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Christa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:15 PM
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Diobalics-Sarah Palin's Vanishing Point.
Today I found this Tube where Sarah Palin supposedly made this flub, referring to the campaign as the, "Palin and McCain" Presidential campaign. I was thinking to myself, "Self!" says I. "What a dumb ass... She has some visions of grander coming out in a slippage of tongue." That is until I read in a couple different places, she didn't say this just one time.

She has said it a couple three times.. and because of this revelation it all stuck in my head.. Saving it for when I could post it later. Then tonight I read the piece in the New Yorker titled, "The State of Sarah Palin The peculiar political landscape of the Vice-Presidential hopeful." by Philip Gourevitch and suddenly all my intake for the last few days suddenly fell into place and it is all rather scary, the clarity that has been brought to the surface.

Recently, I read where she had compared herself to, Harry Truman.

The deal about Harry Truman is that the President died in office and old Harry took over and was the first, (and only person so far) to use a nuclear weapon...

QUOTE: "Then came the Palin's suggestion that she is Harry Truman's natural successor, an inexperienced, little known small town pol who suddenly rises to meet the global crises of the day:
My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.


So now, I'm remembering something else I read about how a friend of her's told her, QUOTE: "Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Ms. Palin’s first run for mayor in 1996, recalled the night the two women chatted about her ambitions.

“I said, ‘You know, Sarah, within 10 years you could be governor,’ ” Ms. Chase recalled. “She replied, ‘I want to be president.’ ” (NY Times.)

http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=19987
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:19 PM
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1. Whether the Palin/McCain ticket wins this time or not, they are solidifying a block of
absolutely reliable voters for her run in 2012 and/or 2016.
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:31 PM
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3. If they dont make it ( they wont) shes done politically, there are a hell of alot of people
Edited on Sun Sep-21-08 03:32 PM by Boz
That had political capital to spare that ended their careers on a failed VP, and she doesnt even have any clout or political capital to fall back on. SHe as already burned her bridge to nowhere in Alaska so its not like she can go for a congressional seat.
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:28 PM
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2. I keep saying its President Palin, VP Jeb Bush, McCain is just a stand in.
Jeb has even started spouting the reform line and slammed his own brothers regime several times in the last 2 weeks.

Mccain bows out after getting sworn in so he gets to ride the Mr president bandwagon to the Gerald Ford end, Palin steps up and names Jeb VP
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Christa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:32 PM
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4. That's a frightening scenario
more so because it's so POSSIBLE :(
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Bobbieo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:34 PM
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5. Where is Todd Palin in all of this?
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:39 PM
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6. Absolutely, Someone said but he would have to be confirmed by congress, no more than a judge and we
have seen how they get around that with interim placements by the president during congressional hiatus.

So, Impossible win put the McCain/Palin ticket in the inauguration in January, Healths take McCain out just at Easter while congress is in recess and VP Jeb Bush become Cheney 3.0 and the 40 year regime continues.

No congressional oversight involved and once hes placed hes protected as a seat member of congress from them outing him easily, there are some huge glaring holes parliamentarly that Cheney already set precedent for by claiming that the VP is not Executive or Legislative but some Quasi middle ground that cant be touched or over sited by either
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