opposite will occur. Regardless of what the pundits or campaigns say, it is obvious to the public
who it was that started all of these non-issue discussions. It was the "Celebrity" and "The One"ads
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along with other nonsensical negative ads. Finger pointing by the McCain camp does not change
this perception, as the smoking gun is in their hands.
McCain Temper
As Obama remains cool and keeps pointing to the issues, McCain will get increasingly frustrated. In
his past he has exploded in temper and even attacked people when angry, but knows that during the
campaign this behavior would be fatal. Thus he will explode behind closed doors and continue to
attack Obama, trying to get the satisfaction he desires which is a fight. Where he may not explode
on camera for all the world to see, his basic personality will become obvious as he will make
statements during his townhall meetings, all of which will be recorded on video. Will the US, even
sober Republicans, want someone who is by nature sporting for a brawl in the White House? Many
will stay home rather than vote for McCain, feeling uneasy about this.
VP Picks
Both Obama and McCain are holding off hoping the other goes first. McCain is so desperate, seeing
the state of the polls in key states, that he is tempted to select a woman in an attempt to get the
disgruntled Hilary supporters to swing his way. Any percentage point in a storm. Since his selection
must be done within days of the Democratic convention any last minute change will cause problems
within his campaign, and choosing a woman will cause problems with the ultraconservatives. This is
not a win for McCain, as any vote among woman he would gain would be countered by a loss
among conservatives. It is a myth that the selection process is secret, though the press has little they
can report on as no one will go on record nor even talk to the press anonymously. But the campaigns
have their own reports and use this information for their own VP selections. Obama has already
announced his preference for Sebelius but is holding off as there is no reason to announce early and
lots of reasons to announce at the last minute. In order to bring out the Republican base, McCain
needs to pick a conservative white man, and unless in complete rebellion and furious at Obama's
success will likely do so. Any other move would hurt him.
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written August 30, 2008
McCain Gambles on Inexperienced Conservative [Aug 29] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ The choice
represented a bid by Mr McCain to win over disgruntled former supporters of Hillary Clinton,
undercutting Democratic efforts during the convention to reunify the party. Ellen Malcolm, president of
Emily's List, a pro-Democrat group that supports women candidates, challenged the notion that Ms Palin
would appeal to former Clinton supporters. "McCain clearly sees the power of women voters in this
election but has just as clearly failed to support any of the issues that they care about," she said,
highlighting Ms Palin's support for overturning the Roe v Wade ruling that legalized abortion.
Did John McCain shoot himself in the foot with his VP choice? Big time. He was losing, and desperate, as the private
polls his campaign had been taking revealed the gap between he and Obama to be far larger than the public polls
reveal. Obama has energized voters, so that many young people and people of color have registered to vote. The count
of new Democratic voters far outnumber new Republican voters, by a factor greater than 4 to 1. These new voters are
not included in the polls of likely voters - those who voted in the past two presidential elections. Then there is the
enthusiasm gap, where Democrats are more likely to make it to the polls in November. Given that the arguments the
McCain camp were making were not making any headway against Obama, they were desperate for a game changer.
Seeing the significant number of disgruntled Hillary fans making claims they would vote for McCain, this seemed like
the largest voter block that could potentially be swung to McCain. So what is wrong with this choice?
First is that he has offended Hillary's strongest block - older women who had been discriminated against during their
lifetime - and treated them like second class citizens. Standard fare, after not being given equal pay and opportunity for
equal work, is being thrown over for a younger woman. McCain has already been branded for this tendency by his
history of running out on his first wife, a former beauty queen who was crippled in a car accident. McCain then took
up with Cindy, an unspoiled beauty. Now with the VP choice he has selected another beauty queen far younger than
McCain. Regardless of all arguments, the element of being dismissive of women's true qualifications for office and
chosing women only for their beauty, is obvious. This is intuitively obvious to the older women voters McCain hoped
to attract. Standing next to McCain, Palin seemed like his mistress, a reminder of McCain's age and that his attitudes
toward woman are from a different era. Obama has a wife who is a strong woman, competent and even earning more
money than he at her day job. McCain now stands in contrast to Obama on this issue, and is losing on this issue to an
extent not yet evident in the polls.
Second, McCain has gone beyond his tendency to surround himself with lobbyists and to be susceptible to money
interests and plunged himself into a new and very fresh scandal - abuse of power. The Keating 5 scandal is in McCain's
past, wherein he went to bat for Keating during the savings and loan crisis, trying to get regulators to go easy on his
friend Keating. This is far enough in the past to be put aside by most voters, but what does his choice of Palin as VP
say about his judgment and tendencies? She is embroiled in a controversy, an investigation, that could result in
impeachment proceedings against her in Alaska. Without question she wanted to fire her former brother-in-law from
his job as a state trooper and insisted, in person and through intermediaries, that this be done. This in and of itself
would be considered a lightweight scandal in scandal-prone Alaska, but when she fired the highly competent head of
the Department of Public Safety simply because he refused to do her bidding she crossed the line. This is not only
criminal. This is grounds for impeachment and reflects badly on McCain's judgment.
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What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan's Perspective.
August 29, 2008
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/
Sarah Palin's sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper. Mike
and Molly had a rocky marriage. When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that