I am forced to conclude that the GOP has NO respect for women--or for the intelligence of the American electorate in general. This is the only reason John McCain can have for to nominating a lightweight like Sarah Palin for Vice President.
Hillary Clinton fans, including me, respect Senator Clinton for her intelligence and competence. In fact, I personally expect intelligence and competence out of every candidate I vote for. Also, a dedication to country which would not stoop to suggesting an unqualified candidate for the second office in the land.
Although I still have a great deal of respect for John McCain as an American hero, I think less of him now that he has done this.
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Sonoran Sam Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
As I’ve already said, I won’t join in the gleeful bashing of Palin because of her 17-year-old daughter’s mistake.
As several people have noted, teenagers make dumb mistakes.
Every have a Teen-aged child? I do. If you have, you know they seem to do things just to make their parents bang their heads on the wall - and they always succeed, sometimes more spectacurlarly than others.
Now I could echo Klute’s points about the obvious problems with abstinance-only education, but I’ll save that for another day.
I will make an obvious point that SA devotees will dispute: Palin was a dumb choice.
At first I was impressed, but just two days later, here’s what we know:
- Palin said she was against the “bridge to nowhere,” but she supported it when she ran for Governor, and Palin did not take state funding for the project out of her budget. In fact, she said it was too bad it wouldn’t get built because “people in Washington don’t understand” how things work in Alaska. Uh, yeah.
- Palin - or at the very least, her closest confidants, INCLUDING HER HUSBAND - pressured the head of the Alaska State Troopers to fire her ex-brother-in-law. Now, if any of the allegations about the guy are true: drinking beer in a police cruiser and tasering his 10-year-old son(!!!!!) - the guy richly deserved to be fired. But she and/or the “First Dude” of Alaska used their political standing to settle a family feud. And that ain’t right.
- Ms. “Queen of reform” ran a 527 for - Ted “King of the Tubes” Stevens. Yeah, that will burnish her credentials as a “reformer.”
- I give her props for walking the family values walk - unlike certain “family values” Republicans whose names I won’t bring up yet again - when it comes to abortion. But opposing even an exemption for rape or incest is simply terrible public policy.
- Oh, and I really love how Cindy McCain said today that Palin has “foreign policy credentials” because Alaska is next to Russia. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5goLPXL2miHpYvSAdm3uDwcprl3RgD92TDE3G0
As John Stewart said Friday night, Alaska is also next to the North Pole. Does that mean Palin is friends with Santa Claus?
- And finally, McCain’s camp has worked very hard to make this a presidential campaign about judgment. And right now, just a few days after his first and arguably most important Cabinet pick, Sen. McCain’s judgment don’t look so good.
Gov. Palin has had a tough couple of days, and so has the McCain campaign.