To national prominence...

Both parties have too often used the VP slot as a political calculation to "balance out" a ticket or to shore up some voting bloc or electoral college votes. Too often actual qualifications were overlooked in the process. Both Obama and Hillary picked qualified persons to be their running mate. McCain's team reverted to classic political form and went for a wild card to shake up a race they feared they were losing. But Sarah Palin was no Dan Quayle - she was an overt danger to our Republic.

Mike Schmidt shows every indication of truly having learned a painful lesson over Palin.

It was a powerful and great statement. I admire this Republican

..COWARDS!!!! Harold is letting Steve have all the time he wants... Why the hell did this man chance ruining his career by dredging up Sarah Palin?

as his running mate - but he soon realized he'd made a terrible mistake and, to his credit, admitted it and has been in effect atoning for it ever since.

Her early career actually had some good points. It only later became obvious how shallow she was. Still being shallow did not preclude the current occupant of the White House.

They saw a shiney object and didn't wan't to look any further.

They were desperate, and desperate times call for desperate measures.

A man who attacked a gold star family is now the defender of the flag that draped his casket. ? Don't let Trump hijack our sacred symbol

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Fucking genius.

but he's head and shoulders above the average conservative pundit.