That McCain’s camp could keep a secret.

Sarah Palin was vetted alright. Even better than Barry. Read this article and you’ll see just how much they knew about Sarah Palin and family.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/aponelpr/cvnpalin

The MSM dropped the ball. They missed their breaking news, their big story… and now they’re relying on the most vile hate mongering yahoos on the face of the planet to dig up dirt while they catch up.

They’re so ticked you can see it on their faces. When CNN’s Cooper was there with McCain he couldn’t stop talking about when they could talk to her. They want to nail her and nail her to the wall. If for no other reason than repairing their broken egos.

So far nothing that has come out even starts to compare to Obama’s issues, or Biden’s long known issues, or even McCain’s record blemishes.

They… just like their left-wing viewership are just peeved they weren’t ready… and they’re going to make sure they do the vetting that McCain didn’t do… because they know he didn’t… otherwise we’d know… just like we knew who was in the shortlist… err… something… yeah!

Just more of the same. Everybody is piling on because just like the Kos Kids… these yahoos think a conservative woman is nothing more than an “Uncle Mom.”

Disgusting the whole lot.

of all this. I really am. At some point, people have to take responsibility for what they do and try to correct their mistakes, not shift the blame unto others no matter how convenient.

The onus for vetting a candidate or appointee rests with the campaign, no one else. One reason for that is that it allows you the opportunity to determine what skeletons may exist and how you can best confront them. No candidate or nominee that I have ever heard of is 100% perfect, hence the need for proper vetting.

Also, vetting also gives the campaign a chance to determine how best to bring certain flaws to light and quite often campaigns will do so by carefully leaking out some bits and pieces of the really bad stuff ahead of the pick so that it’s all out there and voters have had the chance to “know” that it’s there. Thus when something along those lines eventually do surface, it’s all quite easy to tie it to the prior information and package it as part of the same old stuff, thus minimizing the fallout.

Take any campaign(s) in recent memory:
* Bill Clinton - I smoked pot but did not inhale.
* George W. Bush - I drank/partied until I was 40 and then I found Christ and he changed my life.
* Obama - I did some cocaine in my early years.

There are many others but in each case, these revelations came quite early in or before the campaign so that voters were able to absorb and put it behind them.
The American voter, as far as I know, has a great capacity to forgive past mistakes if they believe that you have told the truth and that you have emptied the closest. That is part of what it means when people talk about feeling like they ‘know’ a candidate. They may never have met him/her and may live completely different lifestyles, but they feel like they know all his/her secrets and are now ready to listen to what he/she is selling. Those who have benefited from this will include:
* Hillary - faced multiple investigations before and during her White House days and before she ran for the Senate and is now seen as rehabilitate to many of her supporters (18 million votes is quite a lot no matter how you cut it.)

Then you have the people like Mitt Romney, who seem very great on paper, almost too perfect, just before they start running for office at which they start shifting from past positions, having to explain why they did or said something different previously. Of course, you can also go with someone who has previously run for high office, whose flaws may already have been exposed and who the public now feels like they ‘know’. Biden has many flaws but he has twice run for PotUS and, good or bad, his flaws are mostly out there.

The key here is that you have to prepare the voter beforehand. Get them to know about your flaws; they may not accept it as being okay but it makes them feel comfortable that you are human and have made some mistakes too.

The trouble we have with Sarah Palin’s nomination is that we have not adequately prepared the public to see her as being someone with flaws. She is supposed to be a supermon, with both a great family and a great career. If these turn out to be less than they seem then the public feels that they have been deceived. A good vetting process would have uncovered some of these flaws and worked to quietly put them out there before the pick is made such that voters have come to accept something less-than-perfect.

I just hope, in the short time that we have left, that the McCain campaign will get it’s act together. I don’t know what else is in Gov. Palin’s closet but the door has been opened and its not that easy to slam it back shut. What’s left is to determine how big of a closet it is and how messy.

It has already started, and Stephanopoulos was beating it loud and hard this morning on ABC: we don’t REALLY KNOW ANYTHING about her and she is TOO INEXPERIENCED…

And the implication is: We will NEVER EVER KNOW ENOUGH about her to be safe with her one heartbeat away from the Oval Office. She is just “TOO INEXPERIENCED NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY” to become president in an emergency.

Expect this as the continuous drumbeat for 60 days: and do not expect any counterpoint from them about Obama’s exact same problems.

Why…she does not even know what her own daughter has been up to!!! How aware of the world can she be???

Expect that snarky snare drum to start ratta-tat-tattling too!

assumed the defense position from now until the fall. McCain will now be bogged down with questions about Palin instead of pounding home his message which was being done brilliantly these last few weeks. This was an unnecessary risk and I hope McCain/Palin prevail but only time will tell. This pick of Palin, although good I admit, has left me convinced that McCain just plain hates Romney; enough to pass up the opportunity to move seamlessly into the general election. I’d prefer to see McCain battle questions about Romney’s wealth then Palin’s ethical practices or judgment; but that’s just me.

Reporters from all the big papers and networks scurrying around all over Juneau. I had something happen yesterday that has never before happened in over thirty years of dealing with the media: I actually had a reporter reach for the tab!

I’m still trying to find the “VICIOUS ATTACKS” leveled leveled byt he “MSM” at Sarah Palin.

You cite 5 “attacks”; 4 are actually facts, and I’m unsure of the Alaska Independence Party. In fact, the teen’s pregnancy was first announced in a campaign press release, albeit after the National Enquirer (MSM?)was about to go public. Does anybody think this could have been kept secret?

Certainly her record while serving in public office is up for debate, right? All thes issues were reported on both Fox News and MSNBC alike.

…is Obama next?

Good news for liberal fabulists: The Eagleton scenario is still alive!

Bad news for liberal fabulists: It now applies to Joe Biden.

If you bow out gracefully now, Plugs, you can still go back to the Senate where you can keep giving long-winded speeches that no one listens to and keep making consistently wrong calls on foreign policy that no one acts on. Deal?

the left’s narrative that women must be liberals.

{You’d think that they’d read.}

I guess Obama really does not want to raise MY taxes. {He apparently doesn’t own a business, either. - ML}