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Old 08-31-2008
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Of course she's nominated because she's a woman;
While no fan of McCain, I think that does both him and, more importantly, Palin a disservice. While I strongly suspect her being a woman helped in her being picked by McCain, I suspect it was her being an accomplished woman, and one in McCain's mold, that did it.

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sounds like just the type of woman who should be nominated.
Don't know much about her, yet, but she does look impressive at first blush.

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The left always screams when their actual advocated policies of affirmative promotion are used by the other side. They scream all the louder when the other side actually advances a person of substance versus the clowns typified by the likes of Pelosi, Boxer, Waters, and Hillary.
ICBW, but ISTM it's more often the right/GOP that advances women and minorities, whereas the left/Dems seem to patronize the "disadvantaged."

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Last edited by SEMIJim; 08-31-2008 at 10:36 AM.
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