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Originally Posted by Willravel
Not at all. What I'm suggesting is that Palin being put on the ticket was a horrible idea. Sure, it rallied some of the base, but rallying the base isn't how you win after 8 years of Bush. You need centrism in order to recuperate. McCain sold his soul to try and win instead of remaining the John McCain of yore, and Osh Kosh Barbi was a slap in the face to anyone left of the far right with more than a few brain cells.
A vice presidential candidate shouldn't have to be told what the vice president does.
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Interesting, how this seems to work. "People" say Palin was a drag on the ticket. The media doesn't like her, says she is a drag on the ticket, and polls show she was a drag on the ticket, but when we dig a bit deeper, we find that "people" (not all, I know some Republicans said it too) saying she was a drag on the ticket would not have voted for McCain anyway. On that basis Wayne Allen Root was clearly a drag on the Bob Barr Libertarian ticket.
On the idea of needing a centrist, I don't know many who would call Joe Biden a centrist. Chaney was not a centrist. Gore was not a centrist. Quayle was not a centrist, etc., etc.,...actually have we ever had a true centrist VP?