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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (135280)	9/9/2008 3:13:59 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Earth to Kevin: all VPs are chosen to win an election. Seriously man, strap it on, this is politics.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (135280)	9/9/2008 3:36:57 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Look, I know you know this, but huge numbers of professional women are insulted by Palin. She represents the bottom of the barrel and was chosen to appeal to her like kind. She has a daughter that has no future, no plans for education or leadership of any kind (because she is not leadership material) and this person "decides" to have a child. What is heroic about that? It is simply the same decision welfare mothers make every day, so what? So we have another woman on welfare with a child in the world. Wheres the outrage you usually see with women on welfare having children. Oh, it isn't welfare, its Alaska state oil payouts + Palin's healthcare coverage paid for by the taxpayer. I'm sure if some modern day version of Evil Kneivel was put forth as the best candidate for leadership of a country in such dire financial straights, men would be insulted too. How the Palin Pick Misreads Hillary Supporters I had a conversation with my mother after McCain announced his pick yesterday. She's in her early 60s, liberal, professional, fanatically devoted to Hillary, and skeptical of Obama (though she plans to vote for him). She thought Palin was truly preposterous--a sign McCain had lost his marbles. She would have been insulted by the idea that she should give McCain a second look, except she couldn't take Palin seriously enough to get that far in the analysis. Here's what Team McCain doesn't understand about women my mother's age: They believed Hillary had been weighed down by her gender despite being highly qualified. They thought she deserved to go further on the merits, but that she'd been held back by discrimination and the traditional household division of labor. They worried she was being passed over for a less qualified male. And, having endured similar frustrations throughout their own careers, they empathized with her. blogs.tnr.com