Since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s vice president, has she uttered one word in public that wasn’t scripted by the McCain campaign?
Pathetic.
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Getting a little but testy there, huh?
She’s fantastic, in more ways than one.
I would be saying the same thing if she was a Democrat. As an American, don’t you think it’s appropriate for someone seeking the second-highest office in our nation to be able to handle a simple press conference?
A little BIT testy is what I meant. Be a good, fair liberal and give her a chance.
Well, because she is not a flaming liberal, you know they’re going after her with all they got. Let her get up to speed with the campaign. By the way, she’s going to with ABC and Gibson this week anyways.
I’m willing to give her a chance, but the campaign wants to script every word she says. Until she can enunciate and defend her positions, then she does not deserve serious consideration.
I understand someone being for her becuase they are against Obama or his policies, but let’s not continue the charade that she’s qualified if she can’t handle a press conference.
Finally. That is at least a start, but a press conference is a much better test. Gibson is a bonehead – let’s see how he does.
It seems to me that Palin has the skills to handle a national political role but she has no reps on international policy. So what is really happening here is that the McCain team is coaching her right now on every possible question she will face. They can afford to do so, they are now in front in the polls.
Rather than worrying too much about Palin, I think the Obama team need to get a better strategy in place to fight McCain. I saw a fairly complicated Obama ad in which he tried in 5 steps to draw a quite complex analysis of how Bush policy has hurt America and how McCain is part of that, but it was too complicated. I hardly understood it
on the other hand, while Obama’s team obsesses on Palin, McCain’s team is doing a beautiful job of painting Obama as a snob two faced member of the elite. And this strategy is working right now.
I would hate to see another democrat go down because he wasn’t able to fight back against a GOP strategy designed to avoid the biggest issues this nation faces. Obama has to find a simple way to make Americans realise what is at stake for each of them in this election. So far, nada
I think the voting with Bush 90% of the time charge is a good one, but they need to do better.
i don’t have a chance to watch commercials and my dad just told me that the commercials Obama is running now are tying Bush and McCain together very directly and talking about the 90% voting of McCain.
So that sounds good. You’re right they need more.
It’s a losing battle for NOBAMA boys. America has been introduced to both candidates via the conventions, they heard both platforms, and the polls are bearing out the message the Republicans are voicing is what we want to hear– McCain will continue to gain in the polls, especially after the debates, it’s going to have to be something major to shift this back around.
An Obama presidency will never happen
Oh– McCain up 5 points today on Gallup
Nick: Dukakis led Bush by 18 in early September.
it’s a bit early to be so sure. My opinion is that McCain will win if they can make the election about values like patriotism and paint Obama as an elistist.
Obama will win if he can get Americans to look at issues that affect their day to day lives and standard of living.
I would much rather be in Obama’s shoes, but I do not deny that Obama can lose this election. The GOP has been conning the American voters into voting against their own interests since 1980 with slick marketing and lies. Only Bill Clinton was able to beat them at their own game. Why should 2008 and Obama be different? Obama seems to be a bit repulsed by playing political hardball and he seems to enjoy intellectual debates much more. Let’s hope Barrack has a dash of Clintonian Machiavellism in him!
McCain is not the best candidate in the world, but he sure isn’t Dukakis. I don’t think that’s a very fair comparison.
JP- this is the first election a Republican has had a lead this early as far back as I can remember- and that’s AFTER Obams has seen his enormous lead evaporate. And your Dukakis comment makes my point. Once the voting public sees what these cradle to grave libs want to do, they DON”T get elected.
Based on your analysis, the voting pubic is too stupid to see past the EVIL Republican “lies”- that’s a very elitist way of looking at things. I now have at least some faith in the US public– looks like they are more informed then I thought.
I stick by my comment– McCain will win in a big fashion in the next 2 months.
And then they’ll blame it on bigotry or racism..the same old tired line.
No, just your stupidity
Other polls have it basically tied – Gallup always fluctuates wildly.
Sarah Palin will never be more popular than she is today. Nowhere to go but down.
I’m seeing “whistling in the dark” you guys are running scared!!!!! The individual poll is nice but not really telling- what’s important is the overall TREND!
you’re right, the trend is in McCain’s favor, but this is immediately following the convention.
He definitely had a great week – let’s see how it plays out. If the trend continues he’s in great shape, if it goes back to the old pattern of Obama +2 or 3 then that’s good for Obama.
we’ll see
The funny thing is with the political landscape the way it is, he should be so far up it shouldn’t even be a race. I think people look at Pelosi, Reid, and all of the other do-nothings in Congress and realize he’ll rubber stamp anything they propose..and that’s a scary thought. They are the only people with an approval rating lower than Bush.
The democratic congress certainly isn’t helping him.
By the way, Gerardo, when did the McCain campaign all of a sudden grow a brain if they are indeed “scripting” everything that comes out of her mouth? They go from a bunch of bumbling idiots to brilliant puppet-masters in the span of a couple weeks?
Accept the fact that she’s a formidable opponent and decent, honest, tough American Governor. This is getting to the point of embarassing for the Democrats.
Palin’s 65% approval rating in Alaska speaks for itself. The democratic congress has the lowest approval rating ever. 9%. More than three times lower than Bush.
MF – Sarah Palin put a huge tax on the oil companies and gave every Alaskan family roughly $2,000 last year from that tax. She also fought for federal money as all Alaskans do – they get more money per capita than any other state. So, are you at all surprised she is popular?
SRG – if she’s so competent, why is she avoiding the press, and repeating things that every major news organization, including the Wall Street Journal, has democtrated to be false.
Admit it – there is nothing you can hear that will change your opinion of her.