If Govenor Palin is a rising star among conservatives, why would she want to throw it away as VP? Give her another term as Alaska govenor and let her run as the first Republican Female. Don't make her to second fiddle to McCain.

Maybe McCain and even Obama should consider looking outside of the Box for a VP candidate. Why should it be a seasoned, or not seasoned politician? Why politics as usual? They should consider somebody from outside the political spectrum that is well known or liked. How about a celebrity or popular CEO etc.

Hell, if you want to play the race card, why not entice Colin Powell to run as VP?

Q&A: How can McCain SIMULTANEOUSLY attract both Hillary AND Bob Barr voters?

ANSWER: Sarah Palin as Veep.

My choice for Veep is J.C. Watts. Experience, football star, conservative cred, inspirational.

Bankable.

I think I heard J.C. Watts publicly professed some interest in voting for Obama. If that is true I figure it would automatically disqualify him as the Veep nominee. I'd hate to see that tape played while he is running with McCain.

McCain's choice for VP will likely come after Obama's, as the Democratic Convention comes first this year. Before speculating, perhaps you guys should at least wait until then. If Obama chooses the Kansas female governor, it's going to seem weird if McCain responds with the Alaska female governor.

In addition, Alaska has but three electoral votes and almost always goes Republican. Better to take a Republican VP candidate from a potential prominent toss-up state. How about that Missouri governor or the Florida governor?

I've read quite a bit about Gov. Palin. She's very impressive in all regards with solid conservative credentials. Also her oldest son is in the Army, if my memory serves me correctly. Another kudo. She would add a lot to a McCain ticket. Which is exactly why McCain won't consider her. A McCain ticket is going to be all about McCain and McCain only.
McCain sits on his brains.

All I know is He better pick a conservative. She looks good, which is why He wont pick Her. She looks like she could be checking His blood pressure as His nurse.

I'd love to see Sarah Palin. Same for JC Watts, Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, or Bobby Jindal. The rising stars in the Republican party have so much more going for them than their counterparts on the Democrat party. McCain absolutely needs to tap into this talent, because we can ill afford Barack Obama as our next president. While I am not a huge fan of McCain, he is what we have. A solid VP would help greatly toward energizing the base.

You lost me with this nugget:

"even winning tax increases on oil companies' profits"

Is that a Hillary pen she is wearing on her lapelle? Seriously.

I think that is a Hillary pin on her sweater. Cool!

A Hillary pin? Um, not unless she had them made in 2002, when the picture was taken.

It's an Emma Goldman pin then! Or an Aunt Jemima pin! Either way, cue Michelle Malkin questioning her conservative credentials.

She's a foxy fox!

How about "cue hyperbolist for being an extravagant exaggerationist."

And actually, Palin these days sports a polar bear pin, because she's going after the Feds for declaring polar bears endangered or threatened (or whatever) based on idiotic media and manmade globalony warming hype instead of actual evidence -- evidence that the polar bears are thriving.

Jump on the Sarah Palin bandwagon? Sure. But I'd rather just jump on Sarah Palin.

The facts (at least as I see them).

I will not support any candidate for President (or in this case, for VP) who is in favor of punishing the beneficiaries of capitalism, whether big oil or big anything else. I don't think I'm alone there.

Any nod given to anyone but a white male will be spun by the MSM as "pandering" no matter what the credentials of the person in question.

Much of the "Hillary bloc" won't swing Republican just because there's a woman nominee for VP, just as the black voting bloc won't swing Republican if there's a black nominee. The liberal philosophy (and the "D" behind the name) is enough to keep most of those two categories enslaved to "The Party."

McCain himself is enough of a concession to "moderates" without stooping to identity politics to try and attract the mythical "swing voters."

All that said, I believe that the race is more-or-less McCain's to lose at this point. Obama must walk a tightrope between portraying himself as a candidate for the far-left fringe and alienating that same fringe. If they're turned off by Obama, they won't vote Republican, they'll just stay home. Same for McCain's support on the right. If he alienates the conservative base (by picking someone more liberal than himself, specifically) he'll see them staying home, and Obama will win in the lowest-turnout election in history.

But Palin is definitely a hottie...and a smart one at that.

:-)

Please, not the Florida governor as VP, a RINO if there ever was one. I'm no bigtime social conservative like many here but RINOs who oppose drilling, oppose defending the borders are useless.

"But it isn't our side that likes to focus solely on the skin deep."

So then it must have been the Texas Democrats selling the "If Obama is president, will we still call it The White House?" buttons.

Rance, as usual, is only telling a fraction of the story...

The vendor, Jonathan Alcox, said he was trying to be funny and based the button on a political cartoon. He said he made 12 buttons and sold four, two of them to reporters.

"We're into humor, not racism," said Alcox, who described himself as an independent who may vote for Obama in November. "Why would I do that purposely? I thought it was funny."

The state GOP will bar the vendor from booth space at future events and "encourage him to clean up his act," Klingler said.

"The Republican Party of Texas told me I can never go there again. They're my biggest event," Alcox said. "It's pretty much put me out of business."

State GOP officials said they also have alerted the Republican National Convention so that Alcox will not be allowed to sell merchandise at the convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September.

Emphasis added by yours truly.

Sorry Cassy, but women are not a minority in the United States nor in most other countries in the world. Some like to be treated like victims and martyrs because of their sex, but life sure would be better for all concerned if people in the USA women, blacks, Asians, handicapped, Katrina victims and Deomocrats) stopped blaming others for their problems and got to work overcoming their adverse circumstances whatever they might be.
Nobody ever solved their problems by blaiming others.

SCSIwuzzy:

So your contention is that he thought the Republicans would think that race baiting was funny. Strange that they waited until the story hit the national press before the stopped him.

"encourage him to clean up his act"? That sounds like the kind of slap on the wrist you would link to a liberal organization.

No Rance, I contend what he said is what he meant. He clearly says that he thinks it is funny. The Reps didn't, and tossed him on his ass.
Considering he only had 12 buttons, only sold 4, chances are they didn't know he had them until after the fact.
Also in the story, was that the buyers of the buttons were members of the press. I guess that means that the press corps are a bunch of racists, huh?
Still, thanks for showing off your willingness to twist and lie as always.

SCSIwuzzy:

Do you think someone would pay $1500 dollars to rent a booth to sell just 12 buttons? Do you think that maybe he planned to take orders?

If you read the press reports, you'll see that they didn't "toss him out on his ass", the said he wasn't welcome to come back next year. They didn't do that until Wednesday, the 18th, 3 days after the convention closed.

Rance, now you are just being thick on purpose.
He had more stuff in his booth, but only 12 of that button. And he only sold 4. 2 of them to the press.

So to recap, an Obama voter rents booth in the vendor zone of a convention full of repubs.
He brings a handful of offensive buttons, offensive about his chosen candidate.
He sells them to members of the press.
The press report that there is racism at the convention, based on his buttons, of which only 2 were sold to someone other than the reporters in question.
Reps look into the press reports, take action, and also make sure he doesn't pull the same BS elsewhere.

Sounds like this guy is a kindred soul of yours, Rancid.

From the quote "I yet may vote for Obama" you get that this guy is an Obama voter?

Have you looked at his web site?