"disrespectful to the office of the presidency."

Manifestly Unserious
By Steve Benen

MANIFESTLY UNSERIOUS.... At this point, I realize I'm belaboring the point. "Sarah Palin is an awful choice for a running mate," I can hear you saying, "We get it."

But I can't help but think the magnitude of this mistake has not yet sunk in among political observers. I was talking to a friend last night who is a political professional in DC, and the discussion, not surprisingly turned to Palin. He has extensive campaign experience, and every time I argued that this is completely insane, he explained to me a variety of reasons why this John McCain's campaign will benefit, significantly, as a result of this move. I suspect he's probably right.

We were, however, talking about different things. The Palin announcement probably stepped all over Barack Obama's post-convention bounce. Hell, for all I know, this one decision might actually help McCain win the presidency.

But that doesn't change the fact that this is the single most ridiculous development in presidential politics in a generation.

A top "loyal Bushie" told the Politico's Mike Allen that McCain's decision is "disrespectful to the office of the presidency." That's actually a pretty good way of characterizing it.

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Palin's qualifications are, to a very real degree, secondary to the issue at hand. What matters most right now is John McCain's comically dangerous sense of judgment. He picked a running mate he met once for 15 minutes, who's been the governor of a small state for a year and a half, and who is in the midst of an abuse-of-power investigation in which she appears to have lied rather blatantly. She has no obvious expertise in any area, and no record of any kind of federal issues. McCain doesn't care.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/30/politics/animal/main4401085.shtml

feed BS and lie to people. That's what we get until Nov. 4.

Well at least the "religious" portion of the base.

I wonder how this is playing with the big money donors (Oil aside)?

And the main thing is to get the pools to make it a close election so that people will believe that Obama lost it because he did not have a woman on the ticket.
Palin fits the bill nicely for that...beuty queen...Mother of a handy caped child...rugged outdoors gun toting mavric...and young.
Remember it is not how many votes he gets it is who counts the votes.
I hope I am wrong and will have to eat these words in November.

Isnt that what THEY have been doing for the last 8 years?
Gotta say it:
Pot.Kettle.Black.

How about that acceptance speech?!!