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Post by lighthorseman on Jun 27, 2011 12:41:42 GMT -5
This might just be my hopefulness but I have a strong feeling they will... she has the right.. let's call it Palin-ness about her to pull the nomination. Which means it's very likely we'll see a Bachmann/Palin vice-versa ticket. Never happen. Palin and Bachman despise each other. Which is no surprise because Palin at least seems to despise anyone who might in any conceivable way be a rival. What makes you think they despise each other? I agree, from Palin's track record, she seems to go out of her way to knobble anyone she percieves as having disrespected her, but I've not heard anything about her having a problem with Bachman. Serious question. You know, Australian, not privy to all the ins and outs of US politics... |
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jun 27, 2011 12:49:36 GMT -5
Wasn't there some mud slinging going on between the two a while back?
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Post by lighthorseman on Jun 27, 2011 12:56:46 GMT -5
Wasn't there some mud slinging going on between the two a while back? Not even on the same continent  I've been trying to ignore Palin as much as possible since she quit the governorship. |
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jun 27, 2011 12:58:29 GMT -5
We all have, but she keeps popping back up.
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Post by verasthebrujah on Jun 27, 2011 17:18:26 GMT -5
Neither Bachmann or Palin would select the other as a running mate for reasons of balancing the ticket, regardless of their personal feelings toward each other. They are nearly identical in terms of who they appeal to. The reasonable thing to to would be to select a non-threatening moderate Republican to prevent centrists from going to Obama. If nothing else, they would select a man to avoid losing the sexist vote.
Of course, choosing a VP candidate based strictly on balancing the ticket criteria can be problematic. After all, this is what McCain did in 2008. His campaign wanted a woman who appealed to the far right, and look who he ended up with.
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Post by Amaranth on Jun 27, 2011 18:17:45 GMT -5
We all have, but she keeps popping back up. I'd make a "whack a mole" joke, but Pali's camp would probably decry it as sexist. |
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Post by canadian mojo on Jun 28, 2011 12:47:50 GMT -5
If nothing else, they would select a man to avoid losing the sexist vote. That's doomed to failure because the sexists that wouldn't vote for them are not going to be any happier with a man playing second fiddle when clearly he should be in charge. Remember to these troglodytes a woman doesn't give orders, she takes them. |
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Post by MaybeNever on Jun 28, 2011 23:18:35 GMT -5
We all have, but she keeps popping back up. I'd make a "whack a mole" joke, but Pali's camp would probably decry it as sexist. I prefer "bang a MILF" anyway. |
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Post by Amaranth on Jun 29, 2011 7:26:32 GMT -5
I prefer "bang a MILF" anyway. I WOULD, but in Palin's case I'm worried that crazy is contagious. Plus, she might mistake me for a moose and try and shoot me after. |
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Post by chad sexington on Jun 29, 2011 7:32:15 GMT -5
More likely that after coitus she'd bite your head off and then devour your body  |
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Post by verasthebrujah on Jun 29, 2011 11:17:37 GMT -5
If nothing else, they would select a man to avoid losing the sexist vote. That's doomed to failure because the sexists that wouldn't vote for them are not going to be any happier with a man playing second fiddle when clearly he should be in charge. Remember to these troglodytes a woman doesn't give orders, she takes them. Unless they believe that the male VP is really in charge and the female presidential candidate is just pretending because she is more popular. It's not like that's an uncommon belief, even when both the president and vice president are men. How many people thought that Cheney was the real power in the Bush Administration, while W was just his puppet?  |
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Post by MaybeNever on Jun 29, 2011 11:34:47 GMT -5
More likely that after coitus she'd bite your head off and then devour your body That's okay, it'd save me having to avoid meeting my gaze in the mirror. |
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Post by Amaranth on Jun 29, 2011 14:49:11 GMT -5
Unless they believe that the male VP is really in charge and the female presidential candidate is just pretending because she is more popular. It's not like that's an uncommon belief, even when both the president and vice president are men. How many people thought that Cheney was the real power in the Bush Administration, while W was just his puppet? My Mom used to give Hillary credit for everything Clinton did. Well, everything positive. |
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Post by Vene on Jun 29, 2011 17:33:48 GMT -5
Unless they believe that the male VP is really in charge and the female presidential candidate is just pretending because she is more popular. It's not like that's an uncommon belief, even when both the president and vice president are men. How many people thought that Cheney was the real power in the Bush Administration, while W was just his puppet? My Mom used to give Hillary credit for everything Clinton did. Well, everything positive. To be fair, Hillary is Clinton. Oh, you mean Bill Clinton? That's silly, those are entirely different people. |
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Post by The Lazy One on Jun 29, 2011 17:41:12 GMT -5
The thing is, while Obama has problems, the front-runners for the Republicans are about as sane as the Son of Sam. While it's a given that left-wingers would vote for Obama, I think it's more likely that moderate Republicans and libertarians would either not vote at all, or hold their noses and vote for Obama. I don't know a single moderate Republican or libertarian that would willingly vote for Michelle Bachmann.
As someone I really respect once said, you can't have economic freedom without personal freedom, and anyone who seeks to take away one doesn't support the other.
Also, that is the porniest pornstache I've ever seen.
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