She shouldn't _have_ to (as no show, especially a Washington “institution,” should ever have such clout), but in today's reality, of course she should. She's either not for real or is being protected (why?) if not.

Nobody here has. This was just another illogical or downright fictitious and spontaneous-emotional charge from the other side.

Biden's been on MTP three times from what I've googled.

What are the odds of Palin's handlers allowing her to do MTP… slim and none?

Palin on MTP would be pure comedy gold.

A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin

B) I didn't comment on Biden's ideology; I commented on his buffoonery. I believe he is the model for the new clowns at the Ringling Bros' circus.

but i tend to agree w/melissa @ shakesville that the article was rife w/sexism and a lot of unnecessary put downs because palin was a woman.

one of melissa's best points is that the ambition that purdum cites as questionable trait in palin would never be mentioned about a male candidate; what's wrong w/a politico having ambition?

also, the imagery purdum uses: it came from wasilla, little shop of horrors (get it? palin's a monster! yeeks!), she needed a “horse whisperer,” things that, i wonder, would purdum write about a male politician?

i disagree w/the overboard polticial correctness @ shakesville often times (i personally thought the bit about palin's relatives making billy carter and roger clinton look good was hilarious), but this time i felt melissa was spot on.

did we really need to contemplate that palin is fertile? is that really something that needs attention? aren't most male politicians of an age where they could father a child? what's that about, some hormonal imbalance we need to take into account when dealing w/palin?

i loathe sarah palin for her smallness, her pettiness, her willingness to destroy perceived enemies, and her unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

but i don't loathe her for being a woman. can't we have a profile, either from the right or left, that doesn't treat palin's sex as some sort of carnival side show to be gawked at?

The day McCain announced Palin as his running mate, I took up smoking again, knowing I wouldn't want to live if she ever became president.

After the lapses in judgment by both candidates in their vice presidential picks, all I can say is thank god for write-in ballots.

A method that political scientists use for gauging ideology is to compare the annual ratings by the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with the ratings by the American Conservative Union (ACU). Biden has a lifetime liberal 72 percent score from the ADA through 2004, while the ACU awarded Biden a lifetime conservative rating of 13 percent through 2008. Using another metric, Biden has a lifetime average liberal score of 77.5 percent, according to a National Journal analysis that places him ideologically among the center of Senate Democrats.

works for me…

Lame, arguably more so. Biden the buffoon in the limelight has been kept muzzled for everybody's good.

Divisive? Palin's “divisiveness” (as with the GOP) is largely fictitious, created for various reasons or “reasons” mainly by the Left (making divisive remarks that include charges the GOP is divisive)

“Hell, she gets more attention from the Left than from the Right.”

And as you caricature it so well, it is so routinely _pathological_ from the Left. (Lefty S.O.P.)

As for McCain, as with his recent comments about Obama on Iran (responded to strangely and wrongly on this lefty site, naturally) — McCain is weak, as weak as the statements he makes about Obama, as weak as his campaign was, as weak as he was as a candidate (weak as a “conservative,” after all).

As for Obama and the Demmies in Congress and in Obama's executive-branch menagerie, they should sometime begin to exercise self-control and even some intelligence; they cannot rely on Dim-vote forever acquiescence to continued rushing to gross excess on every issue they can name or identify to shove the nation far too leftward without any attention to fiscal propriety or often without paying financial attention at all. It's not going to continue comfortably forever.

http://giovanniworld.files.wordpress.com/2008/1…

And Biden is too a laughing stock.

Actually, when you get down to it, the recent history of VP's, with the exception of Reagan/Bush I and Clinton/Gore, has been dismal.