And now for something completely different

I was just having a conversation with my sister and I had to share it because it was ridiculous. We're talking about politics and about John McCain announcing his VP choice.

pontoon: so joe biden's speech has a catch phrase that sounds just like an infomercial to me
pontoon: people keep repeating it and it sounds like "set it and forget it"
Kristen : mccain looks like he's announcing sarah palin as vp
Kristen : which makes things interesting
pontoon: whhooa
pontoon: nice curveball john
Kristen : she's only 44, too
pontoon: nice work trying to get the woman vote
pontoon: this totally proves the point i made earlier
pontoon: that republicans love exploiting interesting members of their constiutency
pontoon: like colin powell, condoleeza rice
pontoon: etc
pontoon: now a female VP candidate
pontoon: they know how to play their cards
pontoon: how people don't just see it as slight of hand I don't know
Kristen : it strikes me as a little opportunistic, i know.
Kristen : they're pointing out now that being from the middle of nowhere (she's governor of alaska) she's also big on rural issues. it will be interesting.
pontoon: weird
pontoon: so they'll lock down the pesky alaskan vote
Kristen : like we were saying earlier, though, she's been govenor for 1.5 years. how does that prepare you to be vp??
pontoon: i can already see the "barack's folly" headlines
pontoon: it doesn't i didn't that barack was also in the IL senate for a full 6 year term
pontoon: and taught a constitutional law class at the unversity of chicago
pontoon: for like 4-5 years
Kristen : oh, yeah. but that would be like george kenney running for president
pontoon: or longer
pontoon: nah, it would be like hank salvatore
pontoon: george is just a rep
Kristen : true. hank's been around longer though
pontoon: ha, yeah, i know
Kristen : and has his own rootbeer line
pontoon: but i'd say that 6 years in a senate is better than 4 years as governor
pontoon: or 1.5 years
pontoon: ha, so the republicans had to pick someone young
pontoon: to offset mccain's age
pontoon: and they picked a woman to show how progressive they can be
Kristen: yeah, i don't know what she did before. all the info they have is that she's 44 and is the first woman and youngest person to be Alaska's govenor. i'm assuming she was in local government first
pontoon: probably
pontoon: it's hard to become governor if not
pontoon: this is such a ploy
pontoon: not to discredit her qualifications
pontoon: but come on
Kristen : ooh, she was runner up in the miss alaska pagent at some point in her life
pontoon: no offense to her, and I don't like saying it, but hilary is the only woman who could realistically be in the white house
pontoon: as president or VP
Kristen : i agree. condoleeza or maybe nancy pelosi could possibly do it
pontoon: because I'm not 100% sure she's not a dude, and that's why she's so good at what she does
pontoon: maybe them
pontoon: but they don't have the popularity of hilary
Kristen : hillary is kind of an anomaly
pontoon: and there's no way in hell, the republicans are going to capture any of hilary's supporters
pontoon: from barack
pontoon: those women are wayy to liberal to go near mccain even with a female running mate
Kristen : ooh, her husband is an eskimo
pontoon: ncie
pontoon: nice
pontoon: this is totally the old republican trick
Kristen : one of her sons has downs syndrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
pontoon: bring out a woman who is married to a minority (interracial couple), a woman, young
pontoon: and parade her around in front of everyone to prove that not all republicans are stodgy rich white people
Kristen : i disagree - andy's parents LOVED hillary (his mom being a lawyer and all) and they were really disappointed she lost. Obama is very liberal; if you have more moderate woman who feel this is an important issue, you might get them
Kristen : oh, another son is in the army
Kristen : she's like the perfect running mate
pontoon: ok, i think this woman is a robot
pontoon: and probably will win the election for mccain
pontoon: with that laundry list of things that have nothing to do with running a country
Kristen : he's supposed to be deployed to iraq in september. she's also a lifetime member of the NRA.
pontoon: holy crap
pontoon: totally a robot
pontoon: or she's a republican mad lib
Kristen : maybe she is a robot and they created this page yesterday
pontoon: they might have just put everything republican into a hat and picked out what her description would be
pontoon: she probably is a devout christian
pontoon: husband a minister
pontoon: converted half an eskimo village while working as a missionary
Kristen : she is. she was also a sports reporter on a local anchorage stations and was a commerical fisherman
Kristen : SHE IS RIDICULOUS
pontoon: also that down's syndrome son is her ticket to the pro life upgrade armor
pontoon: for her robotic body
pontoon: probably gave birth to him in a blizzard
pontoon: while driving herself to the shooting range
Kristen : yeah, the wikipedia page says as much. and no blizzard, but she did return to work 3 days later
pontoon: of course
pontoon: she's the T-1000
Kristen : just read the wikipedia page. she's like davy crocket
pontoon: must be
Kristen : that baby is only 4 months old!
pontoon: what, ok the dems need to play up her motherly duties
pontoon: not saying that she's unfit, but that she should be spending the next 4 years raising her kid
pontoon: holy crap she's 44 with a 4 month old
pontoon: is that the one with down's syndrome?
Kristen : yeah
pontoon: should someone maybe have told her that chance of birth defects increases with age
pontoon: so instead of raising her special needs son, she should be vice president
pontoon: makes perfect sense to me
Kristen : her eskimo husband can help
pontoon: i suppose
pontoon: but it takes a village
pontoon: they probably have one of those though too


Apparently I'm not the only one who sees the robotic connection. See the first item here.