Palin was a TACTICAL decision, not Strategic

[WeDidIt]

It was meant for a couple of news cycles going into the convention. Nothing more. Strategically there could be no worse decision.

[tekisui]

1. Yep. That's what I've been telling people.

Stupid stupid choice. But grabbed the headlines for a cycle. Big whoop.

Get ready Sarah, you about to go through the ringer. Congrats on being the second half of a losing ticket!

[WeDidIt]

3. I don't believe her scandals with her husband will withstand the scrutiny

and I beleive the vetting was half hearted and never complete.

[Cha]

20. Vetting? What vetting..

they don't need no stinkin' vetting ..they have the corporatemediaWHORE$ to cover their vetting or so they think.

[grytpype]

2. It was purely to get the pumas.

[WeDidIt]

4. IF that even entered into the calculation he was fucking played

He had the PUMAs. They were going nowhere and they amount to less than one tenth of one percent of the voters in the biggest precinct where they may exist.

[woolldog]

5. Clearly McCain believes the MSM hype about disaffected Clinton voters

[WeDidIt]

7. If true, he got played.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Everything McCain does is tactical and not strategic. He is the opposite of Obama in that way.

That is why McCain would be a disaster as President and Obama will be a great one.

edit to add - Chuck Todd has talked about how the McCain camp focuses on each news cycle while the Obama camp has a long term strategy they are implementing such as their voter registration drive to change the electorate, the 50 state strategy, etc.

[CitizenPatriot]

8. so true!

it amazes me how they couldn't tell the difference -- they've now insulted what few PUMAs there really were. what morans.

[WeDidIt]

11. HE's a craps player, and not a good one from what I've heard

He just put his entire stack of chips on snake eyes.

I bet he rolls a seven.

[eleny]

9. An arranged marriage of convenience

[Mojambo]

10. It gets the fundies and loses him ground everywhere else

Net negative.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. Dead wrong

The timing may look tactical but that's a residue of the back-to-back nature of the two conventions this year.

The pick is strategic and a good one. If you look state by state, the only way McCain could impact a vital state is a VP choice from Ohio or Virginia or Colorado. There doesn't appear to be a high profile option for McCain from those states, at least no one who would accept it.

Palin is strategic in a general sense, not aimed at a state but the Hillary voters. McCain wants to pick off one percent in the vital swing states from moderate women, then take his chances.

If I were in his position I damn sure would have done the same thing, rolling the dice, instead of sitting back and allowing a 35% chance to turn into a slow torture defeat.

[depakid]

14. You think this woman will help in ANY of those states?

Wow.

Any reasoning behind that?

[WeDidIt]

16. IF you think this will help ONE WHIT with moderate women

you've been into the same MAtanuska Thunderfuck she smoked legally in Alaska.

[Lucinda]

19. yup

[spanone]

13. i smell the stench of rove all over this thing

[grytpype]

15. Rove was busy trying to stop holy joe as vp

[WeDidIt]

17. Never trust a traitor

not even a traitor you helped create.

[Bucky]

18. Agreed, unless it turns out she has more sand than her resume suggests.

She has such an interesting, eclectic background, she may turn out to be the kind of person who simply didn't rise early to the top in politics (until this week) because she was focused on excelling in other things in life besides politics. There are millions of people like that. Barack Obama was one until he ran for Congress in his 30s.

We need to be careful about judging people just by their resumes. She may turn out to be a formidable opponent.

Or she may turn out to be Dan Quayle v2.0.