How many lies will liberals tell about Palin before the weekend is out?

Question

I've heard them take her out of context over and over. This is her first day as nominee for crying out loud.

This whole 'legislative' investigation sounds like more liberal politics as usual.

She did not abuse her power, it is within the Governors power to police the state police.

Answer 1

Probably JUST AS MANY lies as the Conservatives will tell about both Obama and Biden. It's politics people...it's mud slinging BOTH sides do it...you're not so special.

Answer 2

Because liberals arent gonna be ******* this time around like Kerry and Gore. John Mccain made the WORST political decision of his life. The GOP's message in their convention was going to be 'Hes not ready'... posted on signs all over the convention. What are their signs gonna say now? 'We thought Obama wasnt ready, but we picked a VP with 2 years less experience so nevermind.' ??

Answer 3

Along with all the other smears, half truths and outright lies any time now I expect someone to mention that men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses. In other words, they will not vote for her.

Answer 4

Never mind her, specifically.  Were you watching McCain himself as she was giving her little acceptance speech?  Hilarious!  He stood behind her the whole time, smiling very nervously, fingering his wedding band over and over.  Almost as thought he were reminding himself, "I'm a married man, I'm a married man, I'm a married man..."

Answer 5

She supported Pat Buchanan, and pushed to get "Creationism" taught in public schools......sorry, no liberal lies needed!!!!

Answer 6

Isn't Alaska a mostly republican state?  The state has slated $100,000 to conduct an investigation of the governor.  I was not too impressed with the charges until I saw the price tag and the fact that other republicans thought an investigation was warranted.  

Answer 7

Live and let live. Everyone has the right to express his or her opinion even if it differs from ours. Someone is not necessarily evil or  lying just because you or I disagree with his/her interpretation of something. Different people see things in different ways and that is good because hearing about it it gives us all a broader perspective. Attacking and name calling are not the best ways to receive someone's political opinion unless we want ours to be met in the same way.      

Answer 8

do you expect any less from ANYONE...on both sides....im surprised obama didnt congratulate mccain, the way he did...i mean a woman vice prez is something new to.

i dunno, politics really work my nerves.

Answer 9

all of them...except the dems for mccain.

Answer 10

We don't need to.  The choice is such obvious pandering, only a Republican would be taken in.

Answer 11

  As a liberal, I assure you it is important to have weekends off. There will be no lies until Monday at least and maybe later since it's a holiday weekend.

Answer 12

Probably about the same amount that were told about Obama after he announced Biden as running make.  (Look at YA immediately following the announcement.)  That should give you a good measure about the lies people tell when it comes to politics.

Answer 13

Whatever you think of the pick, here are six things it tells us about McCain:

1. He’s desperate. Let’s stop pretending this race is as close as national polling suggests. The truth is McCain is essentially tied or trailing in every swing state that matters — and too close for comfort in several states like Indiana and Montana the GOP usually wins pretty easily in presidential races. On top of that, voters seem very inclined to elect Democrats in general this election — and very sick of the Bush years.

McCain could easily lose in an electoral landslide. That is the private view of Democrats and Republicans alike.

McCain’s pick shows he is not pretending. Politicians, even “mavericks” like McCain, play it safe when they think they are winning — or see an easy path to winning. They roll the dice only when they know that the risks of conventionality are greater than the risks of boldness.

The Republican brand is a mess. McCain is reasonably concluding that it won’t work to replicate George W. Bush and Karl Rove’s electoral formula, based around national security and a big advantage among Y chromosomes, from 2004.

“She’s a fresh new face in a party that’s dying for one — the antidote to boring white men,” a campaign official said.

Palin, the logic goes, will prompt voters to give him a second look — especially women who have watched Democrats reject Hillary Rodham Clinton for Barack Obama.

The risks of a backlash from choosing someone so unknown and so untested are obvious. In one swift stroke, McCain demolished what had been one of his main arguments against Obama.

“I think we’re going to have to examine our tag line, ‘dangerously inexperienced,’” a top McCain official said wryly.

2. He’s willing to gamble — bigtime. Let’s face it: This is not the pick of a self-confident candidate. It is the political equivalent of a trick play or, as some Democrats called it, a Hail Mary pass in football. McCain talks incessantly about experience, and then goes and selects a woman he hardly knows, who hardly knows foreign policy and who can hardly be seen as instantly ready for the presidency.

He is smart enough to know it could work, at least politically. Many Republicans see this pick as a brilliant stroke because it will be difficult for Democrats to run hard against a woman in the wake of the Hillary Clinton drama. Will this push those disgruntled Hillary voters McCain’s way? Perhaps. But this is hardly aimed at them: It is directed at the huge bloc of independent women — especially those who do not see abortion as a make-or-break issue — who could decide this election.

McCain has a history of taking dares. Palin represents his biggest one yet.

3. He’s worried about the political implications of his age. Like a driver overcorrecting out of a swerve, he chooses someone who is two years younger than the youthful Obama, and 28 years younger than he is. (He turned 72 Friday.) The father-daughter comparison was inevitable when they appeared next to each other.

4. He’s not worried about the actuarial implications of the age issue. He thinks he’s in fine fettle, and Palin wouldn’t be performing the only constitutional duty of a vice president, which is standing by in case a president dies or becomes incapacitated. If he was really concerned about an inexperienced person sitting in the Oval Office we would be writing about vice presidential nominee Mitt Romney or Tom Ridge or Condoleezza Rice.

There is no plausible way that McCain could say that he picked Palin, who was only elected governor in 2006 and whose most extended public service was as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population 8,471), because she was ready to be president on Day One.

Nor can McCain argue that he was looking for someone he could trust as a close adviser. Most people know the staff at the local Starbucks better than McCain knows Palin. They met for the first time last February at a National Governors Association meeting in Washington. Then, they spoke again — by phone — on Sunday while she was at the Alaska state fair and he was at home in Arizona.

McCain has made a mockery out of his campaign's longtime contention that Barack Obama is too dangerously inexperienced to be commander in chief. Now, the Democratic ticket boasts 40 years of national experience (four years for Obama and 36 years for Joseph Biden of Delaware), while the Republican ticket has 26 (McCain’s four yeasr in the House and 22 in the Senate.)

The McCain campaign has made a calculation that most voters don’t really care about the national experience or credentials of a vice president, and that Palin’s ebullient personality and reputation as a refomer who took on cesspool politics in Alaska matters more.

5. He’s worried about his conservative base. If he had room to maneuver, there were lots of people McCain could have selected who would have represented a break from Washington politics as usual. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman comes

Answer 14

It's already started

They are saying that her youngest child is not really hers but her 17 year old daughter"s

That was a little quicker than even I thought

Answer 15

There are no lies, just opinions.  If you believe something to be true, then it is the truth to you. What you see as a lie is truth to others, and what you see as truth can be seen differently by others.

Just vote for her and JM in November if that is your wish & then watch the results on TV like everybody else.  

Since I'm assuming she's not a relative or friend of yours, what others say really shouldn't matter.

Answer 16

They're just welcoming Ms. Palin to the political Super Bowl.

Obama, McCain and Biden and Clinton have had microscopes up their rear end the last 2 years. Ms. Palin is luckily only having to endure 67 days of it.

Lets hope for her personal sake in the Republicans haste to counteract the big splash from the Democratic Convention they fully vetted Ms. Palin.

She seems like she is capable but constant scrutiny 24/7 is a whole different animal.  

Answer 17

Liberals say that Republicans are the attack dogs but I've sure seen more vicious attacks coming from liberals than from republicans, at least on this site