Palin believes it was 'God's plan' for McCain to choose her, strategist says

[pepperbear]

Sarah Palin believed that Sen. John McCain chose her to be his running mate in the 2008 presidential race because of "God's plan," according to a top political strategist in the Arizona Republican's campaign.

In an interview with the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," Steve Schmidt described Palin as "very calm -- nonplussed" after McCain met with her at his Arizona ranch just before putting her on the Republican ticket. McCain had planned to name Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) as his choice until word leaked, sparking what Schmidt called political blowback over selecting the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Schmidt said he asked Palin about her serenity in the face of becoming "one of the most famous people in the world." He quoted her as saying, "It's God's plan." Palin has not ruled out a run for the presidency.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011002296.html?hpid=topnews


She is so America's little buttercup.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I would like to think that God's plan was

to build her up so that he could smash her down harder. That's my hope anyway.

[malaise]

5. +1

Gawd also planned for Gramps not to let her speak when he conceded and she was pissed. :rofl:

[jobycom]

2. God wanted to destroy the Republican Party, and found the perfect weapon. nt

[BOSSHOG]

3. I agree with Sarah

God picked her to be McCain's running mate because God wanted to make sure that the fucking GOP and their stinky ass hate and lies and ugliness would not occupy the White House for the next eight years (starting in January 2009.) There is nothing mysterious in the way God works Sarah. He hates you like I do.

[MadMaddie]

26. BOSSHOG I can always count on you for frankness.

You speak the truth my friend.

[Solomon]

51. Indeed. Bosshog

The man.

[lpbk2713]

47. I knew Failin was seriously fugged up.

Watching 60 Minutes tonight merely confirmed it for me.

[DontTreadOnMe]

4. It WAS God;s plan!

It was all part of God's plan to increase awareness of the incompetence of the McCain/Palin ticket.

Of course it was God's plan... to make them lose. God isn't stupid!


Sarah logic at it's best.

[aquart]

24. God knows.

[gratuitous]

6. Oh sure, blame somebody who won't fight back

I find it odd that Palin, Limbaugh and a host of other nitwits like to invoke God when it suits their purpose, but then I tune into the latte-sipping, Volvo-driving, Prairie Home Companion, and the audience knows all the words to popular hymns.

[scheming daemons]

7. Then she would ALSO have to believe it was God's plan for her to lose badly...

...

[caitxrawks]

8. makes me glad i'm not

a Christian. I don't have to get lumped in with women like her ;D

[undeterred]

9. It was God's plan for Katie Couric to ask Sarah Palin

hard questions like what McCain's record is.

[Scurrilous]

10. Thank you God!

:thumbsup:

[hamsterjill]

11. God's Plan

God's Plan can be anything in hindsight. Sarah Palin is labeling the past as "God's plan". Easy to do after it'a already happened. Any fool can do that. She's just a fool with a forum in the media.

[butterfly77]

12. If that is the case then..

it was in God's plan for Obama to be President...

[krispos42]

13. Well then, it seems that God is on our side!

:woohoo:

[MichiganVote]

14. Must have changed his mind after the Couric interview. Oh well...

[maseman]

15. So does she acknowledge it was God's will

for her daughter to get knocked up, to lose the whote house and for Obama to win? Ugg.

[nebenaube]

16. wow

Can you imagine the level of endorphins that go along with that level of self-delusion?

[Name removed]

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[crim son]

18. Self-important much?

God doesn't care what you drink in the a.m. because he's too busy rustlin' up a few grains of rice for the starving on the other side of the world.

[thereismore]

21. No, actually, the Bible portrays God as both omnipotent and omniscient, which means that

God has plenty of time to watch everything in the universe at the same time.

[crim son]

44. I don't use the Bible as a factual resource

because clearly it isn't. Since you do, the rest of your opinions are suspect.

[thereismore]

49. I was only saying that if you take the Bible literally, as loons do, that is the inescapable

conclusion, end of argument. Whatever happens, God must have planned it, or at the minimum, allowed it.

Next time don't be so quick with judgment. It's all good.

[crim son]

53. Oh, I know.

I'd been looking at that particular poster's recent contributions and it was obvious he was a troll, so I was harassing him. FWIW I was once a believing Christian and am very familiar with the whole thought process ALTHOUGH I don't believe my point was entirely false. If you can believe in a God who knows the number of the hairs on your head, who knows where else your logic might fail?

[katandmoon]

22. Sarah, is that you?

[Warren DeMontague]

23. It's difficult to comprehend because it's bullshit.

And if "God" saddled the world with terrible stuff like ebola, The Holocaust, and Sarah Palin on purpose, I'm not so sure "he" is so deserving of high praise.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

25. i dont know. maybe because its hard for me to believe that something that doesnt

exist, planned my whole existence

[HCE SuiGeneris]

30. Quite vehement against the residents of DU with your posts.

Beware falling granite in your quest for confrontation. I sense God's will may cut short your sojourn here.

[Hekate]

33. I'm a believer in Free Will, myself. Drink coffee or go herbal tea,it's your choice.Mother Teresa or

... Adolf Hitler -- you choose.

Or, inside your mythology, Adam and Eve had free will, unlike the animals. When God told them to leave "that tree" alone, they chose to disobey him.

Inside my mythology, I say they chose to become adults and learn the difference between good and evil. But either way, they had a choice.

Too much of "God's plan" and all you have is mechanistic predestination and no hope of change.

Welcome to DU and thanks for the opportunity to discuss theology.

Hekate

[Stevenmarc]

34. God the divine micro manager and wish granter

[racaulk]

35. lulz

:rofl:

[Hissyspit]

36. Um, it's not true?

Sarah Palin is employing a false concept to frame a reality that she demands to manipulate people. You seem to be assuming that she is a sincere believer. You have no particularly effective way of knowing that.

[Tuvok Obama]

46. Yes, everything is God's plan, including having McCain choose Sarah as his running mate...

so the entire educated world could see for themselves what a dimwit she is. God's kind of a prankster that way.

[Historic NY]

19. Then it was God's plan for her & him to fail to win...it was the best interest that OBAMA win.

[thereismore]

20. Everything that ever happened must have been God's plan, or else God isn't omnipotent. nt

[Ikonoklast]

27. God 's plan is to have Palin mocked unmercifully for being a money-grubbing media whore.

Seems like it's working.

[Jackpine Radical]

28. Wow. God is an idiot. I never knew.

[Monk06]

29. God's plan was to destroy Mc Cain's chances of becoming POTUS? My God !! It worked !!!!

[Kaleva]

38. McCain would have lost regardless of who he picked.

Palin was more popular with many in my district. Saw some Palin/McCain signs during the election.

[patrice]

31. It must be God's Plan then to reveal to us what an idiot loser Sarah Palin is.

[UTUSN]

32. K&R #6 just for her ignorance to be KNOWN more - KICK IT UP!1 n/t

[Odin2005]

37. Anyone who thinks things are part of "god's plan" should seek mental help.

[jmondine]

39. Then he woke up the next morning with a headache saying, "What did I do last night?"

[TheCowsCameHome]

40. God must hate McCain

[jmondine]

41. He also created the platypus and jock itch

[laconicsax]

42. Well, since God's just a sockpuppet, she's technically right.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/11/creating_god_in_ones_own_image.php

[kevinbgoode]

43. Like most con-artist con-servatives, Sarah believes that God

is the face she sees when she puts on more makeup in the mirror.

[wildflower]

45. From page 3: "she kept confusing Joe Biden's name with Obama's, calling him "O'Biden." "

Oh dear.

They flew her to McCain's ranch in Arizona. Schmidt said he took over the debate prep and simplified it. And Palin began doing well, except for one persistent problem: she kept confusing Joe Biden's name with Obama's, calling him "O'Biden."

"It was a verbal tic. And it was subconscious. But when you had gone through the Tina Fey parodies, you certainly cannot be in a position where you walk out onto the stage and refer to him repeatedly on national television as 'Senator O'Biden.' It would have just been devastating beyond words," Schmidt said.

[BlueMTexpat]

55. I must confess that I have had occasional "verbal tics" myself ...

generally calling someone by another person's name because that person possesses a characteristic or mannerism that triggers a false relationship. It bothers me and I am always terribly embarrassed and ashamed about it, especially if the name raises memories of hurtful experiences for person being addressed, rather than simply being an embarrassing slip of the tongue. But sometimes it just happens in spite of my best efforts. It has never happened in anywhere near such an important context nor do I put the two names together, however. Thank God! But since I know that I also have this tendency, I've thought about what might have caused the trigger for Sarah.
Schmidt said that it was the confusion of Obama's name with Biden's and perhaps that is what it was. But the names are really nothing alike and there doesn't seem to be an obvious characteristic or mannerism between the two, apart from being intelligent, attractive and personable men, Democrats, and politicians.
It might actually have been that Joe is an Irish Catholic, hence "O'Biden" ....
Ah well, enough time wasted on that! But I love that at least one "O'Biden" slipped out during the debate, in spite of the patently cutesy "Kin I call ya 'Joe'?" question.

[lpbk2713]

48. Two Sarahs

That is scary. When I heard that the phrase "heartbeat away from the Presidency" ran through my head and then I started thinking all kinds of "what ifs". I hope that 60 Minutes segment is on YouTube when and if she decides to run again.

[Blue Owl]

50. Funny to think about

whatever is going on in that empty head of hers as being "God's Plan"...

[Don Draper]

52. Yeah Sarah, it was God's plan for McCain to choose you......

So that Obama would get elected.

[joeybee12]

54. Of course it was God's plan..because God's a practical joker! n/t

[MilesColtrane]

56. She's George Bush with a vagina.

[KamaAina]

57. Indeed it was. God picked her because

She wanted to ensure an Obama/Biden landslide. :P