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No Passaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 05:47 PM
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Even National Review conservative writers are asking Palin sto step down for the good of their party
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=

It was fun while it lasted.

Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.

No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”

When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama’s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: “I’m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it?”

If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What to do?

McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.
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Carolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 05:50 PM
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1. If BS were currency,
Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love that line.

K&R
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 05:52 PM
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2. What I can't help but say is "Where are the cries of sexism now?"
When Hillary was being asked to concede in a race that was just getting impossible for her to win, the Republicans had no problem with forgetting all their hatred for her to encourage all the in-fighting. And now that their own incompetency in choosing a fucking moron who just happens to be female threatens to bite them in their ass, there's no one to give them the same sort of guff that they deserve for this fucking mess.

Nooo... instead of taking our constructive criticisms in our initial reactions towards Palin, they went along on their merry way so CONVINCED that they were being so smart and so proud of their "revolutionary" and "historical" move. Yeah, so here I am.

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO!

Cry me a fucking river, GOP!

That is all.
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Sodan Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 05:53 PM
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3. What the sane conservatives are thinking..
And yes they do exist :D
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 05:54 PM
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4. Caribou Barbie AKA Churchy Spice should step down because her family needs her.
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