(CNN) David Gergen said that women are insulted by Palin

[Cush]

was a few minutes ago, but he was taking about how was checking blog entries on CNN and elsewhere and he was shocked to see the amount of women who said they were insulted by the pick

and the anchor (in for Dobbs) is reading emails from women, even long life long Republicans & some NRA memebers who felt McCain was insulting their intelligence

[noel711]

1. Duh!

[Kdillard]

2. Women can see through pandering.

[Cha]

4. Yeah, most women aren't

michelle fucking malkin..hey, I wonder what her scrawny mind says about mccain NOW?

[yourguide]

3. excellent...

it is flipping insulting.

[blondeatlast]

5. And David Gergen is absolutely correct. This one is. nt

[Cush]

6. Gergen was kicking Bay's ass

Bay was arguing she brings in a ton on regards to the economy? Gergen was dumbfounded by this statement, what does a mayor of 8500 people bring to the economy? Said the Romney would have a better choice to handle that

[blonndee]

7. No shit. It IS insulting, not just to women but to every thinking American.

If it weren't so freaking funny, it would piss me off.

This is Harriet-Meyers-esque in its ridiculousness.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Golly. Whoda thunk us wimmin folks had lil' ol' brains in our priddy lil' heads?

Not the GOP, apparently. :eyes:

[blondeatlast]

17. Post of the day. So true, and sooo funny!

:rofl:

[eshfemme]

9. Wow, it looks like Obama's speech flipped the switch for the punditry.

They now have their critical thinking hats on.

[mvd]

10. He was insulting

Hutchinson would have excited the base more and Snowe would have attracted more moderates. This was a superficial choice that he hopes will fool people into thinking he's a maverick.

[blonndee]

12. Is it possible he DID ask one or both of those women and they said no?

Who would want to be associated with McCan't, except possibly someone exactly like Palin?

[mvd]

21. I don't know

It wouldn't surprise me if he thought of them, but his Rove-like handlers planned this.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. David Gergen skewered Bay Buchanan

He refuted each and every argument that she had in favor of the Palin pick.

Gergen said that McCain has no economic expertise and needed someone with an ability to talk economics on his ticket like Romney. He pointed out that as the mayor of a city with less than 8,000, Palin brings absolutely no economics expertise to McCain's campaign. Buchanan was left drooling and slobbering about Palin balancing her budget, etc.

Buchanan argued that McCain didn't pick Palin because she's a woman, but because she's a staunch pro-life evangelical and will help bring excitement to the Republican ticket. Gergen said that might be the case, but that Palin will kill the chance for McCain to attract independents or conservative Democrats because she is so extermely conservative and pro-life, and that pro-choice Republicans like Kay Bailey Hutchinson would have been a better choice to attract independents.

Bay Buchanan was floundering, looking for a lifeline or anything to grab hold of. She even said that the fact that Palin's son is going to Iraq gives Palin all the foreign affairs credentials she needs. It was hilarious.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. I want to know WHY

BAY isn't offended? SHE would have been a better pick than Palin.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Good. Gergen is right a lot lately.

Palin is female but she is for taking constitutional rights away from other females.

[AlCzervik]

15. and it's totally insulting to anyone who supported HRC because that's who Palin

was trying to appeal to this morning imo.

No Palin you are not a sub for HRC, you aren't good enough to polish her pumps deary.

[ErinBerin84]

16. k & r

[Awsi Dooger]

18. David Gergen is conveniently overlooking one thing

Sarah Palin gets a turn at bat. That will come, during her convention speech, the debate, and throughout the campaign.

So it doesn't really matter what women are saying about the pick now. It's always laughable when analysts are forced to focus on immediacy and lose sight of long term.

Obama has foundational advantage and that should be enough, 60-65% chance. But I'm very familiar with Sarah Palin after following Alaska politics closely for 12 years, betting on many races including on Palin in her 2006 gov race against Tony Knowles. She has a relaxed charming style and focuses on big picture upbeat themes instead of trying to go blow by blow on issue specifics. That's going to be an effective style with women voters, based on hosting 10 years of debate parties in my living room and seeing what apolitical types react to.

[Arkana]

19. Can you say "Backfired"?

[GCP]

20. The whole American public should be insulted

This is an arrogant stupid choice. He met her once. she has absolutely no foreign policy experience whatsoever. he's assuming he's not going to get sick (again), and that we're not supposed to remember she's a heartbeat away from the presidency. She's bush league (no pun intended) compared to Hillary, so the pandering doesn't work either, and there are plenty of better qualified republican women who the public might have entertained as a presidential possibility if he did become incapacitated.
If this is an example of his decision making, God help us all if he does manage to pull off, or steal, a win.