Rats leave S.S. Palin

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Big McLargehuge

McCain deserves to lose this election, he was playing to the lowest common denominator when he picked her and failed utterly to vet her.

I'd heard that McCain's aides actually tried to properly vet her, and found it nearly impossible because she refused to cooperate. It sounds surreal enough to be accurate; it certainly fits the "holier than thou" attitude she espouses during all her recent campaign appearances.

As to why (or even whether) he actually chose her, I do think it was his decision - it actually fits his "shoot-from-the-hip" mentality.

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

As to why (or even whether) he actually chose her, I do think it was his decision - it actually fits his "shoot-from-the-hip" mentality.

Maybe I don't want to believe anyone would choose a person to be vp based on a... what was it? 4 hour meeting or some shit?

[mburbank]

There's always the 'bullet proof vest' theory, first coined when Nixon chose Agnew.