Saw my first "Trump 2016" bumper sticker today

[tinselwolverine]

If you've seen the HBO movie on the campaign, it would seem that Palin was forced on McCain by a faction of the party that wanted her.

Game Change, based on a book by John Heilemann.

I think he's currently the politics editor for Bloomberg News.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I had hoped for a McCain/Lieberman ticket back in '08.

Me too.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Me too.

Both of them too.

 

[Michchamp]

it's funny, you hear from old white Republitard guys that the Palin pick was expected to pull in a lot of female votes (and they're confused why it didn't), but I think it pretty much alienated any that were on the fence.

it was so transparent, and Palin was such an idiot, I know a few told me they found it insulting. Not many woman identify with her, and the ones that actually like her, or respect her "career" would vote GOP if they nominated Charles Manson, so it didn't certainly didn't help McCain's campaign at all.

Still to this day I find that when the topic of Sarah Palin comes up in conversation, and there are educated females around, the mere mention of her name provokes a lot of hostility... you don't really see that from any other VP pick in history.

Basically, if the RNC didn't want McCain to be president, they couldn't have picked a better VP for him.

 

[Gulo Blue]

it's funny, you hear from old white Republitard guys that the Palin pick was expected to pull in a lot of female votes (and they're confused why it didn't), but I think it pretty much alienated any that were on the fence.

it was so transparent, and Palin was such an idiot, I know a few told me they found it insulting. Not many woman identify with her, and the ones that actually like her, or respect her "career" would vote GOP if they nominated Charles Manson, so it didn't certainly didn't help McCain's campaign at all.

Still to this day I find that when the topic of Sarah Palin comes up in conversation, and there are educated females around, the mere mention of her name provokes a lot of hostility... you don't really see that from any other VP pick in history.

Basically, if the RNC didn't want McCain to be president, they couldn't have picked a better VP for him.

I don't know how much was known about her before that campaign though. When I 1st read about her, I was impressed because they somehow spun it as an Alaskan that was standing up to oil companies.

...and then the campaign only half exposed what a bad pick she was. However bad she seemed at the end of the campaign, all the nonsense since then has been at least twice as bad.

 

[tinselwolverine]

May be a good role for Julianna Moore will come out of this election cycle as well.

Maybe she could play Carly Fiorini.

Maybe she'll be naked in a scene as Carly Fiorini.

She used to love to do scenes naked when Robert Altman was the director; I don't know why that had to end.

 

[Gulo Blue]

May be a good role for Julianna Moore will come out of this election cycle as well.

Maybe she could play Carly Fiorini.

Maybe she'll be naked in a scene as Carly Fiorini.

She used to love to do scenes naked when Robert Altman was the director; I don't know why that had to end.

After saying Fiorini, it feels more correct to say Julianna.

 

[Michchamp]

I don't know how much was known about her before that campaign though. When I 1st read about her, I was impressed because they somehow spun it as an Alaskan that was standing up to oil companies.

...and then the campaign only half exposed what a bad pick she was. However bad she seemed at the end of the campaign, all the nonsense since then has been at least twice as bad.

I don't remember how she was presented up front, but I heard her speak, and looked up a little on her career; was not impressed at all.

before anything else came out about her, I remember my mom calling me up, livid, going on about how insulting that pick was to women, and how could they even think she would be a good idea. I heard similar comments from female former law school classmates around that time.

I guess it shouldn't be surprising that the party of "legitimate rape" and "birth control takers are sluts" has a hard time understanding women...

 

[tinselwolverine]

After saying Fiorini, it feels more correct to say Julianna.

I have been voice recognition texting; I have no idea what Siri's deal is right now.

Maybe she's been drinking.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I'll take a box of napkins as President right now. Maybe Jimmy Carter. Julianne Moore could be his running mate.

 

[Michchamp]

I'll take a box of napkins as President right now. ...

you have a cold?

 

[Mitchrapp]

you have a cold?

No, but thank you for asking.

 

[tinselwolverine]

before anything else came out about her, I remember my mom calling me up, livid, going on about how insulting that pick was to women, and how could they even think she would be a good idea.

My dear darling departed mother, very Catholic and a WW II hero (she was "over there" in the employ of the U.S. Army Ciivil Service and a highly commentated office administrator for senior military officials) kinda didn't understand the pick that much either.

 

[Michchamp]

My dear darling departed mother, very Catholic and a WW II hero (she was "over there" in the employ of the U.S. Army Ciivil Service and a highly commentated office administrator for senior military officials) kinda didn't understand the pick that much either.

my mom is not a liberal either, although she's gradually moved that way over time. In the 80's, through the mid-90's, she was the archetypal Catholic Family Values, Reagan supporter. She was the kind of 80's housewife that would write nasty letters if a network persona used a foul word on television, or showed a little too much flesh.

 

[tinselwolverine]

My dear darling departed mother, very Catholic and a WW II hero (she was "over there" in the employ of the U.S. Army Ciivil Service and a highly commentated office administrator for senior military officials) kinda didn't understand the pick that much either.

EDIT: "Commendated," not "commentated."

It was long before my life; obviously I would have no idea upon how she would been commented upon.

But I have no doubt it would have been favorable.



She is/was after all, my mother.

EDIT: oops. Meant to edit myself but quoted myself.

Not the first time.

YIKES???

 

[Mitchrapp]

my mom is not a liberal either, although she's gradually moved that way over time. In the 80's, through the mid-90's, she was the archetypal Catholic Family Values, Reagan supporter. She was the kind of 80's housewife that would write nasty letters if a network persona used a foul word on television, or showed a little too much flesh.

The good old days.

 

[Thumb]

The good old days.

That's what Bill Cosby called them.

 

[TheVictors]

I don't remember how she was presented up front, but I heard her speak, and looked up a little on her career; was not impressed at all.

before anything else came out about her, I remember my mom calling me up, livid, going on about how insulting that pick was to women, and how could they even think she would be a good idea. I heard similar comments from female former law school classmates around that time.

I guess it shouldn't be surprising that the party of "legitimate rape" and "birth control takers are sluts" has a hard time understanding women...

She was a 'Washington outsider' and from 'Laska, which is literally as far from DC as you can get.

She liked eating meat, shooting guns and riding snow machines. Think back to Plumber Joe and that whole 'middle Anerica' wannabe silent majority.

I think she was ill prepared for the challenge and was as much used for sex appeal as she was intended to appeal to women. Remember all those farks going around with Palin's face photoshopped on to a porn star or bikini clad shotgun owner.

'Merica!
Maverick!

Made Tina Fey's career, sort of though

 

[Gulo Blue]

'Merica!
Maverick!

Made Tina Fey's career, sort of though

...and it actually didn't matter whether or not she said she could see Russia from her house. It was both funny and a good critique of the stupid crap she actually did say.

 

[tinselwolverine]

She liked eating meat, shooting guns and riding snow machines. Think back to Plumber Joe and that whole 'middle Anerica' wannabe silent majority.

I think she was ill prepared for the challenge and was as much used for sex appeal as she was intended to appeal to women.

Remember that campaign promotion where they showed her riding on a snowmobile over the tundra clad in a bikini, and shooting moose right in his head as he was about to pull a rabbit out of his hat for squirrel?

It endeared her to the second amendment crowd, the anti-Boris and Natasha crowd? Not so much?