P.O.Dubya Wanted LIEberman. He Was Shut Down, Reacted With Palin(For Headlines)

This was a Re-active decision, not pro-active. He wanted Holy Joe, but his lobbyist/advisers said no way. He settled for Palin to "shake things up".

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/how-palin-came.html

ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg reports: It wasn't until Sunday night that John McCain, after meeting with his four top advisers, finally decided he could not tap independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to be his running mate. One adviser, tasked with taking the temperature of the conservative base, had strongly made the case to McCain that it would be a disaster for the party and that the base would revolt. McCain concluded he could not go that route.

The next day, McCain studied the three men at the top of his shortlist: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. All had different strengths and negatives, but McCain was not satisfied. None of them had what McCain believed he needed to do -- and would have done -- with Lieberman.

McCain wanted to shake up the ticket.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's name was in the mix as an unconventional choice for months, but she had not been considered a front-runner. So, over the next few days, with McCain continuing to believe he needed someone who had more of a maverick streak than his other choices, lawyers reviewed her vetting information. They kept their activities from even some in McCain's most senior inner circle.

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He's a legend in his own mind. :puke:

Can't even stand up to his advisors.

Can't even stand up to his advisors.

:rofl:

He knows he's going to lose. Why not at least get his name in the history books as the first republican to put a woman on the ticket?

Then again, if he's such a "maverick" why didn't he tell his advisers to piss off and pick Holy Joe anyway?

Convention, and before Gustav.

This was a quick pick for the headline. Thin on substance, and short on interest.

he has shaken things up to the extent that the Repubs. now have the riskier ticket.

A hail mary.

She is facing investigation and impeachment. That was the best he could find?

who the pick was. He probably didn't even know who she was.

I only caught a few minutes of it in replay. He looked uncomfortable and out of place.

Republicans like to engage in tokenism. Like Bush when he chose Quayle (the most quallified, he said) and Clarence Thomas (also the most quallified). People can see through this pretty clearly, I think.

they sound more like Handlers or Paymasters.

The campaign secretly flew Palin into Dayton last night. She and McCain met privately for a couple of hours. McCain concluded she would "shake up the system"

The sight of 84,000 people watching Obama and chanting "ENOUGH" seems to have had an effect.

It made McCain crap his pants in fear.

Good.

taker. He has been all his adult life. It was his reckless behavior that got him into so much trouble in the Navy that he finally abandoned that career. Calling him a maverick is charitable. You wouldn't call your teenager that for having a viscious temper and impulsive behavior; why would accept this from a man in his 70s?