Halperin on McCain: "... polling showed that no conventional choice would allow him to win"

[Bozita]

Welcome Governor Palin.

He said that there could be four reasons for the pick. The first three reasons were boilerplate.

Halperin went on to say that we'll know a lot more about her in 72 hours.

Remember the GOP folks sent to Anchorage earlier today to further vet her? IMHO, those are "fixers", not "vetters."

[BrklynLiberal]

1. They have already removed pictures and stories from the internet.

No doubt there will be a lot more silencing in the next few days...

[TwilightGardener]

2. Right--anyone who thinks those lawyers are "vetters" are naive--

they are goons with paper shredders.

[FrenchieCat]

3. So did we get the goods, or are the goons going to beat us to it?

[TwilightGardener]

5. Goons are going to pay off or intimidate anyone who doesn't want to cooperate.

I'll bet the truth is buried quicker than a rotting skunk corpse.

[orestes]

6. The archived stuff from her hometown paper

I believe has already been gone through by a Dem crew, I think this is part of how the "she wasn't vetted" thing came about. When they got there to get at some of these archives, they were told they were the first ones to have come to look.

[Dem2theMax]

12. Her hometown newspaper archives are right here in this link

http://www.frontiersman.com/shared-content/search/index.php?search=advanced

Ignore the fact that they have 2008 dates entered. Put in any year you want and have fun.

I found over 600 articles on her from 2005 through 2008. Plenty of hunting room for everyone on the board! ;)

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. I'll bet "Troopergate" disappears down a blackhole. I'm convinced

that the whole repug delegation (Stevens, Young, etc) from Alaska are crooks & liars.

[vaberella]

7. They can't stop the AIP thing, it's all over! n/t

[Bicoastal]

8. Fixers? So Harvey Keitel is on his way over there?

BWAHAHAHA!

[everything-bolt-up]

9. Which is why I come to the internet for my news....they can't remove all of the last 72hrs!!

[grantcart]

10. link

[WCGreen]

11. It's too late to fix this mess...

[PretzelWarrior]

13. I welcome that. the continued digging will turn up their obstruction and cover up attempts

you got a woman here who some call "hot" (I don't get it) and a teenage daughter who got knocked up by a boyfriend despite the family's strong religious, moral, shoot up the wild life values.

this will just scream out for the muckrakers in "phone it in" news departments around the country. I don't think Obama and staff need to do a dam thing to push this story. They can even protest it publicly as "not news" or a worthy aspect of the campaign process, but this will be one case where the putrid form of journalism that has defined the 2000's will kick in on behalf of the Dems' behalf.