Have Gun, Will Travel. Sarah Palin a Good VP pick?

[SD67]

General Aviation. You know those pesky little planes that every other politician seems convinced will rain a hail of death down on our heads yet provide the building blocks for every aviator that lives and breathes?

[Elfie]

General Aviation - private planes and pilots.

Well that doesn't surprise me at all then considering the State of Alaska has the highest number of private pilots per capita and also boasts the worlds largest float plane airport at Lake Hood (?) in Anchorage.

[Elfie]

McCain will crush obama.

I tend to agree and I think it was each candidates choice of running mates that has determined this.

[Hap]

http://www.gopconvention2008.com/default.aspx

That's the link for the Repub Nat'l Convention.  After work, I watched the Dems.  Will do the same with Repubs.

Nothing on the site about Palin.  That's a mistake.  I bet they fix it before the day is out.

Service, Reform, Prosperity, and Peace are the topics for the four nights.

They've got Cheney and Bush scheduled to speak and Laura Bush along with others on the 1st night.

[Elfie]

What's VPLIF mean?

heh.....check your pm's.

[Shuckins]

To get back on topic, sort of, is anyone else, besides myself, getting the impression that Obama's campaign staff of groupies has seriously underestimated the old white-maned lion that is opposing him?

I mean, they've been pretty smug about the election outcome, believing they've got it sewed up because of the "economy" and "the war" and "Bush hatred" and what-not. 

And YET...McCain just sits there with that cheesy smirk on his face, and butt-effs them with moves like this.  And these moves are so well oiled that they don't seem to realize that it's happening.

When this is all over with in November, I think they're going to be surprised how many throats he's cut.

[Elfie]

To get back on topic, sort of, is anyone else, besides myself, getting the impression that Obama's campaign staff of groupies has seriously underestimated the old white-maned lion that is opposing him?

I mean, they've been pretty smug about the election outcome, believing they've got it sewed up because of the "economy" and "the war" and "Bush hatred" and what-not. 

And YET...McCain just sits there with that cheesy smirk on his face, and butt-effs them with moves like this.  And these moves are so well oiled that they don't seem to realize that it's happening.

When this is all over with in November, I think they're going to be surprised how many throats he's cut.

I can't say that I disagree with any of that.....especially the part about the dems being surprised..... 

[Donzo]

To get back on topic, sort of, is anyone else, besides myself, getting the impression that Obama's campaign staff of groupies has seriously underestimated the old white-maned lion that is opposing him?

I mean, they've been pretty smug about the election outcome, believing they've got it sewed up because of the "economy" and "the war" and "Bush hatred" and what-not. 

And YET...McCain just sits there with that cheesy smirk on his face, and butt-effs them with moves like this.  And these moves are so well oiled that they don't seem to realize that it's happening.

When this is all over with in November, I think they're going to be surprised how many throats he's cut.

I totally agree with what you've said. 

I thought McCain's commercial that came out the day of Obama's speech was classy (the one where he congratulated Obama).  Looking back I like it even more because you gotta think that McCain knew what he was about to do the next day and what impact it would have.

[Kaw1000]

Democrates are a bunch of blow hards. They say change change change but yet they keep talking
about the same ol same ol.

 The Republicans, with their VP choice have shown change already.

Palin has an 80% approval rate in Alaska.Unheard of in any state.
This women will bring change. I love her stance on corruption, something that is ramp id
in our government. I just hope she doesn't change once she gets in.

[Elfie]

Palin has an 80% approval rate in Alaska.Unheard of in any state.

I've seen 85% online and claims of up to 90% on this bbs.

This women will bring change. I love her stance on corruption, something that is ramp id
in our government. I just hope she doesn't change once she gets in.

She hasn't changed yet, let's just hope that Washington politics don't change her. I suspect they wont, but you never know.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

It is not that McCain, or his campaign, are doing such a great job, they aren't, they're just sort of being low key. It's that the Democrats are doing such a poor job. They are convinced that the same approach that lost the last election will win this one.

Honestly, given that we were supposedly at peace, and enjoying economic prosperity, and given that Gore was the VP of a supposedly popular administration under those circumstances, he should have CRUSHED Bush, it should never have been close enough for Florida to have been an issue. That it WAS that close means they lost. And it means they did a terrible job. Their loss in 2000 was even bigger than Bush's loss to Clinton, they did a worse job than Bush did, and I thought that would have been near impossible. And they have not done much, if any, better since. The key to that is their assumption that EVERYONE truly HATES Bush AND the Republican party, and it doesn't matter how bad a candidate the Democrats put up, or how bad a campaign they run, they are preordained to win. That is why they are so surprised and angry when they lose, and so consumed by the false belief that they were robbed. Their continuing shift to the left will likely leave them further and further away.

[Hap]

Democrates are a bunch of blow hards. They say change change change but yet they keep talking
about the same ol same ol.

Kaw, from where you sit, what beefs do Democrats have with the way things are?  What do you see them to be?

[Shuckins]

Virgil, I agree with a lot of what you say...except for the part about McCain not running a very strong campaign.  I think keeping his campaign low-key is actually a very savvy thing to do.  He realizes that if he gives the liberal dems calling the shots for Obama enough rope, they'll hang themselves.

McCain also realizes that not ALL Americans hate Bush and the Republican Party.  I think he also realizes that the voters will catch on to the fact that the fourth branch of the government, the press, is doing everything within its power to promote Obama....and that the people will see through that in the end.

[Elfie]

I think he also realizes that the voters will catch on to the fact that the fourth branch of the government, the press, is doing everything within its power to promote Obama....and that the people will see through that in the end.

I would guess that most reasonable people do already. It's pretty ridiculous how the press has tried to promote one candidate over the other during the last few campaigns. The press should be helping us by showing each candidate in as impartial a way as possible.

[Kaw1000]

The problem is...the Dems cry and complain about the way things are..yet they have the
majority in the Senate...They have a chance to "Change" things right now...but yet they Don't.

I heard, and I don't know how true it is, the Obama pretty much voted ,on issues,
close to the same way McCain did.

And you have one of the leaders of the Democratic party, Nancy Pelosi
who Brags shes Catholic...then says she does'nt know when life begins,
When the Catholic church teaches Life begins at conception.

We are in a real energy crunch...Pelosi's stance....No drilling in America
this is one of the Democratic leaders,,,and real two face lieing witch.