A Few Words on McCain’s VP Pick
Friday, August 29th, 2008- No Experience. If we can write off Obama’s elected positions and teaching positions at a major university, plus his degrees and social work career beforehand, we can do the same for Sarah Palin. If she were the governor of a bigger, more powerful state, this may not be as much of an issue. Obama has to have some kind of edge on her to have cut his teeth on Illinois politics. She doesn’t hold a candle to Joe Biden.
- Nobody knows her. Maybe we ought to hold her to Republican standards and start asking questions about her patriotism, since she’s so new on the scene. At least “Obama” was more or less a household name before the primaries.
- Married to an oil man. Not the smartest pick on John McCain’s part. As if anyone needs another reminder that the Republicans are in bed with Big Oil while gas fluctuates between $3.50 and $4.00 per gallon.
- The fact that she’s a woman is an obvious ploy on McCain’s part to lure in disaffected Hillary supporters. From what I’ve heard so far, many women are feeling this is an insult to their intelligence. Although, I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t see this one coming. The timing was well done.
- The purely political nature of this pick borders on cuttthroat. Unfortunately, political strategy is not going to fix our country’s problems–that is all the GOP has been able to offer thus far.
They could have formed a virtual juggernaut of strong, well-known Republican players. Instead, they took a crap shot on luring a few women who disagree with everything Palin stands for. I’m going to file this under “swing and a miss” instead of a blunder, because of the intentionality of it. But seriously–an oil person?
Silly Republicans, America is for the People.