Heh. Indeed.

Karl Rove is the general manager of the Republican Party.

McCain’s Rove’s pick of Palin over a more experienced VP choice is similar to the SF Giants passing over Barry Bonds in ‘08 to begin the task of re-building the team. They were going to lose with or without him.

Rove knows that McCain is a loser, and he wasn’t going to let McCain drive any more wedges in the GOP with a pro-choice VP pick.

Palin cuts McCain’s campaign off at the knees: “experience” is now off the table as a gooper line of attack, and the “Country First” slogan rings hollow given the raw cynicism of this under-vetted selection.

Better to throw McCain to the underside of public transportation and begin the painful process of rebuilding the GOP brand with fresh faces who will keep the base happy and united.

I don’t understand why everyone seems to think that the “experience” argument is off the table just because McCain chose Buffy the Baby Wolf Slayer as his veep. Since when have the Republicans relied on logic and consistency in attacking those they hate?

I think Roger Ailes (the good one, as they say) is right:

Obama shouldn’t waste one second on Palin. Joe Biden should talk exclusively about the top of the tickets, his and McCain’s.

Let McCain self-destruct, and let Palin’s inexperience and daffy opinions speak for themselves. Obama laid out a good plan for going forward in his Denver speech. He shouldn’t alter that one bit.

I don’t understand why everyone seems to think that the “experience” argument is off the table just because McCain chose Buffy the Baby Wolf Slayer as his veep. Since when have the Republicans relied on logic and consistency in attacking those they hate?

Will that line of attack carry any resonance beyond the gooper choir, given it’s blatant hypocrisy?

Every time Obama opens his mouth the “experience” question becomes more irrelevant.

Every time Palin opens her mouth she reinforces her obvious inexperience.

Of course they’ll be making all sorts of illogical attacks. But now they have the Palin tar baby on their back with a very steep hill to climb.

Let McCain self-destruct, and let Palin’s inexperience and daffy opinions speak for themselves. Obama laid out a good plan for going forward in his Denver speech. He shouldn’t alter that one bit.

I agree absolutely.

But we can certainly call her on her knowledge of the issues. We can start with Science and the teaching of evolution and her views on global warming. As governor she had an office to prepare for global warming but how can you prepare for something that you don’t believe man is causing. Not that JPL.

Is Palin evidence for this?

Cliff105:

But now they have the Palin tar baby on their back with a very steep hill to climb.

Er, can we get some dressing on that metaphor salad?

McCain called his doctor this morning in severe pain. Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008…..rning.html

Ouch!

TBogg’ll should/might/methinks will love this;

http://frum.nationalreview.com/

Mark Steyn has a characteristically witty post this morning on Sarah Palin:

Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, “all-American”, but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I’m not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin’ Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who’s done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of “community organizer” and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.

Please don’t sully the name of about the best female character ever to grace US television by associating Buffy with this Palin woman. Joss Whedon, Buffy’s creator, is a true feminist and the show demonstrated the power of powerful and smart women time and again. Sarah Palin is a lot more akin to Tracy Flick, of the film “Election”.

As an immigrant, I’m not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities.

“And I have the restraining orders to prove it…”

BTW, you hippies (and other fans of Turdblossom) do know what is notorious for growing out of cow pies, don’t you?

Havenly visions!

err…
Heavenly visions.
From mother nature.
Last I knew, they’re legal in Oregon – as long as they are not transported off the property where they grew.

Choke down a few grams and it will be a Havenly Vision.

Which makes me wonder. As a serious DFH when I first heard the term “Turdblossom” (beside thinking what an asshole Bush is for giving someone that nickname) I immediately thought “Mushrooms”.

Now is frat-boy GW totally ignorant of this connotation (not impossible, coke heads usually don’t like ’shrooms), does Karl Rove just look like a mushroom (well…), or is he really capable of inducing life changing experiences (yes, but more like a very bad trip)?
Oh well, one of those mysteries I kinda hope is never solved…

“Turdblossom”
What an asshole (Bush and Rove).