Did Republicans expect that Democratic women would just hop on the Sarah Palin bandwagon?

Question

She has no foreign policy experience. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Condi Rice ond Olympia Snow would have been the consumate choice. These ladies have experience.

Answer 1

YES they did - shows how sad, out of touch and pathetic they are.....

Answer 2

No, we wanted to secure our base.

Answer 3

Ohhh yes they did.  That's why it was a hasty decision.

Answer 4

They did on Friday....I think those expectations are fading now.

Answer 5

Only the smart ones!

She has as much foreign policy experience as Obama.

Answer 6

I think McCain was trying to appease the conservative base...

Answer 7

An experienced woman is a threat to McCain, he wants someone that he can control. His wife acts like she is afraid of him.She acts like a timid little rabbit.

Answer 8

Unfortunately there are some, not all, republicans who probably think that a woman would just blindly vote for another woman.  This woman wont!  

Answer 9

No, of course not.  But it proves that she's down to earth, has a concern that many other American women have.  She'll deal with it well and that's what she needs to show everyone.  The VP position is a big one, the second biggest in the world, and she is ready.  John McCain would not have chosen her otherwise.  He knows what he's doing.  And I'm sure McCain didn't do this by himself.  The concensus was she's the one!

Answer 10

No, they don't.

They just hope they wont make women look stupid by voting for Obama.

Answer 11

They obviously think Dem women are stupid. Palin and Hillary are like water and fire. Any Hillary supporter who would switch parties just to vote for a woman is clueless.

Answer 12

I don't think that's the base they're after.  They need the white male vote to win the election.

Answer 13

I think they did, I bet McCain was telling all of his Campaign workers that this was sure to work.

Answer 14

Why yes they did and of course they will, they don't want a man in there who thinks that a woman is not good enough to run with the Messiah.

Answer 15

Word comes tonight that McCain's people lied about Palin being vetted -- the FBI has admitted they did NOT vet her. So McCain has dispatched ten operatives and investigators to Alaska to find out if there's anything else that's about to hit the fan regarding his veep pick, a woman he had run into only once in his life and then called her on her cell phone two weeks ago at the Alaska State Fair. That was it before she made the short list and was selected. McCain's radar -- honed perhaps during his own self-admitted indiscretionary phase of his life -- is telling him there's more to the Palin story. You mean things like her support of the Alaska Secessionist Party or being one of the directors of recently-arrested Sen. Ted Stevens' political action groups? Heck, I dunno. We shall see...