> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:54:57 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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> yahoo.com> wrote:

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

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

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>>> 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.

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>>> 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.

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> your understanding of voting dynamics is far over-simplified....
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> and political parties are essentially coalitions....
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> there is no advantage to gain one group while losing another
>     bigger group...
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> 'independent' voters are not some homogenous group....
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> meanwhile as sane voters will soon grasp that obarmy has
>      a much thinner résumé than palin....
> that contrast alone is worth diamonds....
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