Was Palin even vetted?

[PM7nj]

I don't think the McCain team even vetted Sarah Palin. I think they where all set to pick Gov. Polenta and then they got a call from the bosses. We heard NOTHING about her before today. There was some speculation online but NOTHING from the media. Does anyone really think that they could keep her name totally off the radar? McCain never even met with her in the last few months! You could absolutely see how uncomfortable he was on that stage today.

Picking her was an absolute hail mary and I don't think McCain thought it through. His one strength, experience, is now shot. Palin's ethics are questionable and could blow up in their faces. Her husband is creepy (remember it was Fereraro's husband that really took down her and Mondale.) In every interview I have heard she comes off as batshit insane and just doesn't make sense. All I keep asking myself is what the fuck where they thinking. Maybe I am wrong and she will be a good campaigner and come out of the ethics investigation clean. But I just can't see it.

[YDogg]

1. I'd bet not.

[DesertFlower]

2. they said on MSNBC that

she was fully vetted.

[WeDidIt]

11. The campaign is saying that and MSNBC is reporting it.

Obviously, from what has come out in the nine hours since the announcement, she was not fully vetted.

[WeDidIt]

12. No way was she fully vetted.

McCain pulled another surprise shot nobody in the campaign expected.

[trthnd4jstc]

21. He's the Maverick, or fool. n/t

[DesertFlower]

13. i was going to say "unless McCain

is stupid", but we know that he is.

[Epiphany4z]

3. I agree

they have done a vett light some months ago..but I she was a sudden change last night...No leaks...why? because they didn't know.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Hell yes, she was vetted.

And found to have just the barely acceptable minimum of scandal-taint to qualify as a Republican politician.

[KittyWampus]

5. WAKE THE FUCK UP. Rove picked her weeks ago. She's the continuation of PUMA crap

[Ioo]

16. So you go from HRC to ProLife Whack Job... No way! This was a fumble

I am sorry, no matter how pissed you are about the loss of HRC, you do not go from there to this Anti-Choose, Evangelical freak. If you do, then I say, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE YOU DUMB ASS DINOS...

Honestly, if this move is to win those PUMAs over, take em... all 30 of them

[KittyWampus]

24. I supported Biden and then Obama. This is about a media narrative to steal an election

it has nothing to do with actual facts.

[PM7nj]

20. Sorry for not being as enlightened as you...

Must be nice up there.

[AlCzervik]

6. i think gop vetting involves a lot of small bills in non sequential order and the master list

of possible embarrassments that need to be paid off.

[DJ13]

7. No, McCain ordered her from a catalog

Naughty Library Halloween Costume

http://babyhatchetblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/inappropriate-halloween-costumes-2007-part-4/

[TomInTib]

8. Poor ol' Ace is beginning to realize that he is totally handled.

Where LittleMan went for it - hell, he basked in it - the Old Guy must be chafed.

[Kdillard]

9. I know I am just dumbfounded by this pick from McCain. He

showed with astounding clarity how bad his judgement is to want to leave it in the hands of someone who has no foreign experience especially in this time of warand has proven to be an economic disaster to the people she represents.

[femmocrat]

10. She had been mentioned as a "dark moose"... uh.... "horse" in recent weeks.

Someone at DU predicted it would NOT be her due to her ethics problems and caring for an infant.

(It's OK.... you can come out of hiding now! LOL)

[goodgd_yall]

17. Lol! ---"Dark moose"

[goodgd_yall]

14. I would like to know more about her work in Wasilla

as a councilmember and mayor. Her last 2 years as mayor are easily known but what about her previous public service.

[K Gardner]

18. I think she was head of the PTA prior to being mayor.

[lynne]

15. Looks like it -

- website www.mccainpalin.com was created 01/29/08 according to whois.com

[PM7nj]

19. Is that a campaign site?

Wouldn't a campaign sit go directly to McCain's real site?

[lynne]

25. It appears to link to the McCain site but they had to buy the domain name -

- I only checked to see if it was a legit campaign site and it seems to be. Didn't want to get into it too deep!

[spanone]

22. ooooh i hope not....cause she may have some real skeletons in her closet

[Orsino]

23. Corruption and scandal are minimum requirements for GOP candidacy.

Her achievements may be few as yet, but I think she's shown a lot of promise already. Republican leaders probably see her VP run as building the bench, ensuring crookedness for the mid-twenty-first century.