Pawlenty said on Meet The Press!!

[Tesla]

Balancing a home budget gives her the background to handle a Federal Budget!!

[WeDidIt]

1. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!

Pawlenty must want to sabotage McCain now, saying shit like that!

[liberal N proud]

2. They have trivialized the office that low

[WinkyDink]

7. Well, if they can call a Presidential candidate a mere "celebrity".... Republicans have no nadir.

[liberal N proud]

34. Speaking of celebrities, look who is going to the gulf coast for photo ops

Not to change the subject of the thread but they call Obama a celebrity and they are the ones going after the photo ops.

[WinkyDink]

43. Republicans have always loved celebrities, so much so they elect them Governors!

Reagan. Scwartzenegger. Palin.

[JI7]

3. is that like when they said she had foreign policy experience because

Alaska is near Russia ?

[RagAss]

4. They would spin a Manson Family girl into John Adams !!!!!

Anything to stay in power.

[marylanddem]

8. Good one - thanx for the laugh.

[Tesla]

5. Com'on Tom keep asking the hard questions

and don't take his bull sh*t answers

[Tesla]

11. He said McCain picked her because......

He believes she has the right experience??

[No Elephants]

39. I do an amazing job with my home budget. Can I choose the next Chair of the Fed?

[HughMoran]

6. Typical fuckin' Republican "make the logic fit the candidate" crap

What an ass hole.

[1Hippiechick]

9. O.M.G. One can only hope and dream that she falls flat on her face and mcInsane becomes a

laughingstock! Of course, you have to remember the the press and lobotomized-RW-heads-in-the-sand will find a way to justify anything she says, particularly the Stepford Wifes faction.

:rofl:

[Hepburn]

10. ...

:rofl:

This is like watching SNL!

[Thrill]

12. Let me guess. It went unchallenged?

You have to love the American Media

[Tesla]

18. Creationism

"Allow them both to be presented!!!"

"Intelligent Design" WTF???

[demo dutch]

45. Tom said that AK is a tiny state!

[roguevalley]

78. oh god. :)

[zulchzulu]

13. Cindy said on ABC This Week that Alaska being near Russia was great FP experience

George just smiled.

[moriah]

28. And don't forget Canada...

[madaboutharry]

32. Well, I live near the Canadian border so

I guess I am a foriegn policy expert too.

[POAS]

70. I told my daughter that also

and being from Ohio and near Lake Erie I guess I'm an expert on clean water and coal also!

[vanderBeth]

14. Jesus H. Christ

So most people in American can handle the Federal Budget?
:wtf:

[C_U_L8R]

15. Well I slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night

and now I'm qualified to be President too.

Top that McPageantQueen !

[trumad]

16. Palin ain't no Murray Blum.

[DefenseLawyer]

17. That's too good.

Education? She has kids in school. Health Care? She's been sick. Energy? She drives a car. Unemployment? Well she has a job doesn't she?

[Tesla]

23. Pawlenty will have to get a kiss from somebody on the RW side

cause he is getting screwed hard by doing this interview.
He is a shrill......

[vaberella]

19. Oh wow. The GOP have turned the government into a joke. n/t

[1Hippiechick]

21. No, just the REPUBLICAN form of government is the joke! :) n/t

[PA Democrat]

20. Any governor would LOVE to be in the governor from Alaska's position.

Thanks to the exploding price of oil, Alaska is rolling in the dough from royalties for oil. A buffoon could easily balance THAT budget.

[1Hippiechick]

29. Ain't THAT the truth! AND, the royalty checks that the citizens receive are going to be "bumped" up

i guess to curry favor with the Alaskans who might otherwise speak out truthfully about her.

[PA Democrat]

36. And maybe that's the biggest reason for her high approval ratings in Alaska.

not that she has personally accomplished any great feat.

[roguevalley]

81. actually, we go up and down with our dividend depending on the

price of oil. she has nothing to do with it.

[indie_voter]

50. And she couldn't even do that.

As mayor of her small town she racked up 20 million dollars in debt.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12987.html

[FatDave]

86. And didn;t she do that after her "it's not rocket science" comment?

Something like: "It's not rocket science. It's $6million and 53 employees." And then left them 20million in debt?

[Jokinomx]

82. Ditto... this year they estimate all Alaskans will recieve over $3000.00 ... and that is NOT a

windfall profits tax!!!!

Gimme a break!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pdxmom]

If her ability to balance a home budget of over $200K is background

for the federal budget, then the single mom balancing her budget on a minimum wage salary must be an expert economist. I'll take that single mom for VP, thankyouverymuch.

[nc4bo]

22. Twilight zone. That's what this entire fiasco feels like. Have Americans really become this stupid?

[RagAss]

26. I hear you....

yesterday I asked if I was in a coma dreaming this.....today I'm convinced I am

[Tesla]

31. I think they are being brainwashed!!

It's in the church wine

[FatDave]

88. It's in the church texts.

[DefenseLawyer]

42. Palin has electrolytes! n/t

[demgrrrll]

59. It's what plants need.

[RTFirefly]

62. That's what plants crave! n/t

[chatnoir]

65. It's what plants crave!

[krabigirl]

67. yes

[mwb970]

24. How much lower can these Republicans go?

They amaze me. Lower and lower and lower, then they find a way to sink even more.

[moriah]

25. Well, Bush's inability to balance his business budget...

... certainly turned out to be telling about his ability to balance the Federal budget (aka, the lack thereof).

But I am more likely to see the inability to balance something much smaller than the Federal budget as indicating they don't need to take on anything bigger, than to say that because a person has managed to balance a home budget means that they definitely can balance something bigger.

Just my opinion there.

I'll even say this, and I'm probably right. I think any housewife in this country likely can balance a budget better than Bush.

But that doesn't mean that "better" is good enough.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Proving once again that Timmy the Tool is, indeed, a tool.

Timmy spend the last year enthusiastically stroking McAncient, moved heaven and earth to get the RNC in Minnesota, got that embarrassing freeway bridge rebuilt before the convention-goers could see the mess, and then after teasing him and tempting him with the big VP prize, McAncient kicks him hard in the 'nads by picking Miss Mooseburger. And yet His Toolness sucks it up and goes on national teevee to tell us she can handle a federal budget because she can figure out how much toilet paper and Wonder Bread to buy every week. Timmy's acting like an abused spouse now, I think.

[vaberella]

30. This shows Polenty knows nothing about the $20 million dollar debt she left Wasilia handling. n/t

[yourguide]

33. Pawlenty got punked by McCain...

I'm sure he knows how foolish that sounds, it's why he said it.

[Youphemism]

35. I'm pretty good with paper airplanes, so I'm ready to try flying a jet. /nt

[valerief]

37. Shoot me in the face! He didn't!!!!! I brush my teeth, so I can be a dentist.

I drive a car, so I can run an auto factory.

God, he's as useless as the whole lot of those republics.

[Tesla]

41. She is a rootin' tootin' what???

[BumRushDaShow]

38. I hope this whole "dumb VP" schtick isn't just a distraction

while the repuke party machinery sneaks around the back and outflanks us. I suspect that it really is a distraction while they regroup behind the scenes to prepare for some smackdown... Although I wouldn't rule out the possibility that this is signaling a loss of control of their candidate and there will be a revolt within the party by the traditionalists during their convention (although the media would never show such, as much as they predicted and salivated over such happening at the Dem's convention). The moderates and core of their party have suffered heartburn as they watched (and allowed) the lunatic fringe, neocons, and ideologs to take over their party. But I blame them for continuing to support that nonsense without speaking up. They made their beds...

[valerief]

46. Yeah, McSame will feign illness right before the election, which will

dump him and his veep pick. What happens then? Does the RNC plug in Huckabee and another Uber-Christianite?

[Zynx]

40. I always knew Pawlenty was a few bricks short of a load.

[Tesla]

44. We want Annie Oakley for president??

[valerief]

47. LOL!!!!!

:rofl:

[Tesla]

49. These people are gushing all over her

WTF are they getting paid?

[roguevalley]

84. they had an 'unprecedented' (in size) rally yesterday so they feel

hopeful. these are not the people who think.

[Deb]

48. OMG, She even sounds like bush, remember this?

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." --George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms2000.htm

:rofl:

[moriah]

51. As I said, I think any housewife could balance the budget better than Bush.

But that is damning with VERY faint praise.

[valerief]

56. "I've seen fox in here. I've seen all kinds of birds. It's a wonderful spot to

come up in here and just kind of think about the budget."

GWB
Prairie Chapel Ranch
Crawford, TX
8/25/2001

[ecstatic]

52. Ha! He's undermining McShame on the sly because he feels snubbed

This is wonderful! I hope Romney and Co. are just as "helpful" in their surrogate roles.

Of course, he could have been serious... :scared:

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

53. PICK ME PICK ME

Ohhh I'm SO qualified to be VP then, and possibly president! Afterall, I've lived in Southern California which is so close to Mexico, so I'm great at foreign policy (as per some idiot of Fox said about Palin living next to Russia) and I balance my checkbook every month. To boot, I am a mother of a child with a lifelong disease, so I must be mother of the year. Dayum - I'm gonna call my mom and tell her how great I'd be in the White House. She's gonna be so proud!

[nc4bo]

54. Why aren't they mentioning she left the town of Wasilla in 20mil of debt?

But that she is qualified to balance a federal budget if McPOW dies in office?

Whoa ho de ho - That's not change I can believe in.

[Telly Savalas]

55. Imagine how much better off our economy would be

if there had been a single individual in the Bush Administration who balanced a home budget.

It's quite startling that such folks can amass wealth without the most basic grasp of personal finances.

[GoesTo11]

57. Let's see. Addition, subtraction. Yep. I've got all the necessary skills!

Duh. Di-uh. Duh.

[valerief]

58. Has Dobson won???????????????

[Danger Mouse]

60. ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH

:banghead: :nuke: :grr: :argh:

[stray cat]

61. Maybe more experience than McCain - is his wife in charge of all their finances?

has he ever had to balance a checkbook even?

[Vinca]

63. If that's the case, I want to be Secretary of the Treasury. nt

[calico1]

64. Then I should run! n/t

[krabigirl]

66. Well, crap! I guess my two years as SAHM have prepared me to be VP at the next job I apply.

I'll let them know. :puke:

[Douglas Carpenter]

68. come on, if she can handle her five youngins - she can handle the country

[Tesla]

74. That is so funny and so sad at the same time!!

But thanks for that!!!

[NotThisTime]

69. He did say it... imagine that.... what a moron

[True_Blue]

71. Is that the best he could up with?

OMG!!!!:scared:

[zulchzulu]

72. Pawlenty completely left out Obama's 8 years as State Senator as experience

He is a fucking liar. That's the only way he can spin Palin.

[Ilsa]

73. Didn't Raygun' young budget director say that the

federal budget was so complicated that they didn't know what they were doing? And he was a CPA, etc.

Palin isn't going to have clue.

[unblock]

75. it's a tad more complicated, but she can use "quicken: federal edition"

new for 2009:

one-click privatization!
higher limits for debts!
link budget items directly to donor lists!

[stevietheman]

76. That remark alone should crater the Gramps/Gidget campaign. n/t

n/t

[stevietheman]

77. Sorry, dup. n/t

n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

79. I thought that quote meant he was being sarcastic..but he was being serious??!!!!

[redqueen]

80. Did everyone else bust out laughing?

Will republicans be insulted? Are they THAT freaking stupid?

[nini]

83. Then why as mayor did she leave a deficit?

God.. they're pathetic.

[smoogatz]

85. I'm guessing that the voters, dim as they are at times,

will see through that one. Sheesh. Talk about desperation. McCain has exposed himself here as a relentlessly political animal, who is happy to put politics over country any time it suits his selfish interests: all this post-decision rationalizing and excuse-making just makes the Palin pick look worse.

[JaneQPublic]

87. And shopping in the international aisle gives her experience in Foreign Affairs (nt)

[dana_b]

89. well then I guess that we're ALL qualifiedfor the position of VP then!!

woo hoo!! 2016, here I COME!!

Biden/Born 2016 :woohoo:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

90. I think we need to make a collection of these absurd statements and spin

Two days ago, I heard Bay Buchanan shout into her microphone that the fact that Palin's son will serve in Iraq gives her all the foreign relations credentials she needs.

And then there was the statement (I don't remember who made it) that since Alaska is next to Russia, this gives Palin foreign affairs expertise.

[Jade Fox]

91. Can you imagine what he would say if she were the Dem VP pick?

The shameless hypocrisy of the Republicans.......