tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post6334987185296411334..comments2024-01-17T09:33:57.158-08:00Comments on Brain Rage: Something Someone Else SaidJBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-6240278743121690312009-07-11T04:34:34.121-07:002009-07-11T04:34:34.121-07:00He should have just gone full Bachmann.He should have just gone full Bachmann.Kevin Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555818021469626619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-89806153566059317512009-07-10T23:31:38.765-07:002009-07-10T23:31:38.765-07:00I agree with ex DLB. Conservatives were already t...I agree with ex DLB. Conservatives were already talking shit about McCain being too moderate. Selecting Palin was clearly a ploy to appeal to the religious conservative base. That's why they've continued to embrace her while McCain has become an afterthought at best.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-84225724633012966172009-07-10T19:50:39.291-07:002009-07-10T19:50:39.291-07:00A lot of the GOP either stayed home or voted for O...A lot of the GOP either stayed home or voted for Obama. Snowe was just a suggestion. Susan Collins might have been a better choice or any number of Republican women.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-82604241705464753702009-07-10T19:49:27.578-07:002009-07-10T19:49:27.578-07:00DLB, that's the way I took McCain's choice...<b>DLB</b>, that's the way I took McCain's choice -- appeal to women <i>and</i> the base at the same time. McCain knew that he wasn't the quite rightwing enough for the base. Watching his acceptance speech at the RNC last Fall, I was a bit flabbergasted. When he called out his own party, you could almost hear the whispers: "He <i>really is</i> willing to tell Republicans they're wrong!?!" <br /><br />But, to echo <b>Parsley</b> and <b>JBW</b>, that kind of choice does belie his lack seriousness about the subject. <br /><br />It also explains why, in spite of all the logic in the world telling them otherwise, the GOP is going to try to push further and further toward the right before it tries to broaden its appeal. In their minds, they lost because because McCain wasn't rightwing enough. <br /><br />Nevermind the fact that they got trounced by a Democrat that they painted as everything but an American...Dave the Longwindedhttp://ohioriverutopia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-26500665157058768692009-07-10T18:56:09.983-07:002009-07-10T18:56:09.983-07:00McCain was already seen as not crazy enough for th...McCain was already seen as not crazy enough for the GOP base. Someone like Snowe would have re-inforced that, because she's seen as a RINO by the loons. He might have got more independent votes, but a lot of the base would have stayed home. IMO.Kevin Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555818021469626619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-53401687736202932942009-07-10T17:56:41.360-07:002009-07-10T17:56:41.360-07:00If McCain had been serious and smart in his select...If McCain had been serious and smart in his selection of a woman for his running mate he should have selected a savvy woman like Olympia Snowe - the very sharp senator from Maine. But, playing psychologist here, I think McCaine is the type of man who is threatened by smart women. And I think he's a member of the Good Ole Boys club who like their women well dressed, good looking and not very bright. <br /><br />To me, his selection was strictly politically motivated and showed a cavalier attitude toward the seriousness and the responsibilities of the office. Fortunately, most women weren't taken in and in fact were insulted.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-20354514078568849012009-07-10T16:21:30.358-07:002009-07-10T16:21:30.358-07:00I don't think that McCain's an idiot eithe...I don't think that McCain's an idiot either but choosing someone like Palin said a lot about his lack of integrity and personal ambitions. It was a high-risk, Hail Mary play that blew up in his face when America finally got to know her and McCain deserves all the blame for it.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-84203022960881277072009-07-10T16:11:23.114-07:002009-07-10T16:11:23.114-07:00I'm not completely willing to buy that McCain ...I'm not completely willing to buy that McCain is as dumb and shallow as this comment makes him out to be. I don't think the guy is a rocket scientist, but I've never seen a politician who was. <br /><br />But, like you <b>JBW</b>, after watching Palin for about 2 days, I had to seriously re-think my assessment of his integrity. I gave him some real thought with respect to the Presidency. I never believed he would tilt as far to the right as his campaign sounded -- just like I never thought Obama would tilt as far to the left as he might seem. <br /><br />She completely killed his legitimacy as a candidate for me. And if Obama had picked a character like her for his VP, I wouldn't have voted for him, either. <br /><br />I was on another blog yesterday reading some comments from conservatives who loved her because she supported "individual freedom." I just can't assume there is any intellectual honesty in asserting such a thing for a person who wants some quasi-legal department that will summarily dismiss complaints against her as "frivolous". <br /><br />It's important to understand that not all Republicans (or conservatives) are like her. But she definitely speaks for a very hardcore base. And the Reps have made driven themselves on that base for about the last 20 years. Now they're finding themselves locked against a Dem party that knows a little about how to hoist them on their own petards, so to speak.Dave the Longwindedhttp://ohioriverutopia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-84014145129283454352009-07-10T15:18:59.478-07:002009-07-10T15:18:59.478-07:00"McCain is a guy of rather mediocre intellect..."McCain is a guy of rather mediocre intellect, little curiosity, and very poor and impulsive decision-making skills."<br /><br />So true. I've been saying this since way back when. People forget he was cited by his colleagues for using "poor judgement" in the Keating 5 savings and loan debacle.<br /><br />As for his selection of Palin, his judgement really comes into question. Besides, her youth did nothing to detract from his age.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com