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Hey, now, Red Dawn is a great movie!
Not that McCain will win, but if twin comets struck the earth wiping out both the atlantic and pacific coasts and he managed to get elected by those who remain, the fact remains that he’s really old, and much more likely to die in office than any recent president, Reagan included (Reagan was old, but it had long been known that the guy was just freakishly strong and healthy). In which case, there’s your first woman president…
Wow, wouldn’t that make a great spy novel or political intrigue book of some sort? The Republicans want to steal the Democrats thunder by having the first female president, so they sneak her in by running an old man they know will kack in office…cool!
Uh-Oh, that unwed teen pregnancy is gonna’ hurt her. Definitely it’s gonna’ detract from the Republican’s plans to use her President Roslin-esque looks to lure away the crucial Galactica Fan Demographic.
If picking a chick for Veep narrowed the margin by an electoral vote or two, this news widened it by two or three.
I don’t know that it will hurt her that much, particularly with the Evangelicals she’s supposed to lure in to vote for McCain. Her daughter is keeping the baby and marrying the father. James Dobson praised them as living out pro-life values.
Groan. James Dobson. Groan. That man bothers me. I sense something false about him, but cant’ entirely be bothered to put my finger on it.
Anyway, a common evangelical complaint about Bill Clinton was “How can the man run the country when he can’t even keep his own house in order? He cheats on his wife, his wife cheats on him, he lies, takes drugs, blah blah blah.” The idea is twofold: Firstly that if a man (or woman) can’t or won’t be bothered to keep his/her kids/family/penis in line, is he reliable enough to run a country. Secondly: If a man will cheat in small matters, he’s more likely to cheat in large matters.
The fact that Palin and her husband couldn’t or wouldn’t be bothered to keep their kid on the straight and narrow is going to reflect badly on them with evangelicals. Yeah, great, they’re keeping the kid, but the babydaddy appears to be an utter tool http://thesuperficial.com/2008/09/sarah_palins_future_soninlaw_r.php and you really can’t spin this to look anything other than whitetrashy. Evangelicals don’t like white trash any more than anyone else does. So yes, keeping the kid is a good thing, but that’s like saying you survived hiroshima and had the wisdom not to go stay with relatives in nagasaki: You’ve still got one utter disaster under your belt.
It’ll cost them votes, trust me.
"Evangelicals don’t like white trash any more than anyone else does." Erm. I dunno. Have you been to some of those fundie churches out in the sticks? . . .