This whole thing is a fucking joke. They don't wan't to win it.

[Atman]

For Christ fucking sake...the GOP picks the worst possible prez candidate who in turn picks the least qualified veep candidate, after Obama and Biden bring the house down.

Do these people really even want to win?

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[TwilightZone]

1. It wouldn't appear so. I'm still trying to figure out the motivation.

So far, no luck.

[physioex]

3. I didn't get it either when they....

"Picked" Shrub and Uncle Dick but then the Neo-Con agenda surfaced......

[TwilightZone]

8. I always figured that Bush was a puppet. Maybe this is the same kind of setup.

McCain dies (natural, no conspiracies needed), and the "new" puppet gets installed?

[physioex]

11. Exactly...

She is a nobody with no connections to people in Washington. She is being manipulated/used by the people behind the curtains....

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I suspected they didn't during the last congressional elections. It may be that

they've decided they've reached the point in the cycle where the Dems clean up their mess. They'll come back for another round in a few years.

[valerief]

5. Yes, that's how it works. Dems build up money, Reptiles steal it. nt

[valerief]

4. That's crossed my mind, but then I think of Bush/Cheney and their

nonsense.

I think they do want to win and utterly shameless ridiculousness is their ticket to win.

[Cleita]

6. We all said that when Texas Privet was nominated and then again

when failed Sec. of Defense Cheney was chosen as VP. They've got to be kidding, we said? This time leave no stone unturned.

[Bobbie Jo]

7. So their convention won't be such a downer.

They still have congressional seats up for grabs, and a dwindling base to keep entertained.

[SwampG8r]

9. i listed a very good reason for mccain to pick her

here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6813332&mesg_id=6813332

[physioex]

13. It may not even be McCain....

It could be his handlers or the party insiders, the real people pulling the strings.

[whatchamacallit]

10. I've entertained this notion more than once

It could be the trillions in derivatives debt that some economists believe will soon destroy the US financial system. Bernanke and Paulson are doing everything possible to keep those chickens from coming to roost on Shrub's watch.

[wundermaus]

12. They don't HAVE to win the election...

They just need to RUN... the counting of the votes will take care of them selves...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUqtC1oiztw">wink wink... nod nod...

[EstimatedProphet]

16. My thoughts exactly

[Top Cat]

14. I'm totally confused at this point...

[AuntPatsy]

15. eight yeas of bush?

[ShadowLiberal]

17. Overconfidence like this worries me, overconfidence can lead to mistakes

This election is in no way in the bag. Just ask Dewey how 'in the bag' elections (according to the media) can be lost.

[Born_A_Truman]

18. That is exactly what my husband said tonight...

This is a throwaway for republicans.

[eshfemme]

19. I think that the GOP's so radicalized themselves

that they squeezed out all the normal people. Now, in an election where they have to either get the normal people that they evicted to vote for them or try to convert more neo-conservatives, they just don't know where to start. They're trying to cover their asses at both ends and ending up with this bullshit instead.

They want to win and the only thing allowing them to hang on is that they're cockroaches in how honed their primitive political instincts have become.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. The problem is, they're counting on the American people being radicalized as a whole

And from what I have seen from the last 8 years, they may be right.

[skooooo]

20. On the other hand....

...they get away with so much shit that people react passively too, they must be in shock when once in a while they hit a wrong nerve.

McCain's campaign has been taken over by the fundies.

[4_Legs_Good]

21. I think they gave McCain the nomination to get him out of the way, and he gave the VP to a woman

so in future elections they can claim that as political capital to try to win back the soccer-mom's.

I'm glad to see another woman nominated after a way too long dry spell, but don't anyone fool themselves as to the Republicans' motives. Mondale was a progressive, he chose for the right reasons. McCain is just doing some long term calculations.

Not to mention he's desperate.

David

[leftstreet]

22. MIDTERMS

I think that was always the plan. They figured way back that 2008 belonged to Hillary and the Dems, and they'd just wait and "gingrich" the midterms. Looks like they hadn't counted on Obama, but they're in for a penny in for a pound with McCain.

[backscatter712]

23. To quote from Monty Python

"Well ladies and gentlemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsulating the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits."

[Wizard777]

24. I've been thinking that too. They can't be serious. Unless the fix is in at Diebold

Then they don't even have to try and they'll win.