Do you think Palin is a purposeful distraction?

[Myrina]

Look at the media coverage, nearly 24/7 All-Sarah All-the-time since the Convention.

Obama gets a few seconds here and there; Joe less.
McLame is even eclipsed by the coverage Eskimo Barbie is getting.

Did the GOP pick her for that very purpose?
Run out the clock?
Have the MSM concentrated on their own 'beauty contest' aspect and dodge addressing the issues?

We all know she's a total loser: light on substance, heavy on corruption.
Completely unqualified to even be Michelle Obama's secretary.
The post-debate polls are showing that most of America sees that, too.

So .... that being said, can we please get OUR CANDIDATE back to the center of the screen?
And get back to getting his message out?
And push the brainless bimbo back to Mooseballs Alaska, where she belongs?

Before the clock runs out?



:shrug:

[BlooInBloo]

1. I know - the way she's dragging her ticket's numbers down... WEREDOOMED!!!!

:rofl:

You fail.

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[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. Huh?

You didn't read the OP, did you?

[frebrd]

2. Absolutely! n/t

[upi402]

3. Yes, like Chomsky says, the Rethug PR machine wont let TV news cover issues

so the idiot box is filled with quasi-racist slurs from a lunatic and his hockey mom cohort.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. It's working perfectly for Obama.

Remember, during the summer the entire election was about him. It wasn't about the issues, it wasn't about McCain, it was about Obama. When you're the center of attention, it brings the good light and the bad. Because of that, Obama's numbers took a hit and he went from beating McCain by 6-7 points, to only winning by 3 or 4.

But now Obama is not the center of this campaign, it's the economy and Palin. If McCain can't get the attention OFF the economy and Palin and back onto Obama, he loses. If he does, basically doing what you're asking, Obama will probably again take a hit in the polls.

[Myrina]

9. I see what you're saying ...

... but the more the media talks about the economic mess, the more points McLame loses.

The more they talk about Palin & cover her appearances, the less time there is for our side to push the real issues.

I suppose there is a point of diminished returns, though.

:shrug:

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Every story ties into the economy.

That still is the main focus.

When you have Palin out there making a fool of herself and Obama sticking the issues, it creates a stark contrast between the two campaigns.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. She's waning

The American people aren't fools. Well, the ones who vote Democrat, anyway. Sarah Palin is like David Duke when he ran for office - just leave her out there, being her own caricaturish self, and the people will be laughing at her more and more.

The McPOW camp isn't fooling anyone. She's already shown how desperately unsuited she is to be anything, let alone Veep. So, don't be fooled by her exposure. Obama's doing fine, just moving along, not getting bogged down, doing his thing, connecting, and his numbers are fine, too.

She's a Saturday Night Live running gag. And that's the best she'll ever be.

[hiphopnation]

5. or while they're busy trumping up some trouble somewhere in the world

in order for some game-changing catastrophe to befall some Americans abroad, or a military unit in Afghanistan or Iraq...or to plan something ... at home? Thus, throwing the focus back on McCain as seasoned foreign policy military leader? Nothing seems beyond his desperate campaign at this point...

:scared:

[tularetom]

7. Like every other man in America I was distracted by the way she winked just at me.

:puke:

[Warpy]

8. No, I think she was a big risk that backfired.

I honestly think the GOP expected anybody with a vagina to vote for her out of spite for Clinton's loss. I honestly think they expected her folksy charm to counteract Gramps's meanness.

I don't think anybody's more surprised than they are that we're just not buying it.

[MrMickeysMom]

11. I think there is something to that...

... but fuck if SHE'D have an actual clue about ANY of it.

[Journeyman]

14. As I've often stated, I believe Palin was chosen in part so. . .

She was chosen in part so the Republicans can rid themselves of both neocons and fundamentalists or at least mute their influence and remove them from the forefront of the Party. They'll do this by having John McCain be defeated and Sarah Palin humiliated. Similar purges have been done before: in '64 when the Republicans rid themselves of the Goldwater wing of conservatism, and in '72, when the Democrats did the same with the liberal, anti-war wing personified by McGovern.

Think of it, once this election is over, if McCain loses as big as some sources believe he may, and Palin is humiliated beyond any measure we can imagine today, there's no possibility that either a neocon or a fundamentalist will be on the Republican ticket in 2012. I believe that's what the monied interests are angling for with this odd couple pairing.

I'd venture to say, as well, the Republicans don't want to win this election because losing it is their only hope to remain viable in the years to come.

Face it, their only hope is for McCain to lose. George W. has left the nation in such a shambles, it's difficult to imagine how anyone can set things aright. Another four years of McSame would doom the Republicans -- and they know it. Their best hope is for a Democrat to inherit W's disasters. Then, whichever way it goes -- if the Democrat can fix the problems, or if they prove uncorrectable in one or two terms -- the Republicans may be in a position to stage a comeback. It may take more than two or even four election cycles, but they'll have the opportunity. Unless, that is, McSame is elected, and all the disasters coming down the pike end up piled unequivocally on their doorstep.



I first broached these thoughts on McCain back in August, then modified my stance in early September to account for Palin. Nothing's happened in the interim to challenge my belief -- I'm more firmly convinced than ever that McCain will lose and lose big, and Palin will be not only humiliated and discredited, but the backlash against her in Alaska will effectively remove her from that State's politics in just a few short years.

So let the media focus on Palin -- it serves the interests of progressives for such a fool to be given front row center often. Time and opportunity are not her allies, though she's too dense, too filled with certainly about herself, for her to realize it.

[VP505]

19. Good theory, one that

I find quite believable. Straight up, how anyone could seriously think that McSame/Palin has a snowball chance in hell of winning an election this important is beyond me, unless they steal it.

[Bluebear]

15. NO. She was a risky and irresponsbile choice by John McCain. nt

[Sewsojm]

16. I think they'll live to regret picking her,

She's a backstabbing bitch if there ever was one.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. No, she isn't intended as a distraction. They actually thought she'd help with ......

.... the anti-intellectual, willfully ignorant, religiously insane part of their base.

And she has. At the cost of everybody else abandoning them.

[obiwan]

18. Dunno. But she is the most hilarious thing on the airwaves right now.

Can't be helping McSame much.

[conscious evolution]

20. Yes.Without a doubt.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Yes, but probably not in the exact same way as you say.

She gets the GOP-controlled media coverage to inject more religious bullshit into the national conversation.

It "normalizes" her flavor of mythology.

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. A bit like setting your foot on fire to distract...

from a knife in your chest. Well... that sort of works.