Anythingoez -> RE: McCain admits he didn't really know Palin (10/17/2008 8:07:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven Since then, she's been a two-edged sword. She's galvanized the right wing of the party, which had been unhappy with McCain, but she'd not winning over moderates and undecideds. So she's great for fundraising but is dead weight for the ticket. She is galvanizing the religious right, and the redneck right, but not the intellectual right or the classic Goldwater conservative right. The fomer like her, the latter are bailing in droves, specifically over her and the two issues she represents, religion and podunk. Although Bush never lived up to expectations, he at least went into it with support from all four areas. She is scraping along with support from two. Those who represent classic (non-evangelical) conservativism learned from what was the Bush experience, and are stepping off this train before it even leaves the station. McCain picked her for being an 'outsider'. Who knew she had this talent of turning 'outsider' into a handicap. And there, as they say, goes the election.
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