Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle?

Question

Her selection would be something similar to Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrassment as a campaigner. Being thrust on a national stage like that could be very tough.

Mondale tried to shake things up by going with Geraldine Ferraro.she proved to be a disaster as a running mate. And as a campaigner, she was absolutely awful. And so I just think that it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left."

Answer 1

Qualyle won

Answer 2

As a proud democrat I am delighted with the choice.  This is going to backfire....BIG time.  I can't believe she accepted the position of "token" female.  

Answer 3

Palin herself admits she has no idea what a VP does.  SEE/HEAR HER IN HER OWN WORDS:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pak-rH0dC...

(her V.P. comments are toward the end of the video)

At least one person endorses her. None other than Ted Stevens, that kingpin of corruption. Palin had his edorsement on her website until this very morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTX-oJUC...

Answer 4

Hey, here's a thought:  

Why don't you wait until she actually, you know, *starts campaigning* before you start comparing her with Dan Quayle.  

There's a lot about Sarah Palin that you don't know.  She's smart, articulate (even without a teleprompter) and has more executive experience than any of the other candidates.   She's very likely to strike a chord with middle and rural America and it appears she's already brought back the "conservative base" that McCain failed to impress.  

In short, she's "no Dan Quayle."  

Obama played his Veep card and ended up with a stodgy, Beltway insider with hairplugs and a reputation for talking a lot and doing very little.  McCain did exactly what a Naval Aviator should do -- and is now deep inside the Democrat "OODA loop."(1)  

A quote from Harry Hillaker, relative to the concept:

"The key is to obscure your intentions and make them unpredictable to your opponent while you simultaneously clarify his intentions. That is, operate at a faster tempo to generate rapidly changing conditions that inhibit your opponent from adapting or reacting to those changes and that suppress or destroy his awareness. Thus, a hodgepodge of confusion and disorder occur to cause him to over- or under-react to conditions or activities that appear to be uncertain, ambiguous, or incomprehensible."

Sound familiar?  Look at the way Pawlenty and Romney provided an ample smoke screen for Palin.  Who is "rapidly changing conditions"... McCain or Obama?  Whose awareness of the political situation has been challenged?  Read the last sentence and look at the reaction of the media, the Democrats and the Left-at-large since Palin was named.

The calculus has shifted.  The race is now McCain's to lose.

Answer 5

McCain SCORES big, and people...notably feminists, CAN'T handle it

Answer 6

Every single person mentioned in your question is more experienced than Senator Obama.