Comments on: Palin Pick Energizes GOP Base

Washington Post: Activists Say Socially Conservative Voters More Likely To Turn Out, Campaign Actively For Ticket

[realpatriot1]

Robert6781 reads debunked and disproven right wing smears and partison rumors and calls it homework.

Those of us who''ve actually have done our homework recognize you as just another idiot.

[realpatriot1]

Syk is right on the money!

Most Republicans would agree that Karl Rove is not going to present a poll tlted toward the Democrats, right?

Rove''s electoral map has Obama safely ahead in states with 260 of the 269 e.v. total needed to be elected(a tie goes to the democratically controlled House).

Rove has McCain safe in states with 194 electoral votes.

The remaining 84 are up for grabs. Since McCain needs to get to 270(he loses a tie)he needs 76 of the 84. Obama needs 9 of 84.

If you want to bet your house on McCain put your bet on the table.

[realpatriot1]

Johnny302,

You must be conducting a poll in your pants because I''ve seen over 30 polls recently and none of them have more than a 3-4% point spread in either direction.

[realpatriot1]

Fernando56,

What is it that makes you a "real American"?

It certainly can''t be your total stupidity. The oil comapnies already have over a million acres of drillable acres that they haven''t drilled on. Why? Because it takes years to prepare for drilling.

If offshore drilling were approved today the first drill wouldn''t go into the ground for another decade.
We import over 80% of our oil and the amount that would be added to the stream once we did drill offshore wouldn''t make a ripple in the stream.

This is a gimmick to divert the public''s attention form the fact that those in Washington with the "experience"(in both parties) have presided over 30 years of an energy policy that''s written by and serves the interests of the oil companies, both domestic and foreign.

I bet Obama wishes he had picked Hillary for VP. If I were Hillary or Bill, I would follow Joe Liebermans move. I would become Independant and tell Obama and the DNC to fend for himself.

[robert6781]

In an interview with Stephanopolous this weekend, Obama slipped and said "my Muslim faith" and Stephie had to correct him.

. Now Obama says that he considered joining the military after high school, although he''''s NEVER mentioned it before and never mentioned it in his 2 memoirs.

. Now Obama says he is considering delaying rescinding Bush''''s tax cuts if the economy doesn''''t improve. What''''s this? a LIBERAL admitting that high taxes hurt the economy and lower taxes HELP the economy?

. Now he says he was too flip with his "that''''s above my pay grade" abortion comment.

Perhaps Obama wants to apoligize to Bill for not choosing Hillary over Biden- and back track yet again on what he meant to do, meant to say- meant to imply. The poor sap just doesn''''t make the grade to lead anything- He is not Presidential in any form. He is more and more like Bush than most realize.

[talkingham]

Yes, dragonfly it is terrifying that someone who can''t answer questions from the press nor even minimally control the drinking habits of her teenagers as well as their flagrant sexual behaviors while preaching to the rest of us about abstinence is now inline to be president if McCain wins. Meanwhile the media u neocons all claim to loath treats her with kid gloves.
People like you personally insult the patriotism of every Dem presidential candidate while cradle robber McCain 17 years older than his millionairess wife rides her fortune to the White House, let''s see when McCain was 30 his wife was 13, he''s a cradle robber. His status as an American hero is damaged by picking this Alaska low-life for his VP. She knows nothing about the needs of the rest of this country living as she evidently lives in her Alaska dreamworld of no black people, no urban infra structure decay and a myriad of other problems this nation faces. But she is perfect willing to eliminate a woman''s right to choose whether to have a baby or not even if the baby is the result of rape.

[stickbowman]

afmca writes: "...so the blue states can continue to evolve while the red slip into permanent stupidity. "

Hmmm, there are few if any "blue states." Its more like about a dozen heavily populated metro zones who vote democrat, most of the country votes republican.

I''m thinking I''d rather NOT have a bunch of cynical city bigots running America. I''ll take that good ol'' country common sense any day.

Go Sarah!!!!

[robert6781]

Yes! Elevando! You are right on the money! Now, if more people would just be as smart as understand the basics of common logic and real information. Experiance does matter.

[elevando]

McCain and Palin will bring real change to Washington.

Obama will not.

In Obama''s last three years in the Senate, he didn''t cross aisles, he voted with Dems 97% of the time.

That isn''t change you can believe in.

[wapotank]

John McCain and Sarah Palin will be a GREAT!!! The Dems are so desperate their hate campaign has escalated into an unbelievable terror attack on anyone who would not agree with them. It is most frightening! They are so hateful they even turn on their own party members who disagree, ask questions or think for themselves. The Dems idea of Freedom is you must accept anything and anyone they deem no matter what their elected choice says, does or whoever they associate with. You must embrace them even of it isn''t good for you, if you don''t, they will threaten, chastise and terrorize you. You must blindly believe, there is no room for individual thinking. The Party is what you live for and must sacrifice everything you have for the Party.
Their idea of reaching out has turned into a foot on your neck to succumb you lest you not follow our ways. We do not do what''s good for the country, but what we want. They do not compromise because gloating over others is what they live for. If this current party of Democrats prevail, you can throw away the National Anthem, The American Flag, the Constitution and the Presidential Seal, because they will all be replaced by the Obamanation with the Obama logo!

[patriciaohio]

I HATE SARAH PALIN %u2013 DUMP BIDEN AND ADD HILLARY SO WE CAN WIN THIS ELECTION!!

[dysmn]

For the Hillary voters that Sarah Palin has energized, keep this in mind. If Sarah does badly, you can kiss any chances of Hillary or any woman of becoming President for a long long time. McCain chose Sarah because she was a conservative woman not because she was an experienced woman.

[causeway_q]

McCain''''s choice for VP will permanently divide this country. I for one would like to see us permanently split into two nations - red and blue - so the blue states can continue to evolve while the red slip into permanent stupidity.

Posted by afmca at 09:16 AM : Sep 08, 2008"

Er, one point on this - the people of the red states slipped into permanent stupidity years ago

Name even one southerner from the last 20 years who has shown anything resembling a functioning brain

[sleepyric]

Talkingham: Again, bravo! There are some intelligent people out there! I would like to know when Ms. Palin will speak to the press?? Isn''t it about time?

[sleepyric]

Dear AFMCA: Bravo! I couldn''t have said it better. You are exactly on topic!

[talkingham]

What is truly amazing about Palin is the double standard in the media for her - it''s been more than a week since she was nominated and yet she still can''t answer questions one on one with the press. If this was a Dem nominee and could not answer questions directly from the media the press would be in 24-hour rant mode saying what a novice and "not ready for President." It is a double standard and the GOP is the one always whining about how badly they are treated. It looks like the media is building the perfect lie for this not ready for president nominee. In the meantime we will get a bunch non-issue stories such as this "gay conversion: pablum that are really designed to bring out her GOP right-wing base rather than raise any real questions about the legitimacy of this person to be president. I guess the standard was set so low when Bush Jr. was elected that it doesn''t much matter anyway. Palin is so ready to be president that she may never answer any questions, just like Bush.

[afmca]

McCain''s choice for VP will permanently divide this country. I for one would like to see us permanently split into two nations - red and blue - so the blue states can continue to evolve while the red slip into permanent stupidity. More psuedo-christians will be praying for McCain to die in office so Palin can bring her ultra-conservative religious beliefs and impose them on the American people. Will she continue Bush''s unconstitutional power grab and send her christian military troops into American streets as her morality police. Dobson''s believers have already seriously compromised the Air Force academy. This is the vision of America from the Prophets for Profit. Conservative Republicans want a Saudi style theocracy where the rich stay insanely rich, don''t have to play by the same rules, and they intellectually and physically imprison the rest of society around their archaic moralistic dogma.