ChiffonBreath @ Aug 31 2008, 01:09 PM)

From Jacki Schechner

Good point, Miss Jacki:

Frankly, I'm shocked my more conservative friends online aren't downright mortified by McCain's choice for VP. Partisan politics aside, she's got nothing to offer on the national security front. She's a social conservative, but of frightening - almost lunatic - proportions. She's unqualified, unprepared, and an unbelievably inappropriate choice. She's the Harriet Miers of VP picks. Smart conservatives should be outraged their candidate is willing to gamble with the safety our nation for the sake of possibly pulling in a particular demo. It's dangerous and irresponsible, and McCain - and his supporters - should be ashamed.

Why would consevatives care what Ms. Jacki Schechner thinks? She was an internet based reporter for CNN for a while. But insofar as I can see, she's never held any position with the Republican party or is affilated to it in any way.

I can also state that I know of at least one conservative who dismisses Ms. Schechner's opinions on this matter. And that conservative's opinion matters just as much as Ms. Schechners.

So are we now "tied" with the score at one to one ............... ?

shoeshoe

Aug 31 2008, 09:42 PM

QUOTE (egghead @ Aug 31 2008, 11:39 AM)

Palin has direct line to Santa?

Santa used to make my little girl cry.

Bad choice, John McCain.

You've got a great signature, dude! Reading the articles was great. Thanks!

ChiffonBreath

Aug 31 2008, 09:55 PM

QUOTE (IVEATCH @ Aug 31 2008, 09:27 PM)

Why would consevatives care what Ms. Jacki Schechner thinks? She was an internet based reporter for CNN for a while. But insofar as I can see, she's never held any position with the Republican party or is affilated to it in any way.

I can also state that I know of at least one conservative who dismisses Ms. Schechner's opinions on this matter. And that conservative's opinion matters just as much as Ms. Schechners.

So are we now "tied" with the score at one to one ............... ?

Ididn't read anywhere she said she was a republican...she said she was shocked my more conservative friends online[who] aren't downright mortified by McCain's choice for VP

Apparently U know more bout her? Care to enlighten us with linkies?

What's the reference to "tied...score" about?

brotherdavid

Sep 1 2008, 01:19 AM

L.A. Times: McCain's choice of Palin is a risk

N.Y. Times: Two Strikes Against Sarah Palin

Think Progress: McCain’s VP Choice Is Under Ethics Investigation

London Times Online: John McCain met running mate Sarah Palin just once

FirstRead, MSNBC Friday, August 29, 2008 :MCCAIN MET PALIN ONCE BEFORE YESTERDAY?

Palin Says She Isn't Being Vetted for VP - Roll Call
Aug 15, 2008

ABC News: Indicted Hometown Senator Poses Problem for Sarah Palin

Palin backed 'bridge to nowhere' in 2006 - USA Today

Firedoglake: Is It Sarah Palin?

Politico: Sarah Palin dissed veep job

brotherdavid

Sep 1 2008, 01:35 AM

RRMB, Election 2008: AUDIO OF PALIN STAFFER PUSHING FOR FIRING, PALIN & HER STAFFER GOING DOWN ON THIS EVIDENCE ALONE

brotherdavid

Sep 2 2008, 01:54 AM

RRMB, General Discussion: MORE BREAKING NEWS; FBI reporting that Palin was NEVER VETTED