My god. They are having to train Palin because she doesn't know anything.

[smartvoter]

Good grief. Fineman outlined the training plan because she doesn't know anything about anything. This is like a bad novel - you would never think they could pull something like this off, but they are.

[liberalmuse]

1. The rrrrrrain in Spain stays main-ly in da pla-in.

Dear god. Proof yet again that McCain and all of the GOP are unfit to lead.

[libnnc]

5. Will someone PLEASE photoshop Eliza Doolittle and the Professor?

PLEASE!!!

I don't have teh skillz

[d_b]

2. and you know what?

It won't work. You can't take some wingnut who admits she doesn't know what the job of the vice president is, and then expect to turn her into joe biden in 20,30,40 days. At best she'll come off as a bad parody of a fox news talking point.

[baldguy]

3. Pigmalion

[Cleita]

4. As long as no one calls them on it

that's what will happen. Of course in a gestapo government, no one will really ask.

[...of J.Temperance]

6. This is why the neo-Conservatives approve of her

God forbid if McCain wins, but if he does and he pops his clogs....the neo-Conservatives will have a nice new puppet, a woman who knows jackshit about anything, although I hear she does know how to make a good moose burger, aside from that it seems she'd have trouble finding her ass with a map and a flashlight.

So the neo-Conservatives can just tell her what to do, and she'll just do it....in much the same way that they've had W as the airhead puppet for eight years.

There IS a method to the GOP madness.

[DogPoundPup]

7. Oh Yeah! Hire Palin...she knows how to shot, kill, process AND cook moose

But the Federal Government?...well not so much

:rofl:

[Mimosa]

8. EggZactly: BIG MAKEOVER happening as we post

What night is the mare scheduled to appear?

[smartvoter]

12. Tomorrow (Weds) nt

[Metric System]

9. Oh this will endear her even more to the Republica base. Sigh.

[smartvoter]

13. Sad but probably very true. nt

[merh]

10. Listen to her give a speech, watch the video at this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6882521

This was just this past June. They are having to coach, train, indoctrinate and educate all at one time in just a few days.

Or else they are confident with a candidate that says "cool" as frequently as she did during the speech on that video. :eyes:

[ErinBerin84]

11. I know, it's kind of sickening...

here's the Washington Post story about it...If Rick Davis is so confident in her abilities and knowledge of the issues, I certainly hope that they won't be playing any LOW EXPECTATION GAMES for the debates...




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203337.html?nav=rss_politics/elections


Sitting around a dining room table, the McCain team has talked to her about Iraq, energy and the economy, but has focused on what she should say in her speech, struggling almost as hard as she has to prepare for what will be, along with a debate in October, her main opportunity to shape the way she is viewed by voters. Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was "very masculine," according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and "we had to start from scratch."

snip





Aides to McCain and Palin were still debating elements of the speech, according to several GOP sources familiar with the process, including whether the governor should make reference to her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy. On Tuesday, Levi Johnston, the high school student Palin has said her daughter plans to marry, left Alaska to join the Palin family at the convention.

In the speech, Palin is likely to emphasize her areas of policy expertise -- particularly energy and political reform -- rather than focusing on her biography or gender. An initial version of the address, which speechwriter Matthew Scully started crafting a week ago for an unnamed male vice-presidential pick, included plenty of attacks aimed at Democratic nominee Barack Obama along with ample praise for McCain, aides said. But they said Palin's speech will focus more on substantive matters.

"There's an expectation that she doesn't have a depth of knowledge on issues," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds. "That's absurd."

snip

"Obviously the governor of Alaska spends very little time on foreign policy," Davis said, though he added that if something were to happen to McCain, "I think she's got the judgment to do the things as commander in chief that John McCain would think are the right things to do."

Graham, who lobbied hard for McCain to choose their mutual friend Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) as his running mate, said Palin would be able to handle foreign relations in McCain's absence as long as she relied on his staff.

"She can do fine in foreign policy because of the infrastructure we have around us. She's smart and she will learn over time," he said, adding that when it comes to selecting a vice president, "there is no perfect person. If we could have found someone who's an expert in everything, we would have picked 'em, right

[TheKentuckian]

14. Just remember her watermark will not be much more than

spitting talking points contextually and with certainty.

They might not even deal without knowing the questions to have her in the box.

[the Sundance Kid]

15. they better have one of those training programs like Neo used in the Matrix

or she is toast

[tavalon]

16. And they are wasting their money because she will leave the campaign this week.

Too bad. I would have loved to see her up against Biden.

[Monk06]

17. She's back at the lab. Karl Rove has some last minute adjustments to make ...

[DFW]

18. She will end up being one of two things

A tiny minor footnote of history, used in trivia games, or the country's
worst nightmare since Dick Cheney.