So Why Did Moose Mess get on the VP Short List?

Sometimes, I wonder how in the lakes of Hell did Moose Mess become a VP nominee? I'm sure many of you thought the same.

Well today, I found this piece from Politico and I'm not surprised, but surprised at the same time. See here

Aides to John McCain initially added Sarah Palin to his "short list" of potential running mates because McCain wanted a woman on the list, according to his campaign manager.

McCain entered the vice presidential selection process with a list of five possibilities: Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Michael Bloomberg, Charlie Crist, and Joe Lieberman, according to Washingtonian's profile (which isn't online) of Washington lawyer A.B. Culvahouse, who led the search.

"As the clock was running out, [campaign manager Rick] Davis say McCain asked to have at least one woman on the short list. His advisers went back to the long list and plucked out Palin's name," the magazine reported.

The questions of how thoroughly Palin was vetted, and why she was chosen, have been sore spots that helped divide McCain's campaign in its aftermath between its leadership, who saw her as an out-of-control, destructive force, and another group of staffers who saw her as a more promising figure than McCain himself.

Lord, so instead of getting the Debutante, they picked the Beauty School Drop Out. Oh well. 

Now John McCain WILL support the DADT Repeal

After throwing the biggest fit of his career over DADT, McCain claims he will support it.
The Hill reports:

McCain signaled that he had made peace with the lame-duck bill to do away with the military's ban on openly gay and lesbian service members, of which he had been an outspoken critic.

"I think I have to do everything I can to make sure that the [impact on the] morale, retention, recruitment and battle effectiveness of the military is minimized as much as possible," McCain said on Fox Business. "It is a law and I have to do whatever I can to help the men and women who are serving, particularly in combat, cope with this new situation. I will do everything I can to make it work."

Something must have clicked somewhere in his head. Either, Cindy threaten to leave his ass or he realized what a major asshole he was about it... Something happened.

WATCH John McCain on DADT Repeal: ‘Today is a Very Sad Day’

WATCH John McCain show out during the DADT Repeal Debate

WWMCD? What Will McCain Do?

The DADT vote is tomorrow. So with everything moving towards the repeal, where will McCain stand?

John McCain: The Bigot Remix

WATCH John McCain act like a Broke Ass Brat at the DADT Hearings

He is a snap MESS!

Chris Matthews puts LCR's R. Clark Cooper and John McCain on Blast

On Hardball, Chris calls out Republicans and bat brained John McCain about their stance on DADT.

Please Watch

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Dan Savage puts it out there: John McCain is a Bigot

Lord, John McCain thinks DADT is Working

Please watch this fool
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READ John McCain's Letter, urging Robert Gates to Modify the DADT Study

In September, John McCain sent Robert Gates a letter, trying change the format of the DADT study
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Well Gates responded saying:

I instructed the working group to obtain the input of Servicemembers so that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I, as well as the Service Chiefs, can more fully understand how a change in the DADT policy may impact unit cohesion, military readiness and effectiveness, recruiting and retention and family readiness. [...] 

The Chairman and I fully support the approach and the efforts of the working group, as do the Service Chiefs. We are confident that the working group’s report will provide us with the information we need to appropriately advise the President, and, if requested to do so, to provide our fully informed views to Congress as it considers legislative action.

Good for Gates for holding it down, but John still wasn't hearing it. However, I find this very interesting how far McCain is willing to go on this. He was against DADT before, what made him change?

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