Palin the right choice?
I admit it, after hearing all of the political rhetoric flying around about Sarah Palin, her apparent lack of qualifications, her 4 month old baby with Downs Syndrome, her inexperience as an executive, all lead me to feel like the GOP missed the mark with their nomination of Sarah Palin.
As with most Americans, I was interested in hearing her speak last night. WOW! Color me impressed! If Sarah Palin can be remotely as eloquent and charming as she was last night in non-prepared speeches, she is going to give the Dems a good run for their money. (Rumor has it she did half the speech from memory due to a screwed up teleprompter)
I believe this election year will bring us the most interesting and exciting campaign season in a very long time. I find the stance the republicans taking on working mothers quite intriguing. The crazy right wing “Mothers should stay at home” crowd is being forced to bite their tongues while the more moderate republicans are defending working mothers! Wow, what a change of pace.
It is also very interesting to me that most of the “women first” organizations have either come out against Sarah Palin, or have remained silent. I thought the National Organization for Women was for Women, not for Women whose politics they agree with! Sarah Palin is the first legitimate female Vice Presidential Candidate in the history of this country, female gender activists should be jumping to her side in droves, but she is conservative and pro-life, so let’s remain silent. I sometimes abhor politics for the two-faced antics that go on (on both sides).
No matter who wins the presidential seat this November, both the campaign season and the next presidency promise to be very interesting. We will either have the first black President of the United States of America, or the first female Vice President of the United States of America. Either way we will be shaking up the establishment!
All in all I am more engaged in this campaign than I have been since 1988!
What I love about Palin is she is rather two faced about earmarks. She claims to be a reformer but she take 26M in earmarks when she was the mayor of Wassila. 26M for a town of less than 10K people is a lot of money. She supported the Bridge to Nowhere when she ran for Governor and she kept the 200M that was for the bridge after it was canceled so the money still went to Alaska. For a state of less than 700K that is a lot of money for other things.
I saw some information about that, I guess I need to research it more. The good side is they did not build that stupid bridge, the bad news, she may have kept some of the money for other things. Ahhh, the joy of politics.
Actually for me the choice of Sarah Palin is the one reason I will not vote for John McCain. I was really unsure who I was going to vote for not sure if Obama had the experience that we need to run the country and thinking that maybe for the first time in a long time I was going to have to vote Republican for President. I liked the fact that McCain was a maverick but the choice of Palin and all of the attack ads that he has approved has made me change my mind. I do not see any way I can vote for him after all of this.