Writer's Block: Sarah Palin?
Sep. 2nd, 2008 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I would really like to like her. I've said for months that McCain had to find a good minority or woman to help neutralize the "historic vote" aspect of Obama's run. I've preached that I felt that JC Watts was a qualified person who has Congressional experience, is great with the public, has superb conservative cred,...oh, and he's black. I would have thrown a woman into the mix, but I honestly didn't know of any conservative women under 60 that would be a good partner with McCain.
Friday: I am happy McCain went for the minority/women ticket. I read about her fight against corruption and her philosophical stand on guns, abortion, etc. Seems pretty good. I read the conspiracy theories about Palin's Down Syndrome child actually being Palin's teen daughter's and immediately roll my eyes. I then decide to proceed further investigation from conservative sources and later see what the folks on the left have to say.
Saturday/Sunday: Every time I read something about Palin, I keep getting struck with how haphazard her selection by McCain seemed to have been. The wooing of Hillary supporters by McCain before followed by Palin's continued use of Hillary in her speeches start to worry me. I'm starting to feel that McCain, uninterested in the small list of older white guys he had been vetting, basically went "I've got to pick a woman, what woman GOP out there will not upset the conservatives?" Despite buzz surrounding Kay Bailey Hutchison, she has some problems with conservatives. I worry that McCain basically got an index card on Palin: GOP, pro-life, NRA lifetime member, governor of Alaska, attractive, and has 90% approval rating. He meets with her in February at a governors meeting, his operatives do the usual PUBLIC searches for dirt, and then another operative does a 3-hour interview with Palin. The media scrutinized the known short-listers for VP far more than McCain seemed to do with his eventual selection.
Monday/Today: Come to find out, the likelihood that the DS child was Palin's teen daughters is now moot since the teen is now pregnant and is going to have a shotgun wedding. I agree that the pro-life aspect of her keeping the kid is good for conservatives, but nearly everything else about the ordeal makes me question the situation. Palin has a 5th kid in her 40's, goes to work 3 days after giving birth to a special needs kid, has a teen daughter that obviously learned well from the abstinence-only sex ed classes, and Palin will be spending the next two months flying around the country while her family is dealing with these situations.
I think McCain's "shrewd" strategy was messed up by poor execution (no, I'm not trying to make an Iraq War comparison here, but it immediately crossed my mind while typing that). If McCain has a heart attack while celebrating with Cindy after the inauguration, would I be happy with Palin as POTUS? No. I'm actually more concerned about someone who both differs philosophically and who lacks the experience to deal with Wash politicians...let alone other world leader. I think Biden is less likely to screw things up in a partial term than Palin.
I'm still doing most of my research of Palin in the conservative channels, but I keep finding stuff that makes her seem more a liability than a good choice...as far as my vote is concerned.
I would really like to like her. I've said for months that McCain had to find a good minority or woman to help neutralize the "historic vote" aspect of Obama's run. I've preached that I felt that JC Watts was a qualified person who has Congressional experience, is great with the public, has superb conservative cred,...oh, and he's black. I would have thrown a woman into the mix, but I honestly didn't know of any conservative women under 60 that would be a good partner with McCain.
Friday: I am happy McCain went for the minority/women ticket. I read about her fight against corruption and her philosophical stand on guns, abortion, etc. Seems pretty good. I read the conspiracy theories about Palin's Down Syndrome child actually being Palin's teen daughter's and immediately roll my eyes. I then decide to proceed further investigation from conservative sources and later see what the folks on the left have to say.
Saturday/Sunday: Every time I read something about Palin, I keep getting struck with how haphazard her selection by McCain seemed to have been. The wooing of Hillary supporters by McCain before followed by Palin's continued use of Hillary in her speeches start to worry me. I'm starting to feel that McCain, uninterested in the small list of older white guys he had been vetting, basically went "I've got to pick a woman, what woman GOP out there will not upset the conservatives?" Despite buzz surrounding Kay Bailey Hutchison, she has some problems with conservatives. I worry that McCain basically got an index card on Palin: GOP, pro-life, NRA lifetime member, governor of Alaska, attractive, and has 90% approval rating. He meets with her in February at a governors meeting, his operatives do the usual PUBLIC searches for dirt, and then another operative does a 3-hour interview with Palin. The media scrutinized the known short-listers for VP far more than McCain seemed to do with his eventual selection.
Monday/Today: Come to find out, the likelihood that the DS child was Palin's teen daughters is now moot since the teen is now pregnant and is going to have a shotgun wedding. I agree that the pro-life aspect of her keeping the kid is good for conservatives, but nearly everything else about the ordeal makes me question the situation. Palin has a 5th kid in her 40's, goes to work 3 days after giving birth to a special needs kid, has a teen daughter that obviously learned well from the abstinence-only sex ed classes, and Palin will be spending the next two months flying around the country while her family is dealing with these situations.
I think McCain's "shrewd" strategy was messed up by poor execution (no, I'm not trying to make an Iraq War comparison here, but it immediately crossed my mind while typing that). If McCain has a heart attack while celebrating with Cindy after the inauguration, would I be happy with Palin as POTUS? No. I'm actually more concerned about someone who both differs philosophically and who lacks the experience to deal with Wash politicians...let alone other world leader. I think Biden is less likely to screw things up in a partial term than Palin.
I'm still doing most of my research of Palin in the conservative channels, but I keep finding stuff that makes her seem more a liability than a good choice...as far as my vote is concerned.
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Date: 2008-09-02 03:56 pm (UTC)I don't agree with Palin's pro-life-at-all-costs stance. Or, obviously, her continued adhearance to abstinance-only education. It's not working all that well, to judge by Bristol Palin.
I thought much higher of McCain in the 2004 campaign than I do now. I'm not a complete Obama/Biden devotee, but I can find so few areas of agreement between my personal political stance and the McCain camp that it's the best option.
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Date: 2008-09-02 09:20 pm (UTC)The teenage daughter focus is ridiculous, and I don't think it reflects on her policy regarding abstinence education. Policy and family are two different things. The things that will get her is the bridge to nowhere that she was for before she was against it, troopergate, and her affiliation with the Alaskan Independence Party. And she's giving voters 60 days to sort it out. Good luck.
Makes you wonder what the internets would have done with Quayle in '88.