Do think McCain picking Palin has been a reckless and disastrous decision from the start?

Question

I mean really it all started with the whole allegation of power abuse coming out, then the teen daughter pregnant drama, now Palin is linked to the Alaskan independence party.

McCain sure knows how to pick'em

Answer 1

Absolutely not. She has more executive experience than Slick Barry, and she will do a fine job as VP. That baby will have Palin's husband, her daughter, and the baby's father to take care of it. How about the REAL issues? Thanks.

Answer 2

Thats why I wanted Huckabee.  

What is McCain thinking?  Now he will have to win in spite of her being on the ticket.  You generally want your VP to add to the ticket not subtract.

Answer 3

No,McCain is brilliant,The Republican base like me is fired up.McCain is getting a lot more money from people now.

Answer 4

every women in the world should be supremly dissapointed by this.....john mccain is a claasic example of a man takeing advantege of a female...he is useing her as a gimick/////

Answer 5

No its great and a sure win for the dems.

Go Obama/Biden08

Answer 6

What was even worse is that he appeared to be ogling her butt while she was speaking.  I don't care about the daughter situation.  I think her attempted abuse of power was out of line, but bottom line is that when you p**s people off in positions of power, this can be the fallout (I know from experience, wrong yes, but it happens every day).  As far as the Alaskan independence party membership, who cares once again.  I wonder about her level of competence, given her experience.

Answer 7

N O ! ! !

Alaska Govermor Sarah Palin has MORE TOTAL political experience than the Socialist / Communist / Liberal / Marxist / ANTI-American Democratic Presidential Nominee !!

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I have NO problem voting for an African American or a woman or any other minorty as long as they are the BEST PERSON for the position !!!

JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama is NOT the BEST person to be OUR President of THE United States of America !!

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To me, Junior U.S. Senator Obama just came out of nowhere !!

The more that I heard, the more that I knew that he would NOT be the BEST person to be THE President of THE United States of America !!

America SHOULD feel unsafe about the possibility of JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama in the White House !!

IF .. JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama can get his Global Poverty Act (SB S.2433) passed ... HE WILL be giving up America's sovereignty to the United Nations !! ... And .. in doing so ... THEY will be trying to re-write our 2nd Amendment !!

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MOST ... JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama Supporters do NOT care about his ideals and policies ... they JUST WANT AN AFRICAN AMERICAN as President !!!

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JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama is ANTI-American.

JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama wants to END WORLD POVERTY on ... OUR NICKEL AND SURRENDER THE United States ... to THE United Nations.

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Please, search the ...

Global Poverty Act (S.2433), ... and it is being sponsored by none other than JUNIOR U. S. Senator Barack Obama.

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JUNIOR U. S. Senator Obama did NOT complete his FIRST term in office !!

... with just 143 days of ACTUAL experience

... HE decided

... that he DESERVED to be THE President of THE United States of America !!!

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JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama, the Unions, and the Democrats are sending messages to big business to downsize in America and send more jobs to foreign countries.

Brilliant ideas from JUNIOR U.S. Senator Obama, the Democrats and the Unions (SARCASM) !!!!

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Answer 8

Silly Asker, your attempts at drawing Palin as a negative are childish and unfounded. She scares the living heck out of you dysfunctional liberals. She was and is a GREAT selection!

McCain\Palin 08!

NoBummer 08!

Answer 9

He just handed the election to Barack -  Mit Romney would have been a better choice!

Answer 10

It isn't that bad.. the Obama presidency would be a true disaster....

Answer 11

In a society that has been more obsessed with Britney Spears and the hit TV show “Gossip Girl”, than it is on our domestic and foreign troubles, it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that the Republican nominee for President would choose his running mate more on her photogenic qualities and her image of being something out of Andy Griffith's Mayberry, and not on her competency and experience. Americans are so thoroughly disconnected from the consequences of who they elect, that they treat elections as popularity contests, and therefore are more enamored by the trivial glamour surrounding the candidate, as opposed to their qualifications. In every other area of life, we determine whether a person is fit for a position based on their skill, and not on how much they reflect a Norman Rockwell painting or how much they project an image of being like Wally and Beaver’s mother.

I can’t blame McCain for choosing the running mate that he did. After all, as cynical as this may sound, McCain is a politician, and like most politicians, their choices are based on what makes them most likely to win an election as opposed to what is best for the nation. I do however blame the American people for allowing the cult of personality to override their rationality. If McCain and Palin’s aspirations for the Whitehouse are fulfilled, Americans will once again bemoan the fact that they elected individuals based on image over substance. However, I am certain that as long as our citizens are allowed to live in the comfortable world of consumerism, and are completely insulated from the hardships that ravage the rest of the world, they will continue to repeat this mistake over and over again. I am as certain of this as I am certain of the law of gravity. If anything can be learned from this scenario, it is that Hegel was one of the keenest social commentators, for it is he who said: “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Certainly, for America, this is so true.

Answer 12

Palin has 2 years of executive experience to Obama's ZERO.

ZERO

ZERO

ZERO.

McCain/Palin 08

Answer 13

I am a man,and I would love to see,at least, one woman in our government. Unlike, some of the Obama's chauvinists.

Answer 14

She is the junior, a president in training.  Obama is actually trying to be president without any experience and no capable staff to support him.

Answer 15

No, I don't think it was a bad discion for him to pick her.

McCain and his advisors new before picking her that the daughter was pregnant.

"Palin told McCain's team about the pregnancy during lengthy discussions about her background, and the senator knew about it when he made her his surprise pick Friday, aides said. At several points during the discussions, McCain's team warned Palin that the scrutiny into her private life would be intense and that there was nothing she could do to prepare for it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/ap_o...

Answer 16

I think he was trying to take his campaign from stale and boring to new and exciting.  He overshot.  It's now a circus.

To the post above:  I have executive experience.  I was president of the Business Spanish Club at Michigan State back in '04.  Does that experience compare to Obama's?  No.  

Does Palin's?  Still no.  She governed a state whose population is one-fourteenth the size of Chicago's.

Answer 17

I completely disagree. Sarah Palin is a great choice. She is exactly what we need. The abuse of power thing is frivolous (did you know Obama is now involved in a federal lawsuit in PA? Who's talking about THAT?), I don't believe it's been proven that she was a member of the AIP, and the attacks on her daughter are downright DISGUSTING.

Answer 18

Well,there's stuff coming out about Biden and Rezko now, And also his lobbying ties.  So much for Obama's call for change,right.  Sheesh,