DarkSteven
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The McCain campaign made three people famous: Joe, Palin, and Meghan McCain. Joe was nothing more than a blue collar guy who believed the standard GOP talking points and repeated them. For some reason I'll never know, the McCain campaign latched onto him. He was able to make the claim that Obama would raise his taxes but was never able to back it up. (In fairness to him, the proper justification, that higher taxes would be necessary in future to pay off Obama's high spending, could have easily been countered by showing Bush's buy-now-pay-later approach.) Palin is a tragedy. She's attractive, ambitious as hell, speaks decently, and seems to love the rubber-chicken life. She also has a great story in her personal life. She's dumb as a brick but that can be overcome with proper handling. She was trained to give the talking points, but not to understand them or be able to explain them. Both Joe and Palin were plucked out of relative obscurity, given talking points, and let loose. Obviously, the McCain campaign failed both of them, and they both came off looking foolish. The jury's still out on Meghan. She's attractive and seems articulate. Nobody seems to have challenged her views directly and made her back them up, so I don't know if she can. Surprisingly, this 24 year old kid who's never run for office is emerging as one of the more powerful voices for moderation within the GOP. Also surprisingly, the right wing branch of the GOP, which has been vicious about blasting those deemd too ideologically impure, has been coy about attacking her.
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