Thoughts on Sarah Palin
Posted by Andy on August 29, 2008
Before I go off on my long weekend to celebrate my birthday (which I unfortunately share with John McCain), I wanted to weigh in on the Sarah Palin pick for VP.
My initial reaction was that this is a gift that keeps on giving to Obama. With possibly the nuttiest pick that he could’ve come up with, McCain has effectively taken himself out of the running for the presidency. She will win him Alaska (a state which he probably already had either way) and some hardliner evangelical votes. Otherwise, she will not attract Hillary-supporters because they’re not stupid enough to fall for this idiotic pandering stunt. After this move of desperation that was most likely done without much thought, I predict an increased likelihood for an electoral vote landslide for Obama.
Palin is also dangerously unqualified to take control of the presidency in case something happens to old man McCain. Which brings me to my father’s take on this VP pick: he called it criminal. If something does happen to McCain, whether his skin cancer comes roaring back or he becomes incompetent due to the early onset of dementia that I suspect he has, then she will assume the presidency. She has zero national experience, less than two years as governor of Alaska, and some mayoral experience of an Alaskan city of a few thousand people.
With all the issues we face here at home and abroad, what on earth makes this woman qualified for the job? It would be as much of a danger to our country’s well-being as it would to let McCain into the White House.
John McCain has officially lost his mind. In all seriousness, I think he has an early onset of dementia or something like it. At this point, his presidential candidacy is downright dangerous. After Obama wins this election, I can see some sort of law coming to pass either setting an age maximum to run for the presidency or at least ordering vigorous physical and mental health screenings of older candidates.
This has to be the single greatest pick since Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. I know this brings comparisons to Bush Sr. picking Dan Quayle, but the level of incompetence is more comparable to Miers, I think. Such a comparison would be an insult to Mr. Potatoe-Head.
On that note, I wish you all a great Labor Day weekend, and I am off to celebrate my 28th birthday with family and friends.
moffdub said
The bottom of the G.O.P. ticket, light as it is, has more experience running things than the top of yours.
Greybeard said
I find it curious that you Democrat whiners cannot see that Gov. Sarah Palin has more executive experience as V.P. candidate for the Republicans than your #1 pick for the Presidency. The President is, after all, the head of the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of our government, whereas Obama, Biden, and yes, McCain, are all members of the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. Legislators legislate and executives execute…the jobs are quite different. Obama’s resume’ is thinner than hers by far. He’s NEVER held an elected public office that required him to actually DO anything and assume the consequences. What in the world “qualifications” does he have to be President of these United States? Governor Palin was actually elected to the mayoralty in her hometown and to the Governorship of the state of Alaska…both offices requiring EXECUTIVE ability…that is the ability to hire and fire, direct various departments and the executives thereof, operate and prioritize a budget, make decisions and live or die by them, and a myriad other duties that executives assume. Neither Obama nor Biden have ever done any of these tasks. Mr. Change and Hope is the product of Chicago politics (worse, if imaginable, than D.C. politics) and Biden is as inside-the-beltway as they come…36 years (for all practical purposes his entire adult life!) being his only bona fides. As to his highly-vaunted “foreign policy experience”, he has never negotiated a treaty, stood face-to-face with either friend or foe as THE representative of the United States and/or our national policy and time and again has come own on the wrong side of history as member and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (not an executive body, but rather a high-priced debating club with no authority to carry out its decisions and no responsibility should they be adopted by the executive branch and executed with negative results…they conveniently blame the President).
In addition, neither Obama nor Biden are qualified to lead this country in a time of war…or have you forgotten that we are at war? Both are as socialist as can be…Obama’s philosophies being gleaned mostly from the musings of Karl Marx…but I guess that’s what you Democrats want. You certainly don’t understand elementary civics and the American system of government as designed by our founders and directed by our Constitution.