@BlogKCSarah Palin is being hidden from the news media, but tomorrow you will have a chance to see her in the flesh. The “hockey mom” will be here with John McCain to court the soccer mom vote at a 10:30 a.m. rally in Lee’s Summit. The event is at John Knox Village, so the 72 year-old McCain can also court KC’s geriatric vote at the same time. It is free and no ticket is require. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is expected in St. Louis on Tuesday. Him and Palin will both be back there in October for the Vice-Presidential debate at Washington University.
It’ll be hard to court soccer moms at a retirement home.
However, at John Knox Village, McCain should feel right at home around people his own age.
It’s probably a smart move though. This way Palin can continue to duck questions about her lack of experience, her status as the “pork barrel princess”, her husband’s connections to the oil industry or his registration in the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and also how she left her job as Mayor of Wasilla with the city $20 Million in debt.
This is the best candidate McCain could find?
These kind of scandals and decisions seem like the same old Republican party we have seen for the last 8 years of George Bush, doesn’t it?
Ya, Obama has way more experience. He’s been a senator for almost a whole term!
At least Palin’s cute and has a sense of humor so the last month should be somewhat interesting.
Hippstar’s attitude is the exactly why we get incompetent and stupid people like Bush running our country. Who wants smart or capable when you can have someone who’s “cute” and “interesting”? You are willing to overlook all of Palin’s scandals because she’s “cute”?
Plus, the standard line that Obama has no experience is idiotic. He graduated from Columbia University AND Harvard (where he was the first black man to be PRESIDENT of the law review.
He also He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 YEARS. Then, he served EIGHT years in the Illinois senate.
Instead of hunting moose or being caught up in the Keating Five scandal (like McCain), Obama was actually WORKING to help people, and learning THE LAW – something our current administration seems to know very little about.
But by all means, make your vote based on who wears a flag pin or which candidate you would rather have a beer with – we wouldn’t want our country run by smart people, would we?
It is like that everywhere. At my job I get passed over by people who are ‘nice’ all the time. The main reason that they are considered nice is because they talk all the time and don’t do any work. Those of us who are ‘mean’, and don’t do as much talking (because we are doing the nice person’s work), are vilified…same thing with children (I mean Republicans)….
I agree Ryan, but I haven’t seen anything about Obama that says “mean” or even mildy unpleasant. Obama is one of the best public speakers this country has ever seen and is incredibly charismatic (charm that would help in diplomatic talks with foreign countries), where McCain has a history of being incredibly tempermental and calling people names (including offensive words to his wife! see this link: http://wonkette.com/376849/mccain-called-his-wife-c+word ).
Obama wants to end the war, give everyone health care, work on global warming, penalize countries who send jobs overseas, and create environmentally “green jobs”.
Considering the TERRIBLE job Bush has done and his low approval ratings and the fact that McCain supports Bush 95% of the time, why isn’t Obama trouncing McCain? Are Americans that stupid?
I wasn’t trying to equate Obama=mean…just that Republicans are the “nice” people that don’t actually do anything intelligently…they just talk a lot and then go off and do childish things just to spite society…well maybe no in spite because that would mean actual forethought…something lacking when they invaded Iraq and subsequently had the cradle of our civilization pillaged (quite literally from the anitquities museums and more!)….
Ryan,
I guess I didn’t make it clear, but I understood your point. I was just expanding on the fact that just because Palin is seen as likeable, does that make people think the Democrats are less likeable?
The real problem is that Republicans appeal to voter’s moral beliefs and your fears even though they don’t actually do anything to FIX ACTUAL PROBLEMS. Since the 1980s, the Republicans have run on the platform of scaring people about gays and ending abortion. Well, it’s 2008, and are the gay people gone? Is Roe v. Wade gone for good? No, of course not. These are ploys. If those don’t work, they will scare you about terrorism, or evil Mexican immigrants, all the while letting the deficit climb higher and the gap between poor and rich grow wider.
Were you aware that TW0-THIRDS of American corporations don’t pay taxes? The Republicans are only nice to their rich friends and don’t care about you.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/study-tallies-corporations-not-paying-income-tax/
Oh, one more thing…and I have yet to see it on any blog, website, etc. The obvious manufacturing of all of those “hand painted” signs at the Republican convention. You know the ones, they all had puffy blue, red and green paint and were all in the same handwriting!?!? Like we were supposed to believe tha there were 20-30 “Hockey Moms” in the crowd, and 20 or so “Environmentalists for McCain” in the crowd…they are such liars and theives. You could totally tell that the signs were all made by some young repub council there with little creativity but a willingness to lie to the public…they will become great republicans one day!
Let’s just pray that McCain doesn’t win then die. If that bitch was president, I’d move to Canada. No joke.