By this logic, McCain could've picked a monkey, or he could actually *be* a monkey.

We don't vote for teams, we vote for people: two, a President and a VP. Palin's performance during the Couric interview was embarrassing, pathetic, and frightening.

Don't try to distract us with something shiny; *we're* not the monkeys.

was this a poor performance before or after the editing?

"was this a poor performance before or after the editing?"

A shrewd point. Just before her answer on the bailout, Palin said, "Let me give you my impression of Adam Sandler's Excitable Southerner." MSM don't want you to know that!

OT:
CY, have you seen this?
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/

Palin's performance during the Couric interview was embarrassing, pathetic, and frightening.

Compared to what?

When Dan's overwhelmed with the brilliance and intelligence of his Vice Presidential candidate, who thinks President FDR was going on TV in 1929 to talk to the nation about the stock market crash, what we can see is that the standard of grading here is roughly the inverse of what anyone else in the real world would think.

Palin did just fine with a hostile hatemongering Obamabot who kept trying to disqualify her answers. Couric made it clear she was going to do anything she could to try to sabotage Palin, and came off looking totally and completely biased and petty.

OK, try again...
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmZmZDg3NjkzMTk3OGZiMjc0YjVhOWUyY2I5YjY1ZTE=

Yes, Biden often misspeaks, but there's no fine line between educated misstatements and general flailing. It's a chasm. Did you see Palin respond to a question about the bailout? Can you explain it to me?

Really. No kidding. What the heck was she talking about? What did all that mean?

One more little tidbit regarding the original post. If a hypothetical President Palin chooses a wise Vice President to right the ship of state, why couldn't John McCain do that in the first place? Why not choose someone qualified, so Palin won't have to do it for him?

Grey Fox,

Yes, I'm well aware of Obama using local law enforcement authorities to try to intimidate opponents.

You consider this news?

Yes, Biden often misspeaks, but there's no fine line between educated misstatements and general flailing.

Brother, you aren't kidding, at all.

In the span of three weeks, Joe Biden has questioned Obama's decision making capability by saying Hillary would have been a better Veep choice, contradicted Obama on clean coal (and then flip-flopped), attacked his own campaign's commercial targeting McCain's computer usage (A huge gaffe by Obama's campaign, as McCain can't readily use a computer because of torture related injuries) without even seeing the ad, and said paying high taxes was a patriotic duty for the rich.

These are just his major examples of general flailing.

Do you want me to list his minor gaffes--like telling a guy in a wheelchair to stand up last week--as well?

And don't forget Biden's latest -- what even the WaPo had to admit was a flat-out lie about McCain's tax plan.

You have to wonder if Dan's constant attacks on Palin as "embarrassing, pathetic, and frightening" are little more than him projecting the problems with his OWN VP candidate onto other people.

Palin is not a New York sophisticat, charming, bored , and unoncerned that her nanny is lounging in Central Park talking on her cell phone while her charges look vainly around for their mother, or perhaps anybody that will pay attention to them. Couric, on the other hand, had to look tough since her audience is made up of these sophisticated people who hate Palin because she is a feminine reproach to them. Palin looked a little lost in her interview because she is decent inside and doesn't understand people who want to destroy you so they can go out to dinner 5 nights a week and spend at least 50,000 a year doing it with ease. It is easier for the media to hit Palin, a poor woman, than McCain since he is a real hero in every sense since they are low lives, squirming around in the moral shadows, in spite of their wealth. The constitution has given them, and hundreds of thousands of men and women have died to give them, the power to protect us by telling us the truth. But instead they are using that power to get rich by appeasing their demographic and so allowing their employers to sell advertising it.

Yeah, what he said.

There is no reason to suppose McCain is in any danger of dying. His mother is still alive, and he has released his health records showing him to be in remarkably good shape.
Haven't all the presidents who died in office been relatively young--and does anybody really want President Biden?

"Joe Biden, the gaffe-tastic, Zaphod-Beeblebrox-with-hair-plugs career politician that no one in either party takes seriously"

That is by far, hands down, the best characterization of Joe "Stand up" Biden I have ever read. The Beeblebrox comparison is pure unfiltered high-octane genius.

Ted--
well, yeah, but Zaphod Beeblebrox had two heads. Does Biden have even one operational one?

The left hates Sarah Palin because she may very likely be able to run as an incumbent. This represents another denial of Hillary's entitlement status.

And a haberdasher from Kansas was a BETTER V-P choice exactly how?

I'm partial to normal human beings who are NOT BeltwayLoungers, myself.

By the way, BeebleBrox added another one, per RedState, to the effect that Petraeus is implementing a plan that Biden and Obama proposed...

"And a haberdasher from Kansas was a BETTER V-P choice exactly how?"

Perhaps because said haberdasher had not merely a haberdasher before becoming the VP choice. He had been an army captain in WWI (saw much combat), a judge and a senator. As Senator, he headed the "Truman Committee" which exposed fraud and waste in the military procurement process, and went after war profiteers.

But this was back in the day when war profiteering was considered a BAD thing.............."BH" (before Halliburton)

"And a haberdasher from Kansas was a BETTER V-P choice exactly how?"

Perhaps because said haberdasher had not merely a haberdasher before becoming the VP choice. He had been an army captain in WWI (saw much combat), a judge and a senator. As Senator, he headed the "Truman Committee" which exposed fraud and waste in the military procurement process, and went after war profiteers.

But this was back in the day when war profiteering was considered a BAD thing.............."BH" (before Halliburton)

I hate Biden. I think he's a buffoon.

But Palin is in another league altogether. Every politician makes gaffes; Biden certainly at a ridiculous rate.

Palin doesn't make gaffes, because nobody can figure out what she's saying. All of the apologia for her is pathetic. She not only lacks the experience for high public office (I'd include her present job in that statement), she has significantly less knowledge and is less articulate than dozens of people I know who would never presume themselves to be qualified for vice president.

McCain and Palin have taken the Peter Principle and beaten it to death with a club.

So seriously... which is the scarier prospect?

Palin scares her own party, brother. And some of us remember that McCain used to scare a lot of Republicans. He still scares some hardier souls.

Did you forget Condoleezza Rice's praise of Joe Biden as a good leader and great patriot? He's cartoonish in some ways, sure but he's not a national joke.

And hanging on the prospect of Slow Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich..Jesus, could you be any more desperate?

"The left hates Sarah Palin because she may very likely be able to run as an incumbent. This represents another denial of Hillary's entitlement status." JonFLob

Jon, you must be smoking some of Bill Clinton's dope if you think Palin could run as an incumbent. Palin is a real mistake on McCain's part (although I still like him a lot). Even conservative women are starting to turn on her. She is drowning right now and I am afraid she is going to start pulling McCain down with her.

And whoever mcCain picked would never be good enough.
Let us be honest here , if McCain picked Romney , the charge would be that he's a Mormon , a rich fat cat and oh yeah ,the BIG DIG . How about Eric Cantor , one problem he's a Jew and we all know how the MSM loves Jews who are Republican and who will defend Israel . How about Tim Pawlenty , a competent governor that will be attacked by the Democrats for funding the the Twins baseball stadium and would be partially blamed for the collapse of the I-35W Mississipi Bridge . How about Governor Jindal , besides being an Uncle Tom for leaving Hinduism for Catholicism , a Republican from Louisiana and less experience than Obama . It does not matter who McCain picked , it will be never good enough . What would be good enough is that McCain just roll over and die so Obama would not work hard in becoming the President of the United States .

Obama should scare the crap out of the Dems every time he flips on anything he's previously said (NAFTA, FISA, Iraq, Pakistan, gun control, etc, etc), but they honestly don't care because they know he'll do the "right thing" once in office. Sort of a super sleeper Manchurian candidate, they hope. If not, they're in for some serious buyer remorse.

At least Repubs are honest enough to openly criticize our own party without being banished to the dust bin of history, as so many Dems have been for "wrong thinking" over the past few months.

Plus National Review sadly lost it's rudder and has been floundering ever since with no clear editorial vision.

So Sarah Palin's not ready to be VP? Big deal, Obama's not ready to be President and no one really seems to care about that at all.

Palin is a bit rough around the edges. So what? It was never plausible that a second Reagan or TR would spring fully formed from the glaciers of Alaska. Reagan had thought and written about politics for decades. Of course, he was painted as a dunce anyway - by the same smart people who prefer politics to be a closed shop.

As governor of Alaska, Palin was decisive, incorruptible and pragmatic. She knew what she needed to know. It´s called gumption.

You either want such people in the White House or you want to elect lifers. Or whomever the media chooses.

Yes, she´s a newcomer, she did not need to know much about national or foreign policy issues a couple of weeks ago. And she is facing an unprecedented wave of hatred and hostile scrutiny. Even after two years of campaigning Obama wouldn´t survive an hour of that. Anyone can be destroyed at will if such methods are accepted as part of the game.

Or we can elect Senators for the rest of our lives. After all, they can go on for hours about things they know nothing about. If that is what matters.

Don't you know that CBS edited the interview with Governor Palin and Katie Couric? They used the same tactics that Michael Moore uses to make anyone appear to say anything he wants them to say.

"Don't you know that CBS edited the interview with Governor Palin and Katie Couric? They used the same tactics that Michael Moore uses to make anyone appear to say anything he wants them to say."

Opeck,

Comparing CBS to Michael Moore makes you look silly and makes you lose credibility. Sure they likely edited the interview to a point, but sadly it is clear that Palin isn't good on her feet. I am not saying she is dumb (though she may be), but at the very least she is deeply over her head right now and can't begin to have a coherent conversation on a lot of issues. When we blame the media for stuff like this we just end up looking like whiney losers. I think McCain needs to dump Palin now, or at least continue to keep her under lock and key.

Comparing CBS to Michael Moore makes you look silly and makes you lose credibility.

Brian, you are aware it was CBS News that used fake documents to try to influence the last Presidential election, don't you? I have no idea how much editing they applied to the Palin interview, but neither do you. Considering their track record, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

I've overheard someone (a Liberal) in person exclaim that Sarah Palin has never held public office, and is therefore unqualified for VP.

I hold a slightly different position.

I believe that Alaska exists.

Confederate,

You say: "it was CBS News that used fake documents to try to influence the last Presidential election."

Again as I stated in my last post, I think we as Republicans should be very careful with their words. Everything I have read on the subject says that CBS failed to properly authenticate the documents. Though despicable, this is substantially different than knowing the documents are fake and using them (despite this knowledge) to influence the election.

We need to be the party of moral authority and truth. We can't fall into the democrat's modernist trap of fudging the truth and we are beginning to do this all the time.

Get it straight folks. Poor little Sarah is not poor - heard on NPR that she is a millionaire. Is the down home stuff an act or what because I hope she is acting at playing stupid....