Comments on: High Risk VP Pick Boosts Maverick Image

CBSNews.com Analysis: McCain's Surprise Selection Of Sarah Palin Energizes Campaign, But There Is Potential For Disaster

[misha128-2009]

There was a time when McCain''''s horrible academic record of finishing near the bottom of his class would have ruined his chances of becoming president. Fortunately for him, intelligence isn''''t fashionable now.

Posted by downtowner97 at 01:44 PM

With the number of overturned administrative moves by the current administration -- academics and a legal background are necessary to prevent mistakes that have already been made that might allow terrorists to be released into the country.

[cbville72]

At least she didn''t attend an Anti-White, Anti-American church for 20+ years. She also doesn''t have ties to Ayers or Farakhan so that''s a plus. She was also governor of a State and not a Senator for 140 some days. Just thought some facts would be nice.
Thanks for the time.
By the way....McCAin didn''t say a few months ago that she was unqualified. Joe Biden called BHO unqualified a few months ago though. Pretty funny stuff.

[bagdadshere3]

Forget about Margareth Tatcher or Angela Merkel. Sarah Palin is the new IRON MAIDEN. McCain made a brilliant choice. Even Argentina elected a woman as President why America cant have a female VP?

[idnnsg]

The funny thing about this choice, an attempt to get Hilary followers to switch to the repug party, is that NO ONE who supported Hillary is going to vote for McCain.

Hillary is totally opposed to McCain''s political positions, which are vitually identical to Bush''s. And Hillary is supporting Obama. Anyone who supported Hillary would have to go completely in.sane before they''d vote for Johnny McSame! Sure, there are bound to be a few in.sane people who think it''s more important to put a woman in the white house than it is to get someone there who will work for your interests, but if McCain thinks that''s going to sway the election his way, he''s completely NUTZ.

[rhs648]

There was a time when McCain''''s horrible academic record of finishing near the bottom of his class would have ruined his chances of becoming president. Fortunately for him, intelligence isn''''t fashionable now.

Posted by downtowner97

Neither candidate showed great academic promise in high school or early in college. As a late bloomer with a college degree, and two graduate degrees, it is easy for me to understand that many students blossom late. What is important is that both candidates accomplished much inspite of late starts. Many accomplished and successful people did not display early academic promise. In high school, a teacher told me that I would''t get into college. When in college, the same teacher told me that I would not graduate college. That was three degrees ago.

[downtowner97]

There was a time when McCain''s horrible academic record of finishing near the bottom of his class would have ruined his chances of becoming president. Fortunately for him, intelligence isn''t fashionable now.

[tulcak]

ha ha ha ha ha ha...oh thank you thank you thank you mcSame!! thank you! palin?! ah ha ha ha hahahahahaha....
implosion, palin as president, in case mcSame croaks on his last battle with cancer?
and here comes gustav to remind us all of why we don''t want four more years of bushit... the long dark terrible nightmare is almost over... you GOPers really,really don''t know how to govern or make good decisions...you as* wipes

[tbweb]

McCain`s choice by selecting Sarah Palin for Vice President when he is a 72 year old Cancer survivor having survived 2 bouts with Cancer and placing someone this new and `inexperienced` a heart beat away from the Presidency and who has not been vetted is a political gimmick designed to go after Clinton supporters who feel Clinton was mistreated and totally irresponsible. This pick by Bush3 also throws out the long standing argument that experience matters and that Sen. Obama has none since Palin`s worldly experience is zero! Palin just got her first Passport last month! Americans should be very concerned if Bush3 wins and goes down and Palin has to step in and become President, a job she is not close to being prepared for! McCain age, health and judgment takes center stage in earness. Gov. Palin was not the best McCain could do, there were many other better choices, this selection is a political gimmick and bad for America!

[realpatriot1]

Credibility2,

Seeing as you are all about credibility, how about offering some examples of these alleged Chicago strong arm tactics.

boycot-china,

Please explain how Biden represents more of the problem than Hillary. Then, since you and your family members are basing your vote entirely on the VP selection, please explain how the PTA hockey mom represents change we can believe in. She''s a conservative extremist and Pat Buchanan protege in the pocket of the oil companies whose under investigation for abuse of power after less than 2 years as Governor of a stste with less population than most Oklahoma City.

If hse was a man she would never have been given a single bit of consideration. She demonstrates perfectly what McCain thinks of women, that they''ll vote for any woman, no matter how unprepared she is to address the nation''s problems. Voting for her is a total repudiation of everything Hillary ran on while voting for Obama is a reinforcement of Hillary''s agenda.

[luvcomments]

I think Kerry is correct - the selection of Palin just proves McCain is no maverick, but a prisoner of the GOP base. Some of us even smell Karl Rove here - maybe improves the chances of Alaska off-shore oil-drilling exercise in futility? (Might look good to some but will achieve nothing). If McCain actually believes Palin is remotely close to Hillary and this is his best shot in response to the Biden selection, then God help us all if he has to answer the 3 a.m. phone call - not to mention if something should happen to him and we get stuck with Mr. and Mrs. Palin leading our country.

[credibility2]

Obama brings to the nomination questionable Chicago Dem strong-arm political tactics and virtually nothing of substance from his short run as a US Senator, since he''s been out campaigning the majority of his tenure. Palin brings to the veep spot independence from her party. Interestingly, when Obama served in IL for his district in southside Chicago, his minimal voting record benefitted primarily his constituency versus the general state population. Palin''s record as governor is clearly for all of that state''s general population. Palin isn''t running for president, but her critics are reacting as if she were. Were McCain elected and should, God forbid something happen to him where Palin would step in, by then she would''ve shut the mouths of her critics. Unfortunately, if Obama wins, he still isn''t ready to lead on day one. That requires experience, none of which he has. It''s more logical for a veep to get on-the-job training, than electing as president someone who would require that same type of training. In the meantime, Biden would be functioning on a de facto basis as the Dem''s president, much the same as Cheney for Bush. Some change. I don''t think so.

[downtowner97]

McCain wasn''t a soldier. He was a pilot. He was a pilot who couldn''t figure out how to not get shot down. He was very good at staying in his cell the second time he got shot down.

[bazilt]

Picking Gov. Palin is NO maverick act: it just proves McCain is a sidekick of Bush, he succumbed to the right wing of the Rupublican party and he is a pathetic panderer who foolishly thinks that the great American women cannot distinguish the stark difference between Sen. Clinton and Gov. Palin in what really matters to them.

[boycot-china]

What a hypocrite! I believed in Senator Obama! My six voting members of my democratic party family believed in Obama. Four of my family members are females and devoted supports of Senator Clinton. We all thought that he was going to be the change that this country needed. I was so pysched up for my democratic convention this week, but Obama picked Biden who is not a change but one of the big problems. Now look at Senator McCain who picked an outsider and most of all a woman who believes in America. I may not agree with everything that Senator McCain stands for, but he''s a better choice that wishy-washy, back-sliding, swist at every blow of the wind, change your stance, and big time HYPOCRITE OBAMA! HE REALLY LET US DOWN! WHAT OTHER LIES IS HE GOING TO SPREAD NOW?

[actornaught]

Addled John has done the voters a huge favor and demonstrated his new programming of massive neocon HYPOCRISY by showing that the inexperience/celebrity line of attack against BO was pandering to the ''con idiot base. He nominated a beauty queen wannabe and small time novice governer. Does he have no shame, or is his mind that far gone?

Thanks for making it even clearer, Addled John.

[downtowner97]

McCain graduated 894th out of 899 in his class in college and went to Vietnam to have two planes shot out from under him. That makes him a true maverick.

[condumbism]

NOt one Democrat will vote for the extreme right winged platform of McCain Palin. This is guaranteed, now that McCain picked an anti-choice, creationist as his running mate. This is the biggest political blunder since Walter Mondale declared he would raise your taxes during his DNC acceptance speech in 1984.

[philly18765]

GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN...THE FIRST WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY....THOSE 18 MILLION HILLARY VOTES WILL DEFINITELY MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

[philly18765]

DO THE MATH..18 MILLION HILLARY VOTERS KNOW HILLARY WAS SCREWED OUT OF BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT NOMINATION BY OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRAT BOSSES.

THESE 18 MILLION HILLARY VOTERS ARE MAD, MAD, MAD..IF ONLY 50% OF THEM VOTE FOR SARAH,..THAT''S OVER 9 MILLION VOTES THAT GUARANTEES MC CAIN/ PALIN THE ELECTION WIN....PERIOD.

[actornaught]

What does it say about congress'' low approval rating when the outlook is that more ''pubs will be voted out this fall?