McCain Gambles that Palin is More than a Dan Quayle

Team Obama wasted no time in jumping all over Alaska governor Sarah Palin; as they brusquely put it she has zero experience in statecraft. The obvious point is that this automatically flushes down the drain Republican rival John McCain's prime hit point against Democratic nominee Barack Obama and that's that he's simply too much of a greenhorn on foreign policy and national security to trust White House command too. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

The Silly Season is getting interesting. Palin is rabidly anti abortion—opposing it for even rape and incest; she is deep in the pockets of the Sisters of Oil; her political experience is nothing more than newly elected governor and small town mayor; her foreign policy experience is zero—the same thing Republicans criticize Obama for; she supports the teaching of Creationism; she has the special interests view that global warming isn’t human caused; is embroiled in home-state scandal; and like McCain, favors the oil drilling land grab. A feminine version of Dick Cheney.

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