August 29, 2008 -
CNN is now reporting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be John McCain's running mate.
Palin, 44, who has been governor for only two years, appears to have little track record with video games - or much of anything else.
She was a city council person in Wasilla, Alaska from 1992-1996 and was later mayor of that town. She failed in an attempt to become Alaska's Lt. Gov. in 2002, and won the top seat in 2006.
Palin has two sons and three daughters. Her oldest son, age 18, is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq later this yer.
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Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
right--because what woman would think for herself? much easier to just follow whatever vagina is put in front of us and make our decisions that way--come on!!!
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Incorret. Partly.
I would not say all the Hilary supporters will vote for McCain now. You have to remember some people really wanted her. Some women really wanted a democratic woman. Those women really are democrats and while upset will not vote for McCain based on a female vp that is republican.
Now, you are right that the women voting solely on gender will switch, but do not assume all women (or people in general) are that stupid (to vote based on gender and not views). I mean, with Hilary and Obama it was based on gender to some of them because other than that, Obama and Hilary are VERY similar in views (except video games, so far at least).
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
The stupid ones were already threatening to vote for McCain in order to cut of their noses to spite their faces, but yeah that's what he's aiming at with this move. Somehow I don't think all of them are going to be very impressed by it.
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I was going to say more, but... this article is why I hate GP.
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not at all true. There are , far ,far less ''diehard Hillary supporters'' than the media would have you think there were. I I was in denver , and the amount of people there waving ''hillary for president'' signs would have fit in a very small room. The media blow up there numbers because it makes for a good story. Not that this makes this blatant pander from Mr. ''Straight talk express'' any less disgusting.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Right, because Hillary Clinton supporters will flock in droves to a socially conservative, anti-abortion candidate just because she's a woman. Dream on.
Last weekend's Gallup poll (granted, before the Palin announcement, but also before the Democratic convention) showed only 16% of self-identified Hillary supporters planning to vote for McCain. Hillary's big speech this week probably helped more than a few of her fans make their peace with Obama.
I can't fault McCain too much for the choice, though; it's an interesting one. It kind of undercuts all of his campaign's rhetoric about Obama lacking experience, but then that tactic wasn't working too well for them anyway. Kind of a shame that female VPs only get dragged out as a Hail Mary tactic for troubled campaigns, though. (Remember Geraldine Ferraro?)
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Oh, and I shouldn't fail to mention that like any good Republican, she's anti-gay and supports teaching creationism in public schools. That should go over really well with Clinton supporters.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
My thoughts exactly. All the die hard feminist Hillary supporters are now McCain supporters. Well, actually Palin supporters hoping that McCain will die in office.
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Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Because she is pro-choice and supports other women's issues and has the same experience as her?
IDK, this is what they are thinking, and the PUMA retards who think with their vaginas will probably fall for this, but she is WAY less qualified than Clinton.
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"All the die hard feminist Hillary supporters are now McCain supporters."
I sincerely hope there's not enough of them to give McCain the win. As I've said before, if McCain should win because of Hillary supporters I will blame her for sowing the seeds of hatred and division during her contest against Obama.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
This is nothing but pandering to STUPID women -- don't confuse stupid women with feminists -- there is a huge difference.
Real feminists realize that a vote for McCain is a vote against their best interests -- he's against equal wages, hes against abortion rights... Hell, the story of his first wife shows how little he values women.
Stupid people might be swayed because this lady has a Vagina, but true feminists see it for what it is: pandering at it's worst.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Now lets not be too hasty. We don't know anything about Palin. Personally, as long as she (or McCain for that matter) doesn't go trying to outlaw video games, they've got my vote. It could have been worse (Romney or Liberman came awfully close to winning the VP race). Even Obama's been putting in his two cents against games.
I can't say agree with feminism, especially how Clinton has been using "Women's Rights" for her own personally gain. While I know many feminist try to fight for equality, there's been too many who have been using that power to take away men's rights. They see men as an evil that must be abolished, and women are completely incapable of anything criminal.
I'm also against abortion, and McCain came close to picking a pro "Choice" running mate. I'm especially glad Palin doesn't see this as a Women's rights issue. A child's fate is in the hands of BOTH the parents, not just the mother.
Palin seems like a woman I would like to see as President.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Republicans tend to look at the bottom dollar of things and with the billions upon billions of taxable dollars that video games pour into the economy each year, they would be pretty stupid to try something as drastic as outlawing video games.
Besides, it is usually the Democratic party that introduces new forms of labeling and censorship for media.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Apparently you haven't been into Hillary Clinton support forums. They are going nuts about McCain pick. Clinton supporters were volunteering for McCain phone bank before the announcement were made.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Wow, lotta bile in that. You forget that politics IS pandering.
Yes, it is pandering, but in equal measure it's also historic. Mr. Obama had all the chances in the world to have a smart experienced woman vice president (heck he didn't even have to pick Hillary for this), he instead went with a very questionable "party-safe" choice that hopefully wouldn't steal his thunder. A very bad choice in this regard. Self-determining women saw a shot at a woman in the vice-presidency and watched the canidate of change pick the norm.
This gave McCain the chance to play rope-a-dope with Mr. Obama's team and tack on an attractive conservative lady governor. The fact that he was more than willing to do this is a good sign for women in America...they've graduated to being just as useful and (more importantly) safe a political tool as your average joe blow. Amazing ain't it? Progress can be flattering in cruel and unusual ways.
Personally I have no doubt she'll take the Vice-Presidency seriously, grow in experience by learning from McCain and be there if McCain dies in office.
I also have no doubt a good many self-determining women will indeed vote for a McCain/Palin ticket. Some because of Sarah Palin, others because they are indeed self-determining women.
Now...what the heck does she think about video games?
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
So Obama is pandering because he didn't take a woman? Yes. That makes total sense. And a doubt many women will vote for a pro choice candidate.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
I agree whole heartedly with the statement above.
As a male I can say wholeheartedly that feminism is awesome. Because of feminism, more emphasis is being placed on performance instead of gender/unrelated issues, which helps male workers as well. Equal rights has also been pushed to protect not only women, but men from sexual harrassment and false accusations as well. Furthermore, recent sexual psychological studies show that men who are married to feminists are happier, on average, with their marriage AND their sex life due to confidence and communication about likes, dislikes, and explicit instructions coming from both parties involved (if you doubt the power of communication, please try it out in the bedroom and be amazed)
Feminists, on average, are at least average to slightly above average intelligence. They really won't fall for this bs. You will find plenty of sheep that will follow the women vote, but there will hardly be enough to overcome America's disgust with the Republican Party.
All that being said, McCain should have picked JINDAL as a vp candidate. He'd have made an awesome running mate and IF they got the job, would probably be an awesome vp overall.
Also, I know this is kind of a nonissue, but for the sake of fairness do you think you could have picked a slightly more "flattering" photo of the vp candidate? Granted Republicans aren't exaclty popular around here, and i'm not voting elephant, but still.
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"Because of feminism, more emphasis is being placed on performance instead of gender/unrelated issues"
Bullshit. Because of Feminism, more emphasis is being placed on hiring more women than hiring more qualified people.
Some more bullshit: 'recent sexual psychological studies show that men who are married to feminists are happier'. Now, I know that feminists try to claim that every woman who works outside the household is a feminist, but this is complete bullshit. Just because a woman works outside the household doesn't make them a feminist. Another interesting thing to note is that due to the tendency of people to lie about things (ESPECIALLY THEIR SEX LIVES) any such study conducted would be worthless.
Feminists, on average, are not a very intelligent group. They demand equality, but want special consideration (hint: when a woman can claim she was abused and, without any investigation, the man can be hauled off to jail, there's no equality). They demand special treatment and things that other groups don't get, but then they say that they only want to be treated equally.
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Please, before you open your mouth do some actual research. There are countless studies that, once again, disprove your rhetoric. Believe it or not, there ARE people who willingly and openly talk about their sex lives. In fact, a good number of studies actually examine the participants WHILE they are having sex. It's called control settings, but you wouldn't know anything about that now would you?
By the way, when did I say that every woman who works outside the house is a feminist? Jesus H Christ. Go take a few psychology courses, or better yet, read a book written by a well renouned sexual psychologist before... bah what's the point. Some people are just happy living in ignorance.
I've never seen so many people scared of actual psychology. There IS a difference between crackpot studies and actual legitimate research. If you guys took a slight moment to learn the difference then you'd be better equiped to actually defend yourselves against the former.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Indeed, there is a difference between crackpot studies and legitimate research, and having been involved in the second for upwards of 20 years, I can tell you your mentioned studies reek of crackpot bullshit.
Oh, by the by, I never suggested you said women who work outside the house are feminists; that is the view of the feminist movement. I've actually probably taken far mor psychology courses than you ever will, so I would suggest if you can't discern between a good study and bullshit that you sit down and shut up while the big people talk.
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You can say all you want, but by dismissing an entire area of psychology simply because you don't believe there are people secure enough in their sexuality to honestly comment proves something... There's no point in arguing with extreme ignorance as this website proves.
Furthermore, if you really were a member of a legitimate research team then you'd know about self correcting items such as those presented by the MMPI, and that correlations that are seemingly unrelated in any kind of study (to correct for such "lying") are just as important as the face validity of the study.
Also, bs studies tend to use an obscenely large sample size to correct for a neglicably small effect size to make a statistically significant result. Every study that i've mentioned on this website used an appropriate sample size for the relative importance of the study with substance effect size. Their hypothesis' did not hint at bias, nor did they scue the results, as most of them are pretty direct and self explanatory.
If you want more proof that I'm not pulling stuff out of my arse then do some RECENT research on social/romantic psychology as a science, more specifically work by Rowland Miller. If you want proof that people can answer willingly then there's a name you can start looking for.
you forgot to mention...
Feminist also don't try to fix the following injustices:
Women get preferential treatment in child custody cases, despite available income and, in most cases, confirmed drug addiction (as long as she is seeking treatment for said addiction)
A woman can punch or slap a man for trivial reasons and no jail time results, reverse the tables and it's off to the clink. Why not force these assailaints to do their times, feminists?
They frequently argue about a pay-wage gap on a national standing, but refuse to acknowledge the amount of men that work higher paying jobs in construction and the like on the road away from their family result in a padding of the national average for men's wages and most women, while certainly able to perform this role, simply do not.
And the kicker:
Men are required to register for selective service for the U.S. military. Women are not allowed to. NOT ALLOWED! You ladies CANNOT register for selective service, the government won't let you. This is blatant sexual discrimination, but they remain absolutely silent on the issue often with the argument "I don't think anyone should have to register for selective service" which confirms many people's belief that feminists are just pushy people looking for a hand-out because they have two X chromosones.
Normal, decent, hard-working ladies. I love y'all to death. You do all you can to make the world a better place and get your respect from me and everyone else through sheer perserverance and by being a good example of human being. I love you ladies.
Feminists need to lose the ego and realize life sucks for everyone and if they want to fight for equal rights (like they don't exist in the US already, DUR HUR) need to load up and take a trip to Africa and the Middle East where such attention is actually needed and warranted.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
Which isn't too unlikely if he uses his new power to grab a chopper and go take on vietnam singlehandedly for round two.
Re: McCain Picks Sarah Palin as VP; Alaska Guv Has No Apparent
True, but he'll also lose old balding white mysogonistic men.
Hillary musta shot someone when she heard about this.
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agreed...