Posted on 08/31/2008 5:14:17 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 31th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): John McCain; Mike Miller, director of operations for the Republican National Convention.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., and Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y.; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Carly Fiorina, adviser to the McCain campaign.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Kerry, D-Mass.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Govs. Charlie Crist, R-Fla., Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; former Sens. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Reps. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to McCain; Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; R. David Paulison, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Both Gregory and Mitchell like the barracuda on MTP. WTF?
Doris the historian was much less supportive, and Andrea Mitchell was trying to be objective, but seemed to hope that Gov. Palin fails.
The general consensus is that VP SP is a very risky choice, made for political purposes only, and could implode at any moment. Joe Biden, on the other hand, is a statesman with vast experience. (and here I thought he was just a hack).
John Kerry with a shotgun is about as effective as Barak Obama without a teleprompter.
Obama cannot speak to his closest friends such as Rev. Wright or Ayers. They were also his mentors. Nobody can explain to us why Obama should be President and why he is qualified.
Wow you really got it here TX! Hope Rush gets this one.
Fantastic I can’t wait!
Conservative “men” will walk the talk with Sarah Palin. We are not giving lip service, pandering platitudes to women. That’s because we base our support on issues and principle, and not simply because she’s a woman.
Obama talked a good game for change but what did he do as his first important act? He chose a running mate right out of the inside the beltway mentality of machine politics.
LATE EDITION (CNN) :
Blitzer “don’t start looting”
Sorry fish but Post # 327 looks like a more likely scenario to me.
Agreed. Lord knows, we have waited a long time for someone of Sarah Palin’s caliber. If she does nothing else, she’s making politics more fun now. No longer are we voting for the lesser of two evils, we can support someone we respect and who could very well be the first woman US President.
yea and someone said the other day “Sarah Palin could probably outshoot Obama”
My response was PROBABLY???? There is no probably about it... You bet your sweet britches she would hahahahah
Fred was great! His support of Palin says a lot to me.
Alaska has more people than: Wyoming, North Dakota, or Vermont.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population
I saw the interview with Palin. It is actually a good question. The President defines what the VP does. It could or could not be a meaningful job. Historically, it has mostly been meaningless because the Presidents have not delegated much to the VP.
John Nance Garner spent his entire adult life working his way up to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and then gave it up to become Vice President to FDR. He later said it was the "worst damn fool mistake I ever made." Garner served in that office from March 4, 1933 to January 20, 1941. Garner once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss."[1] [This quote was Bowdlerized for many decades to "not worth a bucket of warm spit" by the media.
I would say that Palin's inquiry/comments showed good judgment and commonsense. She would be giving up the job of governor for VP. If McCain didn't promise here a worthwhile job, she would be a fool to take it. I assume McCain assured her that he would delegate important responsibilities to her.
So was their hero Bill Clinton. I don't remember the lefties & MSM having any problem with that!
At least, Sarah isn't using her state police to chase someone to have sex.
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