Biden Gets Palin to Come Out for Civil Rights for Gay Couples

Last night during the Vice-Presidential debate, Joe Biden got Sarah Palin to say that he is for full civil rights for gays, although both of them came out against gay marriage. Biden actually did it by using the fact that Palin relies on canned lines against her. Here is a clip of that part of the debate:

Biden Makes Great Point About McCain Being the Same in VP Debate

Will Palin Have Daughter Wed Before Election?

It is not fun being Bristol Palin and having your Mom be Sarah Palin. First, Sarah Palin decided to announce to the whole world that her daughter was pregnant and that the father was her boyfriend Levi Johnston. This allowed the whole world to comment on Bristol and pre-marital sex. Now, according to the London Times, the Palin-McCain, opps, we meant, McCain-Palin, campaign is hoping that the young couple will wed before the November 4th election.

This is the headline of the Times article: McCain camp prays for Palin wedding. This is the sub-headline: The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate’s pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign. Apparently, discussing her daughter's private and sexual life with the public and the media isn't enough. Now Sarah Palin wants to turn her daughter's wedding into a campaign event.

Other than to help the struggling GOP campaign, why in the world would she do that? It is hard enough getting married when you are pregnant, let alone having to do it in front of the entire world. No matter how much her mother is ticked off at her for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Bristol Palin doesn't deserve this.

Conservatives Start Calling on Palin to Get Off GOP Ticket

When McCain selected Palin as his vice-presidential nominee, my reaction was that it was a good August choice, but a bad October choice. That thought wasn't original with me. It was from a column by David Broder who wrote back in 2000 that a Democratic operative had told him that about Gore selecting Lieberman instead of Edwards. Well, Palin isn't even making it to October. Here it is September, and conservative pundits are asking her to get off the ticket.

One of the latest is Fareed Zakira of Newsweek magazine. He has an article up on the Newsweek website headlined "Palin Is Ready? Please." This is from the article:

Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics, "to spend more time with her family"? Having stayed in purdah for weeks, she finally agreed to a third interview. CBS's Katie Couric questioned her in her trademark sympathetic style. It didn't help

Another conservative, Kathleen Parker who writes for the National Review, wrote a column headlined "Palin Problem". This is from that article:

As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion.

Now, of course, McCain can't ask Palin to get off the ticket because the wingnut base of his Party adores her. Further, not only do they adore her, but they are not too crazy about him. Their recent enthusiam for the GOP ticket is because of Sarah, not Johnny. Her leaving the ticket would really tick them off and lead to them not coming out in November. Not only would this doom McCain, it would hurt every down-ballot Republican.

So, what was being lauded as a brillant choice less than a month ago is now being seen as a diaster by McCain's allies. Meanwhile, the choice of Joe Biden looks better and better.

Gallup Tracking Poll Analysis: White Woman Aren't Flocking to McCain

The Gallup polling organization released an analysis of their daily tracking poll which shows that, contrary to what the media is reporting, white women aren't flocking to the McCain-Palin ticket, at least not in the numbers the media is reporting.

What is interesting is that while Obama's support among white voters is close to what it was before he picked Biden, McCain's support has gone up. This apparently means that McCain is picking up support from white voters who were previously undecided, or at least that's what I think it means. You can draw your own conclusions from the table below: