How to choose a Vice Presidential Candidate: McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah Palin while searching the Internet for possible female vice presidential candidates.

In public, Palin looked like the game changer McCain had wanted, but in private, the authors say she was struggling to learn too much too fast.

“Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, ‘This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.’ Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, ‘She knows nothing,’” Heilemann told Cooper. “A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn’t explain that.”

(via zoewithtwodots)

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Tags: politics palin 69 notes | | Jan 12, 2010
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    positively terrifying. Terrifying that these irresponsible people would put a person so unprepared for leadership so...
  3. trialsofarican reblogged this from inothernews and added:
    I never like to bring a person down… but there are always exceptions.
  4. bremo reblogged this from inothernews and added:
    and yet I’m not suprised…
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    First Sign of the Apocalypse.
  7. firthofforth reblogged this from kinochestvo and added:
    It’s jounalism by fratboys for fratboys. If I wanted to read a ZBT handbook, I’d go back to Hofstra.
  8. kinochestvo reblogged this from firthofforth and added:
    Yeah, the part where Elizabeth Edwards rips open her shirt and exposes herself in an airport struck me as a little...
  9. firthofforth reblogged this from kinochestvo and added:
    Yes that’s the same book. That excerpt ran in New York magazine…Heillman territory. Greenwald expresses my vile hatred...
  10. kinochestvo reblogged this from firthofforth and added:
    Fuck! I was totally absorbing all that shit about the John Edwards catastrophe yesterday (that’s from this same book, I...
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  12. firthofforth reblogged this from kinochestvo and added:
    The problem with it is that NONE of the book is sourced—the two of them said everything was on “deep background,” which...
  13. kinochestvo reblogged this from firthofforth and added:
    I knew nothing about this book before yesterday but it seems great- what’s deal? Although the king of political campaign...
  14. firthofforth reblogged this from ex-genius and added:
    Enough with the stupid excerpts from “Game Change.” It’s garbage political reporting by some of the worst at the craft....
  15. ex-genius reblogged this from shorterexcerpts and added:
    And now she’s going to work for fox news. That sounds about right.
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    The gift that keeps on giving…and giving…and giving.
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    I… kind of figured that’s how they found her! That makes worlds of sense (or at least more sense than “she seemed...