I think it is obvious that this was a ploy.
To the simple-minded perhaps, but those who are able to think more dimensionally, and actually understand John McCain, understand it has more to do with her expertise in Alaska's oil market than anything else. The greatest challenge we face today is our energy crisis.
He wanted to be a Maverick.
He already is a Maverick. He has to do nothing else to earn that identity because. He picked Palin because she isn't a typical Washington politician, like himself, and unlike Obama and Biden. Two politicians who have been absorbed in the system of corruption and self interests.
He wanted to throw in a token Creationist to look more conservative.
Then he did a poor job, since she doesn't want creationism in the published curriculum at schools. Everyone knew and expected him to pick Romney because he was teh most conservative of the lot. But he didn't. Unlike Obama, he is smart enough to not pick someone as his VP, who just a few months prior, said he wasn't ready to be Preisdent. Biden said this about Obama during the debates!!
If only you atheists would put down your hatred of religion for two seconds and actually learn the facts through unbiased sources and draw your conclusions by deducing it all rationally, you wouldn't come across as hateful. But as it is, you wear it on your sleeves. Everything for you has to be about religion. I bet you probably vote for your favorite all start baseball players according to their religious affiliation, or lack thereof. lol! And atheists like to claim they are the ones persecuted through exclusion! All I can say is that from reading these forums for a month or so, you guys don't invoke much sympathy. This is how bigoted your are as a minority. Just imagine how much more you would be if you were a majority!
His choice of Sarah Palin really does show that this is a game to him and he doesn't care about the position.
Yea, that makes a whole lot of sense doesn't it? Think about what you're saying. Look at what this man has endured his entire life. He doesn't care about what people expect of him, he is only interested in sticking to his guns and doing what he believes is right. Palin wasn't the poilitically correct choice, but she has made McCain look liek a genius. The same is true for the surge. Politically incorrect, but now he looks like a genius for pushing for it.
Like how she said she fought against the Bridge to Nowhere - which just turned out to be a lie - and the money sort of just dissapeared?
There is more to this than what we know. This is too fresh to immediately jump to conclusions. But the fact is, this woman puts her constituents first, not herself. Did Bill Clintion sell the government jet and give the money back to the taxpayers?
Or how she tried to have her brother in-law removed as a statetrooper during divorce proceedings with her sister?
There is no hard evidence that this is true, but you're not interested in the truth. The truth is, this man tasered her 10 year old nephew (his step-son), was abusing her sister (his fourth wife), was caught drinking alcohol in his patrol car, illegally shot a moose in open public, and then made death threats against her father because he tried to get her a divorce attorney. The police dept put the case against him on the backburner and eventually dropped it after suspending him for only 10 days - actually, it was only 5 days after his union got involved. Leave it up to an atheist to turn this bastard into a victim.
As I said before, I hope the media blows this up because it will make people love her even more. If I were her, I would have done everything in my power to have someone who made death threats against my father, removed from the police force. But there is no evidence she did even this much.
And then she fired Walter Monegan, the public safety commissioner, for not removing him?
Again, this is not true. She is the one who appointed him, and she had every right to remove him. Even Monegan had to admit she never told him this was why she was firing him. She fired him for various other reasons, but the fact that he refused to fire officer Wooten and tried to protect this asshole, tells me the other charges against Monegan won't be difficult to believe.
I'm not in love with Obama at all.
No, you're just in love with the idea of being able to slam someone who is openly religious, even if it means you have to go into CB mode and convince yourself Obama is a friend to atheists.