09/03/2008
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Sarah Palin: GOP to Pull?
Think Progress spoke with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in St. Paul about the Sarah Palin pick.
“Nobody can quite believe that John McCain picked her...I think the question right now is whether or not the choice is going to be withdrawn....before it gets very complicated with the rules of the RNC...And I think that that’s actually what people are thinking about, rather than what will Sarah Palin mean for the country. I don’t get the sense that anybody is totally committed to the idea that she is going to be vice president, or even the vice presidential nominee...This has been greeted with such shock — and with every salacious detail about stuff that wasn’t vetted coming to the floor seemingly with each hour of the news cycle — it is becoming less likely by the hour that Palin will still be John McCain’s nominee even by the end of the week."
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 12:47 PM EST by Andy Towle in John McCain, News, Rachel Maddow, Republican Party, Sarah Palin | Permalink
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No reporters are calling for her to step down. They are noticing that everyone sees she is woefully wrong for the job and SPECULATING that sometime soon McCain will see this also.
Btw, the babydaddy showed up on the tarmack today.
Posted by: Jersey | Sep 3, 2008 2:40:34 PM
Zeffer says "Uh, actually, the selection of Palin completely disarmed McCain's argument that Obama is too inexperienced." That's what I thought at first. "Whew, at least now experience is off the table." About ten minutes later, I realized--that's the MOST important issue now. Get deeply cynical and think about it. He didn't pick her in spite of her inexperience, he picked her because of it. Why? Because now experience is the ISSUE. What are we talking about now? Experience! It is THE issue of the campaign. McCain moved it from an good attack issue to the most important issue of the campaign. It was deeply cynical. Obama had 12 months of press vetting. Palin's had less than a week. Once everyone has adjusted to the idea of her, the experience issue gets push into overdrive.
Posted by: John | Sep 3, 2008 2:40:49 PM
I disagree John, I think this has actually highlighted how old McCain is and the plausable possibility that having had cancer 4 times in the past he may not make it through a first term and so the VP experience issue is very important.
Posted by: Jersey | Sep 3, 2008 2:47:52 PM
Pillow? She has a child called Pillow? WTF?! Seems Palin has been sharing the "Crazy Baby Name Book" with Michael "Blanket" Jacko. It seems the crazy doesn't stop there, but I don't think there's any chance of the Repubs dropping her - conservatives NEVER admit a mistake, they just bluster and lie and spin and hold their ground. Look at the last eight years...
I'm a little worried about how much media attention this is getting. Obama and Biden have VANISHED from media coverage the past few days. I know all press isn't good press, but no press is a worry.
Posted by: Danmac | Sep 3, 2008 2:54:00 PM
Jersey, i think you are right about that one. Still doesn't mean I am wrong. Experience will be the issue. But it won't be just Palin's experience, but Obama's as well.
Posted by: John | Sep 3, 2008 3:01:21 PM
In a sane world little ms. Yup Yup wuld never have been considered, much less chosen. But thats what the paty's batshit-crzy base demanded and that's what they got.
According to Howard Kurtz of the "Wahsinton Post" -- who ought to know cause he's married to a major Republican operative named Sherri Annis (can we say 'MAJOR MOTHERFUCKING CONFLICT OF INTEREST"?!!) there are zero plans for getting rid of the bitch.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Sep 3, 2008 3:02:45 PM
@DANMAC: It's actually Willow. I just thought that Pillow suited her better. ;)
Posted by: Xuriel | Sep 3, 2008 3:11:38 PM
andy said: "...she is not going to budge and that will be her show of strength, not buckling under the media pressure, thereby impressing a lot of voters."
i must agree with you andy. i think she's a tough cookie and that what impresses me. i don't agree with her politics (i voted for hillary) but should destiny decide that she will someday be president i think she will surprise everybody and all to the good...
Posted by: the queen | Sep 3, 2008 3:16:38 PM
Are you kidding? I'm no supporter of Palin or her party, but she is going to blow the lid off the convention. The Republicans will have a collective, swooning orgasm, and the media will suddenly swerve yet again and breathlessly describe her as a comeback kid.
All of which is totally asinine. But if you think a bunch of leftist blogs and their complicit partners in the MSM are going to sway the GOP, you have another thing coming.
Posted by: Tim | Sep 3, 2008 3:17:29 PM
@John
What did I say? Disarm? I'm confused.
I said I thought she might come out and say "See, I am withstanding the media. Aren't I strong?"
But maybe she won't. Who the hell knows. Guess we'll all find out.
Posted by: Zeffer | Sep 3, 2008 3:21:21 PM
It would be nice if someone as intelligent as Rachael Maddow would have enough professionalism not to speculate and propagate rumors. Unfortunately, since seemingly every single other person on every news channel spews whatever crap they can think to say to fill airtime, it's unlikely that she would have enough dignity and ethics to rise above it.
Posted by: paul | Sep 3, 2008 3:22:10 PM
We now face the prospect of the evangelical right voting for Palin for political gain while the rest of the country rejects her on moral grounds. This in the year that the far right has become radioactive to the general electorate. Topsy-Turvy, you bet!
The only hope for McCain is to paint Obama as a left-wing extremist. This borrowing from the Bush playbook is going to fail.
Posted by: anon | Sep 3, 2008 3:24:01 PM
Tim said: "I'm no supporter of Palin or her party, but she is going to blow the lid off the convention. The Republicans will have a collective, swooning orgasm, and the media will suddenly swerve yet again and breathlessly describe her as a comeback kid." I couldn't agree more. I find it scary. We are falling into the trap. " Oh, Biden's gonna kick her ass in a debate, She's another Quayle." We aren't just lowering the bar, the f*$king bar is GONE! If she gets two zingers in on Biden, they'll say she won. Be careful of this woman. She is not a lightweight. SHE EATS WHAT SHE KILLS--that tells you all you need to know about her. Obama should be defending her from the press on personal issues and then attacking her as extreme right-wing. Take her to task on the issues. Otherwise, she is victimized.
Posted by: John | Sep 3, 2008 3:46:05 PM
Why is she woefully wrong for the job? Heck, NY voted Hillary in as a US Senator after 8 years as first lady. This woman has at least governed something.
Posted by: Vi Agara | Sep 3, 2008 4:04:16 PM
This reporter sounds really desperate. God, can't we get smarter gay representation on TV than this piece of fluff?
Posted by: John | Sep 3, 2008 5:31:53 PM
@ VI--agara,
are you really comparing the beauty queen to hillary? what the hell is wrong w/u?
i can only guess that Viagra's meds have gone to the wrong head.
i suppose i can get into a debate with VI-agoraphobia about the real world, but to what end?
Posted by: nic | Sep 4, 2008 2:51:55 AM
Let's see Sarah Palin eloped 8/29/88 first son born 7 months and 20 days later 4/20/89 ... wouldn't you think this this would be a woman who at the very least believed in some form of sex education other than abstinence only? Like mother, like daughter. But, according the Gary Bauer, it's all good ... the 17 year old is going to marry the daddy of the baby ... now that's starting off on the right foot!
And honestly I don't care about the daughter or the baby (it really isn't important or the business of anyone outside of the family) ... I'm simply tired of the party of "family values" telling everybody else how to live their lives but for some reason they never seem to apply all of their impractical, unrealistic and faulty advice and judgement to themselves. Believe me if it had been Chelsea Clinton the right would have drug her, her mother and her father through the mud ...
Posted by: Michael | Sep 4, 2008 5:32:48 PM