WTF? AP: Rove calls Palin a "political pick" and "not the most qualified candidate".

Can anyone figure out that B*sh's brain is up to? By any measure, that is not a particularly helpful quote to his own candidate.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iurWGGzABFJxs6nDAkn0KN5u1aeQD938TK680

Rove said Palin was a "political pick" just as Sen. Barack Obama's choice of Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden was, and that she is not the most qualified candidate. Biden, well-versed in foreign policy issues after more than three decades in the Senate, makes up for the Illinois senator's lack of experience in that area. Palin has been governor for less than two years, and was mayor of small-town Wasilla before that.

This keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Some stories came out after the fact trying to spin it, but I can't imagine on any level Rove was happy with the Palin pick, and I wouldn't be surprised if McCain picked her knowing that full well.

1) Rove and the Bushies wanted Mittens.
2) McCain hated the guy before he even had to face him in the primaries, and you could tell he hated him.
3) Even MORE, he hated having the Bushies try to ram him down his throat.
4) He wanted JoMentum.
5) Rove knew that JoMentum would have blew a serious hole in the coalition, a democrat (to them at least) Jew.
6) He wheeled and dealed with everyone and anyone who had any influence with McCain to block Jomentum.
7) At the last hour, McCain decided that he was pushing it too far to go with JoMentum.
8) Rove and most of the party thought Pawlenty was the compromise pick - word is that he got notice that morning that he wasn't the pick.
9) IMO, and I feel strongly about this, Palin was a completely off the reservation pick by McCain, who just did not want to be told who to pick, and had a bit of a Viagra burst.

I absolutely REFUSE to believe that Palin was anyone's first pick. Sure, Rush talked about her - Rush is a pill popping, INCLUDING VIAGRA, scumbag lunatic.

Palin simply has TOO much baggage, both from what little time she has in government AND her personal life.

People can try to say she is a fundie pick now, but the fundies would have said Pawlent was their pick, heck, I saw a rally in Ohio before the VP pick where every self declared fundie wanted Mittens. They would have gotten behind ANYONE - EXCEPT JOMENTUM.

The last two weeks hasn't been about Palin - it has been about the repukes doing that they do, rallying around their pick and using whatever horsecrap they can to, sorry, put lipstick on the pig. It is their PROCESS, it wasn't HER.

You could see the smugness on McCain's face the whole convention knowing he had bucked everyone and done his 'maverick' schtick as much as they let him do it anymore. It was a big F.U. for blocking Holy Joe.

Plus he can stop pandering at every turn to the Fundie base, which he was and will never be comfortable with. He effectively shut them up fopr the rest of the campaign, and if he is elected he can go back to ignoring them.

Rove and the rest of the RNC had nothing to do with the Palin pick, I am convinced of it. This was all McCain trying to out-clever everyone.

Of course I have no way of knowing what's true.

It could be the Bushies are throwing Straight Talk Johnny and the Wasilla Wonder Woman under the proverbial bus right now.

The better chance for Mittens or Jeb in 2012 after Obama has to make some tough choices--and lots of enemies--to clean up the elephant manure Shrub's left piled up around Washington.

It's hard to tell.

one thing for certain: he's not sharing these thoughts in the interest of objective commentary.

to undermine McCain/Palin? What's going on?

Karl by innuendo is reminding people of Obama's experience.

Rove does not regard politics as evil. Nor should we.

and back on Sarah? :shrug:

I don't think he liked the Palin pick at all. He also offered "advice" to Obama by saying that Obama should explain himself rather than attack McCain. It's best to just ignore him; even if he's (somehow) being honest, he discredited himself in 2006 and should not be considered more relevant than, say, Dick Morris.

Biden has more experience and expertise than John McCain as the chair of the Judiciary.

from the McCain campaign to keep his "winning record" clean. I can't think of any other reason for his comments of late. Self preservation.

Just for power and money. He likes to be right so when his consulting firm calls on new clients he can say well I wouldn't have done that. If she hadn't tanked he'd be calling it a genius move.