Countdown: Veep Pick

Keith reports on McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for a running mate and Howard Fineman weighs in.

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[frellthat]

A year and a half ago, Palin was the mayor of a town of 6,000, and that's basically her only political experience. And you really think she's qualified to be the leader of the free world? McCain has gone off his fucking rocker with this one. So much for experience being important.

[nothankyoumam]

Experience has been a Repug 'issue' from the start. Repugs own it and should be held accountable for it. At the very least, the Palin veep pick shows just how hypocritical the McSame camp is. And I think it also shows that McSame puts his ambitions first, not the country. McSame continues to follow the playbook of the Bush Admin, which excelled at political cronyism and expediency, resulting in rampant corruption and incompetence. Palin will be McSame's "Heckuva job, Brownie" girl.

[nothankyoumam]

His choice of Palin is an act of desperation. McSame knows he's on the wrong side of the issues and that the smear tactics against Obama aren't working. But instead of sucking it up, showing some mettle and picking someone actually qualified for the position, he gambles big time on an absolute beginner whose only asset is her appeal to Repug party wingnuts. That says a lot about what kind of president he would be. Reckless.

[frellthat]

McCain has already had four bouts with cancer. Can you imagine someone like Palin becoming President? What a disaster. McCain is obviously putting political expedience way ahead of the needs of the country.

[nothankyoumam]

My point is that the Repugs have been howling about how Obama does not have enough experience to be president after he served seven years in the Illinois state senate, three years in the US Senate, and beat the Clinton machine in a hard fought primary. Then, they come up with the biggest light-weight they can find for for VP. They are total hypocrites. Palin's only 'qualifications' are Miss Wasilla (does that count?), mayor of Wasilla and very recently governor of Alaska (pop. about 600,000).

[duque501]

Hahahaha, Olberman is the typical liberal, arrogant diminishing the importance of Alaska. And Palin never used the word "whining".

FOr sure Hillary will be happy if Palin wins.

[timeszero]

*blinks* This refutes my statements...how?

By the way, I'm not a McCain supporter. But I have noticed a correlation between arguing against style-trumps-substance Obama and thumbs-down votes on youtube. (Don't get me started on the massive debt and inflation his "government knows best" programs will cause. It can always CHANGE for the worse, and we're about to learn how.)

[timeszero]

Um, no. A year and a half ago, she was the Governor of Alaska. And in terms of active political experience, executive/gubernatorial make-or-break experience generally trumps senatorial sit-and-vote (Barack cosponsored some bills, whoopie). The D's are pots calling the kettle black on this one.

[gloryoski]

Oh my god. They were not exaggerating about where McCain's eyes were about 80 per cent of the time!

[timeszero]

"Palin makes Obama look like John Adams."

I didn't realize that quietly gliding through two whole years over the competition in a non-executive role elevates oneself to a John Adams level.