Hunh, I don’t recall Twickster claiming to be some sort of spokesperson for the Democratic party, and I’d very much like to hear how asking a (IMO) legitimate question, specifically requesting information from McCain supporters, becomes telling them what to think.
In any event, you never seem to have any problem with trying to tell people what to think, so what’s with all the manufactured outrage?
Three cites of Palin taking questions on the trail?
I’m going to answer this from the viewpoint of my Mom, a McCain supporter.
I asked her what she thought of Palin and she said she was nervous about her. I asked why and she said she was unproven and McCain is old. I asked if she had seen the interviews and she said she had seen only pieces. I asked what she thought of Palin being so sequestered and she said she hadn’t realized that those three interviews were the only ones Palin had done. When I asked if that worried her, she said it did but that she would probably still vote for McCain.
Two points: My mother only “probably” voting for McCain is a shocker. My family is in oil, for goodness sake.
And I doubt she’s unusual in not knowing the extent of the lockdown on Palin. It’s harder to see what isn’t there than to see what is.
You don’t know what their political affiliation is. They could very well have been Republicans. Chances are good that that’s the case actually. You know they would never send her anywhere but the most conservative neighborhood they could find.
Chester County’s Main Line is my guess.
The Main Line isn’t in Chester County; it’s in Montgomery and Delaware Counties. [/nitpick]
The two public appearances were both in Center City Philadelphia.
Have her appear in Daley Plaza in Chicago…or Deeley Plaza in more conservative Dallas if you prefer. If she draws 60,000 supporters then you’ve got something.
This might be of passing interest.
Palin: Pakistan remark was a response to a voter
and this.
The Sarah Palin pity party
Everyone seems to be oozing sympathy for the fumbling vice-presidential nominee. Please. Cry me a freaking river.
Good link, thanks. From it:
and this:
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I beg to differ, maybe part of Wayne, Stratford, Devon, Berwyn, Dalesford, and Paoli are all in Chester County.
Montgomery County is upscale now too but it’s not and never has been the Main Line.
Center City is where many of the people residing in those places work.
Shodan hates any who oppose him, and assumes the same of everyone else. I haven’t been here long and I’ve already recognized him as one of the most hateful people on the board.
The Main Line refers to the train line, now the R5 Paoli train, that runs through there. Bala Cynwyd through Ardmore or so is Montgomery County; Haverford out through … Wayne, I think? is Delaware County. The last 1/4 or 1/3 of it is indeed in Chester County.
Your first sentence is an observation (correct or incorrect) about actions.
Your second sentence is a personal remark about a poster that really does not need to be expressed outside the BBQ Pit.
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I stand corrected. I was always under the impression Montgomery was all on the other side of the river for some reason.
I haven’t lived around there since 1984 though.
That is a completely untrue statement. Please note this thread, in the OP of which, Shodan offers to sponsor 3 people who could not pay for the membership here. Is this the action of a hateful or hate-filled person? Why would he appreciate this message board so much, if he hates people who oppose him? God knows, there’s enough of them around here.
Clark was talking about a specific set of so-called qualifications, and was not saying that McCain was unqualified. He’d be qualified because of his time in the Senate even if he had been a draft dodger. Is it odd that a general, with major executive responsibilities, would dispute that a fairly low level officer’s qualifications were equal? If Fiorina said that a first level manager wasn’t the same thing as being a CEO in terms of management experience, would you object?
Do what? Walk into KKK meetings? He’s clearly making optimal use of his time, as a good manager should. If Philadelphia was such an awful place for Palin, why was she there? Couldn’t she cram in some more conducive clime? No one would have thought that odd.
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The train line (and the term Main Line) runs clear across the state. It’s not limited to the range of the local trains.
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It doesn’t really matter where Palin is drawing the crowds. She is clearly the more dynamic and charismatic of the two VP candidates. Biden couldn’t draw 6,000 people to a rally if he gave out free donuts and booze.
– my bolding
Great. Can you link to some/all of these responses on the trail?
I need some deep thoughts just about now and nothing better than a Palin quote to do that.
I doubt many people would dispute this. The Dems didn’t need two charismatic candidates, after all. How odd that the deficiency of drawing big crowds as applied to Obama now becomes an asset for Palin. The minor difference is that Obama isn’t afraid to go on Face the Nation, knows his stuff, and doesn’t say things that taken nearly verbatim are the funniest part of an SNL bit.
[hijack]As a shorthand for a certain social class (one embodied by the folks in Philadelphia Story, for instance – which was actually set on the Main Line), it refers to the string of Philly suburbs on that line.
As a referent to “socially unobjectionable” (“mainline churches,” as opposed to Pentecostalists, e.g.), it isn’t so limited geographically, though I believe that is the etymology of the usage.
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twicks, who, believe it or not, grew up on the Main Line