parah salin?

[kagenaki koe]

the McCain innervoice is hilarious:

[chuck]

Bingo!

[cacophony]

the plot thickens.

the baby isn't her daughter's. can't be. because her 17-year-old daughter of conservative values IS 5 MONTHS PREGNANT OUT OF WEDLOCK *lightning crashes*

my initial thought was that this wouldn't play well with conservatives. knocked up teenage girl, etc. then i realized that we're talking about a very special group of people whose "conservative" values totally embrace teenage sluttery as long as they marry the teenage father and choose life.

so actually i think this is going to turn out to be the perfect storm of controversy for the republicans. the evangelicals and the backwater suburbanites will flock to them in support of the blessed 17 year old who doesn't understand the basic principle of contraception.

[holden]

Originally Posted by chuck

Bingo!

Very nice!!!

[Sean]

So I just got back last night from a little over a week in Bermuda. We watched a tiny bit of news here and there - mainly just a few of the big speeches from the Democratic convention, and then Palin being selected for VP, but I'm just now catching up on all of this. Un-be-lievable.

So in McCain's first "Presidential" decision, this is who he chooses? Clearly he's in a tough spot, having to try to soothe his conservative base while also trying to entice independents, but really? He's blown his entire "dangerously inexperienced" line of attack on Obama out of the water. He's insulted a huge portion of the female vote by assuming that all it takes to get their support is a pair of breasts and a vagina. He's invited a bucket-load of unfolding scandal into his ticket. He's alienated independents who don't feel a rush of inspiration from watching Palin shooting machine guns, hearing her positions on abortion, or her not-so-well-informed understanding of the pledge....I'm just floored.

And I also believe that it's important to consider McCain's history with skin cancer and the simple fact that someone around 70 years old is more susceptible to numerous ailments than someone around 50 is. It shouldn't be the deciding factor, but it would be irresponsible not to consider in selecting a VP. And frankly, it doesn't seem to me that this was considered. So far, Palin doesn't strike me as someone I'd be comfortable with at the healm of our government.

So I don't know. It's a ton to absorb on my first day back from the tropical island, but it certainly seems like a bonehead choice to me....

[cured]

Man, this is amazing.

[dubman]

HAAAAAHAHAHAHA

WE'RE ABOUT TO GET VICTORIAN ALL UP IN THIS ELECTION.
a family with a bastard child? THE NERVE!

[IsiliRunite]

Close your eyes and think of Alaska.

[Future Proof]

How convenient. Something still seems awfully strange though about all this...

EDIT: I know what it is. The part that seems strange is that this new series of events is almost the perfect plan B to what would happen if plan A went sour. Plan A of course to hide the daughter's pregnancy, and Plab B to absolve Ms. Palin of any wrong-doing, should people catch on.

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKES will someone just call fucking Maury Povich and get a baby-daddy test center on the line?!?!?!

[gambit]

I was wrong. This is waaaaaaaayyyyy stranger than Harriet Miers.

I don't see how McCain picked her but just for her ovaries and looks. Otherwise, she's too much like the Bush administration to be an "outsider."