You have to love politics. In what seems like a single brush stroke from someone with a real axe to grind, McCain’s running mate is already under the microscope. To make it even more fun, this attack comes from a multitude of directions.
The pro and anti abortion fractions are both making hay with the fact that her 17 year old unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant. It won’t be long before the morality morons from the mid west weigh in on this one. It is going to be a hard sell to the Bible Belt, how can they vote for a VP who has such low moral standards? No doubt John McCain has his spin meisters in high gear to limit the trouble. In fact I will bet that right about now they are reaching for the Tums. No doubt with the huge sums of money involved in a presidential bid, Tums are plentiful and available on everyones desk!
The huge gaff that Sarah Palin made regarding the ‘Bridge to nowhere’ is not helping matters either. As nominee for VP she is going to shutdown Pork Barrel projects, yet she herself has been a huge Pork user, go figure? Alaska is a fine place, it is also a very brutal place, winter in North Dakota is a bitch, but it has nothing on Alaska. Without Pork projects Palin and Alaska would have sunk into the muskeg years ago.
Many were surprised by McCain’s choice, but this choice had nothing to do with sense, it seems to me that it was a way to One Up the Dems! ‘Look, we like women, we want one as our VP’.
It seems to me that while McCain may be trying to appeal to the female voters, he may have just PO’d a whole sector of potential “yes’s”. Pretty much the Bible Belt are going to hate the pregnancy issue, pretty much Alaska is going to react to ‘The bridge to nowhere’ with shock and horror. I can not see this helping in the polls one bit.
Yet other pundits are whining about the fact that she has a child with downs syndrome, how can she possibly put the effort into being the Vice President when she has to spend so much time at home? Personally I think this is a bit of a low blow. Maybe someone with such a challenge would be better prepared, and better suited to understanding the trials and tribulations of surviving in these strange times.
Has McCain chose wisely? Or was this a crackpot scheme to grab votes?
We will have to wait till November 4th, but Sarah Palin certainly introduces a new dynamic. New is not always better, new is not always even new, but it certainly is fun to watch.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSimon, please accept my apology for posting an article on an issue you covered better, it might seem like I stepped on your post which was not my intention.
I have multiple screens open when I am blogging and didn’t see you had already addressed the topic.
Dave
What I find really amusing is the only people I have seen writing anything about that she should be home with her children and wait until they are grown are Democratic women. I was a single mother. My son is now grown and I ran up against the good ole boy system over and over. I was told that although my work was better and customers preferred working with me, they had to pay the men more because they had a family. He never had the best clothes in school. He bought his own car. He now has a six figure income, is a wonderful father. When his father came back into his life after the time to pay child support was past, he had a good relatioship with him and when his dad died, my son paid for his funeral expenses.
I have heard nothing but support and admiration from the Republicans. Perhaps Republicans are not the monsters they were portrayed to be? If you can point me to open condemnation from the conservative Bible Belt, I will certainly review it but what I keep seeing is that hypocrisy of the Democratic Party which is why I crossed over.
Spoken like a good ole boy, Simon!
What’s that got to do with a gun totting, money chasing, bible punching big mouth girl from Alaska, with no experience other than to fire people she disagree’s with!
This bridge that everyone is so in love with.
Obama and Biden voted (Yes) twice for this bridge to nowhere.
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