Anyone who knows me knows that I'm quite a few pegs left of politically moderate. Yet, when Senator McCain chose a female VP, I admit that I wanted to like her. Knowing literally nothing about Governor Palin until the big announcement was made, I'd hoped we would have a few issues in common (like I do with McCain) and that, even if I didn't agree with all of her views, I could still respect her.
I held on to that hope for as long as I could. When America found out her 17-year-old was pregnant, I dismissed it. Lots of good girls with good parents end up pregnant because of one poor choice. That news came out the night of the RNC. The next day, my hopes started to die.
When Alaskans expressed their anger at Governor Palin for saying she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere even though she supported it during her campaign as governor and despite the fact that she accepted millions of dollars in Federal support to build it and did NOT return the money when she cancelled the project, I started to get a better glimpse at this woman. A woman who toys with the idea of banning books, who tests her employees' "loyalty" by making unAmerican requests, who "hunts" wolves and bears from a HELICOPTER, who believes human-caused global warming is not real, who believes humans and dinosaurs walked this earth together a mere 6,000 years ago, who's never been outside of North America and who can't talk intelligently about the Bush Doctrine or the proposed $700 billion bailout in a free-form interview.
See, I respect Senator McCain. He's earned the right to run for President. He's been in politics for 30 years and has done some decent work. Sure, he's done some not-so-good-work as far as I'm concerned, but I can understand why he's the Republican candidate for President of these United States.
But Sarah? She's beyond inexperienced. At best, she's naive. At worst, she's dumb. And either way, having her one heartbeat away from being President of our country is dangerous.
If I were Republican, I'd be thinking two thoughts right now:
1. What the fu*k was McCain and his advisers thinking?!
2. I guess I'm voting Democratic, Independent, Libertarian or not at all because there is no way in hell I'm voting for Sarah.
From the left, I suppose Sarah's appearance on the national political stage was a good thing. Perhaps enough moderate-Republicans will be disgusted enough with her to vote non-Republican and ultimately put a leader, rather than a maverick, in office. But, still, I can't help but feel profoundly sad over who Sarah turned out to be. Will her ignorance, her beauty pageant history, her hockey-mom personality undo all of Senator Clinton's hard work in the Democratic primary? Will too many Americans see Sarah not as an incompetent politician who happens to be female but as an incompetent female? These are the questions that make me nauseous as we head into the one and only VP Debate Thursday.
If I were McCain, I'd be giving some serious thought to this Deep Thoughts quotation right about now: If you ever drop your keys [this campaign] into a river of molten lava [Sarah Palin], let'em go, because, man, they're gone.
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One things for sure. You won't be voting libetarian. Cause SARAH PALIN IS A LIBERTARIAN!
You know what's funny. Chuck Baldwin is the Presidential candidate of the Constitution Party. He's on 40 state ballots. The guy has never even been elected dog catcher. His claim to fame? He wrote a couple books a few years ago.
Compare that with Palin's:
4 years City Councilwoman
4 years Mayor
4 years Chair of State Petrochmical Board
2 years Governor of the Nation's largest State
Yet, everybody slimes Palin, and ignores Chuck Baldwin.
Go figure?
The reason no one is talking about Baldwin is because the man has no chance of winning... And even if Palin is idealogically a Libertarian, she's running on the Republican ticket, which gives her a different kind of edge.
Hi, stopping in to say Hello and to tell you that I agree with you about Palin almost 100%. She is one very scary lady and I DO NOT want her anywhere near Washington, unless she is taking her kids there on a field trip.
My only issue with the 17 year old pregnant daughter is that Palin is against sex ed unless it is abstinance only. So if that is the only sex ed her daughter received then I do blame Sarah and Todd for her pregnancy because that is downright irresponsible parenting (in my opinion).
After that the woman is just a loon. And I wonder if McCain isn't just tired of the whole thing and picked her so that he would lose and he could go back to his Senate office and nap?
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