JK2000

Wow Karl Rove is slamming the Palin pick! "I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president." "So if he were to pick Governor Palin, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? Ooops, my bad. This was Karl Rove slamming Obama for possibly picking Tim Kaine. I'm sure he'll be on Hannity tonite ripping McCain as well then, right?

I still think this is a curveball meant to grab the spotlight from Obama. It's Romney.

He's probably arguing that being VP is comparable in executive experience as being a governor.

I wonder how they'll spin having a VP for a 70 year old man who has even less experience than Obama. I still don't believe it's her, I bet the McCain campaign is floating her name out there to build some suspense for the announcement.

He may have to wait, the RNC might postpone the convention due to Gustav.

Pawlenty's Intrade really sh-- the bed overnight while Romney's went back up to even money.

I bet Biden will be licking his chops if it's Pawlenty. What do the Jesus freaks think of Pawlenty?

I'll answer for him, Socialist, Socialist, Liberal, Liberal, Stalinist, Marxist, blah blah blah, Messiah, blah blah blah, he doesn't wear a flag pin, blah blah blah, his middle name is Hussein, blah blah blah.

The point of the thread is that McCain doesn't believe that Americans would pick lettuce for 50 dollars an hour and last an entire season. His words, not mine. How did I exagerate anything? How else should I interpret McCain saying "I'll offer anybody here fifty dollars an hour if you'll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for the whole season. So, ok, sign up! Ok, when you sign up, you sign up, and you'll be there for the whole season, the whole season, ok, not just one day. Because you can't do it, my friend"? McCain's premise doesn't sound the least bit stupid to you? I apologize if his comments make him look like a senile old geezer but sometimes the truth hurts.

Right.................

That's a good point too.

I love how to Republicans being popular and having enthusiastic supporters is a bad thing. Enjoy the wilderness.

Only an !@#$ would accept their party's presidential nomination with a backdrop of Greek columns!

Actually maybe they should- 2004- Bush beats Kerry 2000- Bush beats Gore 1996- Clinton beats Dole 1992- Clinton beats Bush 1988- Both candidates had active millitary experience 1984- I have no clue about Mondale 1980- Reagan beats Carter

So all McCain was doing was analyzing the employee retention rates of southwestern lettuce pickers? You must be the stupidest person on the planet if you think that's what he was referring to. Read the quote again jerk-off. By the way even the supposition that Americans wouldn't work the entire season while making 50 dollars an hour is absolutely retarded. You're right, I barely ever see any of the manual labor jobs being done by anything other than whites or blacks around here.

How do you know? Are you a mind reader? I'll take him at his word that he believes that Americans won't pick lettuce for 50 dollars an hour.

Yes. You need to crawl before you can walk.

I understood the point he was trying to make-Americans won't do unglamorous jobs like picking lettuce for 50 dollars an hour. It's idiotic. According to you and McCain Americans won't pick lettuce in the American southwest for 50 dollars an hour yet for 50 dollars an hour they will travel into a warzone to work knowing that there is a possibility that they will have their heads cut off on video by some crazy Arabs, or be ambushed on a highway and burned to death! But I guess there's something about picking lettuce in Yuma that is so extraordinary that no American worker would pick lettuce there for 50$ an hour, right? You really think that people wouldn't pick lettuce in Yuma if they were paid more or as much as Advertising and Promotions Managers, Public Relations Managers, Postsecondary Education Administrators, Personal Financial Advisors, Computer Software Engineers, Actuaries, Mathematicians, Aerospace Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Nuclear Engineers, and about a million other white collar professions?

I hope that wasn't serious. Do I have to explain the difference between a politicians rhetorical question and an actual employer offering 50 dollars an hour to pick lettuce?

According to Romney they're helping just as much by campaigning for him!

Americans aren't doing it because NO ONE IS OFFERING ANYTHING CLOSE TO 50 DOLLARS AN HOUR TO PICK LETTUCE! Way to miss the point!

Don't you see all the Americans out there cutting lawns, landscaping, working construction, roofing, and laying blacktop? Do you think they're making anywhere near 50 dollars an hour? If he said 5 dollars an hour I'd agree with him. I guess in McCain's world 50 dollars an hour is poor.

Were they offering 50$ an hour?

So McCain thinks that Americans will go work for Halliburton or KBR and risk their lives in Iraq for 50$ an hour but they won't pick lettuce for that amount? The man has lost it!

It's not surprising that a man who doesn't know how many houses he has would believe that American workers wouldn't pick lettuce for 50$ an hour. Wouldn't that be a six figure salary? John McCain: "I don't think I need to tell you that there are jobs that Americans will not do. I don't think I have to tell you that there are ... the backbone of our economy... Audience members: "Pay them the right wages." John McCain: "You know I've heard that statement before. Now, my friends, I'll offer anybody here fifty dollars an hour if you'll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for the whole season. So, ok, sign up! Ok, when you sign up, you sign up, and you'll be there for the whole season, the whole season, ok, not just one day. Because you can't do it, my friend."