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Noah H
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Noah H asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 1 decade ago

Why did McCain Pick Palin over more qualified candidates?

This year we had a plethora of super candidates like Rudy Giulliani, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney. These men are all better than McCain. Why did he not choose one of these honorable and experienced gentlemen to be his running mate?

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  • Sport
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Gulliani, Huckabee, Thompson and Romeny are extremely capable men who want to distance themselves from this 2008 train wreck so that can run in 2012.

    They don’t want their political careers poisoned by association with the McCain debacle.

    Palin is just a throw-away.

    We should consider putting the Republican campaign dollars into funding Republican Senators and Congressmen.

    We should just write off this Presidential Mistake in 08

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    nicely curiously you're asking a biased question. you of course are not an excellent fan of mccain. palin grow to be an astounding selection. she has the skill to fulfill interior the midsection in all themes. as an occasion, she needs to maintain the union of marriage as being between one guy and one lady basically, she knows that the gay community ought to share a similar kin advantages. additionally, she grow to be not born into wealth or come from a privileged kin. she labored her way up and is very respected in alaska. of path, there would have been some political motives for mccain figuring out on her yet obama did a similar factor with biden. palin will allure to the hillary supporters and, additionally, all of us understand how undesirable mccain needs to drill. because alaska is so wealthy with skill substances, choosing palin as vice president will enable him to have a more desirable foothold with drilling in alaska. customary, she is an staggering %. for mccain. pass REPUBLICANS!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    I am sure his most ardent supporters, Huckabee, Romney and Lieberaman are wondering the same thing.

    Especially, Romney who has been the biggest talking head on Fox News for McCain. He was talking like he was already the VP.

    Karl Rove apparently suggested Palin to the McCain camp. The guy got Bush elected twice, so we will see if his magic is gone.

  • 1 decade ago

    It is not just about getting the Hillary voters. It is also regarding those undecided women voters.

    A strategic political maneuver for sure. If Obama would have picked Hillary, McCain would have picked a man.

    Elizabeth L. Strauch, MBA

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because he is trying to win the election.

    No good picking a more qualified VP if they couldn't beat Obama.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Joe Lieberman explained to pundits that he felt McCain wanted someone outside traditional Washington politics and someone who had a record of accomplishments and was a maverick.

  • Ktcyan
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Because Republicons believe that women are so shallow they will vote for a woman without any other reason other than gender and they want Hillary's followers to choose McCain...Not sound reasoning and really puts down women in my opinion.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because McCain want to go down in history as the first LUST BUCKET TICKET, lol...Were he secretly has fondle sessions with his hot VP pick in the privacy of the oval office.."I can get you some money were both married, I just need you to do what Monica did to Bill"...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This was the PERFECT pick for McCain! Although McCain is very strong in defense and leadership he lacks a strong business/economics background which is what Palin brings to the table! It was also a brilliant choice because McCain will get a lot of woman voters who were going to vote for Clinton. The worst thing that could happen to this country right now is for nOBAMA to get into office. He has almost NO experience and is pretty much just a professional bullshitter. Don't be fooled by all the LIBERAL BS and the crap they write. I mean come on how low is it to take a stab at McCain by saying he has 7 houses and he can't relate to the average person. Well, the liberal asses who wrote that should check how much nOBAMA made last year. He could have bought 7 houses with that as well so how the hell could he relate to people? Not to mention the fact that McCain's wife was the one who purchased those houses! I quit reading stories on www.msn.com and www.yahoo.com because they are very liberal sites and they fill it with useless facts and crap all the time.

    Source(s): RON PAUL 4 PRESIDENT!!! <Restore the Constitution>
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because her husband is in the oil industry and drills in Alaska, which will allow Republicans to keep raising oil prices. Oil companies are salivating over Alaska like the big fat pigs that they are to drill the heck out of it til there's no natural beauty left, since they're not satisfied with the billions of dollars they're already taking from us as it is.

    They want more and more and so far Palin's been giving them all the green light like a hoe, spreading open all that glory for them to drill into cuz that's all she's good at in both her personal and professional life.

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