McCain picks Palin

[altariel]

No, not Michael, although surely that would have been a sure-fire winner. Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska.

Thorts, o my flisters? Has this swung it for McCain? I have to say when I read the story, I thought, "You crafty bastards."

(Ladbrokes were offering 100:1 on this last night. Bugger.)

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Most radical thing since the 70s for McCain?

[(Anonymous)]

I have to say when I read the story, I thought, "You crafty bastards."

If only he'd expended an ounce of the creativity this pick may have required to expose, stall, or undermine the administration's militarism and fundamental dishonesty and blatant disrespect for the law (or anything else that gets in its way)! Friggin' waste of effort, though given the Dems' abilities to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, I won't be surprised if suddenly America feels all 'feminist' and McCainian in a couple of months.

Deeply cynical,
Dwim

Gah!

[(Anonymous)]

"John McCain has introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice presidential running mate in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National"

From AP. I'm sorry, this is exactly what pisses me off. Oh yes, McCain the Maverick. Whatever Palin's credentials may be, even if she is somewhat maverick, linking her up with McCain on that basis reinforces the so very, very out of date and just false image of McCain as maverick that gets people all starry-eyed about him.

Dwim