the grand total is not the net total, that’s my point, the net would be the differance palin has made as oposed to whoever else mccain would have chosen

I’ve been plugged in to politics for the past 15 years, watching the fundies anger grow

sarah palin spent that time learning the fundie rant

she has god, guns, and tax cuts, down pat

the fundies don’t care about anything else, and she doesn’t KNOW anything else

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She oozes this stuff.

And you’re right; she doesn’t know anything else. Here’s Richard Vigueire’s call to unleash the pitbull:

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Richard Viguerie: Unleash Sarah Palin!

Contact: Bob Sturm, 703-396-6974; after 6 PM Eastern, Bob Strum, 703-307-8176; Cynthia Chambliss, 703-930-5148

MANASSAS, Virginia, Sept. 30 /Christian Newswire/ — John McCain may have one chance left to win this election, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, Richard A. Viguerie, said. “He must free Sarah Palin to go after Barack Obama and the liberal Democrats, or he will almost certainly lose.”

“The McCain campaign has put this ‘pit bull with lipstick’ on a leash. The campaign has surrounded her with people from the Bush administration. And as we can see from the wreckage of the Bush presidencies, these folks don’t have the slightest clue how to make a case to the American people.”

“McCain has to get rid of these Bush people around Palin, along with the lobbyists and the folks from the Washington PR firms, and replace them with principled conservatives who have experience making the case for conservatism.”

http://www.christiannewswire.c…..38072.html

I am not willing to give this girl that kind of credit,

I am

this is the fundies’ chance to shine

I’ve been plugged in to politics for the past 15 years, watching the fundies anger grow

sarah palin spent that time learning the fundie rant

she has god, guns, and tax cuts, down pat

the fundies don’t care about anything else, and she doesn’t KNOW anything else

unfortuntunatly for mcsame, it’s a lot easier to be a fundie when you’re rollin in the mamen

She has backed herself into a corner with her lack of depth and understanding on domestic issues and her lack of knowledge on foreign policy. If Biden allows Palin to spin and spin. We will be witness to a self inflicted “rope a dope”

The only people she can possibly win over are the folks who want someone in that office who knows as little as they do. They have all ready seen where that has brought our nation.

Bush Cheney 04, RNC, and State political parties were deeply entwined in organizing GOTV and “ballot security” measures, long before the convention. The Jacksonville caging scheme was mailed out by Republican Party of Florida in early August, and the lists were compiled and sent to RNC in Late August. Late august they were also exchanging big lists of voter data organized by precincts with telephone numbers and survey responses. There were also files with data about door knocks and phone calls- GOTV tabulation.

My impression was that they were well organized and active long before the convention.

I am sure RNC and state parties have been busy for a year, but wonder whether the Maverick put a damper on enthusiasm and also hurt some of the more nefarious aspects of the ground game.

One can hope.

You don’t have to believe the campaign–believe Sean, who is doing the legwork to know.

She made an utterly measurable difference in the ground game. That’s not in the least surprising. They needed to fire up the fundies, and they did so in huge amounts. Without having done so, McCain would have kissed away 3% in the polls on election day because he didn’t know whose doors to knock, much less have people to do the knocking.

Measuring that influence is different from saying she’s helping his campaign according to teh pundits or the polls.

All in all, I suspect it is–at this point–a wash, but over the long term (particularly after the Branchflower report reveals potentially criminal behavior on October 10), she will sink the campaign.

mccain was a non starter and whoever he picked would have looked like a huge hit

I am not willing to give this girl the credit the campaign gives