With such a poor choice for VP, is McCain signaling that he really doesn't want to be president?

Question

With such a poor choice for VP, is McCain signaling that he really doesn't want to be president?

Answer 1

he clearly got desperate and threw all his money into "one spin"...

now he may regret it...

Answer 2

Replace McCain with Obama and your question will make sense.

Answer 3

Yes.  he is such a Maverick that he does not want the GOP to be in control anymore.

he is atrue patriotic and puts on his American Hat, not a republican hat.

Answer 4

last night i saw Teflon on  TV.the defeat was written on his face.

several thousand protesters on republican's convention,is THE nail in their coffin

Answer 5

It's better than saying you are about change, then go and pick a standard, typical, political inside the beltway hack, like Biden.

Answer 6

And when you add this http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/p...

into the mix, along with Palin's ties to an anti-American group...it's a wrap.

Answer 7

Ah...  Did McCains pick for VP ruin your Obama easy election dream???  :)

Dream on when you talk about a poor pick.  This woman is turning out to be an ATM for the Republican party.  The more the media trashes her, the more money she will bring in...  

And all Obama had to do was to put Hillary on the ticket.  If he had done that, he would have no doubt won by double digits...

Answer 8

Instead of picking the most popular, he picked the best.  Is that so bad?

Answer 9

I can see where Obama supporters might not see why she's a good choice.

Bear in mind that Obama is promising you "change", but his VP pick has been in Washington for 36 years.  If that doesn't give you pause, you lack the judgment to criticize McCain's.

Are you all that disappointed/surprised that he didn't pick Lieberman?  

Answer 10

WAKE UP AMERICA

Americans need to get out of this sexist/racist ostrich head burying trip and start thinking about the future of this country. We can not survive on this planet alone. George bush has made us more isolated and less secure than we have been since the colonies told England to shove it. We are in Iraq virtually alone because it is wrong, period.

George Bush and John McCain keep telling us that we are safer today than we were on 9-11; lets do the math;

• 2,974 people from 115 countries, died on 9-11.

• 4,151 deaths and 30,182 wounded US military in the Iraq war.

How in the h**l are we safer?

Everyone continues to give Ronald Reagan credit for the break up of the Soviet Union. In reality the reason it failed was the cost of the soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Russia went broke. Not pressure from the US, or Ronald Regan's cute little speech "Gorbachev tear down this wall..." Russia just went broke, period and with 10 billion a month spent on Iraq and record debt to China (communist China by the way) to pay for oil from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela (countries who's leaders hate us) America is broke! And let’s not forget: George Bush went to Saudi Arabia to beg for more oil and they laughed in his face.

By the way the inflation rate is the highest it's been in 17 years, guess who was president then? You guessed it, George Bush Senior.

As for John McCain’s choice of VP, it is another case of poor judgment. The choice of Gov. Palin is very disturbing at best;

Alaska’s gross state product is less than $40 Billion as compared to Chicago’s approximate $442 billion. Chicago is rated as having the most balanced economy in the United States, due to its high level of diversification.

The Alaskan economy, on the other hand is dominated by the oil and gas industry with petroleum extraction making up more than 80% of the state's revenue.

Alaskan State operations are completely funded by oil revenue.

There are less than 700,000 people in Alaska (less than 25% of the Chicago population 2,833,321), so between the oil revenue and minimal population, what governing experience does she have. She was not elected Governor, she was appointed by the oil companies. It is clear to me that she is in the pocket of the oil companies, she has to be, they pay her salary.

And now there are allegations that Gov. Palin used her position as Governor to get a State employee fired? If this turns out to be true, what does that say about the people of Alaska who would sit back and accept this kind of corruption? This also speaks volumes about her and the Republican party’s character and Judgment. If the facts are true, she should be immediately removed from the ticket, impeached as Governor, and criminally prosecuted for at least abuse of power. We already have enough megalomaniacs in the Whitehouse. She can no more put Americans first than John McCain or George Bush has. 4 more years of the same.

As a disabled Veteran, I don't have any children, I am above the draft age and married to a foreigner; I've got somewhere to go, the rest of you better wake up, before John McCain gets elected and finishes the destruction of this country that George bush started.

Answer 11

Either that or he had no good choices for VP, so he closed his eyes and pointed his finger to a random name on his short list.

Answer 12

Mccain had a spring and an entire summer to choose a vp. Instead he decided to use only one week of all this time to pick a clearly non vetted gov. of Alaska. Amazing!!!!!!  

Answer 13

Do you really think McCain made the choice?

His handlers have taken over.

Answer 14

You mean the woman who has all of you liberals crying in your milk and digging furiously to find a way to blotch her reputation because your false prophet is falling from his pedestal?  Guess the answer is NO it's a signal he's more savvy and intelligent than Obama.  

Answer 15

HA HA poor choice... what really is sad out of the other three (McCain, Obama and Biden) she is the ONLY one to have executive experience in a governmental level. McCain has military leadership, what does obama and biden have????????

Believe it or not, she is more qualified than the rest of them.