Palin
August 29, 2008
Thanks for nothing, John McCain. I was all set to burnish my moderate credentials by writing a post praising your vice-presidential candidate. I was going to talk about how Mitt Romney is a smart, competent manager with an analytical mind; and about how he would make a good-for-a-Republican VP. (I’ve mentioned before how he was my favorite GOP candidate this year, and not just in a “let’s run against the Mormon” way.)
And I was ready to damn with faint praise Tim Pawlenty’s ability to bring an ordinary middle class perspective to the party of $500 Italian loafers, a $5 million per year middle class, and an inability to remember how many houses you own.
But, um, what? Seriously? A heartbeat from the presidency? The mind boggles; the best I can do is a joke about how Sarah Palin is young enough to be John McCain’s wife, or about how John McCain is older than the state of Alaska. But that’s petty and mean-spirited, so instead I’ll just point out that Barack Obama’s acceptance speech was really good, and yet more proof that he has the intellect, the judgment, the temperament and the integrity to be a great president.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
More sexism from BO supporters. BO had 3 years in the US senate , 2 of which he spent campaigning. In IL, BO represented the south side of Chicago. Take a drive through it. See how much he accomplished for those Chicago voters after he stole the seat from his female mentor. He has not accomplish one simple thing and you believe he can do what the Clintons had to go through hell to accomplish. Yeah he really has a great resume.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
So Ben does getting a sweetheart land deal with Tony Rezko smack of Integrity?
August 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Jason,
Google Keating 5…Then get back to trolling….
August 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I know all about Keating. Sen Obama isn’t as clean and pure as the wind driven snow.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
We shall see if Sarah is ready for the big time. It smacks of serious desperation on the McCain front. After all the blow about “experience” from the R-Team it is highly entertaining to see them trying not to look silly while they tout being PTA President, self-described “Hockey Mom”, the mayor of a town the size of Mt. Horeb and 18 months as governor of the most idiosyncratic state in the union as good qualifications to run the free world. Already I am hearing “Alaska is really close to Russia, so she has a lot of foreign policy experience”.
That said, I am glad that a Republican can invite a woman to be on his ticket. I don’t think it equates to anything like what Hillary has done by going out mano-a-womano and coming within a whisker of actually earning a spot on the ticket, though. Hardly anyone outside of Alaska (with the exception of a few of us hard-core political junkies) even knew who she was before noon today. Don Imus’ first impression was “She looks like a slutty librarian.” (I like librarians, slutty or not, so I didn’t take that as a pejorative). My first (and entirely superficial) impression was “Wow, she has a voice like a guinea hen and if that beehive was blue, Marge Simpson would wear it proudly”.
Why McCain, running as an anti-corruption Republican, would pick someone from the Alaska Republican party, who make Ohio Republicans look like choir boys, and herself under ethics investigation, is beyond me. It just seems like every other choice was so unpalatable to one or another piece of his far-flung base that he had to bring in a complete blank slate and this was the best he could come up with on short notice after Obama buried him in front of 85,000 live and 38 million on TV last night. I doubt if he even met the woman before he picked her. When she was asked about McCain’s Iraq position today, she had no clue. I hope she is a quick study, ’cause it will be brutal if she isn’t.
The titular reason to choose her, to pick up sore loser Hillsters, is ludicrous on its face. The concept that a no-exception-for-any-reason anti-abortion woman VP will swing hyper-feminist votes to McCain utterly defies reason. They may not be telling anyone, but you can bet that when they are in the booth and think what one more vote on the Supreme Court will do to abortion rights, they won’t vote Republican.