Obviously Failin' Palin wasn't vetted. So why was she chosen?

[ColbertWatcher]

They could have picked a qualified female candidate, so it wasn't because she's a woman.

Why was this person chosen?

[grannie4peace]

1. i have no idea

[ColbertWatcher]

4. I should add that. n/t

[ingac70]

2. Dobson said so. n/t

[Maat]

8. That's my reason.

George Lakoff has a piece about it on HuffPo; I'll try to find it. She appeals to the Hardright Religious Fundamentalist faction. That's obviously who McSame is trying to pick up.

[DesertFlower]

3. because of her beliefs.

the extreme right wing republicans want to turn this country into a christian theocracy.

[seemslikeadream]

5. DOBSON

picked her and TOLD McCain she's your girl, no ifs ands or buts

[tekisui]

6. She was picked to steal a day of headlines from Obama's Speech.

But, she decided to stay there, and sink mcpow's campaign.

[d_b]

7. 1&2

[gateley]

9. Because of her beliefs - appealing to the fundies.

But I don't know why he wouldn't have picked Huckabee if that was the goal.

[AllieB]

10. To deflect the focus off the economy and on to 'values'.

It's worked for them in the past, and since they have no economic strategy, they chose Palin to get the 'values voters'.

[AzDar]

11. My twelve-year-old nailed it: : Last Thursday, after watching Obama's speech,

he said "I'll bet Old Man Mccain is crapping his Depends right now, and chooses someone stupid in his panic."


Outta the mouths of babes....

[ingac70]

12. Wow!

He's more astute than I. Never in a million years would I have thought McCain was this stupid. Stupid, just not THIS stupid.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Wow. n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

25. that's awesome

What a smart kid. He sounds like a future Jon Stewart. :thumbsup:

[Happyhippychick]

13. Because Karl Rove told him to

[Irishonly]

14. I have no idea

Rove may have told him to do so.

[Celebration]

15. Because she is a crackpot fundie AND a female n/t

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

17. other - she was picked to be a fundraising tool, i mean, its not like

mcSame is going to return the millions raised since she was selected once she gets booted off the ticket. I can't think of another puke candidate that carries the emotional appeal to the fundys to open their wallets.

[Fuzz]

18. Gender and Religion

[SheilaT]

19. Because they are so completely out of touch

with real women that they honestly think that women who supported Hillary will consider Palin just as good. Wrong. The fact that Palin is a right-wing fundamentalist family values fiscal conservative (gotta love that $20m debt for Wasilla, dontcha?)mother of five including a special needs baby and of course supports her pregnant teen daughter, all that doesn't hurt.

[frogmarch]

20. Other. Mc* and his cohorts

thought Palin would entice Hillary supporters.

[L. Coyote]

21. Other. Simple yet complicated = Beauty Queen of Alaska Pork!

McCain's mouth.

After the $5 million gaffe and the 7 houses gaffe, McCain had to dump Romney at the last minute.
After the Abramoff filings, it became obvious how many more Indictments are coming down.
After Stevens implicated Cheney in the pay-to-play gifts scam, McCain needed more "reformer" cache.
Plus, there is all the Corrupt Bastards Club stuff coming up, including Young's indictment.

So, McCain went "immunization shopping" at the last minute, without time to do the vetting.

What is so ironic in all this, is McCain is so out of the loop he did not know Palin worked for Stevens,
that her reformer credentials are all a facade that prevented the Dems from winning Alaska's governor's
seat to retained control of the Big Pipeline for her Big Oil friends, and that she is the Beauty Queen of Alaska Pork!

[justgamma]

22. I said for her looks.

Plus she's a tighty righty. You see it every day in the workplace. promotions go to the "pretty people". It doesn't friggin' matter if they can do the job or not.

[Journeyman]

23. I believe the Republicans want to rid themselves of both neocons and fundamentalists. . .

or at least mute their influence and remove them from the forefront of the Party. They'll do this by having John McCain be defeated and Sarah Palin humiliated. Similar purges have been done before: in '64 when the Republicans rid themselves of the Goldwater wing of conservatism, and in '72, when the Democrats did the same with the liberal, anti-war wing personified by McGovern.

Think of it, once this election is over, if McCain loses as big as some sources believe he may, and Palin is humiliated beyond any measure we can imagine today, there's no possibility that either a neocon or a fundamentalist will be on the Republican ticket in 2012. I believe that's what the monied interests are angling for with this odd couple pairing.

[ColbertWatcher]

24. I like the way you think! n/t

[Unrepentant Fenian]

26. I voted "Other", she was picked because she's a ....

I voted "Other", she was picked because she's a bible thumpin', gun totin', proud of teen pregnancy, second runner up beauty queen (from some remote Alaskan village}. You know... Every republican's dream girl. Hell, I bet the family home still has brand new re-threads on it! I've even heard that one old Palin family tradition is, to allow their daughters, on their twelfth birthday, to smoke at the table in front of her kids! Why wouldn't she be a republican pin up?