McCain Apparently Chooses Sarah Palin as VP

Hoping to counter Barack Obama's post-DNC bounce in the polls, John McCain will reportedly announce who he has chosen for vice president at an event in Dayton, Ohio today at 12 p.m. NBC News says Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney are out, and CNN says that "sources point to Palin as McCain's running mate" (but CNN hasn't confirmed it). Palin would be Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is 44 and has only two years of experience (she is also currently being investigated by the Alaska legislature for her own Troopergate). ~~ABC News says that Palin will not be in Ohio--she's heading to the State Fair in Anchorage today.~~ Update: Now CNN says Palin will be in Dayton as senior McCain advisers confirm she's the VP pick. Pat Buchanan says this is a huge political gamble but it will energize the Republican base (he notes she's a "Buchananite"), she's a reformer, pro-life, and a mom of five--but he acknowledges her lack of experience. The VP debate with Biden on October 2 should be really interesting. And now NY Times confirms.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 29, 2008 10:28 AM

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JenChungsBaby

Whoops. I was snorting coke off a hooker's back when I wrote that with one hand on my iPhone.

NannyState

@kojak, Correction: having had five kids, her vagina is indeed like her home state of Alaska -cold and heavily wooded.

Mr Mel

Attn: Lisa,

Check out the DC site.

EastRiver

A level of experience which, BTW, led him to vote against the Iraq War, something McCain didn't do

When did Obama vote against the war in Iraq? I'm sure he was against it but he wasn't in the Senate in 2002.

babyhitler

Everyone's acting like only women's minds will change. I guarantee that billy bob is like "wha? a woman? I'm staying home on election night."

matty

Middle America? What about every woman in this country who is of voting age?

This is a serious feminist mindfuck if there ever was one.

Also I want credit for coining the phrase "feminist mind fuck"

Thanks.

Mr Mel

Happy 72nd birthday to John McCain, welcome to Sarah Palin. The Vegas odds makers are probably working overtime trying to figure out the probabilities of Sarah succeeding John. It's a bet I wouldn't take. Historically the job's a killer. I think the best case scenario is her going moose hunting with Dick Cheney.

Steven

How is middle America feeling right now about a women who may be the new vice president?

nycat

Palin who?

JenChungsBaby

A former beauty queen:

"At a NEWSWEEK forum in March 2008, Alaska governor Sarah Palin tells NEWSWEEK's Karen Breslau that she was 'never really comfortable' with her beauty-pageant past. Palin finished second in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant."

matty

yeah, wtf, way hot. I half expect her to take off her glasses, let down her hair and say to the camera "I put the VICE is VICE PRESIDENT" and then start stripping.

esquared

She's a hottie.

JenChungsBaby

Very well said, jaycjay. How can McCain now criticize Obama's level of experience? (A level of experience which, BTW, led him to vote against the Iraq War, something McCain didn't do.)

jaycjay

"I dare Barry to talk about experience. I dare him."

Obama never was going to bring up experience and still doesn't have to. Having McCain no longer able to use Obama's own relative lack of experience against him is enough of a gain.

babyhitler

I think what McCain really wanted was a black gay senator who was a post-op trannie and a single mom of 3 kids but he had to settle for Palin. "Look at Me! I'm a Maverick! Look at me!"

GM

She's something of the future of the Republican party - pushing for a federal ban on gay marriage, but recognizing equal rights of partners. They really couldn't take it any other way.

Alaska isn't really America, she is definitely a poor choice for VP. I wonder what role they have in mind for her? She's no Cheney, that's for sure, but I guess McCain thinks that's his area of expertise.

takethecanoli

so if anyone's hitting that them's DNA is no good.

So not the point. (joke shamefully stolen)

"Best things about sex with women over 40: they don't tell, they don't swell, and they're grateful as hell!"

JacqueMehoff

I've read somewhere she just gave birth to a baby with down's syndrome in April of this year.

so if anyone's hitting that them's DNA is no good.

longacre

She looks kinda like the girl who played Katherine Harris in Recount.

Spirit of 76

It'll be interesting to see if she can hold her own in the VP debates. Would have been even more fun if Obama had picked Hillary. HRC would have ripped Palin to shreds in a debate.