I wonder if her faithful followers know that she is not traveling by bus on her Going Rogue Bus Tour, but rather in the luxury of a Gulfstream II 12-passenger jet rented from Universal Jet Aviation of Boca Raton, Florida, at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-29/palins-bus-hoax/full/
Sarah Palin certainly had more "administrative" experience than Obama...but not necessarily political or educational (Obama is basically a constitutional lawyer). Also, there is a question of competence - and I'd say Sarah Palin is pretty incompetent. Obama certainly has been somewhat of a disappointment, but man, imagine if we had Palin in office even as a Veep - what a disaster.
McCain would likely have given Palin as much responsibility as Dan Quayle had. A McCain-Palin Admin would not have been anything remotely close to the partnerships that The Bush-Cheney or Clinton-Gore Admin's were.
I completely disagree - McCain would look like he's marginalizing the first woman Veep if he did that. And Palin is very outspoken and would demand a high profile. Palin would take the path of Cheney and insist on being involved, and if she wasn't, it would cause a lot of problem and media flare-up. I mean, c'mon, you saw what she has done - do you really think she has any ability to stay quiet?
Other than the hardcore supporters, the ones we see going gaga over her now, I doubt many people would make that much of a fuss about her not having that much power in a McCain Admin. For that matter there will be a lot of other issues tying up a McCain Admin and I doubt McCain will risk giving Palin a lot of responsibility while trying address the situation in Afghanistan and the economy. For that matter Palin herself probably wouldn't want to get herself dragged into dealing with those issues. Since she willingly stepped down from being Governor to go on a publicity tour. Likely Palin would be flying around the World doing goodwill trips and fundraising which would likely suit her fine (publicity without much responsibility.)
It would almost have been worth McCain winning just for the entertainment we'd get from seeing what he'd do with her. Certainly she couldn't have any real role in governing, because she's just too stupid. But then, she couldn't really do the goodwill trips suggested by judoka either, unless she somehow managed to invoke a "no questions" rule -- to media and ordinary people as well, as she's done on her book tour -- since she is a gaffe machine. Picking her was a Hail Mary move that would have been a millstone around his neck for his entire presidency. And she's a fighter too, dagnabbit; she wouldn't have stood for being pushed into the background like Quayle was.
Well Quayle was a gaffe machine too and Biden throws out quite a few zingers so I don't think it would be that much of a problem to have her doing meet and greets with The Prince of Monaco and the King of Swaziland.
Agreed about Quayle and Biden, but nobody does it quite like Sarah. And she is decidedly not a team player. She would have been a huge problem for McCain.
You say that only because of your political leanings. Biden is a pretty serious gaffe machine. The team player thing you might be right on though.
You've got to be kidding. Comparing Biden to Palin shows total blindness. I can appreciate why a conservative would be searching for some sort of comparison.
Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' goes platinum after only two weeks: Also, her book is currently number one on the New York Times Bestseller list: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/
If every single one of the 2.8 million books is bought and read, that would mean that less than 1% of the population has read it. I don't think there is any question that the whackos way out in right field love her after the slavish devotion displayed by her worshipers around here and on Fox News. The problem is if 1% of the population buys your book, and another 2-3% read it, and then 5x that many like you enough to vote for you but not read the book, you are still a fringe candidate. She is the fringe candidate for you crazies on an island way out on the right wing. Even crazies like the fascist British National Front in England can pull 1% or 2% in an election. That doesn't mean they are sane or relevant.
You are just grumpy because Sarah Palin continues to be quite popular despite a concerted effort by the left to destroy her, and because her book has made such an impressive debut.
How many people watched this on TV? I'm a simple man, but I'm the only one asking questions. Is it so wrong just to ask questions?
sigh, let me fill you in champ First off I am in no way grumpy because of the people Palin appeals too. The teabagger crowd will never win a national election. Second, in the publishing world Palin's book is known as a "give away". Hundreds of different groups around the country buy the book in bulk to give away to members and other people. I have no doubt there are thousands of boxes of her book sitting in store rooms neglected because no one wants to read it. In fact if you contact many religious publishers around the country, I'm sure they would be happy to send you a copy (for a nominal donation of course).
There has been virtually no effort by the left to "destroy" Palin because none was needed. She did so much damage to herself, so quickly, that there was really very little for the left to do but laugh. And laugh we did.
