John McCain Picks Sarah Palin as Running Mate
August 29th, 2008 at 04:20pm Matt Margolis
Republicans are ecstatic. It’s a new race today.
Democrats are blindsided and scared, and the Obama campaign went straight into attack mode.
Republicans say it’s noteworthy that, on the week commemorating the 88th anniversary of women getting the right to vote — with McCain, making a groundbreaking VP pick — the Obama campaign’s first response was to attack, not congratulate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, or acknowledge the historic nature of her selection.
It was just yesterday that McCain ran a TV ad congratulating Obama on his historic achievement.
Upon further reflection, Sens. Obama and Biden issued a more carefully considered response:
“We send our congratulations to Gov. Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the Republican nominee for vice president,” said the Democratic ticket in a joint statement. “It is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward, Gov. Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.”
Jon Henke posts a lot in interesting tidbits about the selection.
The left-wing blog MyDD asks, “Do we really need to put another wildly inexperienced, purely political choice into the White House.” I assumed they were talking about Barack Obama.
Without a doubt, McCain-Palin 2008 is the winning ticket.
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4 Comments
1. William of Orange | August 29th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
“,,on the week commemorating the 88th anniversary of women getting the right to vote..”
Seems like this past week was big for anniversaries: The MLK “I have a Dream” speech, the anniversary of womens’ suffrage..
..and the 40th anniversary of the Chicago Eight (including The Cypher’s buddy, Billy Ayers) being arrested at the Chicago DNC.
My, My, how ironic.
All that being said, Sarah Palin is a dynamite pick that radically changes the political calculus, and put’s Zer-Obama on the ropes once again.
Man, I marvel how the McCain team comes up with this stuff’ pretty adroit.
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3. Rob | August 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Pretty sure you got it backwards. Shouldn’t it be Democrats ecstatic and Republicans blindsided and scared?
4. New Conservative | August 29th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Go here to grade McCain’s VP pick.
http://www.thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/