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Looks like they’re having a grand old time, too!

Unfortunately, there’s no audio, which would undoubtedly make a funny clip even funnier.

Credit: witz.org.

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Did you know Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has a health care plan that will reduce the number of Americans without health insurance coverage to zero at no cost to American taxpayers? He does, and it’s been clearly explained by John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, who also played a key role in crafting Sen. McCain’s health care policy. Here’s Goodman’s plan, as explained to the Dallas News (emphasis mine):

“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.

“So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.“

Yeah, that’s a heck of a plan alright…let’s just hope Sen. McCain doesn’t get a chance to put it into action.

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I know I’ve mentioned the fact that it seemed curious the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin despite only having met her once over six months ago, and the more I’ve had time to think about this choice, I’m left wondering: who really picked Sarah Palin?

Was it really Sen. McCain, or was it someone involved in his campaign or the RNC?

And I’m not the only one wondering:

Unlike every other major party VP nominee in recent memory, Palin did not meet McCain for a final interview before her selection. A few weeks ago, she wasn’t in the running at all. The scandals and unorthodoxies involving Palin — she flip-flopped on the Bridge to Nowhere and even raised sales taxes on her small town to pay for an overpriced boondoggle — show that the McCain campaign didn’t vet her. The McCains and Palins looked visibly awkward together, not even speaking as they went their separate ways on a brief shopping trip in Ohio yesterday. McCain is on record as saying he wanted a running mate with whom he had a strong personal relationship — and who was ready to be president.

What’s more, there are questions about how thoroughly the McCain campaign really vetted Gov. Palin. After all, the McCain campaign has gone to great lengths to present the selection of Gov. Palin as one made after a careful, meticulous vetting process, yet it’s now come out that as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin’s hometown newspaper. According to a Democrat tasked with opposition research, when he went to research past articles in Palin’s hometown newspaper, he was told he was the first person to inquire about the archives, which are not available online.

All of this begs the question - if McCain’s pick was hasty and poorly-thought out, then who suggested the idea of picking Palin to begin with? Who’s pulling the strings here? Who is it that McCain has entrusted to make his decisions for him? What’s more, if Sen. McCain himself made the decision, what does it say about his decision-making that he picked someone as his running mate that he’d only met once before?

I’d love to know the answers to those questions.

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Obviously I’m not a fan of conservative radio talker Michael Savage, but I found it interesting to hear what he had to say about Sen. John McCain’s decision to choose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate (emphasis Savage’s):

McCain has thrown the election. It is clear now with his choice for Vice President that he has no desire to win in November. Why else would he chose an inexperienced woman, whose only apparent qualification is that she won a beauty pageant in the 1980s? Why else would he refuse to say Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name? Why else would he run an ad praising Obama and congratulating him for winning the nomination?

If McCain had chosen Mitt Romney, a man with real leadership ability, real charisma, and real experience, he might have stood a chance. He could have made up for his lack of energy in confronting his opponent, his useless pandering to liberals, and his refusal to expose Obama’s leftism and inexperience. Instead he trumped inexperience with more inexperience. Obama, for all his far-left socialism, picked a running mate who is perceived as giving the ticket more experience. McCain, in defiance of all logic, undermined his strong suit by selecting a political neophyte who waters down his key advantage over Obama.

Of course, I can hear the calls already. Mike, you should give her a chance, she’s a real conservative. Mike, he’s just doing this because he knows he has to pander to win. Mike, isn’t it great that he picked a woman. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Picking someone because of their sex instead of their ability is the same kind of affirmative action insanity that the Democrats have shoved down our throats. We don’t want a panderer, we want a president. If he had chosen a woman who was a real nationalist with a real resume, I would have said, “Right on, John.” But McCain has dropped the ball, thrown in the towel, and raised the white flag. And a generation of Americans will pay for his mistake.

Now I’m loathe to say I agree with Michael Savage, but I do agree with one point he made: picking a running mate simply because of their sex is pandering, plain and simple.

H/T to James Rowen at The Political Environment.

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Now obviously I’m not privy to what Republican Sen. John McCain was thinking when he chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, but as I’ve spent the day thinking about this choice, it strikes me as more than a little curious. Putting aside Palin’s thin resume - which makes Democratic nominee Barack Obama look supremely experienced by contrast - there’s the issue of a pending investigation into her role in an attempt to get an Alaska State Trooper fired from his job because he’s Palin’s sister’s ex husband. Throw in Palin’s ties to the Alaska oil industry, and you’ve got one heck of a VP candidate!

Oh hey, and did I mention McCain has only met Palin once? That’s sure to inspire confidence and ensure chemistry for the Republican ticket!

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