Sarah Palin - sacrificial lamb?

[Night_Nurse]

Sarah Palin is going to go the way of Harriet Miers. She is,ironically, the sacrificial lamb of McCain campaign strategists (read:
Karl Rove).

Palin wasn't the campaign's first choice for VP running-mate, someone else was (and still is). However, the preferred choice was one that wouldn't have been initially palatable to the Christian base, a rather large voting-bloc that had never been all that
crazy about McCain to begin with. Not wanting to further alienate that base, the running-mate would have to be a fundamentalist Christian - something the the preferred VP candidate was not. The campaign would have to choose someone else, someone who would fire up the base and strengthen their support of McCain, someone who would steal Barack Obama's post-DNC thunder, yet also someone who could easily be disposed of when the time came. Enter Sarah Palin.

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[Maat]

1. I agree that this is what's going to happen (n/t).

[Contrary1]

2. Most of the Republics would rather see McCain drop out...

No matter what he does, the pooch has been screwn. Even Palin's half-brained supporters could see through that farce, and it would sufficiently piss a lot of them off enough to stay home on Nov. 4th.

[skip fox]

3. But if she goes, she's got to go today.

Baring, of course, an accident down the line . . . Hmmm.

[stoge18]

4. No way.

Sarah Palin is far too self-absorbed to sacrifice her political future for the good of the party. And the McCain people know they can't force her out. If they try, they know Todd will follow them around and snap pictures of them snowmachining when they're supposed to be working.

Seriously, do you all believe this will happen? I do not.

[Night_Nurse]

5. Yes, she is...

but Rove can outsmart her. Or, they could cut some sort of deal with her... who knows.

And at this point, nothing would surprise me.

[fla nocount]

6. I've long thought that the combination of McCain/Palin was purposely

designed for failure. This isn't the best their party can do, they are supposed to lose. The dichotomy of having two parties is designed to provide the illusion that there is a choice in value and substance between the two parties, there's not. The horsemen simply need a new ride.

McCain has always been the neo-whipping boy and he just keeps coming back for more. Running in this election is his reward, winning was never a part of the deal.

[trof]

7. Sacrificial lamb...with lipstick.

:rofl:

[Bryn]

8. She has made too many sacrificial wolves, polar bears, moose, caribou, etc.

That she is now Sacrifical Lamb with Lipstick. Karma Law stands. Too Bad for her

:rofl:

[rvablue]

9. My "tin foil" hat thought on this

She passes out at the debate.
Campaign says she is pregnant again.
Cue Mittens, Rudy or Ridge.

[fla nocount]

12. Huck, I'd drink a beer with him. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Nope. The GOP will NEVER put someone Pro-Choice (i.e. Lieberman, Ridge) on the ticket.

It WILL NOT HAPPEN.

The idiotic, flat-Earth, creationist fundy base has that party by the nuts. And they have one of their own in Sarah Palin. She's not going anywhere.

Besides, if she left the ticket that would be an admission of doing something wrong, and the GOP NEVER admits they did anything wrong. What really sunk Harriet Miers was that the "outlaw contraception" wing of the GOP, ironically, didn't think she was ideologically pure enough on Roe v. Wade.

[Matariki]

11. No way. It was just an impulsive, desperate gamble on McCain's part

They don't have time to put in Romney or Lieberman and pull it off. And if they *were* going to do it, they would have done it by now, when Romney could bring his economic experience to the table.