ABC Stephanopoulos saying Palin couldn't have been fully vetted and an army of

[Breeze54]

investigative reporters are heading to Alaska and they said that even top republican operatives are also saying that there is no way she was fully vetted and that McCain didn't even go through the local newspapers to find out anything about her and he said that there are a LOT of questions unanswered about Palin. Stephanopoulos seemed dumbfounded.

[MissB]

1. Works for me. Except that "Investigative reporter" part.

I don't think those exist anymore, at least not in army-form. Maybe there is a stray one here and there...

[central scrutinizer]

19. but there is a whiff of sex this time

that will bring them out. They don't want to do boring stuff like follow the money.

[Blue Gardener]

28. National Enquirer

Maybe they can quit following Edwards around and head to Alaska.

[thewiseguy]

2. Fuck Palin and her family values

[bdamomma]

14. exactly,

unless there are those who sympathize with her daughter's situation. Palin was not vetted the way she should have been, what one phone call and only one meeting with McCain, give my a break huh?

desperate people do desperate things.

[janethussein]

25. Looks like her family values -

like to fuck !
:rofl:

[liberalhistorian]

36. LOL! DUzy

time!!!!

[TwilightGardener]

3. Most Epic Fail of a VP pick in decades. Ya gotta be lovin' this.

[AlCzervik]

4. See this is where the fun really begins.

[spanone]

5. i'd like to see some investigative reporting for a change... 'lots of unanswered questions'

r

[YDogg]

6. sounds like stephanopoulos reads DU

[karynnj]

17. He didn't have to read DU

He fought off similar comments made by Senator Kerry, after he let Senator Graham say whatever he wanted. This nomination showed that the RW fundies were controlling McCain's choice.

[Submariner]

7. Caribou Barbie will be shredded by the press

This is fun to watch.

[MissB]

10. *snort*

Caribou barbie. :rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

11. I've taken to calling her the Caribou Queen.

I know, it's terrible of me. I am just so insulted that they would think that this woman would somehow replace Hillary in the minds of women voters. I am disgusted.

I will say, in my current state of analysis of Palin, any woman that would allow herself to be used to manipulate other women and insult the intelligence of women and, in particular, the intelligence and accomplishments of Hillary Clinton, is doing no favors to her gender. In fact, she is doing a disservice to women by allowing herself to be used. She knows what she is allowing herself to become. I don't respect her, I pity that she has such a low opinion of herself.

[kskiska]

12. Kind of like women in the porn business.

[qazplm]

13. ok

that is hilarious.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. hehehe

caribou barbie :spray:

[madeline_con]

8. At least one DUer opined that McCain't and Palin are a

spell edit

"throw away" offering. The repugs are TRYING to lose the election, leave a big mess for the Democrats to clean up.

When the inpossible job isn't finished in 4 years, they plan to run again and retake the WH. Sounds plausible. Karl Rove would absolutely have Palin checked out. I doubt is she slipped in under the radar, especially with her penchant for whistle blowing on fellow party members.

[Breeze54]

9. And ABC said that McCain has been in "seclusion" all day.... wtf?

I thought he was packing boxes for Gustav victims?

I posted a pic of him doing that this morning!

And ABC is "following the money" on the GOP Convention parties.

GOP people at convention refused to talk to reporters.

Flat out saying NO! when asked and walking/running away! :P (they're at parties!)

[slampoet]

16. This is what the real McCain campaign is like when the MSM isn't shilling for them.

[barbtries]

18. i think her candidacy

may be short-lived. heaven knows she has plenty of valid reasons to opt out at this point. an infant with special needs, a pregnant daughter, a state to run...etc. she's a bad fit for vice president and heaven forbid potential president?!

[Matariki]

20. Well, she was vetted by Dobson. That was probably good enough for McCain

And NOW we know who he's beholden to.

ttp://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352178/ultra_secretive_right_wing_group_met_in_minn_to_vet_palin

Ultra-Secretive Right-Wing Group Met In Minn. To Vet Palin

Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

[Breeze54]

29. holy crap!

That sends chills down my spine!

How many religious freepers are voters?

Does any one have a number?

[MadrasT]

39. Tim LaHaye? The "Left Behind" guy???

That creeps me out. Totally creeps me out. :puke:

[Tutonic]

21. First person to speak to local newspaper was a Democrat.

Absolutely no vetting.

[VP505]

22. Ed Schultz said on his Radio Program

this morning that he will be going to Anchorage on Saturday for a town hall meeting with the local folks to find out what they think of their Gov. He said that he plans to air that meet up on Monday, it ought to tell us a bit more about that claimed 80% approval rating.

[glitch]

23. Republicans are treating our elections as a joke now.

Ultimate consequence of allowing Bush/Cheney to steal and hold office, I suppose.

Back in the old days at least they were allegedly good at campaigning, if not at governing. Now they don't even bother to be good a campaigning.

Just where are they efforts focused now? Other than looting I mean.

[Breeze54]

30. I think they have no respect for our Constitution or our government.

They've been disrespecting and stealing elections all along!

And they hate government and McCain is a closet libertarian and a rethug fundy!

[glitch]

35. I don't think he is even that deep, such as it is. I've been trying to figure them out for years now

and they seem just as alien to me as they ever were.

[RamboLiberal]

24. George S. also said McCain is sending a Rapid Response Team

to Alaska. Sounds like they're afraid of what reporters will dig up.

[Breeze54]

27. Lot of good that'll do... HE doesn't even know about her!

:P

[Caretha]

41. Whatcha wanna bet

the National Enquirer beats them there. :)

[Marr]

26. This is what happens to a party when it has a compliant corporate media covering

for them for years on end. Their ranks become *filled* with people who would've been weeded out if there were any degree of investigation into their backgrounds. The kind of nonchalant carelessness that McCain has demonstrated in his pick is another symptom.

Arrogance and incompetence... that's what you get when a political party is given a free pass.

[Breeze54]

31. Well, 275 Rethugs have been indicted in the last 8 years !!

:P

[glitch]

33. Paraphrasing Catherine Austin Fitts, "those who win a rigged game get stupid" nt

[Arugula Latte]

32. They are closing the barn door after the horse got out.

[Tutonic]

34. How dare George Stephanopoulos critcize John McCain!!!!!!

Didn't he get todays right wing talkin points?

[RamboLiberal]

37. Video here

http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/01/asked-and-not-answered/

ABC News journo also says about 10 Republican operatives, including lawyers, are heading to Alaska for more background work on Gov. Palin.

Earlier: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell also reports that lawyers are headed to the 49th state for “a deeper vet.”

“They are sending a rapid response team of about 10 people that includes lawyers up to Alaska right now. They know there’s going to be an army of investigative reporters going up there, and they want to be ahead of it.”

“Some senior Republicans operatives outside the campaign say there’s no way they could have had a complete vetting with this kind of information coming out. Democrats say… the McCain campaign didn’t even go through Gov. Palin’s local newspapers.”

http://thepage.time.com/more-from-abcs-george-stephanopoulos/

[Breeze54]

38. Yeah,,, but reporters are also going up there!

Thanks for the video link though.

[sofa king]

40. Apparently, she was vetted by James Dobson....

... and that's not a joke. According to Digby (via another DU reader whom I cannot credit because the server is going insane), Palin was researched by the evil overlord group, the Council for National Policy.

The CNP is a shadowy organization which puts sociopaths in touch with psychopaths and bible thumpers so that they can more efficiently fuck up the country. They seem to have done their background check in the same way they took their biology tests in high school: ask Jesus what he thinks and then listen to the voices in their heads.

Thus, the arrival of the real background checkers in Alaska yesterday and today to find out how crazy this poor person really is.

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I really have to reign in my schaudenfreude here. It's unseemly and shows me a dark side of myself with which I am uncomfortable. Nevertheless, THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME TO WATCH!.