It is going to be REAL interesting this fall.
I have to admit I did not see the Palin thing coming-I thought for sure it was going to be Romney. Now if McCain would stand up and publicly repudiate Bush and pledge to get out of Iraq on Maliki’s timetable-there might actually be hope in the world. If McCain had picked Senator Quisling
Lieberman, it would have made it easy. Just like I’ll never vote for Hillary, I’ll never vote for old Joe.
I watched Obama’s speech in the hotel bar last night. Had to persuade the bartender to turn it up (the South Carolina game was still on). I thought it was a great speech and he had my attention. Full text here. There was a lot to like-especially as Spike points out, that John McCain and the Rethugs do not have a lock on patriotism.:
The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain.
The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they have fought together, and bled together, and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America; they have served the United States of America.
So I’ve got news for you, John McCain: We all put our country first.
Now as for Palin? Don’t know a lot about her. Lots of the usual suspects are salivating over her youth and looks. Big deal. There’s a back story there that needs to be brought out-still it was a bold move on McCain’s part.
And if he only serves one term or leaves office early-Hillary will shoot herself. I have the feeling she got really drunk tonight, contemplating the fact that now a woman other than her is closer to the Oval Office than she is. Could not happen to a nicer person.
I haven’t made up my mind yet but in New Jersey its almost fruitless to vote for a Republican. Though I am leaning that way only because I REALLY, REALLY want to piss off Keith Olberman.
I SC does not matter who one votes for, the Rebuplican will win- even if the Dems ran Jesus Christ. He would lose.
The Palin choice may be the decidngfactor in the race- one way or the other. Cannot see women flocking to her given her anti-choice views. Her lack of experience will, in the ballot box, give many people pause once thye realize McCain is 72 yo with history of malignant melanoma. Not a good history to have. If he had to worry about buying the health insurance his plan addresses; he would be uninsured. Uninsurable is correct term.
If BC/BS would not insure him, why should we?