Oh I hope they video-taped those
mock sessions. I bet they could raise
a ton of money selling them.
Comedy Central could run for a long
time using clips from them.
Alaska would do well to hold a conference
with these men and glean information
they need to unseat her.
Not only not VP material, but not Gov
material, not even Mayor material.
This lady should just relax, take care
of her family and do some fishin...and
retire from public life. Oh, and read.

I think Palin's off the ticket and Giuliani's on. Just a hunch.

We all know McCain needs another gimmick to shake things up. Palin's going to give a tearful goodbye about how she didn't know how vicious the press would be in attacking her family and it's taking a toll on her children, and as a good Christian mom, she has to put her kids first.

She has to do it in a way that her evangelical base won't hold it against McCain. He'll play the whole thing for a sympathy vote for himself.

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The bar for Gov. Palin has been set so low, that she will probably do better than many expect, even if she seems ultimately seems outmatched by Biden. Unless she is humiliated on stage, it may likely be seen as a tie. In some respects this will be a contest to see if Biden can avoid saying something memorably stupid or if Palin can manage to say something memorably smart.

How could they let her debate, it defies reality. Yet when extolling his virtues as a maverick, he reminded in the debate he had picked a fellow maverick & indicated he was still enthralled with his soulmate pick. It was a strange thing to say with all the Palin scuttlebut coming from all corners.

I know I didn't imagine it, hope the clip appears.

Any hockey player knows that you have to freeze the pucks before using them in a game. Otherwise they are to bouncy. I think the McCain campaign is put Palin in the freezer and have either forgotten where she is or have decided to just leave her there.

You've heard her speak. Why is this breaking news?

Once she has been nominated, and has accepted, McCain can not remove her from the ticket. The nomination rules prevent him from doing so. She is the offical nominee of the party. Only she can remove herself. That is why you are hearing those right wing columnists, such as Kathleen Parker, asking Palin to resign.

It is not in The Barracuda's nature to let go, once it has sunk it's teeth in.

I don't trust the republicans on anything - anything. at. all. I will believe she's a disaster when I see it next week.

Yes, I know about her interviews so far, but her trainers may be able to salvage something and drive expectations so low that she will come out looking like a states(wo)man compared to what she's done so far.

Panama-John McBush's foolish gambit in picking the unqualified Ms Palin as his running mate had two crass -- and completely tactical -- political purposes.

First, McBush wanted to energize the chicken-strangling, snake-handling, tongues-babbling envangelical crazy people who typically form the "base" of the Republican Party. They can't (and never could) stand Panama-John for daring to campaign against their true hero, Deputy Dubya Bush in 2000. Panama-John McPOW also once called them -- correctly -- "agents of intolerance." Now he can't kiss their atavistic asses long or often enough. So, picking Palin (at least initially) stimulated this superstitous mob into barely tolerating McBush as Ms Palin's running mate.

Second, McBush thought that by picking a woman VP running mate he could tap into some of the pissed off woman supporters of defeated Democratic New York Senator You-Know-Her. That largely hasn't worked -- except perhaps for one elitist billionaire de Rothschild heiress.

Since nothing the war-agitating McBush can do will win over war-hating women voters in general, only the first consideration about the crazy evangelical Christianists now applies; and former Arkansas Governor (and preacher) Mike Huckabee, can do that Elmer Gantry gig every bit as much, if not better, than the only-amateur witch-burner Palin can. Therefore, having Ms Palin fall on her own hocky-puck and/or baby blanket "for the good of the Party country" makes a lot of sense for McBush, providing that the overmatched-but-ambitious lady governor of Alaska will take the hint and go quietly into the oblivion she so richly deserves.

Without a plausible billionaire Republican like Ross Perot runing third-party cover for their electoral apostasy, Republicans will largely vote Republican or stay home sulking, no matter what empty (pant)suit front-person they find written on their ballots. Some faceless, unaccountable Shogun will run the Republican regency from an undisclosed bunker location in any event. The Republicans nearly always prefer a stud-hamster "propaganda catapult" stand-in for president. Think Warren G. Harding. Think Herbert Hoover. Think Gerald Ford. Think Deputy Dubya Bush.

At any rate, after watching Senator Joe Biden succinctly (for him) summarize just how badly John McBush had flunked every important decision he ever faced, I'd say we've already seen and heard the Vice Presidential debate if it somehow includes the invisible cipher, Ms Palin, who couldn't even show up to summarize the only foreign policy that bomber-John McPOW has ever espoused: namely, "Wherever the [American] soldier plants his boot, there he must remain." I mean, if the inarticulate and ditzy Ms Palin can't even memorize that one comprehensive statement about McBush, then I doubt she will fare well at all against Senator Biden who has already presented his team's side of the story.