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1. it’s an attack on McCain and his impulsive, ill-prepared choices. There are plenty of other reasons to question Palin’s readiness to stand one heartbeat from the most powerful office on earth.

   And that’s one of the most insipid articles to come out of the whole Palin fiasco. So she comes from a little corner of heaven straight out of Northern Exposure, a place so rugged and tough that the Lower 48 rules just don’t apply? Great, but she’s running in the Lower 48 now and has to play by our rules.  

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   1. what he knew and when he knew it. This is about his poor judgement.

      Face It, The Didn’t Vet Her

      Earlier I noted Andrea Mitchell’s reference to reports that the McCain camp had just sent a team of GOP lawyers up to Alaska to do what I guess you’d call a post-vetting of Sarah Palin. Now George Stephanopoulos appears to have more. George says the McCainers are sending a “rapid response team of about ten operatives that includes lawyers” to do the aforementioned deeper vet. A lot of attention is being given to Gov. Palin’s daughter’s situation. The much bigger deal is the expanding trooper-gate investigation, the fact that Palin lied in her Friday speech about her purported opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere, her apparent former membership in the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and more. Individually, you can come to your own judgment about how consequential these stories are. What they show pretty clearly now — in addition to the news that the McCain campaign is only now sending in a vetting team — is that John McCain didn’t do any serious vetting of Palin before he invited her to join his ticket and, he hopes, become Vice President of the United States.

      Fundamentally, of course, this is about John McCain. And the real issue here is what this slapdash decision says about his judgment.

      McCain was too busy selling out to the far right religious faction of the republican party do actually inform himself about who Sara Palin is. He skewed his judgement to get back in the spotlight with a short term gain that will cause long problems for his candidacy. McCain failed this weekend because he just doesn’t get it. This is more serious than who Sarah Palin is. This is about who John McCain is.

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2. caught on this pregnancy are Republicans on this blog. Projecting much?

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3. The republicans jam morality down everybody’s throat 24/7 365. Had this been the daughter of a Democratic contender, coburn (r, OK), inhofe (r OK), rohrbacher, drier, schiff (r, Ca,), musgrave (r, co), saxby (r, ga)  dobson, robertson, reed, parsley, limbaugh, caplis, o’reilly, boortz, ad nauseum would be talking about how it goes to judgement, “family values”, “living in sin” and “setting the right example”. It’s been a recurring theme for years. “Abstinence only” has made millionaires out of hucksters for 8 years, while birth control has been vilified by “evangelicals” all the while.

   I say Obama’s right. I heard his statement on the “scandal” this am. Once again, he shows what a class act he is. Compare him to the slugs on the other side that throw their “morality” around when in reality it’s “do what we say, not what we do”. Leave this one alone. BUT………if the republicans run the “values” con again, let the dogs loose.    

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