Is This McCain's Harriet Miers Moment?

[radhika]

I've been reading the comments from Alaska's newspapers and various Republicans. Everyone is on-board with her being a ludicrous choice, insulting to the nation and especially to women. Her very nomination proves how much the Repugs accept incompetence and unfitness to manage the tasks at hand - if they think it will get them a few votes.

The Right may just force Harriet/Sarah to withdraw her nomination.

[Mz Pip]

1. The RW loves people like them

but they do expect some credentials to go along with the rhetoric.

Harriet Myers had all the right beliefs but she was a lightweight.


We shall see.

[mike_c]

2. hah!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3879392&mesg_id=3879392

[liberalhistorian]

3. You might very well have a good point

in that comparison. I just read a quote from the Anchorage newspaper that said that "she can look you straight in the eye and tell you black is white." I don't doubt that at all. And I don't think this is resonating with women the way he'd hoped, most see it for the pandering, blatantly transparent, insulting gimmick that it really is. Remember, he'd settled on Tim Pawlenty, the MN guv, until just the middle of the week. Apparently, his worries about how well the Dem convention was going caused him to "reconsider" and try to "shake up" the campaign. That alone speaks volumes in terms of his lack of judgment and good sense and ability to do what is right for the nation instead of just what will benefit him. And I still can't get over how he voted against the Violence Against Women Act. When I worked at legal services, I saw first-hand the full benefits of that act and how much it helped desperate, abused women of little means.

[red_pepper]

4. i think the competency bar is set pretty low

all she has to do is try not to make up words as she is going along and she is better than bush.

[Ah Xoc Kin]

5. the politics of mortality

It’s a macabre point to raise on the night when Palin will speak to the convention here — but a look at the actuarial tables insurance companies use to evaluate customers shows that it’s not an irrelevant one.

According to these statistics, there is a roughly 1 in 3 chance that a 72-year-old man will not reach the age of 80, which is how old McCain would be at the end of a second presidential term.

And that doesn’t factor in individual medical history, such as McCain’s battles with potentially lethal skin cancer.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=253B8DF9-18FE-70B2-A8961A86DC5B16C7