Palin, republicans and mediocrity

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I couldn't get over her thick accent last night. ...

Did she remind you of Ms. Tomplin from the Phone Company? "One ringy dingy. Two ringy dingies. Three ringy dingies. And a gracious hello to you..."

[Theben]

Originally posted by DanS
Interestingly, for the last 7 elections, Dems have put up lawyers for President and VP. The exception was Gore, who dropped out of law school.

Maybe people get bad vibes from lawyers and are therefore easy targets to the GOP. Perhaps people are anti-lawyer instead of anti-intellectual.

Not so much... I'd argue that Dems do better when they run Southern whites. Ever since Kennedy that's all we've been able to elect.

[-Jrabbit]

I just hope we can stop talking about VPs soon. This is such a non-issue.

My take on this (naming Palin) is that it's a well-conceived plan to draw the discussio away from Bush, Iraq, and the foundering economy. Wasn't this supposed to be the election where we had a clear choice based on the issues?

If the Dems don't get back to the business of pounding home their message, they could blow what should be a gift-wrapped election.

[DanS]

Way too late. Palin's the talk of the town today.

[Victor Galis]

No, my take on this is that we'll elect McCain, he'll die soon after and something out of a bad comedy will ensue.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Palin/Huckabee 2012

[ramseya]

Pawlenty/Jindal 2012 ???

[-Jrabbit]

I think Palin could be an outstanding candidate, and this should be her springboard to national GOP prominence. If Obama wins, she would be the 2012 candidate by virtual acclamation.

But first things first...

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by rah
What's boring is boring white guy vs. boring white guy.

This year it's actually different.

Yup, although I'd add the adjective "old" to that, rah. This year there's still a couple of old white guys in the 4 places (one of them REALLY old!), but at a minimum one of them isn't boring, and one of them isn't the main one.

As for Australia and rural conservatism, there is definitely some of that. However, by far most in Oz live in one of three big cities, so conservatism isn't as dominant politically as it is in the US. Things can get pretty Republican when they do (Howard was like Bush in many ways, except a lot cleverer and without the problems of his legacy), but then there's Rudd, and things swing pretty far in the OTHER direction.

[Theben]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
If the Dems don't get back to the business of pounding home their message, they could blow what should be a gift-wrapped election.

More to do with the right not letting the subject go. I think they know the more people are talking about Palin and the less about McCain the better it is for them overall... they can't distance themselves any further from the moderates than they already have.

We'll have to wait until the GOP convention is done before the Palin talk dies down.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
No, my take on this is that we'll elect McCain, he'll die soon after and something out of a bad comedy will ensue.

I expect Sister Miriam will start building sea bases everywhere.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
I think Palin could be an outstanding candidate ...

Banning books from the library...
Teaching creationism in school...
No sex education in school...
Abstince-only birth control...
Vetoing of wind power and clean coal projects....
Earmarks.
Refusing to believe climate change is caused by man...
Anti-enviromentalism...
Deficit spending like this nation's never seen before [e.g. she ran up a $24 million debt in her itty-bitty town, $3,000 for every man, woman & child]

...and has anyone noticed? She has yet to give an interview to any T.V. reporter since McCain named her as VP candidate. Not only is she not prepared to govern, she's not prepared to campaign.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Did she remind you of Ms. Tomplin from the Phone Company? "One ringy dingy. Two ringy dingies. Three ringy dingies. And a gracious hello to you..."

Yea, something like that. In fact, I was just thinking of all the late night comedy skits protraying her. It's gonna be a field day.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Thick accent?

You need to travel a bit more around this country.

Well it's thicker than any accents I've heard in OK, but then I guess you would hear thicker accents in Alabama or something, however I haven't been there. Also, I've never heard an Alaskan accent before, as I've never met anyone raised there.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Makes me wonder Kid watching "Fargo". He'd probably hate it since he'd have no clue what they were saying.