Prepare: Palin will withdraw within the next 24-48 hours. The spin?

"She was forced out because of the anti-family, anti-mother far-left blogosphere, who viciously attacked her 17-year-old daughter."

I'm not saying they're right. I'm saying it's the only possible card that they can play to try to salvage anything positive from this fiasco.

Like that will fly. :rofl:

dimwit media that he's an idiot and who would step in and run with him? No one. This is colossol fail, period. Ain't it great?

she so dearly professes.

There will be nothing to be gained for them in saying anything more. The Neocons and their party are in their death throes.

Mier's withdrawal from Supreme court consideration used a similar privacy theme: "Miers would later use this request as part of a face-saving exit strategy for stepping down - in her letter withdrawing her nomination, she pointed to the senators' request for confidential documents as potentially damaging the executive branch's independence." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers and Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.2007. Penguin Books. Page 284). There was nothing about how mean and unfair those senators were to her during interviews.

They have to get through the convention. Within the next 3 weeks, not 48 hours.

I believe they will wait until closer to the election to pull that. Then the electorate will be filled with emotion in that the evil Obama trashed the kids.

By the time everyone realizes what REALLY happened we're all engaging in a national, state sponsored prayer.

it won't happen.

It's been kind of frustrating to have all this Palin news breaking all day and have the TV be 100% Gustav. Now that it's onshore, will they let little snippets of other news through? (I sound like the people here complaining about all the Palin threads.) I hope the usual MSNBC shows are on tonight but it being Labor Day, maybe not.

a positive spin on it, and it is SO pathetic that I honestly felt sorry for Cavuto! I just hope the footage of this turns up somewhere. We mistakenly ended up on FAUX, and it's been so funny that I couldn't turn it off. Especially this British older guy who is manning the station. He reacted in a mortified manner and voice that one would expect of the Brits and wasn't too polite in what he said. Poor Cavuto was lost for words. The more they talked the worse it got - started imploding....AND later in the broadcoast, everyone was somber when they started talking about watching the polls.

Cavuto said CRAZY stuff--(all very loosely paraphrased by me) like "Well, this ticket it so unusual and unexpected that this news just sorta fits the ticket" And, "Well this is like a soap opera--that probably many are welcoming right about now" And, "This just shows how we are in touch with people....."

Although I usually can't watch the emetic Cavuto for more than a minute or two.

It fits his strategy too nicely. This has been a huge distraction to what was one of the finest Democratic nomination speeches in recent memory. I don't for one second believe that the McCain camp had any intention of allow Palin to run. She is just a useful idiot in their campaign.

I don't think the strategy was sound however. I think too many moderates are going to see this as a major blunder on McCain's part, regardless of how the MSM spins this as the Liberals attacking "poor innocent" Sarah Palin and her family.

He's lied so much his entire life there must come a point when he doesn't know what's up or down, left or right, black or white and just disappears in a puff of logic. I hope this it.

This was a colossal blunder, and one made out of desperation IMO. I think Rove lost it a long time ago. Unfortunately, that doesn't make his activities any less dangerous, just easier to expose.

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It's a colossal fuck up, they gambled and lost with this pick. It,s probably lost them the election, though I think Obama would've beat McLame without it.

and what's left of people's belief in McCain having a soul is going away. this is as inept as it is.

this woman vetted through to what grade she got in fingerpainting in kindergarten.

A VP pick dropping off the ticket is a death knell for any campaign--yes, even McCain. It'll just prove Palin couldn't stand up to any national scrutiny--hell, Barack Obama's had his motives, character, and family trashed and he's still standing tall.

She is daily being exposed as woefully inadequte to be the actual VP. The McCain campaign would have to spend the next two months literally trying to fabricate reasons why she should stay. I thinks they'll have her step down for "family reasons" (Lord knows she has them), and try to blame the "evil Liberals" for it.

Again, I don't believe it is sound strategy, and I agree with you about the death knell part, but what else are they going to do? If she stays on the ticket, it WILL be the death knell. There just is not enough "sympathy" vote out there.

Throw her out there to say he really tried to put in a woman (and in Palin's case, a fundy), and then go ahead and put in the guy you really wanted, but who wouldn't have been accepted as the first choice.

I think she's smarter than that and will accept her fifteen minutes of fame and go home muttering something about needing to protect her family from all the nosey, mean media.

they're attacking the lying, hypocritical adults she is unfortunate enough to be associated with.

and will quit to "spend more time with her family".

no doubt. She'll definitely play the victim.

If Palin does not punish this girl (i.e. publicly disown her), she will certainly lose credibility with Protestant fundamentalists.

She'll stay in. I'm not here to argue on Palin's behalf but I don't think the fact that her kid is pregnant will be enough for the gop to drop her as vp candidate.

It's troopergate, for which she's now lawyering up. It's the AIP stuff. The bridge to nowhere. The connections to Stevens. They're fucked if they keep her around, they're fucked if they don't.

This nomination is a fucking disaster. A train wreck.

John McCain signed off on this choice. John McCain chose her. And it blew up in his face. This speaks directly to his judgement as President. People will now wonder what other disasters would occur in a McCain Adminstration.

This is bad. It won't be mitigated by blaming the blogosphere or liberals.

I thought McCain was four more years. I was wrong. McCain will have us longing for the last eight years. I do believe the Republicans have somehow managed to find someone even more egregious than Bush. But hey, they have a VERY deep bench.

Good deal.

some of the fundies may still show up.

:shrug:

TURN UP THE HEAT--NOW. Keep digging until someone hits paydirt!

And in her case, it's totally believable.

i have a feeling Cindy and Sarah aren't going hit it off.

However, it would draw a huge audience to her replacement speaking on Wednesday night!

Election over. Obama wins in landslide. Americans don't back whiners and criers. They back winners.