VP debate tonight

Originally posted by manimtired:
ok..palin used an ear piece and she's drugging up her baby with down syndrome for sympathy.

seems right.

now that's a lifetime movie of the week if i ever heard one.

Originally posted by Mobius:

Originally posted by callat703:
Anybody know a place where I can place a big fat bet that Sarah Palin goes to work for Fox News after McCain/Palin lose and she's defeated in her reelection bid in Alaska?

Why would she lose her reelection bid in Alaska?

Her poll numbers in Alaska are already sinking like a stone. She was at 80+ when McCain chose her, and now she's sitting in the 60s. The more people learn about her, the less they like her.

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/542179.html

I think you'll see her confronted with a strong challenger in her next bid for governor who will use her vice presidential campaign against her.

Originally posted by callat703:
Her poll numbers in Alaska are already sinking like a stone. She was at 80+ when McCain chose her, and now she's sitting in the 60s. The more people learn about her, the less they like her.

I'm no Sarah Palin fan by a longshot, but to think that a Republican governor with an approval rating in the mid-60's in a state that's reliably red and has brought the only notable (non-scandal) national attention ever by a politician in her state is in serious jeopardy of losing in a re-election bid is asinine. Some of you people would lick your own ass if Obama told you it was candy, I swear.

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:

Originally posted by callat703:
Her poll numbers in Alaska are already sinking like a stone. She was at 80+ when McCain chose her, and now she's sitting in the 60s. The more people learn about her, the less they like her.

I'm no Sarah Palin fan by a longshot, but to think that a Republican governor with an approval rating in the mid-60's in a state that's reliably red and has brought the only notable (non-scandal) national attention ever by a politician in her state is in serious jeopardy of losing in a re-election bid is asinine. Some of you people would lick your own ass if Obama told you it was candy, I swear.

We'll see. A 14 point drop in five weeks is dramatic, and she'll have to weather two more years in office before she's up for reelection again.

Governors in Alaska can only serve two consecutive terms, and only two Alaskan governors have been reelected in their history - so it would seem like Alaskans tend not to reelect their governors, opting for change instead. Do some research before you mud sling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Alaska

But having an ass made out of candy would be SWEET!

UPDATE: also worth noting - Alaska has had 5 terms of GOP governors, 7 terms of Democratic governors, and 1 governor was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. Reliably red, huh?

literally!

if my ass were candy and could be licked, how many licks would it take . . .

Oh, and I didn't even mention that pesky ethics investigation that she's refusing to cooperate with…

Originally posted by callat703:
Oh, and I didn't even mention that pesky ethics investigation that she's refusing to cooperate with…

she must have thought the word was ethnic, and thought they were suggesting her daughter was knocked up by one of "those colored people." she and diddy know they don't have black people in that frozen wastleland, so is refusing to entertain the thought.

I couldn't lick my own ass no matter who told me it was made out of what!

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MAVERICK!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Tom Servo:

- when Biden gave everyone a civics lesson by reaffirming that the Vice President is, in fact, part of the executive branch. And that the current VP is a nightmare.

not necessarily true. . .

from instapundit:

"And, yes, the VP's legislative duties are in Article I. But that cuts precisely against the point that Biden was trying to make. Here's what Biden said: "Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. . . . The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous." This is wong on multiple levels at once. Article I – which deals with the legislative, not the Executive branch, says: "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." The Vice President presides over the Senate by right, whenever he/she wants to, regardless of whether there's a tie vote.

What's more, Vice Presidents, until Spiro Agnew, got their offices and budgets from the Senate, not the Executive Branch. The legislative character of that office is traditional – treating the VP as part of the Executive Branch, and a sort of junior co-President, is a recent and, to my mind, unwise innovation. That's discussed at more length in this article from the Northwestern University Law Review."

now, there are two points to be made here- 1) whether or not cheney maliciously chose one branch over another at his convenience, which is not the point of this posting, but rather, 2) which branch the VP most appropriately belongs to, and that can be read as being part of the legislative branch. the constitution lays out three things for the VP and that's to be president of the senate, cast any tie-breaking votes in the senate and succeed the president should the president die in office, in other words, two legislative responsibilities. in this case, biden has his constitution wrong. again, i'm not arguing as to the merits of cheney as a VP, but as to biden's (mis)understanding of the role of the VP as layed out in the Constitution.

and no, i have no desire to get dragged back into a pissing contest on this stuff.

Well, after watching last nights love fest I have to ask myself the question "do I want to vote for the ticket with the inexperienced one as 'el pres or the ticket with the inexperienced one as veep?"

I would've liked a Biden/Clinton ticket personally, but I'm just a crazy cat
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

and no, i have no desire to get dragged back into a pissing contest on this stuff.

oh so you want to just make your point and leave?

wait, that wasnt even your point.

That's interesting, the notion of an earpiece. I hadn't thought about it before but it totally makes sense (and is consistent with Republican lack of ethics in general).

Even with her earpiece, she showed very little depth beneath her talking points… and just as I was beginning to think there were enough stupid Americans out there that she might get away with it, polls do show that Biden was perceived by a majority as having "won."

The Dems should make it a national priority to defeat Miss Piggy as governor after this election so that it's harder for the GOP to field her (with a better earpiece and more coaching) in 2012.

so we have consensus on the earpiece? you guys are quite the detectives. good work.

I think we have consensus that you're a troll

b/c im not a democrat?

"you betcha" <wink, wink>

Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
I think we have consensus that you're a troll

congress has the power to confirm treaties and approve presidential appointments, so i suppose we could argue they are part of the executive branch as well

more creepiness for obama.

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=188153