Here's a thought about the McCain/Rove selection of Palin

[PCIntern]

they may have ruined her life permanently. Think about it for a moment: as Governor of what is essentially the planet Neptune, no one would have focused on her vagaries, her competence, her actions, her personal life. Now, with the assumption that she's going to lose the election for McCain, because that's how the PRess will tell this story, she's going to return home as a butt of jokes, her entire life was unraveled before everyone's eyes...down to the idiocy of the naming of her own children, Troopergate, photo-shopped pics, and her affair with her husband's business partner, just to mention a few. She's become the laughing-stock of the entire thinking portion of the U.S., and you can bet that if an individual meets someone who ventures down to the lower 48, they will ask, "Do you know that Palin gal?"

But then again, it could be worse: McCain could win (God forbid) and every move she makes would be scrutinized since she would become the Crown Princess and Tina Fey would have to work overtime, assuming that she hadn't been hustled off to a re-education camp, along with the rest of us, in Oklahoma or Utah.

In either case, she's been transformed into 'damaged goods'.

[frogcycle]

1. sorry, not buying it

she said yes

SHE knew what her "qualifications" were/weren't. SHE did not need to vet herself to know it was idiotic.

OK, granted, she is an idiot. But all they did was give her the opportunity to prove it on a big stage. She said "ok, I'm in!"

[PCIntern]

3. I'm sorry, that was not my point...

My point was that she never ever should have said yes: that she was opening up her life to scrutiny which few local politicans could withstand...and that she never would have had these issues debated anywhere if she had not been asked or had declined the 'offer'. she is now officially Wounded and Disabled.

[frogcycle]

5. well, you are correct that

she will have to live with the ignominy - I was just saying that "they" didn't ruin her life - they just enabled her own self-destruction, which was probably inevitable. Even without the national publicity, she probably have screwed up so badly as governor of neptune she'd have been run out of town anyway

[frogcycle]

6. well, you are correct that

edit dupe: whoops! how'd that happen?

[PCIntern]

7. It's been happening to me a lot...

weird web stuff...must be that shit Nixon's doing!!

We blamed everything on Nixon when I was growing up...when he was elected, hari-kari was considered...also 'moving to Canada or Israel'.

[Cosmocat]

8. A couple of things ...

1) Rove didn't pick her. Rove wanted Romney, McCain hated Romney to begin with, and Rove wanting him made it worse. McCain wanted Lieberman, Rove and others worked to block Lieberman. Rove thought PAWLENTY was the compromise pick. Palin was a lady with a bod who McCain went off the reservation to pick.

2) I am going to butch the story, but when Adlai Stevens was running, someone said he had all the "thinking" people's vote, he said that is great, but he needed to win.

3) Palin is generally a bad joke NOW, but a day is a year in politics. Reagen got hosed 20 years before he finally won the presidency. Now, admittedly, she is a vaccuous simpleton. BUT, that pretty much makes her the prototype republican presidential candiate. I am NOT saying she will end up like Reagen. I AM saying, it looks bad NOW, but over time, at least for an R, the media will let go of the negatives, and one more political quip, for the most part ANY publicicity is good. We can HOPE, but it is far from a SURE thing that she is dead as a national candidate. And, if you think it will kill her at home - Ted Stevens, a guy who has been a joke in the longer than the lifespan of the average washer or dryer.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

11. Do you have a source for McCain actively picking Palin himself against others' arguments/advice?

Somehow I believed she was foisted on him against his will. Thanks.

[WCGreen]

2. The problem with what you say is that only about 1/3 of the American

Populations would be consider the "thinking portion..."

[PCIntern]

4. 100,000,000 is a big number. n/t

[CJCRANE]

9. Shrub is the biggest joke and most unpopular man on the planet

but it doesn't seem to phase him.

The Rovepublicans are on a mission from God (or more accurately Big Oil), they don't care what you think.

[PCIntern]

10. Eye no that...

I'm speaking philisophically...I get that way when polls show my guy ahead by double-digits in my state (PA).

[CJCRANE]

12. You're right in a way...

I do feel sorry for them sometimes because I wonder why they (Shrub, Palin etc) would put themselves through such humiliation for their masters.