On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:44:29 -0700 (PDT), george9219
wrote:

On Oct 14, 5:16*pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
but I doubt it will be the last.

http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/

The intellectual class of conservative thinkers is bailing out
on McPalin and for that I have to give them their due. David
Brooks is gone, Kathleen Parker, Christopher Buckley and now
Christopher Hitchens. I sure would enjoy the mea culpas of
Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer but I suppose that would
be more schadenfraude than I could safely handle. *LOL !!

--
Ken Fortenberry

Pretty much my thoughts as well. McCain is one of my personal heroes
for his steadfast behavior as a POW, but that was then, and this is
now. Actually, I started the campaign supporting him, but when the RNC
shot down his VP choice, (Lieberman), and foisted Palin on him, and he
accepted, that convinced me that the "old' McCain is gone. If he still
had the "stuff" he had years ago, he would never have stood for it.
And Hitchens is correct, Palin is a disgrace as a VP candidate. I
don't consider myself an Obama supporter, (he's full of **** on the
economy, as is McCain), but he is the only other viable choice, and
McCain has lost my vote. (Not that it really matters in the People'
Republic of MA)


O.K.. This is from the Huffington Post, so its not an unbiased source,
but other people at the meeting have confirmed what Matthew Dowd,
Bush's campaign strategist in 2004, said:

"Saying that Palin was a "net negative" on the ticket, he went on:
"[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the
ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is
something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on
that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that.""

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_134570.html