I guess I still don’t get it. Why is it that we’re still getting treated from stories, both in the MSM and from the McCain camp, that bill Gov. Palin as unqualified to take the Presidency, and we’re supposed to take that at face value when compared to the relative inexperience of Sen. Obama?
Why is this even a credible argument? That’s part of what I get reading this new Politico article. In this text, the author takes McCain’s camp at face value:
I’m trying to remember without misappropriating my memories, but I do believe this has been the oddest election season ever. The election of 2000 was strange, surreal even, but I don’t remember the lead-up being so bizarre.
Although I do love politics, I don’t have much time for it until it comes down to the last couple of months before an election. This year, I snoozed right through the Democratic Convention and Senator Obama’s speech, right up to the point when Senator John McCain chose Sarah Palin and electrified the race.
Just one week before the election, and it’s wild what we find ourselves talking about:
We’re told by the MSM that Sen. Obama has shifted to making less partisan “closing arguments” (like the lawyer he is) to try to seal the deal and finish ahead.
Over the weekend we were treated to a storyline I saw coming—namely, the McCain camp setting up Gov. Palin to take the fall should their campaign fail to win the election.
This wasn’t a hard shot to call—by no means—for from the moment that Sen. McCain won the nomination back in the spring we were told that Sen. McCain was going to focus on independents and try to win the election by appealing to the middle—counting on the right to fall in line because of the fact that Sen. McCain wore an R at the end of his name.
The problem was, it didn’t seem to be working out that way.
Palintology: the study of the making and menacing of the public perception of Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin has been Borked. Look up “Robert Bork” if you aren’t old enough to remember his time in the nation’s spotlight.
It is fascinating to me that when Sarah Palin first came on the scene, the initial response was one of admiration. The conservative wing of the Republican party came alive, felt their hearts beating faster at the thought of the next manifestation of Ronald Reagan. Even Reagan’s son, Michael, published a piece called “Welcome back, Dad.” That’s a pretty hefty endorsement, if you ask me, from a son who should know.
Then Sarah gave her convention speech. I remember watching the post-speech spin. There was silence, for a few moments, as the press was stunned by the natural and God-given skill of this novice from Alaska.
People Magazine had another interview with Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband Todd—and it was very friendly—but I really liked the answer to the last question:
People: Can you go home again and just be an Alaskan?
Sarah: I can always go home again and just be Mom and be perfectly happy and fulfilled with the blessings that God has given us.
Some in the media would have you believe that Gov. Sarah Palin has no idea the job duties of the position she is running for. In order to highlight this supposed deficit, they focus on a satirical video that was taken quite a while ago, but when that didn’t work, they decided to focus on a recent question and answer session.
Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”
PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom. [Emphasis Original]
