Who Replaces Palin On The Ticket?

[GG]

Today is the first time I heard of her........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Parker

Kathleen Parker is an American syndicated columnist. Her columns frequently focus on family, sex roles, and race. Her column is syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, and makes appearances on television shows like The O'Reilly Factor and The Chris Matthews Show.

Parker is the author Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (New York: Random House, 2008).

Parker grew up in Winter Haven, Florida, and attended Converse College before transferring to the University of San Francisco for a year of study in Spain, majoring in Spanish Literature. She holds a Master's degree in the subject.

She is married to an attorney, has three sons, and currently resides in Camden, South Carolina.[1] Her mother died when she was young, and she has had four stepmothers, and has been a stepmother herself.[1]

Parker made news during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when she called on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to step down from the party ticket after a series of media interviews of Palin revealed what Parker believed to be Palin's insufficient experience to hold the position.[2][3][4]

[GG]

quote:Originally posted by unreliablesource

Today is the first time I heard of her........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Parker

Kathleen Parker is an American syndicated columnist. Her columns frequently focus on family, sex roles, and race. Her column is syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, and makes appearances on television shows like The O'Reilly Factor and The Chris Matthews Show.

Parker is the author Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (New York: Random House, 2008).

Parker grew up in Winter Haven, Florida, and attended Converse College before transferring to the University of San Francisco for a year of study in Spain, majoring in Spanish Literature. She holds a Master's degree in the subject.

She is married to an attorney, has three sons, and currently resides in Camden, South Carolina.[1] Her mother died when she was young, and she has had four stepmothers, and has been a stepmother herself.[1]

Parker made news during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when she called on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to step down from the party ticket after a series of media interviews of Palin revealed what Parker believed to be Palin's insufficient experience to hold the position.[2][3][4]

I find it ironic she writes on family values and has had 4 step mothers and has been one herself.

[USRufnex]

Gee, guess I'm the only one...

She used to be in the opinions page in the Chicago Tribune once or twice a week... predictable social conservative but started to write as though she thought the republican party was losing touch with her... especially after the Abu Gharib stuff...

She tends to be "in the tank" for Lindsay Graham...

[USRufnex]

Kathleen Parker:  "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."

Ouch.  That's gonna leave a mark.  

[B)]

[Conan71]

Parker is starting to sound kind of like an Andrew Sullivan "conservative"

[we vs us]

She was a hockey mom when hockey wasn't cool. She's one of Palin's main constituencies.  

Yeah, she's a syndicated columnist, not a firebreather like Hannity or O'Reilly but shows up interchangeably in the Opinion and Society and Culture sections.  She's a low key, suburban conservative mom, and I've seen her column in the Sun Times but also in local and regional papers all across the country.  She's got a higher profile than you'd think.

[USRufnex]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Parker is starting to sound kind of like an Andrew Sullivan "conservative"

...except they're polar opposites on social issues and Sullivan is much more conservative on economic issues... just try comparing their views on "gays in Scouts" sometime... [}:)]

This is a big surprise.  I thought I coulda predicted Kathleen Parker as "in the tank" for Sarah Palin.  She'd at least give Palin every benefit of the doubt.  Parker has always hated dem feminists...

So, we vs us, I guess I can't remember whether I read Kathleen Parker in the SunTimes or Tribune... somehow I thought it was the Trib along with the stuff from Steve Chapman and Molly Ivins (RIP)...

Funny, how earlier this decade, I remember reading Molly Ivins in the Chicago Tribune and FOTD's fav Maureen Dowd in the Tulsa World (2001-02?)... kinda ironic... or maybe memory is the first thing to go.... []

[Wrinkle]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I agree, Waterboy.  Not enough time at this point to drop her, introduce someone new, and sell it to the public.  

Then again, that certainly would be a "maverick" thing to do (and by maverick, I once again mean irrational and reckless)

By my estimation, there is a much higher chance that OBAMA will drop Biden as his VP and re-select Hillary, than McCain dropping Palin.

2:1 odds?

While true, Obama's self-preservation will not allow this, didn't already.

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I agree, Waterboy.  Not enough time at this point to drop her, introduce someone new, and sell it to the public.  

Then again, that certainly would be a "maverick" thing to do (and by maverick, I once again mean irrational and reckless)

By my estimation, there is a much higher chance that OBAMA will drop Biden as his VP and re-select Hillary, than McCain dropping Palin.

2:1 odds?

While true, Obama's self-preservation will not allow this, didn't already.

You mean Obama doesn't want to have a Food Taster in his royal entourage for the next four years??

[Wrinkle]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I agree, Waterboy.  Not enough time at this point to drop her, introduce someone new, and sell it to the public.  

Then again, that certainly would be a "maverick" thing to do (and by maverick, I once again mean irrational and reckless)

By my estimation, there is a much higher chance that OBAMA will drop Biden as his VP and re-select Hillary, than McCain dropping Palin.

2:1 odds?

While true, Obama's self-preservation will not allow this, didn't already.

You mean Obama doesn't want to have a Food Taster in his royal entourage for the next four years??

Exactly, but even that wouldn't cover all the potential.


"....control tower tapes show that the pilot of Mr Obama's plane demanded an emergency landing. At the time, both the FAA and Midwest Airlines insisted that there was no emergency."

Never heard any updated reports on this incident, have we?

I thought that statement above particularly odd since the FAA and/or Midwest Airlines wouldn't have a clue how the plane was flying at the time.

[FOTD]

Please don't!!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

[FOTD]

September 27, 2008
McCain Replaces Palin with Startled Deer
Hoofed Running Mate Could be Game-changer

With less than a week to go before the crucial vice-presidential debate, GOP presidential nominee John McCain announced today that he was replacing his running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, with a startled deer.

According to campaign insiders, the decision to select a hoofed mammal to replace Gov. Palin evolved after Sen. McCain watched his running mate's performance in a series of interviews with CBS's Katie Couric.

"Good Lord, a startled deer could do better than that," Sen. McCain reportedly said, prompting his aides to draw up a shortlist of startled deer.

The Arizona senator supposedly brushed aside concerns that a startled deer would wilt under the pressure of a televised debate, telling aides, "At least a goddamn deer won't go on about Alaska being close to Russia."

The McCain campaign said today that Sen. McCain's new running mate, Bucky the Red Deer, would not be made available to the press prior to the debate.

"Bucky is very much a work in progress," said McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. "Right now we're working on keeping him from bolting off the stage."

Bucky's opponent in the upcoming debate, Delaware senator Joseph Biden, appeared today to be trying to manage expectations for the high-stakes face-off with his four-legged rival.

"Bucky the Red Deer is articulate, bright and clean," Sen. Biden said.  "That's storybook, man."

Elsewhere, former "American Idol" star Clay Aiken revealed that he was gay in an exclusive interview with Duh magazine.

ANDY BOROWITZ

[Wrinkle]

You think that's more obvious than the other stuff you make up?

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

You think that's more obvious than the other stuff you make up?

You sound like an old suit.....go get pressed!

[swake]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Parker is starting to sound kind of like an Andrew Sullivan "conservative"

Lots of conservatives are now questioning the selection of Palin:

From FoxNews:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/28/conservatives-begin-questioning-palins-heft/