Democrats have a nasty habit of wasting time spinning around looking at their ass every time some sap says "Look what you sat in...Ha HA!" instead of just plunging forward.  We can count the hours to Election Day, don't sweat the small stuff.

But it was his proclivity for the gaffe that disqualified him in my book.

You writing his obit already?    In the real world people are supposed to have a sense of humour and not take themselves too seriously.  If anything, Obama's been too po-faced to allow many "ordinary people" to identify with him.

Being sympathetic and empathetic to Palin at the personal level whilst attacking McCain for NOT PUTTING THE COUNTRY FIRST by selecting the most qualifies VEEP is probably the way to go.

Or do swing voters really believe she is the BEST QUALIFIED person McCain could have chosen for the job?

"We reported back to hearts what we had seen, and told our footsteps all about where we had been."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846/28141/Front_Page/The_Council_For_National_Policy_Mee ts_In_Minn_Vets_Palin

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The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin
By Max Blumenthal     Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:46 AM EST      print story
              Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.
CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain

Her policies and beliefs are but she's not. She has dropped the g from her vocabulary though. Goin, doin, somthin.  

More important than Biden I think!
Screw the wingnuts, they have been calling Palin a babe, as has Limpballs so they can't go after Biden

Gustav now a Category 2 (winds 110 mph or less) with expected rainfall of 6 to 12 inches in SW La.  Looks like the worst of it it will miss New Orleans by 80 miles or so.  With luck damage and loss of life will be far, far less than Katrina.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

And within hours of being named on Friday I saw a link on a conservative blog to this: http://www.vpilf.com/

Despite the URL it is safe for work

Politicians, unless they believe that the earth is 6000 years old and that some god wants them to rule the world, are required to stick to childish bullshit. But I thought around here we were supposed to be reality based.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."