tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post9206752600220288020..comments2023-10-29T06:41:23.910-07:00Comments on Halfway There: McCain's "Hail Mary" passZenohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-10424321405768588692008-08-31T07:28:00.000-07:002008-08-31T07:28:00.000-07:00Sarah looks nice in that picture you posted there ...Sarah looks nice in that picture you posted there Zeno. See, I do have positive things (or thing) to say about her.The Science Pundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14497373296651049624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-86947772301713485722008-08-30T19:55:00.000-07:002008-08-30T19:55:00.000-07:00But they didn't have to. McCain could've chosen Ol...But they didn't <I>have</I> to. McCain could've chosen Olympia Snowe, or Kay Bailey Hutchison, for example -- respected national figures. That might be too many senators, though. But even someone like Carly Fiorina, although personally distasteful to me, would've been a more obvious choice, and brought her own variety of "executive experience" to the ticket.<BR/><BR/>Rather than being about picking a woman, I think this is mainly about picking a far-right candidate who also happens to be a woman.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052684196866992031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-16564795640523078232008-08-29T14:07:00.000-07:002008-08-29T14:07:00.000-07:00I keep expecting McCain to pop out yelling "psych!...I keep expecting McCain to pop out yelling "psych!"<BR/><BR/>This has got to be a joke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-82740866468191133562008-08-29T13:53:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:53:00.000-07:00What a deeply cynical choice.And what a sad commen...What a deeply cynical choice.<BR/><BR/>And what a sad commentary on the state of the GOP that when looking for a woman candidate they have to settle for one so thoroughly inexperienced and tainted by scandal.The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-81548277131184070992008-08-29T13:43:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:43:00.000-07:00I do believe I hear the cadence of another Catholi...I do believe I hear the cadence of another Catholic survivor in that post. Made me laugh, too.<BR/><BR/>Come on, this is even more of a giant pander than Ferraro's nomination was. Plus, y'know, oil interests. Icky, icky, icky.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the repubs are making the same wildly inflated estimate of the PUMAs that certain points of the (especially lefty*) blogosphere are. And while I'm bringing half the zoo in this post: That smells like a scapegoat to me. <BR/><BR/>(*I dunno, I don't spend much time in the right hemisphere.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-66260238776718302792008-08-29T12:46:00.000-07:002008-08-29T12:46:00.000-07:00Nah - I don't know Mondale, but I still suspect he...Nah - I don't know Mondale, but I still suspect he'd have made a better president than McCain ever could.<BR/><BR/>And congratulations on the blogoversary. My original comment seem to have gone poof. I prolly mistyped the captcha.Jens Knudsen (Sili)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14078875730565068352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-69566480180860379942008-08-29T11:03:00.000-07:002008-08-29T11:03:00.000-07:00I wonder if people will recognize the Palin choice...I wonder if people will recognize the Palin choice as the obvious gimmick that it was with the Ferraro pick in 1984. Did McCain just turn into Mondale?Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058127284297728552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15868947.post-90546074187187825272008-08-29T10:44:00.000-07:002008-08-29T10:44:00.000-07:00Hey, now. I'm (originally) from the only state th...Hey, now. I'm (originally) from the only state that actually voted for a tokenist woman candidate on a throwaway ticket the last time it happened. Maybe everyone else will think well of 1984 Demo...<BR/><BR/>Sorry, I can't keep a straight face through that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com