I have to admit that I was impressed Glenn Beck (!) called it like I also see it – there’s a ‘trailor trash’ aspect to this whole VP nominee that has the potential to arouse some really deep resentments. And I don’t see anyone with Mrs Palin’s ’spunk’ giving up a VP position, which she evidently sought fairly actively, without one hell of a catfight and a generation of bad, b-a-d feelings.

I’m starting to wonder whether Bob Barr may pick up more votes in a few counties (certainly precincts!) of my state than McCain will have. I realize it sounds bizarre, and while there’s a lunacy to this whole McCain VP selection on absolutely legitimate grounds (experience, preparedness) it’s hard to believe that ANY nominee for Pres could have made such a dreadful mistake.

Ironic, too.
Wonder whether, in retrospect, Rove is sorry he didn’t just let McCain go ahead and pick Lieberman. Mwahahwhahaha….

That doesn’t look right. Just Google: Todd Palin, Shadow Governor?

This article indicates that the husband is to the wife (governor) what Cheney is to GWB. This, in my opinion, is very serious.

Let’s not be so distracted by the sleazy, soap-opera, trailor trash endless episodes of this family that we miss the real dangers of Ms. Palen as VP.

I also researched the Pentecostal beliefs, of which the Assembly of God is one element. This is scary. (As Gov. Ms Palen removed federal funds from 3 largest cities of Alaska and redirected them to Faith Based Institutions. Is separation of church and state the next to go??

The comments to this article are excellent.

Otherwise it also depends on State Laws. In Missouri in 2000, they did not have the power to replace the Senate Candidate who died about a month before the election, and even though dead, he beat Ashcroft. Missouri had no State Election Law supporting a replacement in 2000, in 2002, Minnesota did have that legal avenue available to them. Minnesota had that law due to the need for the Republicans to replace a Governor’s candidate in 1900, when Grundseth, the Nominee, was caught with a mistress, and in addition skinny dipping with some of his teen-aged daughter’s friends. He was forced to resign, the State Republican Committee nominated a replacement, this was challenged in the State Courts, and the State Supreme Court ruled the substitution be made, but also wrote that the State Legislature needed to clarify the rules. They did, we used them in 2002.

What governs all this is whether it is possible to provide all voters with an updated ballot. You just can’t assume that someone who voted absentee for let’s say Paul Wellstone in 2002, intended to vote for Walter Mondale. You have to provide for a means for voters to alter their ballot if a change is made. If you do early voting where a ballot cannot be recovered for the individual voter — you can’t make a substitution. If you do Absentee Ballots, where the ballot is still in an envelope with the voter’s name attached, they you can write proceedures for substitution. At least in 2002, the cost of doing substitutions is born by the State Party and Candidate Committees — Minnesota’s DFL had to spend lots of money on UPS and DHL to substitute all those early Wellstone Votes in 2002. Given that it appears Ohio will have an on-site registration and early voting window at the end of September, early October — it looks like they could not do substitutions should the GOP ticket change, as these appear to be early voting, and not absentee ballots. There are, as one can see, 51 election laws on this matter. At least as far as Presidential Elections are concerned, this cries out for Congress to set a common national law on the matter.

Actually, I love that McAssGazing picked a snowmobiling Valkyrie.I’ve been so confused at the mixed messages:

Are they Boris & Natasha? Or Moose & Squirrel? If the latter, which is Squirrel?

If Hurricane Sarah had been born into a dubiously acquired beer fortune, she’d be running her mouth right now as presumptive Frist [sic] Lady & from that duck blind she’d actually be dangerous.

sure have to wonder as others have pointed out on your blog if this is part of the plan? She drops out, Lieberman or Romney drop in.

How about: she doesn’t drop out, the issues so far are explained as problems everybody has, and the remaining mysteries in the World Of Palin are sewn up in a narrative being written right now and trotted out over the next month or so.

Just coming up at TPM, this little sign of linkages leakages between Our Vandal Princess, the Mayor of Wasilla, and… potential Abramoff ties.

Who’da thunk?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…..moff_t.php

Also, for a little more context here’s an item from mid-August re: evangelical leader Land recommending Gov Palin as VP: http://blog.beliefnet.com/godo…..o-mcc.html

I hope all EWheelies saw the YouTube link at TPM of Campbell Brown’s exasperation at being lied to by the McCain staffer who claimed Palin had been vetted ;-))

Rove organized a campaign against Lieberman and other potential choices. There could be little doubt that Rove was doing Bush’s bidding. But McCain, resentful of Rove’s maneuvering, outflanked him with Palin.

man, I hope joe gets some of that emailed to him and opens a nice can of payback, to which I am sure joe has information that would do just that

*crosses fingers*

Damn Sidney was disappointing on this critical issue.

Sidney to Hugh “Some congressional Democrats have done brilliantly, like Henry Waxman in his conduct of his House committe investigating wrongdoing. That should be the standard for committee work. The committees have not been used to their maximum effectiveness.

On impeachment: I have always thought this was a distraction and miscue. As everyone can see, it will not happen. It was never going to happen. And if it did it would paradoxically overshadow the administration’s shortcomings by becoming the only show in town and making the Democrats seem like vengeful partisans, like the Republicans who staged the Clinton impeachment. In any case, it’s a non-starter.

I do believe we need something like a national commission to investigate the administration’s torture policy and to make recommendations regarding restoration of the rule of law. This might fall to the next Congress to create or the next president.

SINCE WHEN DID SIDNEY START EQUATING HOLDING AN PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR LYING UNDER OATH ABOUT A BLOWJOB TO A CONGRESS WHO SHOULD HAVE HELD THIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE FOR AN INTELLIGENCE SNOWJOB that has directly resulted IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS AND INJURIES. Oh did I forget to mention 5 million Iraqi refugees. Holding those responsible for this would have been “vengeful partisanship”. Sidney has been inside the machine far too long.