Team McCain Takes Lead (?) - Democratic Underground

kristopher

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Mon Sep-01-08 01:40 AM
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Team McCain Takes Lead (?)

This Republican tool gives 4 reasons he thinks Palin is great. I just pulled this bit for posting. It's bad enough, but if you really want barf bait, click the link and read the rest. These people really are in their own reality; for example, his title is "Team McCain Takes Lead" even though McCain is down...

1) Every religious conservative I have talked to since the selection is more excited about John McCain than I have ever heard before.

2) Palin is a historic pick -- if elected as vice president, she would most likely be America's first female president. Though the evangelical/hunter/beauty-contest contestant is unlikely to appeal to the hardest core of Hillary's feminist supporters, she is likely to appeal broadly to most women, who will be undisturbed that she doesn't fit feminist stereotypes. The left's main response to Palin's unconventional background has been to sneer -- but a sneer is not an argument.

3) Palin has a genuine middle-class story -- including a husband who is a member of the steelworkers union and a snowmobile racer -- that makes Joe Biden look like the Prince of the Senate he has been for most of his life.

4) Palin perfectly fits McCain's reform Republican narrative -- her efforts to oppose the corrupt Republican machine in Alaska have been impressive and popular.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/08/team_mccain_takes_the_lead.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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Eric J in MN

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Mon Sep-01-08 01:46 AM
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1. John Kerry windsurfing makes him an elitist.

Sarah Palin's husband snowmobile racing makes him middle class.

If Kerry raced snowmobiles and Sarah Palin's husband windsurfed, then it would be the other way around.

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BrklynLiberal

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Mon Sep-01-08 01:55 AM
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2. Yes. That's the ticket!!!!

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Mon Sep-01-08 02:11 AM
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3. Those are the talking points released from McCain headquarters

almost word for word...

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Waiting For Everyman

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Mon Sep-01-08 02:17 AM
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4. In what universe?

:shrug:

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curious one

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Mon Sep-01-08 02:53 AM
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5. Here are my answers that this ticket is not good for America:

1) Every religious conservative need to see her beauty queen pictures. She will do more harm than McSame to conservatives (maybe this is a good thing).

2) Palin is a historic pick - She will not get the support of Hillary's supporters, she is too extreme and doesn't fit feminist stereotypes. She is nt qualified to be president if Mcsame dies.

3) Palin has a genuine middle-class story but her story does fit with majority of people. How many are beauty queen?

4) Palin perfectly fits McCain's and Republican corrupt world.

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kristopher

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Mon Sep-01-08 03:08 AM
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6. I was struck by the wording of #2 in original

2) Palin is a historic pick -- if elected as vice president, she would most likely be America's first female president. Though the evangelical/hunter/beauty-contest contestant is unlikely to appeal to the hardest core of Hillary's feminist supporters, she is likely to appeal broadly to most women, who will be undisturbed that she doesn't fit feminist stereotypes. The left's main response to Palin's unconventional background has been to sneer -- but a sneer is not an argument.

It is what everyone is thinking...

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lurky

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Mon Sep-01-08 03:30 AM
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7. My jaw dropped when I saw that!

This is coming directly from the Republican Spin Machine? That McCain... ahem... might not make it? And they are presenting it as a positive?

What on Earth is going on behind those closed doors, I wonder?

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ComplimentarySwine

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Mon Sep-01-08 03:59 AM
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8. Are they campaigning for 2012 ALREADY?!

If not, that DOES seem kinda weird that they would say that, doesn't it?

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