Anecdotal evidence is a kind of evidence.

Of course, it's the McCain campaign server, so that probably has nothing to do with traffic.

NRO, FTW!

LOL!

JK!

Karl Rove from "Face The Nation" a few weeks ago:

I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president.

With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years

I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.

So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'

And...Palin? hahahahaha!

because HOORAY for more creationist nutjobs in washington. that's exactly what we need.

Was the site set up to accept pennies, navel lint, and coupons for Shake n Bake as donations ? That could cause errors.

newmoonpuppyhead: "...I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president..."

I had always assumed that that was how all presidential candidates chose their running mates.

I can't wait to see the fundraising numbers at the end of the month. I'm sure we'll see a giant jump that will rival the money Obama has raised in the same amount of time.

bulldg4life: I can't wait to see the fundraising numbers at the end of the month. I'm sure we'll see a giant jump that will rival the money Obama has raised in the same amount of time.

You know she won't blow you for donating right?

Apparently her daughter might though.

bulldg4life: I can't wait to see the fundraising numbers at the end of the month. I'm sure we'll see a giant jump that will rival the money Obama has raised in the same amount of time.

You willing to put some money on the line?

I tried to buy some McCain/Palin stickers earlier, the server timed out twice and I got errors two other times.

I have used it before to donate, so I do have some experience with the site and can offer my opinion that it is indeed experiencing quite heavy usage.

I just gave $250 to Obama today. I've donated to him before, but always in much smaller amounts, lol. I just got my mileage check from work today and looked at it, thought about how I felt after listening to him last night, and said, "Yep."

I agree it will be interesting to see the numbers, but I really think that the bump McCain will see in donations won't be as high as we might think. Yes, it is a very exciting announcement and many, many people will seriously think about supporting McCain because of it; however, what I don't see happening is a PUMA looking at her mileage check and deciding she's going to give it to McCain. He just doesn't seem to draw/inspire/promote that type of giving.

Of course, I'm an Obama supporter, so my opinions are probably completely wrong:)

feckingmorons: I tried to buy some McCain/Palin stickers earlier, the server timed out twice and I got errors two other times.

I have used it before to donate, so I do have some experience with the site and can offer my opinion that it is indeed experiencing quite heavy usage.

Ah, well, see...I was completely wrong. Oh well, lol.
/and also, re-reading my post, I realized it sounded like only PUMAs would be happy about the VP choice, when obviously, that is not true.
//I'm gonna go ahead and stop typing now. I have a meeting with the Bobs in a few minutes anyway...

Gotta love the Right. Spend months on end shouting down Obama's supposed lack of experience, but flock to donate when a woman who has less than two years of legitimate political experience (and being mayor of a town of 5,000 doesn't count) gets the nod.

Truly, their hypocrisy knows about as many boundaries as their self-serving agenda of corruption.

That's because McCain's website is run on a TI-99/4A.

MaxxLarge: Gotta love the Right. Spend months on end shouting down Obama's supposed lack of experience, but flock to donate when a woman who has less than two years of legitimate political experience (and being mayor of a town of 5,000 doesn't count) gets the nod.

Truly, their hypocrisy knows about as many boundaries as their self-serving agenda of corruption.

Palin is running for vice-president, a traditional OJT position.
Obama is running for president and has no executive experience - he never ran a company, he never was a mayor, he never was a governor.

I hope I have cleared that up for you.

MaxxLarge: Gotta love the Right. Spend months on end shouting down Obama's supposed lack of experience, but flock to donate when a woman who has less than two years of legitimate political experience (and being mayor of a town of 5,000 doesn't count) gets the nod.

Truly, their hypocrisy knows about as many boundaries as their self-serving agenda of corruption.

Good point. She'll have 8 years to learn to be President though, unlike Obama who'll show up like a kid to kindagarten.

-P

ThrowsLikeAGirl: MaxxLarge: Gotta love the Right. Spend months on end shouting down Obama's supposed lack of experience, but flock to donate when a woman who has less than two years of legitimate political experience (and being mayor of a town of 5,000 doesn't count) gets the nod.

Truly, their hypocrisy knows about as many boundaries as their self-serving agenda of corruption.

Good point. She'll have 8 years to learn to be President though, unlike Obama who'll show up like a kid to kindagarten.

-P

I like that one, I am using it.

Big deal. So a bunch of Republican men will donate $50 this month to McCain, rather than donating it to the swishy fellow in the public restroom of the local airport.

The fact that their servers suck isn't proof of anything.

SilentStrider: The fact that their servers suck isn't proof of anything.

The revelation that they even have servers is newsworthy in its own right.

feckingmorons: Palin is running for vice-president, a traditional OJT position.

Sure. But McCain is 71 and has had cancer four times. Suffice it to say that him picking her (given the very real possibility that he may not live through a full term) is shockingly irresponsible. We HAVE a Vice-President in order to have a backup for the ACTUAL president. so, it's sort of important that that person be up to the task of performing the duties of the job should the need arise.

Hope I've cleared THAT up for YOU.

feckingmorons: Obama is running for president and has no executive experience - he never ran a company, he never was a mayor, he never was a governor.

Maybe not. Guess he was too busy graduating from Harvard Law School, practicing as a civil attorney and teaching constitutional law for 12 years, and then spending eight years in the Illinois Legislature before spending 4 years in the US Senate. What was Palin doing during the same formative years of HER career? She was mayor of a town of 5,000 people after getting a Journalism degree at the University of Idaho. Then she came in second in a race for lieutenant governor. Before which she came in second in a beauty pageant.

Wow. THAT inspires confidence. Hope she likes coming in second, because it's about to happen again.

Still, it's fun to watch all of you righty jagoffs who have spent months heaping no end of derision on Obama for his lack of background try to spin less than two years as governor (and a few more as mayor of a town with 40,000 fewer people in it than attended Obama's acceptance speech) into relevant enough experience to potentially be president.

Thanks for playing, though.

kmmontandon: Of course, it's the McCain campaign server, so that probably has nothing to do with traffic.

He never should have hired Joe Lieberman as his webmaster.

MaxxLarge:

...Thanks for playing, though.

We'll make sure you get your consolation prize on the way out.

-P

Republican says Republicans like Republican.

Film at 11.

MaxxLarge: feckingmorons: Palin is running for vice-president, a traditional OJT position.

Sure. But McCain is 71 and has had cancer four times. Suffice it to say that him picking her (given the very real possibility that he may not live through a full term) is shockingly irresponsible. We HAVE a Vice-President in order to have a backup for the ACTUAL president. so, it's sort of important that that person be up to the task of performing the duties of the job should the need arise.

Hope I've cleared THAT up for YOU.

feckingmorons: Obama is running for president and has no executive experience - he never ran a company, he never was a mayor, he never was a governor.

Maybe not. Guess he was too busy graduating from Harvard Law School, practicing as a civil attorney and teaching constitutional law for 12 years, and then spending eight years in the Illinois Legislature before spending 4 years in the US Senate. What was Palin doing during the same formative years of HER career? She was mayor of a town of 5,000 people after getting a Journalism degree at the University of Idaho. Then she came in second in a race for lieutenant governor. Before which she came in second in a beauty pageant.

Wow. THAT inspires confidence. Hope she likes coming in second, because it's about to happen again.

Still, it's fun to watch all of you righty jagoffs who have spent months heaping no end of derision on Obama for his lack of background try to spin less than two years as governor (and a few more as mayor of a town with 40,000 fewer people in it than attended Obama's acceptance speech) into relevant enough experience to potentially be president.

Thanks for playing, though.

Game, set, match.

Nabb1: The revelation that they even have servers is newsworthy in its own right.

You have to submit your donation on a punch card to the sysop.

Have we considered that this is NRO, and it's wholly possible they're making shiat up in a furious attempt to make themselves feel better about having to support the mayor from "Northern Exposure" being a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency?

feckingmorons: Palin is running for vice-president, a traditional OJT position.
Obama is running for president and has no executive experience - he never ran a company, he never was a mayor, he never was a governor.

I hope I have cleared that up for you.

McCain is 72 years old and has had cancer multiple times. This makes the VP position much more than just window dressing to anyone who has any real concern for the country.

Palin does one thing right: she brings out all the Fark Independents™ from the woodwork.

/off to donate money to Obama

Pardon my ignorance, but don't Repub supporters have until the convention ends in order to donate? After that, what becomes of the money? My understanding is that McCain must spend all the money by convention's end and then take only public money. So, aren't these people donating to a campaign that has just a week's window in which to spend it?

newmoonpuppyhead: Karl Rove from "Face The Nation" a few weeks ago:

I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president.

With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years

I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.

So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'

And...Palin? hahahahaha!

Karl Rove may be a complete waste of human space, the guy knows his shiat and knows how to manipulate situations to his sides advantage. I can't imagine what he's thinking right now, and how he'd spin this to the GOP's advantage

ThrowsLikeAGirl: Good point. She'll have 8 years to learn to be President though, unlike Obama who'll show up like a kid to kindagarten.

Oh? Do you think the next president will pick up her contract after McCain's 4 years are up?

themindiswatching: /off to donate money to Obama

Between his speech last night and this good news, I'm giving him a Benjamin.

I think it's time to add another photo on this collage.

VPILF.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-repvsdemwomen.htm

MaxxLarge: feckingmorons: Palin is running for vice-president, a traditional OJT position.

Sure. But McCain is 71 and has had cancer four times. Suffice it to say that him picking her (given the very real possibility that he may not live through a full term) is shockingly irresponsible. We HAVE a Vice-President in order to have a backup for the ACTUAL president. so, it's sort of important that that person be up to the task of performing the duties of the job should the need arise.

Hope I've cleared THAT up for YOU.

feckingmorons: Obama is running for president and has no executive experience - he never ran a company, he never was a mayor, he never was a governor.

Maybe not. Guess he was too busy graduating from Harvard Law School, practicing as a civil attorney and teaching constitutional law for 12 years, and then spending eight years in the Illinois Legislature before spending 4 years in the US Senate. What was Palin doing during the same formative years of HER career? She was mayor of a town of 5,000 people after getting a Journalism degree at the University of Idaho. Then she came in second in a race for lieutenant governor. Before which she came in second in a beauty pageant.

Wow. THAT inspires confidence. Hope she likes coming in second, because it's about to happen again.

Still, it's fun to watch all of you righty jagoffs who have spent months heaping no end of derision on Obama for his lack of background try to spin less than two years as governor (and a few more as mayor of a town with 40,000 fewer people in it than attended Obama's acceptance speech) into relevant enough experience to potentially be president.

Thanks for playing, though.

You forgot to mention she managed to rack up a $20,000,000 debt in that town of 5,000 people. Ran it right into the farking ground.

Big Red Al: I can't imagine what he's thinking right now, and how he'd spin this to the GOP's advantage

I'm sure we'll find out.

So some goofballs on the far right fringe are salivating at the thought of taking science out of the classroom, putting guns in instead and turning American women into Baby Receptacles, I think in a few months we'll see that America has had enough of this absurdity.

Congrats, Mark! You're in the hall of fame!

A little boy with an extra chromosome was born on April 18. His name is Trig Paxson Van Palin and his new home is the Alaska Governor's Mansion in Juneau. His mom is Governor Sarah Palin, who along with her husband Todd, has welcomed Trig as their second son and fifth child.

I don't know about the rest of you, but after 8 years of Bushiathink we shouldn't have anymore retards in the White House.

I_Love_Cheesecake: take only public money. So, aren't these people donating to a campaign that has just a week's window in which to spend it?

I didn't even know that's how it worked. That would make sense why McCain has been outspending Obama when Obama has far more money.

This is what happens when you don't thoroughly vet your running-mate choice:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121746477267499109.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/E70306D07A21D36 7862574B40051ADFE?OpenDocument

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CVN_MCCAIN_VEEPSTAKES?SITE=CAANR&SECTION= HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

At least by ending up on a national ticket she might be able to avoid impeachment in Alaska.

Latest bit: McCain only met Palin ONCE, about six months ago.

This choice is looking more and more like grendpeppy's fatal misstep.

Traffic to Mccains website will have a long ways to go to ever catch up with Obama's. ^

IXI Jim IXI: ThrowsLikeAGirl: Good point. She'll have 8 years to learn to be President though, unlike Obama who'll show up like a kid to kindagarten.

Oh? Do you think the next president will pick up her contract after McCain's 4 years are up?

Traditionally, the incumbent usually goes for another 4 years. It's OK... You'll love her when she's running for President in 2016.

-P

ThrowsLikeAGirl: Traditionally, the incumbent usually goes for another 4 years. It's OK... You'll love her when she's running for President in 2016.

Traditionally, when the president dies of old age, they let him retire.

Sarah Palin Intro (new window)

Hope this helps make up your minds.