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Everyone knows that people are "asked to resign" as a nice way of firing them these days.  Bush's endless stream of blood from decapitated careers is more than enough evidence of that.

If she resigns, everyone will know that, in reality, McCain axed her.

I'm actually sad about all this.  I liked Palin before the general started, mostly because all I knew about her were the human interest stories.   I didn't want to see her image destroyed, but I also thought she was too smart to let her family get involved with all this (she'd originally, back in June or so, said that she wasn't interested in the VP spot because of her new baby). If things had gone differently, though, she could've been a serious threat.  Who knows?  She still might be, down the road.

"Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden."

BAHAAHHHA...

In your dreams.

Palin is going no where.

No way the base forgives ANYBODY or excepts ANYBODY in her place.

Who have they got the base won't go ballastic over?

Mittens?

Rudy?

Ridge?

We all know, for each different reasons, those folks are anethema to the base.

Palin is it, NR.

Schmidt had McCain toss the Hail Mary.

It did exactly what he wanted: Stopped the converstation about the Obama convention, kept the media going apeshit over "so shiny...."

Got the base fired up, she IS the female Ron
Reagan, to them as well as to certain crazy posters here...(slight dig there)

The ONLY WAY Palin could quit is some personal reason, health, the health of one of her kids...

The base doesn't care a tinkers damn if she appears incoherent in interviews with Kati Couric.

Hell, it reinforces their idea, they WANT the opposite of an elite running the country.

They want a total chowderhead!!!!

And, in her, they have the perfect fit.

Removing her would end McCain's campaign.  The religious right would never forgive him, and it would add yet more drama to the campaign.  At this point voters are getting fed up with the drama.  Two nights ago on Maddow's show, even Tweety said that McCain's campaign was "all razzle-dazzle, and the voters get tired of razzle-dazzle" (paraphrased).  

I mean, really, he has run a no-substance campaign since at least the summer.  Four years of these stunts would be a nightmare, and that isn't lost on people.

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They would like to simply have a President we can trust.

McCain is a parody of himself at this point.
Palin is a bad joke.

Parker obviously doesn't understand the party she belongs to.  Palin is a suitable VP candidate precisely because she passed the test for irrationality.  Remember William F. Buckley's famous quip that he'd rather be ruled by the first hundred names in the Cambridge phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University?

No Republican would say something like this today.  Average Joes and Janes in Massachusetts can't be trusted.  Their ideal candidate is someone whose view on evolution is, "Ain't no way my grandpappy was some monkey!"  

This is all a setup for the Veep debate. Watch out.

No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.

Are you a DEM. or what? Palin is the gift that keeps on giving. We should all be happy she's a big turd. She was chosen ONLY because of her sex, and that shows how sexist McCain is. That you would hope she does well speaks volumes abot what you really want for this country.

Watch... replacing her will be his next gimmick.... it's a poor one... but, when does McCain ever think things through... he's desperate and unpredictable!

With a little over a month to the election. He can't pick a new running mate without a really, REALLY good reason, like Palin or a member of her family becomes ill. She's got a 5 month old Down's syndrome child and a 17 year old pregnant daughter, and she still decided running for VP was a good idea. What kind of family issue could cause her to resign?

No, I don't think she'll be leaving. It would be equivalent to McCain saying, "Ya. My judgment sucks, but please vote for me anyway."

Ya we actually do not want Palin to bow out.  She's primed to lose the VP debate and if she did step out that would give Mccain a chance to pick someone new and shiny and give him another crack at a convention-like bounce.  We just need to focus on how she sucks, but keep her in the game.

The GOP ship is going down.

Even the rats are jumping ship.

The GOP stays home on election day. I truly believe they would be THAT angry at him.

Forgive my pessimism, but I can only think that this is an effort to control expectations for the VP debates.  The ONLY time Palin has chalked up wins in the media is when the bar has been set so incredibly low that anything she does is a net positive.  By painting her as to be so incompetent that she should be replaced makes it a lot easier for her to come into the VP debates and outperform her expectations.

I dunno... maybe the last 8 years has made me too cynical, but I definitely see some ulterior motives at work at the NR.

What strikes me most about that article from  the National Review is that the writer says

"Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first"

The Diarist left out the last  5 words of the article which were "Do it for your country"
In other words  the writer wants Palin to try and sell it as if she's  bowing out for  the sake of her family,but is really only concerned about her  vanishing somewhere so as not to  damage the party/campaign anymore. How very Republican.

One advantages of all of these missteps by Palin, is that expectations for her in the debate will be so low that she wins the debate by just showing up. By just showing up, she'll exceed expectations and Biden will not. So I don't think Palin will withdraw from the ticket. Her withdrawal would sink McCain.

Remember, this is the crowd that voted in and worshipped nominees from Dan Quayle to Dubya. What's a little bit of cognitive dissonance?

in her withdrawing.  1st- there are 51 sets of election laws governing this- replacement on ballots. 2nd. Six states are already voting early now. Absentees are already being sent everywhere where the local Sept primary results have been certified. Now if your state has you vote for (in small print)" Electors Pledged to " (then large print)John S McCain and Sarah Palin, likely Ok to count towards a replacement. but if it's their names alone- up in the air. States usually allow for a replacement in case of death, but not for dropping off.  In '02, MN GOP S of S ruled the 30,000 plus absentees for Paul Wellstone could not be counted towards DFL replacement Walter Mondale nor be replaced by the County Clerks. . We were ferrying the disabled to Polling Stations as MN only allowed you to void an absentee by showing up in person to vote. Obviously out of staters and GIs lost their vote.

Where were they when the Blivet and Cheney were stumbling all over themselves during their first campaign?

Guess their high standards for candidates didn't apply back then.  Egads, conservatives must be humiliated and ashamed at what they've done the last 8 years.

It seems that between the fate of Sarah Palin and the bailout that there is an increasing chasm between Rethug elites and the rank-and-file.  The elites want to loot $700 billion while they can, but they're being blocked by those who have bought into the ideology the very elites have purveyed for nearly 50 years.  Palin is a slow-moving political disaster; the elites see it, the wingnuts see a savior.

The Republican Party is falling apart at the seams.  The only thing keeping the presidential race close is racism.  60 is looking more likely in the Senate, though.