ext_175255 ([identity profile] tiggerallyn.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] altariel 2008-08-29 03:21 pm (UTC)

Thorts, o my flisters? Has this swung it for McCain?
This pick hasn't swung it for McCain, no. A couple of reasons.

1) No name recognition.

2) No significant experience. She's only been the governor of Alaska for a year and a half, and before that she was the mayor of a town of 8,000.

3) Alaska was going for McCain anyway.

4) She's embroiled in a state trooper scandal.

Now, she does have a compelling story — she carried a Down's Syndrome baby to term and refused to abort. She's rabidly pro-life. She has Big Oil bonafides.

But I tend to think she's going to be the 2008 version of Dan Quayle.

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