Prepared VP Speech was masculine - Palin Pick forced McCain'ers to scrap

[RamboLiberal]

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The prepping: "Sitting around a dining room table, the McCain team has talked to her about Iraq, energy and the economy, but has focused on what she should say in her speech, struggling almost as hard as she has to prepare for what will be, along with a debate in October, her main opportunity to shape the way she is viewed by voters," Juliet Eilperin and Robert Barnes write in The Washington Post.

"Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was 'very masculine,' according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and 'we had to start from scratch,' " they write. "Aides to McCain and Palin were still debating elements of the speech, according to several GOP sources familiar with the process, including whether the governor should make reference to her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy."

Says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: "She can do fine in foreign policy because of the infrastructure we have around us. She's smart and she will learn over time." (Umm -- maybe knowing this stuff might have been a prerequisite for being offered the job?)

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Either she wasn't fully vetted and the McCain folks are scrambling, or she was fully vetted and the rollout has been close to disastrous. Maybe the McCain campaign can chasten the media to back off, and maybe it can't.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1

[skooooo]

1. 'very masculine,'

How can a speech be "masculine?" What they're saying is that they don't know how to present a female candidate of her "quality."

[corkhead]

2. Masculine? What were they going to do if Droopy Dawg Holy Joe was picked?

[JaneQPublic]

4. Loserman would seriously have to butch it up to read a "masculine" speech. (nt)

[nomorenomore08]

6. Yeah, he's not exactly the Marlboro Man, is he?

Either way, though, I find this whole premise ridiculous. When I think of them trying to "re-gender" Palin's speech, I think of them trying to make it as "dainty" and "feminine" as humanly possible, thus making Palin a cartoon caricature of a GOP Stepford wife. Sad and pathetic, but hilarious.

[progressivebydesign]

3. Do republicans realize that the speeches are CANNED???

I mean, does it not BOTHER anyone that all this woman will be doing is reciting words written by aides and speechwriters?? I've always been shocked at how gullible people are. She's going to be reading someone else's words...

I fucking HATE politics!

[Bobbie Jo]

5. Speech, smeech...if she doesn't grasp the the concepts, it will show.

I hope she didn't take the McLost course in geography. :rofl: