how much longer before Sarah Palin uh hum...steps down?- Page 2

[javero]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 5:48pm

Back story: Both chambers of Congress are in session right now working out a compromise on the bailout business an accord with which Obama will most certainly agree. The political fallout will be immense.

Furthermore, not one appropriations (budget) bill for the federal government has even made it out of committee yet and the federal government's fiscal year ends Tues.

Wed,the feds will be operating under a continuing resolution in an election year so there will be new budget in all likelihood until a new president is sworn in further increasing the stakes. Incumbent members of the current Congress have lil' over a month to campaign for the downballot races on their home turf. They are ready to go home!

Haste always makes bad law coming out of Congress and the political repercussions of the bailout will be massive.

The Dems in Congress are just posturing. They don't won't a bailout but have to appease their constituents who are staving off foreclosures right and left. They really want the Repubs to kill the bailout so that can blame them for the resulting catastrophe and pick up a whole bunch of seats come Nov.

The true fiscal conservatives of the GOP reject the bailout on principle. The opportunists see it as a way to put space between themselves and Bush/Cheney in their re-election bids. Most savvy GOP politicos recognize that Palin's unqualified to be even a congressional page and will put the squeeze on McCain to drop her like a hot potato.

We are facing the prospect of installing a new administration and new Congress with a collapsed financial sector, housing market in shambles, multiple wars ongoing, runaway winter heating costs and no budget in place come Jan.

Most Dems and Indies recognize that we cannot put this great nation's fate in the hands of McCain and Sarah Palin. He's a walking time bomb and she's clueless. However, the GOP will do whatever necessary to retain the White House even throwing Caribou Barbie under the bus.

Forgive me for rambling. So much is at stake in this coming election.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 6:37pm

Something has to be done to shore up the financial industry - because the lack of liquidity will quickly spiral us down into a very ugly and messy economic mess that will exacerbate the current recession.

We better get equity in the institutions, and accountability.

But, there needs to be some liquidity or business will come to a halt. Already, the cost of capital has increased, and that is making it difficult for some established business to get loans and credit.

This could be one big domino path, and we have to find a way to pull out one of the tiles before it is too late.

I don't like it any more than the next person, but something has to be done so the economy does not come to a grinding halt.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 6:51pm

Palin will not be dropped. Believe it or not, she is considered an asset to McCain by many voters. My uncle and cousin are among them. They feel that there are plenty of women in this country who will vote for a woman.

About experience, and knowledge of government, plans for the future of the US, etc. Do not believe what you hear coming out of the mouth of any politician, during any speech or debate.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:09pm

IF she does step down, wouldn't that make McSame even more of a joke and put his judgement in question once again? Hey, I'm all for it. The more drama from McSame the stupider it makes him and his campaign look.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:25pm

I really can't imagine someone with the name "John Boehner" on the ticket.

The jokes are just too easy.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:44pm

He's a d!ck also. He's a few districts away from me. I get the pleasure of seeing his re-election ad's.

Updated On: 9/27/08 at 07:44 PM

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:44pm

I just googled the Senate finance committee and found one woman, Olympia Snowe- a Republican. She has served in congress and now the senate. She was named one of the Top 10 Senators. Her first husband is deceased and she has a grown child. With all of this focus on the economy- wouldn't she have been a better choice as VP? Granted- she is from Maine but at least that's one of the original 13. Does anyone know anything about her?

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:51pm

Snowe is far too moderate for the Republican base. The derogatory term used within the party for moderates like her is RINO (Republican In Name Only). The neocons would never accept her.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:06pm

See, in my opinion, someone like Snowe would have helped McCain a great deal. There is a large faction of undecideds who don't want to vote for Obama but feel McCain's too conservative. They may have gone for him with Snowe, but I think the combo of McCain and Palin is just too far right.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:12pm

Supportivemom, Maine isn't one of the original 13 colonies, though I've wondered why Snowe wasn't chosen also.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:12pm

The candidate from Alaska needs to step down or step up.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:25pm

Thanks for clarifying that Maine is not one of the original 13- I guess I was thinking about the quarters! lol anyway, I know Snowe would have brought the finance experience to McCain's foreign policy. But then again- she's in her 60's- doesn't have 5 children (1 in the military, 1 pregnant, and 1 with Downs Syndrome). I guess I answered my own question she writes sarcastically! by the way- I switched over to Fox to watch Elisabeth on Huckabee- she still talks a mile a minute and I had to turn it off because I was getting sharp pains in my stomach! Fox is the most biased channel ever and cannot claim that they are fair- puhleeze!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:37pm

Yup, they are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:39pm

ShbrtAlley44: One could argue that Maine was part of the original 13 Colonies by way of Massachusetts, since it was an exclave of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:43pm

I can't wait to see Sarah on Thursday night. Biden is already shakin' in his boots.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:44pm

True, I suppose, but since it wasn't official...

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:50pm

Thanks for naming all the 13 because I was gonna look it up1

By the way- has anyone else noticed that Bickle's avatar looks like a bunch of hot air balloons! just sayin'

[Auggie27]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:53pm

Hate to be this cynical, but...

The Couric interview will help enhance the Palin debate performance. Right now, she's a one joke joke. She has nowhere to go but up. A new joke about seeing Russia from her window is no doubt being carefully crafted -- one in which she will laugh at herself, freely, and thus the moment will pass. That's the trick October surprise here -- Palin "opens up" and shrugs about her gaffes -- and ends up beloved for it.

So, with zero expectations, she will answer in short, stubby, generic sentences. She will even daringly admit she doesn't know something, but plans to learn to. But she will never ramble as she did with Couric.

Morning after: Punditry: "She was REFRESHINGLY REAL!" She was woman enough to admit she's learning as she goes. SHE'S ONE OF US, OUR SARAH!" A devastating performance last week will be matched by a shrewdly calculated one on Thursday, and the base will breathe a sigh of relief.

To the rest of us, I stand by what I heard in the locker room at the Y tonight: "The two most dangerous words in the English language right now: President Palin." And I live in a predominately Republican suburb.

Updated On: 9/27/08 at 08:53 PM

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:54pm

Yes, representing the optimistic America so ably and credibly described by Ronald Reagan for more than forty years.

All tides rising, all Americans looking to an American morning, A Shining City on a Hill.

Palin is the natural heir to this great legacy.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:58pm

Yep auggie- I'm afraid that will happen too- I said it before, the GOP is banking on Biden to flub this up. I hope the moderator asks her why she hasn't been on the Sunday morning programs and why she has not been answering questions from the press. Or at least, I hope Biden brings it up that he has been doing this. There is no doubt that the GOP will take all of the criticism and train her to turn it around. Every time she talks, I feel like she is talking to me like she does one of her kids- almost like an elementary school teacher (no offense intended- just an observation of my kids' past teachers) That's why I keep having all of these stomach pains lately.

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:08pm

These statements are great, and represent the intellectual vacancy and total disconnect of the left.

"I hope the moderator asks her why she hasn't been on the Sunday morning programs."

No one cares if she has bowed at the altar of Meet the Press or Face the Nation. Elitists in the Northeast think that it is essentially important to appear on the Sunday shows. Do you realize how few people watch or care about these shows?

"and why she has not been answering questions from the press?"

What rock do you live under? She has had several interviews (so your statement is demonstrably false), and she doesn't really care about the press. She doesn't need to care.

Palin is giving YOU stomach pains?!?!

On behalf of millions of voters, enjoy your stomach ache.



Updated On: 9/27/08 at 09:08 PM

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:30pm

"No one cares if she has bowed at the altar of Meet the Press or Face the Nation. Elitists in the Northeast think that it is essentially important to appear on the Sunday shows. Do you realize how few people watch or care about these shows?"

If no one cares...and no one watches, then why has her running mate been on all of them? Don't tell me he's pandering to the Northeast Elitist, is he? Noooo...Not the Maverick, he'd never do anything like that.

If no one cares and no one watches...then why is she avoiding them? What's she afraid of? Or more to the point what are her handlers afraid of? She's going to have to come out and play sometime...the longer she waits the more it looks like she has to be coached and spoon fed. Frankly, I hope she never meets the press...or faces the nation. It just makes her appear to be less of a player on the world stage and that she would probably be better off back in Wasilla. STAY THE COURSE, SARAH! Don't pander to the Northeast Elitist.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:35pm

Thanks JustAGuy!

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:36pm

You totally misunderstand, misrepresent, and misunderestimate the issue.

You care about whether she is on the Sunday shows. Many politicians use the shows to further their cause. Palin doesn't need them! She is a rock star without your beloved drive-by media. She is drawing crowds much larger than Barry.

If you want to vote based upon which politicians appear on Meet The Press, go ahead. The rest of the voters care about Palin be a real person who relates well with average Americans.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:49pm

"You totally misunderstand, misrepresent, and misunderestimate the issue."

Misunderestimate??? There's no such word. LOL...you've been listening to GWB too much. And you, a school teacher too. How embarrassing for you.

"The rest of the voters care about Palin be a real person who relates well with average Americans."

Which average Americans? The one's who consider having foreign policy experience as being able to see Russia from their state?