sarah palin analysis

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by il padrino ute

not even you?

Lots of faintings at rallies. Pelosi calling him a gift from god. Cali would die for him.

I'd say he is sexually manipulating the voters.

cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck

You're stealing from me?

I don't know if I should be honored or ticked.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

McCain is crashing and burning because he has no message.

Possibly, but this doesn't help matters.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

You're stealing from me?

I don't know if I should be honored or ticked.

Right now you should be honored.

but as the election nears, and esp on election night, and for the next 4 years, you are going to get a steady dose of it....which might tick you off.

Karma is a female dog!

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Right now you should be honored.

but as the election nears, and esp on election night, and for the next 4 years, you are going to get a steady dose of it....which might tick you off.

Karma is a female dog!

Don't count your chickens until the fat lady sings.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Don't count your chickens until the fat lady sings.

good point.

the only thing worse than karma is double secret karma.

I hereby retract my previous "cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck"

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Maybe he should improve his interactions with the press by, I don't know, actually talking to them. Or perhaps he should actually permit interviews with the person he has selected as VP.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14364.html

I'm sure if McCain just politely asked the LA Times and AP to actually report on the content of his speech, they'd do it. Hell, they carry Obama's water, why not McCain's?

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Whether or not you like Obama, he has fully articulated his views on every single major topic. In fact, you despise him BECAUSE of his views, a point that undercuts your argument that he has no views (i.e. is just a shiny object).

The same cannot be said of Palin. She has been sheltered by the McCain campaign for as long as she has been in the campaign. When pressed for details, she collapses into canned lines or wanders off topic and into a discussion on energy or how bad Obama is (again with remarkably little detail).

Still comparing Obama to Palin are we? My, McCain really suckered you in on that one.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

Still comparing Obama to Palin are we? My, McCain really suckered you in on that one.

McCain played Cali like a virtuoso.

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Whether or not you like Obama, he has fully articulated his views on every single major topic. In fact, you despise him BECAUSE of his views, a point that undercuts your argument that he has no views (i.e. is just a shiny object).

Come on Cali. The point is not that he has no ideas, the point is that he has the same ideas as most other legislators in his party who control the most unpopular political body in the history of our country.

Obama is popular, and will win, for the following reasons in this order:

1. Americans hate, or at least have had a belly full of W, and he is a Republican.
2. Obama is very articulate.
3. Obama is nice looking.
4. Obama is a powerful symbol.
5. McCain is a Republican who is neither articulate nor good looking.

I can't even, seriously, bring myself to list ideas here. Ideas are way down the list somewhere, but they have so little to do with. Yes there are some people like you who have really absorbed the ideas and the differences they represent but this is not the overwhelming majority of people. Yes there are many Republicans who despise him for his views but I don't even think that is most Republicans. I believe these things are decided on a much more superficial level. It is so rare that any particular idea really matters.