Palin, McCain Coming to Shake Things Up
By Saintless. Filed in 2008 election, John McCain, Republicans, Sarah Palin |
In Obama’s interview with Olbermann last night, he mentioned a cartoon that I found very amusing.
(h/t Bill in Portland, Maine)
I had a very good discussion with someone at work yesterday, who is very conservative. I’ve had a lot of really interesting conversations with him over the last year or so. A lot of them are very refreshing because, although his viewpoint differs greatly from my own on many key issues, we have never had any negativity in our conversations. Generally, I try to avoid politics at work, to keep things happy. Too many people get pissy when you disagree, and this election has the potential for some very heated conversations.
Anyway, this guy is conservative on both social and political issues. He’s expressed frustration over McCain’s candidacy, and repeatedly said he felt like he was going to have to hold his nose and vote. But, yesterday, he expressed how excited he is over Palin’s nomination. He felt good about her, because she’s not a Washington insider, though he’s sure that by the time she spends any time there, she’ll be no different than the rest. But, for now, she’s a breath of fresh air to him. He likes her conservative background, and she’s the only reason he’s going to be happy to cast his vote this November.
I can understand that. If Hillary had won the primary, I think I’d have only felt good about voting for her if she had chosen someone who was so outspokenly liberal as to pretty much be controversial for the VP candidate.
But, given that the GOP has tried so hard to make the national security issue one that they own, it seems odd to me that they’d put someone so extremely inexperienced so close to being Commander in Chief. McCain is OLD. Not old as in “I’m 31 and can’t ever imagine being 50″. Old as in ready to kick the bucket. Old as in suffering from CRS. Old as in 77 is the average life expectancy in the US. That doesn’t even take into account his melanoma or lasting effects of injuries that might affect him due to his POW experiences. The likelihood of Palin taking over as President should not be ignored.
Palin is not some squeaky clean hockey mom, as some would have Americans believe. She has some definite question marks hanging over her head. We know almost nothing about her.
- Except that she campaigned for governor on the issue of making the Bridge to Nowhere happen, then decided it shouldn’t (after it became a national issue), but didn’t give the money back, and used it for other things.
- The previous sentence can be shortened to “She’s a liar“.
- We know that she accused Obama of requesting $1 Billion in earmarks, even though he only requested $311 Million last year, which he made public, and hasn’t requested any this year.
- The previous sentence can be shortened to “She’s a liar“.
- We know that she claims to have fought against earmarks during her time in office, but she has made the largest per-capita pork requests of any state in the union, and hired a lobbyist to get earmarks for Wasilla (pop. 7,500) totalling $27 Million.
- The previous sentence can be shortened to “She’s a liar“.
- We know that she touts her time as Wasilla’s mayor as proof of executive experience, but she mismanaged building a sports stadium, and ran the town into the ground.
- The previous sentence can be shortened to “She’s a failure“.
- We know that Palin claims to be ready to lead the nation, but won’t be meeting with the media until they can promise to behave themselves and be deferential to her.
- The previous sentence can be shortened to “She’s not ready“.
- We know that she claims to put America first, but she was a member of the Alaska Secessionist Party, and even made them a video earlier this year.
- The previous sentence can be shortened to “Alaska First – Alaska Always“.
I really hope I’m done with talking about Palin at this point. There are so many positives about Obama and Biden, and the negatives of John Bush McCain really need to be repeated. Palin was selected to throw everyone off, and change the conversation being had. She was selected to overshadow the Bush-McCain connection. Can’t let that happen. No way, no how, no McCain.