McCain names VP pick (Read 1538 times)

, I'd vote for her on looks alone.

I saw this on another forum, new acronym: VPILF MTA: VPILF Damn, that didn't take long.

Squeaky - she is definitely not going to sway social liberals (abortion, gay marriage, 2nd Amendment,ect) and I don't think McCain was trying to sway them...but for women like my wife, who had chosen NOT to vote this year. She has my wife fired up...a mother of 5 holding down a job, a devoted wife, "hockey mom"...my wife looks at her and sees herself (yes my wife is hot too ). NOt to mention the fact that she is known as a reformer gets me fired up.

The thing is, after all this hubbub about Hillary supporters who freaked out and said they wouldn't vote for Obama (actual number: about 5), it certainly looks a lot like he was trying to choose another middle-aged woman to snag those "disaffected" liberal ladies. Which I don't think will work, but if it's getting women like your wife fired up about politics, that's great! Remember, election day is Nov. 5 Out of curiosity, why had your wife decided not to vote?

she, as well as me, are probaly considered social/fiscal conservative but we live in an area of the country that has ALWAYS (yes even during the Clinton years) been poverty stricken...so, we are around people every day who need help to get started...so at times we find ourselves agreeing with liberals...but we also see rampant welfare abuse. We are both Pro-Life...really don't care either way about Gay Marriage, we know racism is still an issue, we both believe in the 2nd ammendment...and myself as controller of a small/mid sized business...Obama will close the doors of MANY small businesses. We employ 70 people, and would definitely have to lay-off a large % of our staff if Obama and Democrat economic plans fully takes place (which did it for me, b/c I KNOW what his plans will do...I deal with it every day)...The Economic crisis we are in now will be nothing when small businesses lay off half their employees or close their doors to go work for someone else b/c they can't pay their income and payroll taxes. My wife is a school teacher and she HATES "No child left behind" and HATES the fact that schools employ teachers who don't care and doesn't reward teachers that do...and that all their teaching is to prepare for a test and not to prepare kids for college and life. So...to vote for Obama would have been a vote against Pro-Life (btw, we were both babies born after doctors told our mothers to abort the pregnancy...and hearing that heartbeat so close to after being pregnant...there is no "choice" for us)...and McCain just didn't float her boat. Obama inspired her but in the end she simply doesn't believe him b/c he hasn't ever laid out how...While she believes McCain but he never inspired her...now she is inspired by Palin and trusts McCain. Does that make sense. For me...Palin plus McCain's economic plans are better, but more importantly than being better they are doable. I do believe the media has overplayed the Hillary factor...but after her speech at the DNC...Obama wasted a sure thing in not picking her. She was incredible. I think McCain was trying to get 1,000,000's of women like my wife. The soccer moms that are leaning socially conservative but still socially sensative and has a heart for the hurting. Which, that last sentence describes pretty much the greatest % of the moms I have EVER known.

I can confirm this second hand (first hand from someone who met him in a "rope line" at the Pentagon). He seems to have a canned line something like "You better watch that running, mountain biking is a whole lot easier on your knees." Other intern jobs seem even harder on your knees.

Why are people over there concerned so much about abortion when it comes to electing the most powerful person in the world. There are a lot more important issues, when I vote for someone it is based how they will run the country and not if they are Christain's that go to church and say things they think will get the right wing Christain vote. I would vote for someone who is not afraid to say what they really think. Unfortunately who gets in over there seems to have a knock on effect over here, IE: the credit crunch. That was your greedy right wing, bankers. (did I say bankers) Look at New Orleans how the so called good living church going Republicans helped that city, looks like they might have a second go at it, unfortunately. 1500 people died in the last New Orleans disaster, it's things like this that matter, not a cent up in your taxes. Roy

I was one of those so-called good living church going Republicans that housed a New Orleans family that I did not know in my home for several weeks in Houston, so I thank you for the recognition of what many of us did to help those people out. You know NOT of which you speak.

Sqeaky - on the abortion thing...I will say this, and I say it with all the respect I can muster...Even Obama when asked when life begins he said "I believe the answer to that is well above my pay grade"...meaning he didn't know. If you don't know if you are taking life, why not just don't and be sure. The Jogger - you have NO clue about Katrina...and before you say I don't have a clue...you might want to check out where I am from. I personally watched church after church house the homeless from Katrina and support them...not for days or weeks....but for months and sometimes years. I watched churches collect truckloads of food and supplies for those who were displaced and for those working on the recovery. I watched countless of churches be the first to go in and begin the recovery process. As we speak my brother is fleeing the MS Gulf Coast to spend the week with us, hotels in my city are filling up with the fleeing. I was in church when a displaced New Orleans woman staying with lodging provided by our church got a cell phone call from her daughter saying she was alive and just got cell phone reception (that was two weeks after the storm)...I was in church when a teenage boy whose family was also staying with our church - told me he just found out his best friend drown in the 2nd story of his house along with the rest of his family..the churches were the ones who tried to help heal that pain. BTW the eye...the center of the storm ...the highest winds and surge hit my state of MS. You don't hear about that because our recovery went better...our Governor (Republican) had us extremely prepared but we are STILL trying to recover. New Orleans was not prepared at any level of goverment local (Dem), state (Dem at the time), or federal (yes Bush screwed up big time by trusting others to do his job and when I began to really not like Bush). If it were not for the churches all across the country sending supplies and themselves and unselfishly opening their homes and wallets, well I would hate to think of Katrina w/o it.