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To: carranza2 who wrote (265615)	9/4/2008 4:07:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 793958

I suppose that is the strategy, cover the base with Palin and go for the Dems uncomfortable with Obama through McCain. It's a very odd strategy because it sends mixed messages. Also, the Dems uncomfortable with Obama are going to be much more uncomfortable with Palin. They join up as reformers, that's where she reinforces the McCain brand. There is nothing at all new in picking a VP to reassure the base and be the attack dog, so the main candidate doesn't have to. That's what Bush 41 did with Dan Quayle, who performed as badly as Sarah Palin has performed well. Despite that, he did become VP. The mixed messages you are concerned about are practically SOP for presidential campaigns. Look at Obama - he's running as a great unifier on a standard-issue liberal Dem agenda. Isn't that a mixed message too? McCain just turned 72, and is in good health. I don't have an actuarial table handy, but I'm sure it would predict that he lives until his late eighties at least. I'm not any more worried about his dying in office than Obama. I don't think comparisons to Goldwater are valid, since Sarah Palin is not the top of the ticket. People vote for or against the man at the top of the ticket.

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