Comments on: Sarah Palin is the fungible candidate

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:06:36 +0000

What McCain meant to say was that ‘Palin knows more about energy than any conservative who is pushing her to be vice president of the United States of America.’ That might be a true statement.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:26:32 +0000

What to do with this election? Some want to vote for John McCain as President for the protection and security of the United States. Some want Obama because of the economy, McCain’s age, McCain’s VP choice, etc. Why not vote for both?

How about a whisper campaign that John McCain should be Secretary of Defense and that President Obama would nominate him to that position?

That way, McCain would be able to do what his strength is, follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell. . . ah, fight the war in Afghanistan which he says he knows how to win, (why he doesn’t let the Pentagon know or why doesn’t the Pentagon just ask him is a good question.) Those people who would vote for McCain because of his percieved ability to protect and defend the United States, but are reluctant because of his negatives, like age, might vote Obama if they thought that McCain would still be in the national defense decision loop.

The other campaign would say that McCain would select Obama to be his Secretary of community organizing, (har, har) but really Obama should be able to survive that.

By: Jeff Green

Jeff Green — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:50:34 +0000

This harkens me back to the days of “Good job Brownie!” Hurrican Katrina come to mind.

Let’s see John McCain is not like the Bush Administration. I just might agree with that assessment. Yes it is worse than the Bush Administration.

I for one am taking energy seriously and if this administration gets in, it will be the Keystone Cops and a nightmare all rooled into one.

Highly highly highly not ready for prime time.

By: Bob Wallace

Bob Wallace — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:48:40 +0000

The problem is that a whispering campaign that Obama might appoint McCain as Sec of Def would be that Obama would lose significant support.

He would find his judgment questioned in the same way McCain’s took a serious hit when he picked Palin.

The problem that McCain and other Republicans have with renewables, I suspect, is that they have closed their ears. Renewables are issues that belong to the Left, to the enemy, and must be dismissed.

It’s not a problem solving attitude that drives some politicians, but a “make our side win” attitude.

I really doubt that McCain could sit down and describe with any degree of accuracy where we are at the moment with the installation of wind turbines.

I doubt that he understands that almost all of us could be driving BEVs if we had affordable batteries.

By: Rick C

Rick C — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:15:54 +0000

“Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that’s with the energy independence that I’ve been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy.” - Sarah Palin

Huh?

By: Rick C

Rick C — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:19:58 +0000

“Oil (of coal), of course, is a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, ya know, the molecules where, where it’s going to where it’s not but and in the, in the sense of the Congress today they know our very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So I believe that what Congress is going to do also is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here, it’s gotta flow into our domestic markets first.” - Sarah Palin

Huh, again?

By: john

john — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:00:26 +0000

Ronald:

In what world is John McCain good for national security? Oh, yeah, the one that sings Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb,Bomb Iran. That world.

Or the one that thinks every answer is a military one.

Or the one that thinks Iraq had anything to do with 911 or al Qaeda.

Or the one that thinks the surge worked (hint: it didn’t; there were 18 benchmarks and only 4 were realized, and the vaunted decrease in violence was caused by 1) the Awakening — i.e. paying Sunnis cash to back us, 2) ethnic cleansing the the neighborhoods, and last and very least 3) more troops on the ground.

Why not just show what an oaf and fool McCain is, rather than puting him in charge of anything?

PS. McCain doesn’t appear to know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites.

And Palin? Well …. scary. an empty vessel into which whackhobs can our their most horrible nightmares into and call them dreams.