by strangegrey » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:21 am
Romney doesn't shore up the base. In fact, he does very little to spread McCain's reach, as the two are similar enough to confuse some people.
Had McCain picked Lieberman, his national poll numbers would have gone down, not up. He would have grabbed a little more of the middle...but Obama's far left would have mobilized like no one's fucking business. You don't pick a candidate that energizes your oposition. Not only that, but a pick for Lieberman would have caused McCain's far right to abandon him. Thems the truth.
I think McCain was fucked no matter who he picked.
So he decided to do the one thing he should have been doing for fucking years, which is to get his base support.
The whacky thing about this, is that a good candidate dosn't *need* to appeal to the base...because he/she has it already. Do any of you think Hillary or Obama, past the primary season, would have needed to try to garner support with liberals? Thats laughable.
Which goes back to my original statement that if you need to shore up the base to get through the convention, you've got BIGGER problems than picking a VP candidate. That's the sad truth.
McCain is a fraud, a liar and true conservatives know this. The only way McCain was able to hoodwink people in this category was to pick someone like Palin. What he didn't realize was that he was picking someone that had significant liabilities in the cranium.
Had Palin truly been a pitbull with lipstick...and had the goods behind the eyeballs to deliver in national interviews, he wouldn't be in this position....
Instead, people are rightfully questioning the judgment of a man that would pick such a stupid woman to run with him. That's the core issue...not whether or not she's a heartbeat from the oval office (even though that's important). The big issue is whether or not the kind of man that picks a woman like this, for the role of VP, deserves to be entrusted with our country's future....
