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You feel 'sorry' for him? You say that he chose her because of her vocal anti-abortionist stand point. That sounds like a political move if I ever heard one - and so he is completely responsible for whom he chooses as his running mate. He isn't worth the sympathy.
But if her wacky beliefs are likely to influence her policies while in office, then it is a massive issue.
Her stance on abortion is nauseating enough.
Ok, sorry is probably the wrong word here. I just think its a shame that he didn't think his choice through. And I am sorry that he didn't choose another partner, which could have resulted in a much more interesting choice when it comes to the actual presidential elections.
Don't worry, Budda. We're still awaiting an explanation of who the 'Liberal Elite' are!
Ah, ok. I agree ...
Which is of course complely fine, we all have very varied views and they dont have to influence they way we do our job.
But can you imagine how a US vs. Iran stand off would be with her as President? 'With us or against us' 'Axis of evil'...
The chimp himself has similar sorts of beliefs yet nothing more than verbal threats has come about. I don't think that in the highly unlikely event she becomes President (McCain beating Obama and then dieing or getting impeached in office) that she'll invade Iran.
She is a very long way short of a literal interpretation of the bible.
I bet in many ways Obama is wishing he'd picked Hilary now as that would have cancelled out a lot of Sarah Palin's appeal to voters.
I doubt there are all that many cross over voters, Clinton and Palin have quite different views on a lot of issues.
I think you're mistaken.. extremely mistaken in fact...
For many voters in the USA they don't care about issues - they vote for the person .. George W Bush comes across quite well to many people even if people don't agree with his policies.
When Arnie became governor of California do you really think he was chosen on the issues he stood for or because voters could identify with him?
This is how many people he had to beat to get the job
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Sample_ballot_for_CA_recall.png
Do you really think he had the best policy out of soooo many candidates?
If Gordan Brown has a better set of policies then whoever happens to be leader of the Conservatives at the time do you think he'll win? or will people just vote against him because they don't like him?
If Richard Branson stood for PM don't you think he'd pull in loads of votes just because people like him?
Do you really think people put that much thought into the issues?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/matt-damon-on-palin-like_n_125334.html