>On Aug 30, 11:18 am, abelard abelard.org> wrote:

>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:19:43 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
>>
>> yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>I've been thinking about the choice of Sarah Palin as the Republican
>>>cadidate for Vice-President in Novemeber 2008.  No experience, no
>>>electoral votes, no appeal to anyone other than the right wing of the
>>>Party, currently being investigated for corruption as Governor of an
>>>insignificant, isolated state.  And something has occurred to me.  I
>>>would have been a better choice for Vice President.  So would you.  So
>>>would anyone.  Anyone would have been more useful on the Republican
>>>ticket than Sarah Palin.  It's not easy to totally torpedo a
>>>Presidential campaign with a merely poor choice for Vice-President.
>>>You have to choose someone totally, and completely odious to the vast
>>>majority of the electorate.  And you can't do that by accident.  The
>>>Republicans want to lose in November.

>>
>> your 'argument' would be more convincing if obarmy were not
>>     considerably less qualified than palin...
>> and obarmy was not heavily enmeshed in corrupt chicago politics
>>     rather than subject to unsupported demogocrat scuttlebutt

>Well, either Romney or Lieberman, or others, would have helped the
>Republican ticket. They would have attracted independant voters and/
>or given the ticket needed electoral votes in swing states associated
>with the VP. This bimbo does neither. If anything, she will turn off
>independants because of her lack of experience and right-wing
>extremism. I suppose that they might be trying to simply "sex up" the
>ticket, quite literally, but I doubt they're naive enough to think
>that will work, even with American voters.