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Thread #114230   Message #2438512
Posted By: PoppaGator
12-Sep-08 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
"Actually, when Biden steps down, and Hitlary goes to VP slot,..."

Not likely. Some of us remember the ONE time a VP candidate was replaced after being nominated; Sentaor Thomas Eagleton of Missouri was to be George McGovern's running mate in '72 before it was revealed he had once undergone some kind of psychiatric treatment. Just the first of many things to go wrong with that campaign.

By the way: Was spelling "Hillary" as "HITLARy" just a typo, or a Freudian slip?

Actually, I think that if either Veep candidiate is going to be replaced, it would much more likely be Ms Palin. Biden is a thoroughly known quantity, while his Republican counterpart is a complete unknown about whom who-knows-what might be dug up and revealed. Also, once her handlers actually allow her to be questioned, she just might blow it big-time.

Brainy young minority Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (an Indian-American, which is not the same thing as an American Indian) would be the obvious next choice, and probably would have been a better initial choice. We don't know for sure that he was explicitly asked to join the ticket, but he met with McCain several times before the convention and publically announced that he would not accept nomination as the VP candidate, but would prefer to concentrate of his (new) governership.

While the opening days of the Republican convention were being disrupted by Hurricane Gustav, Jindal was on TV looking very cool and competant as head honcho of the evacuation process. Jindal is a convert to Catholicism, the old-school pro-life brand of Catholicism, and could well represent the future of the GOP.