How McCain Picked Palin

It's one thing to be a risk taker when nobody else gets hurt if your play doesn't pan out. It's another when a whole country full of folks is placed in jeopardy. There is no question that the right guy won this election and this is only one of the reasons.

[...] Jonathan Martin plugged this speech from A.B. Culvahouse , the head of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential vetting project, and it was a fascinating look into how such decisions are made. Point one: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) was seriously Continue .. [...]

I know several Republicans who decided to vote for Obama because McCain picked a “Playboy Bunny” for his running mate. It spoke of his ability to make wise decisions as President, and he didn't get a passing grade.

[...] Jonathan Martin plugged this speech from A.B. Culvahouse , the head of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential vetting project, and it was a fascinating look into how such decisions are made. Point one: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) was seriously Continue .. [...]

McCain made a mockery of not only the Republican party but also of the nomination process. If the party was rocky to begin with–this pushed us over. As a conservative Republican (I can't believe I have to make that qualification), we gave the race away. While the Democrats congealed, we disintegrated. The message was simple, but McCain's campaign couldn't articulate it. Of all the great choices that were available, I'll never believe this was anything but a cheap ploy. As you can tell (thanks for the sympathies), I find this as gut renching today as I did the morning it was announced.

[...] How McCain Picked Palin – Fascinating insights from the McCain campaign’s Vice-Presidential selection process. [...]

Thank you Mr. Culvahouse for making history.

Sadly when said mistakes are made, we do pay for it, Of course Obama and Biden's troubling history
of mistatesment, bad judgement calls, ( FISA, the Gulf War vote, the proposed partition of Iraq,VAWA)
connections to corrupt institutions, political associations et al, All of that was real, sadly the media wasn't interested.

[...] Interesting articles on a speech given by the guy who ran McCain’s VP search; to wit, Sarah Palin did better on some matters when questioned about foreign policy stuff than a lot of the others (God knows what the seekrit answers were supposed to be) and that Joe Lieberman and the fusion ticket was indeed a major direction of the search effort, but that legal barriers to ’sore losers’ not swtiching parties at the last minute in several states, not to mention hardcore GOP I-dont-think-so reactions to Joe pushed the idea aside.  Read the linked articles in you’re curious… [...]

[...] Washington Independent’s David Weigel notes that Culvahouse said Friday that, after interviewing Palin, he told McCain she’d be a "high [...]

I heard McCain picked Sarah Palin due to her reputed excellent teabagging skillz.

John McCain' military career has cost American taxpayers a lot of money. Four crashed military planes attest to his lack of flying skill and “risk taker” personality (a fifth crash was in no way his fault). The last crash led to his being captured by the Viet Cong. That crash happened because he ignored orders to drop his payload and get out of there and went back and flew low for a look. Risk-taker or stupid? Either way, he paid for it. McCain comes from a respected and successful military family and that is the only reason he got to trash so many planes. We paid for those.

Dana, of the four planes that crashed while McCain was piloting them, the military only recognises one as being his fault. Two were mechanical issues and the one in Vietnam was shot down. (Granted, one is one too many in my mind. Just putting the record straight.)

Yes, when your father and gradfather are both Admirals, and you are being flight trained at a base named after a family member, I guess they WOULD rather call them mechanical failures instead of admit that they were all pilot error.

As for him being a risk taker. It is one thing to take a risk with your own life, or with a plane that the govt. paid for and your father and grandfather can protect you from the reprecussions of losing. It is quite another to pick somebody so unready to run the nation.

[...] McCain liked the risk that came with Palin. [...]

Eleanor, here is one former Democrat who voted for McCain mostly because he picked Palin. This Democrat didn't want to vote for a communist candidate like Obama, who sat for twenty years in the Trinity United Church, listening to racist garbage and never heard anything. Yeah right… and pigs can fly too….

John McCain' military career has cost American taxpayers a lot of money. — I just wonder what will be the cost of Obama's political career. So far the numbers are going into trillions. I rather take those 3 or four million McCain squandered by crashing Skyhawks. And by the way thank you for not blaming McCain for firing that North Vietnamese SAM missile into himself. That's a relief to hear, even for a Democrat cu_nt from NYC.

High risk high reward? That's a stupid statement!!! The reward would be the same for McCain if he won no matter who was his V.P. selection!!! And she knocked the questions out of the park? From the questions I heard there were only two possible answers to these questions yes or no. Oh and McCain showed what kind of idiot he is by saying I love risk. Thank God he didn't win!

One crash being his fault? So? Anyone else who wasn't a spoiled brat would have lost his wings after that! John McCain is a spoiled brat who has never worked a day in his life he is ignorant and out of touch! How can you possibly think that someone who dosent understand the internet or computers could possibly be the leader of this MODERN country?

You don't know I'm a Democrat, you don't know I'm female (Dana Andrews for instance) and if you read my post you'll see that McCain was to blame for the North Vietnamese SAM reaching his plane because he didn't follow orders. Not my assessment by the way but the military's. You don't know a lot that you think you know. You and Palin have much in common. Nothing in my post called for such vitriol. Maybe too much Fox News?

if the media and people like moneybags soros hadn't tilted the playing field so badly, mccain/palin would have been not had any trouble at all beating obama/biden. and now we all have to pay the price for their loss to liars with more money than brains.
dennisintn

you have to be a risk taker to be a navy fighter pilot. i'll take mccain's brains and morals any day of the week over the combination of obama/biden.
dennisintn

if the media and people like moneybags soros hadn't tilted the playing field so badly, mccain/palin would have been not had any trouble at all beating obama/biden. and now we all have to pay the price for their loss to liars with more money than brains.
dennisintn

you have to be a risk taker to be a navy fighter pilot. i'll take mccain's brains and morals any day of the week over the combination of obama/biden.
dennisintn

[...] Washington Independent’s David Weigel notes that Culvahouse said Friday that, after interviewing Palin, he told McCain she’d be a [...]

[...] Washington Independent’s David Weigel notes that Culvahouse said Friday that, after interviewing Palin, he told McCain she’d be a [...]