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Gokul43201
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I don't see how you can say that. From what little I've gathered so far, the Evangelicals are totally fired up. And the daughter's pregnancy only rallies them closer. The person I feel terrible for is Bristol herself - no matter what she may have wanted before, she has absolutely no choice now.Ivan Seeking said:This alone will probably kill any chance of winning that he had.
Do you think the social conservative base of the Republican population cares about any of those 3 points? She's more like them. And she will fight for the causes that are most dear to them. End of story.And then, to compare Palin to Obama! What a riot! He was President of the Harvard Law Review, and she played basketball. He was a professor of Constitutional Law, and she has a BS in journalism. Alaska has a population of about 660,000 - there are Congressional districts about that large in Chicago!
There's only three ways in which this can be dangerous:
1. What effect does this have on the moderate/independent segment of the population that were leaning McCain?
2. How will the VP debate go?
3. What happens to the undecided Hillary gang?
I think the first point is going to lose McCain some votes, but not as many as he will now have got from a more enthused Evangelical base. The second point could go either way - if Palin (with short, well rehearsed and jingoistic phraseology) appears to not get thrashed by Biden, that will be seen as a huge win for them. On the other hand, if she looks clueless or actually tries to engage in an intellectual debate intead of producing the prescribed talking points, that could be very bad. The third, I think, is the most harmful. McCain will now have lost more of the Hillary supporters than he could have gained with any other pick. I don't think this is a large enough number of people to matter though.
Whatever her ideology, qualifications and intellectual capability may be, she is definitely a person with a lot of moral fortitude (how misguided those "morals" may be is irrelevant), and that's what a lot of people will see.
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