JK2000

1)Thousands of posts? I think you're thinking of someone else 2)Why would I lie and say this was far-fetched if I didn't think it was far-fetched?

Would you say that the Republicans "must have done good"?

You don't see the difference?

There's also a big difference between those in California who can afford to live elsewhere and those in New Orleans who cannot.

It wouldn't be the first time all of a VP candidate's skeletons weren't exposed during the vetting process, ie Thomas Eagleton and Spiro Agnew.

I wonder who they've learned it from? I have no idea...........

I love that talking point and the "Alaska big" talking point.

Did he miss any regular season games?

You're on your way!

Just checking

Didn't he refuse to show up until right before the opener a few times?

Did you really just respond to that post twice?

I'll answer for Alaska Darin to save him some time- "But Alaska big"

....would he start? When would Walter Jones show up when he was pulling this crap with Seattle?

No, but it makes it impossible to take you seriously. I mean "Opportonist Carrer Polititician"? That's brutal. Not to nitpick but "tho" is spelled "though".

Then why the hell would McCain pick her? Does he seriously think she's the best person to take his place if he croaks?

Wow, that's some ticket! I can't believe a McCain supporter would have difficulty with the English language!My advice- Stick to the emoticons.

Hahahahaha, so the fact that Palin has to drive a little further than most governors gives her extra "executive experience"? You know school superintendants and 7-11 owners have "executive experience" as well. I'm surprised you haven't pulled the "Palin has foreign policy expertise because her state is near Alaska" card.

In a perfect world.............but there's a reason why GHWB closed the gap with Dukakis after Lee Atwater convinced him to take the gloves off.

McCain should have picked Chris Collins!

I also don't understand how "executive experience", no matter how short lived or insignificant, automatically trumps the candidates ideas, intellect and vision.

Here is how unimpressive being governor of Alaska is by the numbers- Recent estimates say Alaska is home to 683,478 citizens. This means Sarah Palin governs fewer people than live in: New York (8,274,527) Los Angeles (3,834,340) Chicago (2,836,658) Houston (2,208,180) Phoenix (1,552,259) Philadelphia (1,449,634) San Antonio (1,328,984) San Diego (1,266,731) Dallas (1,240,499) San Jose (939,899) Detroit (916,952) Jacksonville (805,605) Indianapolis (795,458) San Francisco (764,976) Columbus (747,755) Austin (743,074) and she barely edges out Fort Worth (681,818). If you take a big picture look at the metropolitan areas that the mayor of any of these cities has to deal with and work with on a regular basis, it gets even bleaker. If Alaska was a metro area, it would be around the 75th largest. Many of these mayors, such as mayor Bill White of Houston, have had more years in office than her, are responsible for a larger and more diverse population of people, and often have as much if not more dealing with foreign dignitaries. Puerto Rico has 3,913,055 people living on it. That's well over FIVE times the number of people whom Sarah Palin has 20 months experience governing. Gov. Aníbal Vilá has that and a longer public service than Sarah Palin. Would the right seriously consider him a reasonable candidate for vice president. It is estimated there are about 304,995,000 of us living in this great land of ours. That's just over four hundred and forty-six (446) times the number of people Sarah Palin has governed. All right, here's a fun fact - the heads of both the New York City Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District have authority over more students than there are citizens Palin governs. Yeah, there are school districts that are bigger (1,014,058 and 727,319 students, respectively) than her state's entire population. These administrators are in charge of many of the same kinds of thing a governor is - setting a budget, delegating and appointing people, setting an agenda, twisting arms until people start working together. But can you imagine if someone nominated the Los Angeles School Superintendent to the office of Vice President? It would take only 8 or 9 Invesco Field sized events for every man, woman, and child of Alaska to hear Barack Obama. That means he could talk to every single person in the state in less than a week (assuming we can fit more than one of those in a day.) He's raised money from several times more people than she has governed. 3,597,456 people voted for Barack Obama in the Illinois senate election. That's about 5 times more people than live in Alaska, and over 30 times the number of people that voted for the "the most popular governor in the country." To compare to the most popular governor on Daily Kos, Brian Schweitzer got 225,016 votes in his election, which is about twice as many as he did. If 70% of Montanans approve of Brian Schweitzer, that's about as many people as are in her entire state. The 2005 gross state product of Alaska was $39.9 billion. That's about 0.3% of the GDP of the United States. The US government (excluding the post office) employs just under 2 million Americans. There are around 25 thousand people working for the state and local governments in Alaska. Now, here's something for the small government conservatives to chew on - There's one federal employee for about every 150 US citizens. The ratio is 1 state employee to 25 citizens in Alaska. Percentage-wise, the Alaskan government under Sarah Palin is SIX times larger than the U.S. government. The ratio for California (which has about half a million state employees) is about 1:75. Gov. Sebelius runs Kansas with about 54,000 employees, giving her a ratio of about 1:50. Obviously, there's a lot of variation, but Alaska certainly seems to have one of the larger state bureaucracies on a per-capita basis. These numbers all came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and I don't think they include contractors. I'd throw in some numbers comparing the Alaskan state government budget to the US government budget, or to some other states, but I ran into some complications. It seems some corporation-hating eco-nazi decided to push a windfall profits tax onto the Alaskan oil companies. What did the pinko scum do with all that hard-earned cash? Why, she gave it away to the "whiners" in the state who apparently were concerned with high gas prices. They each got $1200, and that's "on top of the annual dividend of about $2,000 that each resident could receive [in 2007] from an oil-wealth savings account." The orchestrator of this downright socialist redistribution of wealth was none other than Sarah Palin. In fact, she apparently ran on the notion that incumbent Frank Murkowski gave too much of a break to the oil industry. It's important to note that when the election happened, Murkowski had an approval rating just below 20% and received no appreciable percentage of the vote. So the image of a valiant woman struggling against an all-powerful state governor is a bit of an overstatement. I've looked around for videos of Palin in a debate. I found one, but the sound was kinda wonky for me, and the setting is faaaar from what she'll encounter in the veep debate. From what I can hear, she isn't exactly knockin em out of the park. Joe Biden has been holding his own in the most deliberative body in the in history for decades. Unless she starts studying hard and now and the huge numbers of foreign policy issues she seems to be totally oblivious of - the difference between Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd in Iraq, the issues surrounding nuclear proliferation in ex-soviet states, the issues surrounding spots like Darfur and Georgia, the world food situation, the status of various diseases like AIDS - then her VP debate against Joe Biden could be just embarrassing. She seems to be a fairly intelligent person, but 2 months is just over half a semester, and she needs to go back to school and pick up a whole 'nother degree.

I'm sure all those things will help her got toe to toe in foreign policy with Biden.

Ahem.....Germany declared war on us, not vice versa.