Flame me if you will...

[Drunken Irishman]

But prior to McCain picking Palin, I didn't fear him as president. I wanted Obama, I would have been devastated had Obama lost, but I could have taken it better had he picked someone like Crist or Pawlenty. Not that I wanted to see it happen, but there was at least apart of me who could barely live with McCain as president.

Then he selected Palin and ever since I've been scared shitless. The thought of her being that close to the presidency makes me want to eat my own brains. There is no part of me that could live with her being that close to the most powerful office in the land. So even though I could almost accept a McCain presidency prior to the pick, I can't even bear the thought of a McCain presidency now.

Which has made this election even MORE tense since the Republican Convention. And makes the outcome in a week and a half that much more dire. :(

[AtomTan]

1. Well said. Totally agree.

[JimGinPA]

2. Alerted!

:rofl:

[Eurobabe]

5. Oh nice PA sign JimGin!

:applause:

[WI_DEM]

3. I'm glad he selected Palin, it helped seal his fate.

[spanone]

20. yep, it was a seriously flawed decision...

[ErinBerin84]

4. I was afraid of McCain

but Palin made me fucking terrified...all the religious right credentials without any economy/foreign policy ones....we would be screwed.

[NotThisTime]

15. So horribly true :(

[iceman66]

6. I agree.

I am especially troubled given the recent rumors regarding McCain's health!

President Palin is too close for comfort!

[ingac70]

7. All Repukes are to be feared...

more deregulation, anyone?

[grantcart]

8. Canvassing last weekend and Republicans wanted to tell me how much they hated Palin

Its CA but they are still Republicans

[Matariki]

9. It's true, but between his embrace of George Bush and picking Palin

his judgment is absolutely NOT what it had appeared to be.

[Bob D]

10. Excellent Post

I feel exactly the same.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Palin should strike fear into anyones heart.

The thought of that complete idiot ever running the country is beyond comprehension.

[Arkansas Granny]

29. And to think that we always considered GWB as a complete idiot. I stand corrected.

The Repubs managed to find someone even worse.

[frickaline]

12. agreed.

The choice showed a reckless side of McCain I didn't realize was there. This choice was so irresponsible I feel like someone should take him to a corner for a time out until Nov. 5th.

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. You don't think she's smarter than Bush?

You think she's more dangerous than *he* is?


If Bush can be president....anyone can be president. Palin's actually a step up.

She's horrific; but she's a step *up*.

[iceman66]

24. Not only is she dumber than Bush, and more fanatical,

but judging from her speeches she really seems to enjoy being mean and nasty.

Bush was/is awful, but President Palin would be an unprecedented disaster.

[Cleita]

14. Although I know you aren't a Republican, there

are Republicans in my neck of the country who feel like you. Sarah Palin was a deal breaker and they will not vote for McCain now. I don't know if they will vote for Obama, or maybe Bob Barr, or even just not vote, but they won't vote for McCain.

[WinkyDink]

16. Two words, then as now: SUPREME COURT.

[skooooo]

17. At the beginning of the campaign..

..I felt assured that even if the Democrats lost the Presidential election, we wouldn't have someone as stupid and reckless as GWB in thw White House. So much for that. McCain is just plain crazy.

[BuyingThyme]

18. She's the Limbaugh-Hannity base.

It's reasonable to fear the criminally insane. Especially when they're armed.

[Essene]

19. Romney, Lieberman, Bloomberg, Crist... all more palpable picks

I think Mccain running as a moderate maverick was a lot more of a threat to Obama than once he decided to pander to the social conservatives. Even a pick of Romney would have been smarter, since he was a social conservative with very strong fiscal credentials.

Palin's GOP Convention performance was truly outstanding, but her story turned out to be all lies and her candidacy turned out to be raw winking demagoguery. She's been nothing but a liability, regardless of the "energizing the base" arguments.

So... while i am scare of the slight chance that she could end up President, i am more comforted by the fact that only 1/3 americans think she's qualified... and that she's pulling the entire GOP down the drain.

[Hamlette]

21. I completely agree

but I was "seeing" the 2000 McCain who had in fact stood up to the agents of intolerance in his party.

He is not that man or he never was that many either way, Palin disqualified him and his rant today about how he can't figure out what people think Palin is unqualified scares me even more!

55% of us think she is not qualified to be prez. 65% of us want out of Iraq.

Those people who run as the representative of "real America" and ignore the majority of Americans is the classic disconnect the GOP has been trying to sell for years. When the market crashes, reality loses its liberal bias and even the GOP has to live with it.

[Mz Pip]

22. 8 years ago

I didn't hate McCain. I felt that if it were the Republicans turn to be in the White House I thought McCain would be better than Bush.

That was then. This is now. If he had picked someone competent, someone that the RWers didn't shove down his throat, I would have had more respect for him. I might have actually believed that he really was a maverick willing to go up against his party. The Palin pick just showed me how crass and unmavericky he really is.

The woman scares the crap out of me. It's not her inexperience that bothers me. It's her narrow world view and the fact that she just doesn't know anything. She doesn't seem to be inclined to learn anything, either. She's just going to go along her merry way and do whatever she damn well pleases. We've had enough of that over the past 8 years.

[TheKentuckian]

23. Nah, I was already in full on concerned with McHoover.

I was pretty sure he'd be a downgrade from Dubya and is even more of a hawk by a good bit. Bush's brains minus 25% or so and Cheney's mentality plus 50% aggression.

Selecting Palin just demonstrates insanity and the decision making of cynical version of a lottery bubble machine. The fake suspending his campaign notched that up to yet another level.

McCain's a freaking mess. Maybe he picked Palin so there would be one person you could readily identify less suited to the Oval Office than himself.

[rvablue]

25. I totally agree.....Palin scares me like no other....well, besides Cheney! n/t

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

26. I had this conversation the other day

Had the McCain of 2000 been running this year, and had picked someone with at least a modicum of qualifications for the office, his election would have been disappointing to me but there would have at least been some hope for an improvement from the current moron. This year's version of McCain is not only a far cry from his earlier self but scary in his inability to stand up to the neo-cons.

[Arkansas Granny]

27. No flames from me. At one time, like before the 2000 election, I even

thought that I could vote for McCain, depending on who opposed him on the Democratic ticket. After his choice of Palin, however, I don't think I could ever trust his judgement on any issue. Whether he chose her or she was chosen for him, he accepted her to be in the position of possibly leading this country and that just scares me to death.

A McCain/Palin administration would just about finish this country off. I don't even want to imagine how our standing on the world stage would plummet.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

28. Locking

troll!

:rofl:

I was scared and I can't stand the guy but Caribou Barbie is even scarier.

[uponit7771]

30. I don't trust Palin, her husband supported secesionist!!

[RagAss]

31. Yes......Where is our 527 corps on this?

[bevoette]

32. flame me...but i wouldn't have been as scared if it was HUCKABEE even!

i mean...if they were gonna pick a right-wing fundamentalist, at least they coulda picked one with sense :\