Thank God!

He made the extreme right happy, and that's all McCain wanted, to get their votes. Maybe he didn't expect that the same people who supported him years ago would go sour on him because of that.

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"Supporters of the theory of intelligent design are often the ones who appear to have been most shortchanged in that department."

Yep. He appealed to the base only when he picked her.

He sold out, all he wanted was to become President. Even if he had to let go of his old "Maverick" ways.

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"Supporters of the theory of intelligent design are often the ones who appear to have been most shortchanged in that department."

Yeah, he used to be one of my favorite Republicans! He did sell out.

You know what's sooo funny about all of this. The extreme right has two choices (ok 3 really) (1) Vote for McCain, (2) Vote for Obama, (3) Don't vote at all.

I think the extreme right would have voted for McCain no matter what he did or who was besides him. I just don't see them ever voting for Obama so McCain -- I think shot himself in the foot. The old McCain would have pulled in the moderate repubs and as a default the extreme righties. But now, the mods are questioning his every move and even voting for his opponent. Indirectly - McCain's extreme right change is helping Obama.

What I find very interesting is how all the underground and unspoken racism is coming out now that Obama is ahead on the polls. And I believe that we needed it because we need to realistically assess this issue in order to be able to solve it.

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"Supporters of the theory of intelligent design are often the ones who appear to have been most shortchanged in that department."

[And I believe that we needed it because we need to realistically assess this issue in order to be able to solve it.]

Fair and interesting point. Yeah -- a lot of it was underground -- way ore than I had first thought.

*more

I have actually been following this subject for a while now, and I knew how deep rooted racism still is. Scratch the surface a little and there it is.

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"Supporters of the theory of intelligent design are often the ones who appear to have been most shortchanged in that department."

My mom reads the Wall St. Journal religiously & she told me that some of the hard-core right wing editorials have been calling her things like "dope" & "moron"

WTF??? Really -- now that's interesting. You think they would just blindly go with the flow.

I really think that choosing her cost McCain the election.

I won't go that far -- but I think it could sexy!

I think that it will be a pretty big factor along with many others.

I'm glad his stupid stunt isn't working out.

You know -- I think there are some people that really like the pick, some people blindly following along, and some people who openly disagree but McCain is their man -- for those people , the pick is fine for them.

I love the way even conservative commentators have started dumping on her.

True -- since she was picked people have been speaking out -- some on a hot mic