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This is the phrase that matters: "Yup, Sarah Palin is hot/ young/ conservative/ incredible (whatever)... BUT I STILL DON'T WANT ***McCAIN*** FOR PRESIDENT!!!
As far as I can see, McCain just stole the headlines with his VP pick. NOBODY is discussing Obama's speech anymore. Everyone over here is so busy dismissing the situation, that we're losing focus. Sarah Palin is an amazing, and EXCELLENT choice.
IF McCain doesn't die in the next 4 years, he is offering his party a young, attractive/photogenic, evangelical Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, history-making president who will have been "seasoned" by 4-8 years as VP and "ready to lead!!!"
She does NOT have to be experienced today. Right now, she can just sit back and LEARN. Obama picked a mentor, McCain picked a protege.
The media is going to EAT THIS UP!!!!!!!!!!! For 2 months, we're going to be buried in Ladies Home Journal "fluff" articles that keep Sarah Palin on the cover, just as the Obamas have been for the last 12 months. Her "gut-wrenching" story about choosing to give birth to a "perfect" Downs Syndrome baby is going to play well with Cindy McCain who adopted a Bengali girl with a cleft palette. They will probably end up good friends.
Palin has just bumped the Democrats out of the headlines so fast that THE ISSUES will CEASE TO MATTER!!!!!!!!! Think about Jon Benet on the front page of the National Enquirer, month after month...
Sorry. This is going to work unless we think fast and furiously about a counterstrategy. We are so busy laughing that we THINK we can beat this based on the issues.
NO WE CAN'T!!!! Right this moment, the race is no longer about issues. It's about being photogenic and historic.
In your hearts, you know that a gun-toting, wolf-killing, pro-life evangelical Christian is probably NOT the woman you want in office for 8 years. (She will NOT die in office!) But there are enough people who are okay with it, and enough men who will put up with it, that it will have to be redirected.
So... she's a headline grabber and all that... but I STILL DON'T WANT ***McCAIN*** TO BE PRESIDENT!!!!!
If they want the spotlight, let them have it. But if this is going to "backfire", then we have to be unspinning it as fast as they spin it.
This is NOT a mistake. Quit laughing and get busy.
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