PatsFanInVa

Okay, about the "approval rating" business in Alaska -

I never read the 85% claim, though I have read the 80% claim.

By the same token W has a 70 or whatever it was two weeks after 9/11.

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She's currently down to 68, and her numbers have "cratered" among people other than her base.

As to this notion that people are "scared" of Sarah Palin, she's got two kinds of views, nonexistent and repugnant (in the case of the imperial vice presidency ramp-up.)

But I do like her being in this race. She is a constant flank that McCain has to cover, distorting his policy positions at will, claiming to be the lead on the ticket, whatever. And she's pretty much denuded the McCain campaign of his whole "experience" mantra.

He's painted himself into a corner, and now has nothing left but the hate ads, the guilt by association routine, whatever story they can cook up to paint Obama as a scary monster.

You guys seem fixated on fear. I suppose that's what drives the conservative world view, so it's hard to understand other emotions, or for that matter the possibility of analytical reason. It's fear and hate at the bottom of your worldviews, from everything I see on here. And you don't understand it -- or don't believe it -- when others are guided by something else.

Palin's bad for the country, because she is not very bright. I and many others find her appeals to voters insulting, because she treats prospective voters like idiots too... and there's nothing more irritating than being talked down to by the dumbest one in the room.

I could probably point to the abuse of power issue too, but let's wait for the troopergate hearings to close the book on that one, shall we?

PFnV

IcyPatriot

Obama in the last few weeks has done nothing but attack McCain by telling America what a McCain presidency will be like. How can you make that statement and not see the hypocrisy of it. Both campaigns have been playing the fear card. Hillary and Obama played the fear card in the primary ... as did Joe Biden or did you forget? Please with the fear card ... that's shallow and empty.

reflexblue

Part 2 is posted, buried somewhere.

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