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seperis ([personal profile] seperis) wrote2008-08-29 09:50 am
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sarah palin for GOP vice president

Huh. CNN just stated that McCain picked Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate in breaking news.

Well. That was unexpected.
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[identity profile] ladycat777.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, him! Plus the thing with her ex-brother-in-law.

And yes, to all of it. So far, conservative talk radio is not thrilled with this choice. At all. But they're still so-so on McCain himself. Ug.

Can it be November already?

[identity profile] lydiabell.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
So far, conservative talk radio is not thrilled with this choice. At all.

That really surprises me -- I'd have expected otherwise. What are they not thrilled about?
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[identity profile] ladycat777.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
She's not conservative enough, oddly. Which has me blinking because -- really? That's the complaint? Then again, they leveled that at McCain, too. And then there's the low-level misogyny that she's a woman at all; it's not blatant, but the guy my coworker listens to is a jackass all around (regardless of political affiliation) and it was there.

[identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
From what I can tell, she's a maverick herself with the entire ethics investigation she launched. [livejournal.com profile] friendshipper has some better info, being from that state.

[identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] friendshipper, an Alaskan native, clarifies the thing about the abusive brother in law here (http://seperis.livejournal.com/643169.html?thread=17160545#t17160545)