Comments on: An Astonishingly Arrogant VP Selection

The New Republic: McCain's Palin Pick Gives Obama An Opportunity To Take The Edge On National Security

[womanvoter]

First, let me thank Peter Scoblic for this clear, focused, and eminently correct assessment. I hope it is widely disseminated.

To Indep2: No, I don''t think Obama was arrogant not to pick Clinton; was McCain arrogant not to pick Romney? There is neither a tradition nor a requirement to pick the runner-up or any of the close rivals. Also, Biden as a Washington insider? Biden is one of the least wealthy Senators; he sleeps in his home state every night and eschews the cocktail circuit; he has less lobbyist contact than most (certainly less than John McCain). He''s an insider in the good sense of having relevant experience and contacts, but not in the bad sense of being corrupt or out of touch.

To nemoagnomen: Smart and tough? Maybe, we''ll have to see. Sixteen years of experience? That''s just a silly mischaracterization. Didn''t you read the article?

[womanvoter]

First, let me thank Peter Scoblic for this clear, focused, and eminently correct assessment. I hope it is widely disseminated.

To Indep2: No, I don''t think Obama was arrogant not to pick Clinton; was McCain arrogant not to pick Romney? There is neither a tradition nor a requirement to pick the runner-up or any of the close rivals. Also, Biden as a Washington insider? Biden is one of the least wealthy Senators; he sleeps in his home state every night and eschews the cocktail circuit; he has less lobbyist contact than most (certainly less than John McCain). He''s an insider in the good sense of having relevant experience and contacts, but not in the bad sense of being corrupt or out of touch.

To nemoagnomen: Smart and tough? Maybe, we''ll have to see. Sixteen years of experience? That''s just a silly mischaracterization. Didn''t you read the article?

[womanvoter]

First, let me thank Peter Scoblic for this clear, focused, and eminently correct assessment. I hope it is widely disseminated.

To Indep2: No, I don''t think Obama was arrogant not to pick Clinton; was McCain arrogant not to pick Romney? There is neither a tradition nor a requirement to pick the runner-up or any of the close rivals. Also, Biden as a Washington insider? Biden is one of the least wealthy Senators; he sleeps in his home state every night and eschews the cocktail circuit; he has less lobbyist contact than most (certainly less than John McCain). He''s an insider in the good sense of having relevant experience and contacts, but not in the bad sense of being corrupt or out of touch.

To nemoagnomen: Smart and tough? Maybe, we''ll have to see. Sixteen years of experience? That''s just a silly characterization. Didn''t you read the article?

[womanvoter]

First, let me thank Peter Scoblic for this clear, focused, and eminently correct assessment. I hope it is widely disseminated.

To Indep2: No, I don''t think Obama was arrogant not to pick Clinton; was McCain arrogant not to pick Romney? There is neither a tradition nor a requirement to pick the runner-up or any of the close rivals. Also, Biden as a Washington insider? Biden is one of the least wealthy Senators; he sleeps in his home state every night and eschews the cocktail circuit; he has less lobbyist contact than most (certainly less than John McCain). He''s an insider in the good sense of having relevant experience and contacts, but not in the bad sense of being corrupt or out of touch.

To nemoagnomen: Smart and tough? Maybe, we''ll have to see. Sixteen years of experience? That''s just a silly characterization. Didn''t you read the article?

[womanvoter]

First, let me thank Peter Scoblic for this clear, focused, and eminently correct assessment. I hope it is widely disseminated.

To Indep2: No, I don''t think Obama was arrogant not to pick Clinton; was McCain arrogant not to pick Romney? There is neither a tradition nor a requirement to pick the runner-up or any of the close rivals. Also, Biden as a Washington insider? Biden is one of the least wealthy Senators; he sleeps in his home state every night and eschews the cocktail circuit; he has less lobbyist contact than most (certainly less than John McCain). He''s an insider in the good sense of having relevant experience and contacts, but not in the bad sense of being corrupt or out of touch.

To nemoagnomen: Smart and tough? Maybe, we''ll have to see. Sixteen years of experience? That''s just a silly characterization. Didn''t you read the article?

[indep2]

Don''t you think Obama made an arrogant choice when he dropped Clinton against the wishes of millions of voters who wanted her on the dream ticket?

He is not going to listen to the people once he gets elected since he chose to ignore now.

I think as a Presidential candidate, McCain made the right choice in Palin as she would shore up his ticket as compared to picking a Washington insider like Biden and talking about change.

[gammaman01]

The best way to save the Republican Party now is to destroy it. In the marketplace of ideas, social conservatism is a viral infection contaminating the GOP. It represents an evolutionary dead-end whose logical conclusion is fascism if not outright totalitarianism. Is it not obvious that the imposition of the evangelical ideology--any fundamentalist ideology for that matter--lies in direct opposition to a free people in a democratic land? Our Constitution, specifically the separation of church and state, no longer serves as a bulwark against the morality police, who seek to impose faith-based notions such as creationism upon those of us with rational minds. Social conservatives aim to constrain freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom to pursue happiness. These freedoms live at the heart of an entrepreneurial and economically strong America. No doubt, the diktat the social conservative movement wishes to impose upon ALL us Americans is antithetical to a free market system, and therefore exists as hypocrisy within the Republican platform. Privatize profits, socialize losses, and make religion the opiate of the masses. Indeed, this has been a dark eight years of Orwellian doubletalk. Enough! I%u2019m a Reagan Republican and I%u2019m voting for Libertarian Bob Barr.

An astonishingly clueless and partisan political column.
A smart, tough, woman with sixteen years of experience in government, who has accomplished more in two years as governor than Joe Biden has in his entire career in the Senate, not to mention more than Barack Obama, who has accomplished exactly nothing, and she''s being attacked as totally lacking in experience? This kind of bigoted and sexist attack is going to backfire in a big way. As people see and hear Sarah Palin, and learn who she is and what she''s accomplished, they''re going to realize that she would make a better president than either of the men on the Democratic ticket. In fact, I think that, after one or two terms as vice president, she may just BE our first woman president.

[gammaman01]

A vote for Palin is a vote for Putin!