What are people you know saying about the Palin pick?

[liberalpragmatist]

Outside the echo chambers of DU and blogosphere, what do friends and associates say about the Palin pick?

Everybody I've talked to about it were already committed Obama supporters. On some message boards that I post, the Republican members were all rapturous and threw up absurd justifications.

What's your experience? Especially with Republicans (non-blogger/non-activist types), independents and undecideds?

[XemaSab]

1. I can sum it all up in three letters:

W.

T.

F.

[pookieblue]

5. WTF - that's pretty much what was said around here...

there were a few that it was a good thing. like 2.

some women were insulted that he picked her...because it seemed that he only picked her because well because she is a woman. that's it.

one of my male coworkers was like "WTF..does he even want to win??"

[Chovexani]

12. It was nine in my household and circle of friends

WTF OMG LOL

[RoyGBiv]

2. Who?

Blank stares mostly.

[Lex]

3. I don't see any "converts" to McCain because of this Palin pick.

nt

[Mortos]

4. Some of the idiots I work with

were all excited with the choice of this "good old girl". They don't know anything about politics but she just "feels right"

[GrizzlyMan]

9. You must live in Oklahoma

LOL...so do I. This is one of the few places (on earth) the pick will play extremely well. The fundies will be beside themselves, maybe even start praising her in tounges.

[RoyGBiv]

11. Heya, Mortos ...

:hi:

[Mortos]

22. Hey RoyGBiv

Obama has gotten pulled me back from angry apathy.

[RoyGBiv]

28. Good ...

Kinda did that to me too, though it took awhile.

Need more people like you out there stumping.

[Indiana_Dem]

16. It will bring the Christian right out here in droves.....there were 2 Christian righters

I work with who seemed a little smug tonight. They know I support Obama and am a Dem.

[still_one]

6. A republican I work with thinks it is a great pick. What is amazing is

that individual is almost 65, close to retiring, not wealthy, will need social security and medicare, and can't understand how much he is against his own interest

A lot of republicans are morans

[rwheeler31]

7. When they stop laughing,they say what is wrong with this guy?

[Dagaz]

8. Awe It's a Mom

But then again I'm in the SF area and the idea of women in power is greater than other markets.

[JVS]

10. holy PANDERING Batman!

[GrizzlyMan]

13. I've had mixed opinions

One of my Dem friends laughed out loud when I told him. The other is easily frightened and is concerned. I did talk to one of my Repug co-workers, a college kid who loves good ol McCain, and he was playing it off as a stroke of genius, but you could tell he wasn't completely comfortable with it.

My reaction that this, coupled with the fact 40 million people watched one of the greatest speeches in history, ensures that Obama will be president.

[PM7nj]

14. Well... my mother hates her already. nt

[amitten]

15. People seem bewildered.

I've not heard any especially positive comments.

[yardwork]

17. A coworker who was seriously considering voting for McCain seemed very troubled today.

I heard her saying to someone else in the office, "Well, people say that Obama doesn't have much experience, but this..." It sounded like Obama had just earned another vote to me.

One person I know on another board said she was "pleased with the choice" but was unable to muster any enthusiasm. This person was going to vote for McCain anyway come hell or high water.

[Sugarcoated]

18. My fairly conservative catholic friend and her husband

she's 51, he's 49, comfortably middle class, kids go to CCD, she goes to church when she can squeeze it in and attends on religious holidays. I don't know their political affiliation except that they seem to lean Dem on most issues, but refused to put a Kerry sign on their lawn in '04, but that could be because they care what the Jones's think and his mom has cancer, is a Rush listener and they may not've wanted to do anything to upset her. His fresh out of college son works in Washington and is a staunch Democrat.

Now, as per the Palin pick: She was puzzled. She said it was "weird". So did her husband. They both loved Obama and the speech put her over the top. Her husband was probably going to vote Obama before the speech.

ETA - They live in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Montgomery County.

[Tresalisa]

19. My mostly nonpolitical GF thought it was a joke n/t

[Awsi Dooger]

20. My conservative friends are very pleased

I just deleted several emails without responding. I read a few sentences and that was plenty. They are guys who battle with me in an election pool every 2 years. Some of them are getting cocky about McCain's chances, but they are generally in the rear of that betting pool.

The right winger who I respect and who normally places very high was not very optimistic but he said it was a move McCain had to make. He told me McCain moved up 2 or 3 percent tonight on Intrade in some of the battleground states like Colorado, Nevada and Florida. I checked and he's right, but it went the other way in Ohio.

When I was swinging a golf club in the front yard the three people who live in the house next door pulled into their driveway and asked if I heard McCain had chosen a woman. I politely said yes. The wife was smiling. I have no idea about their politics so I didn't say much.

The opinion that interested me the most was a sports betting friend named Buddy who wagered on Palin along with me in the '06 Alaska gov race. I called him an hour ago. He said Palin will star at the convention and campaign and become very well liked nationally, but it won't help McCain in the long run. He said he was hoping the odds on Obama drop to the 55% range as a result of Palin's performance, then he would buy Obama contracts at bargain rate.

[truthisfreedom]

21. My dad heard a snippet of her voice on faux news and was taken aback at how shrill she sounds.

He's a pretty easy-going guy, but he said she sounded extremely inexperienced. He said she should have sounded "a lot smoother."


The snippet was one sentence.

[NYC_SKP]

23. OMG....doesn this mean we won't turn OK blue?

Next thing you know we'll lose WV and KY, too!!!

:thumbsup:

[Ediacara]

24. "Who the hell is she?"

Is the universal response.

[fizzgig]

25. i don't talk to republicans

everyone has had pretty much the same reaction: confusion and disgust

[TheKentuckian]

29. LOL That's ALL they got? LOL!!!!

Why does this pick strike fear in some? I'm sure she has some strengths and and the far right is in love but she is truly more or the same in a different package. At most Cheney in a skirt but more than likely a more right wing Pawlenty in a dress.

Change does not mean Strom Thurmond with a gender adjustment.

[KT2000]

26. Yikes! and HaHa!

then there was another person who was just speechless.

[TheWraith]

27. One Republican I talked to was pretty bumfuzzled.

He agreed that it was a really bad and clueless pick, and another fairly conservative guy I know seemed completely unmoved. Disclaimer: neither is an evangelical, though the latter is a bit of a loonie Catholic literalist. The former was previously behind McCain, the latter for Obama.

[Raine]

30. Former Hillary supporters that I know

are outraged that he has the gall to think they are stupid enough to fall for this ridiculous stunt. They feel very insulted cause she's not fit or qualified to wipe Hillary's shoes or wipe anything else.