The Calm After the Storm
I am much more calm four days after the announcement. As Julie has said, my initial reaction was emotional. She has a good point - a very good point. I am not as insulted as I was on Friday, but I am vehemently opposed to this decision.
I could not agree more with a reader of The Daily Dish. This choice speaks less about Palin herself than it does about McCain's decision-making process. Or how much he had to say about the decision. In his world, I firmly believe that Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman would be his VP candidate or choice. But since he is now exposed to the GOP puppetmasters, the man can no longer speak his own mind or make his own decisions.
His handlers need to let him be who he is. He needs to be the maverick he was eight years ago. So his pisses of the fundamentalists. So he upsets the party base. If they are that upset, they should have found a different candidate as their presumptive nominee. It is too late to not support the person who has ostensibly won the party's nomination. Try harder next time, okay?
How did the GOP get to this point?
Another thing - I thought "it's the economy, stupid" take two, but apparently it is the republican base and the Hillary-because she's a woman-voters. I wonder if either campaign was able to put forth a coherent economic plan, if we would be having these discussions about Palin or Obama or Biden or McCain.
I could not agree more with a reader of The Daily Dish. This choice speaks less about Palin herself than it does about McCain's decision-making process. Or how much he had to say about the decision. In his world, I firmly believe that Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman would be his VP candidate or choice. But since he is now exposed to the GOP puppetmasters, the man can no longer speak his own mind or make his own decisions.
His handlers need to let him be who he is. He needs to be the maverick he was eight years ago. So his pisses of the fundamentalists. So he upsets the party base. If they are that upset, they should have found a different candidate as their presumptive nominee. It is too late to not support the person who has ostensibly won the party's nomination. Try harder next time, okay?
How did the GOP get to this point?
Another thing - I thought "it's the economy, stupid" take two, but apparently it is the republican base and the Hillary-because she's a woman-voters. I wonder if either campaign was able to put forth a coherent economic plan, if we would be having these discussions about Palin or Obama or Biden or McCain.
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3 Comments:
I've been oddly fascinated by the whole issue and somewhat obsessed with learning more about Palin - something I doubt I would have done for a male candidate, which surprises me but it is what it is. The more I learn, the more I am convinced that she is an insane choice. I nearly fell out of my chair this morning when I read that she tried to ban books at the public library when she was a mayor and then tried to fire the librarian when the librarian refused. Crazy.
I also wonder what her thought process was so far as accepting the nomination knowing fully well that her pregnant 17 year old daughter would be subject to extensive, national media attention. I'll never be faced with the decision of possibly being the vice president of the country vs. protecting my child from that kind of negative press, so I suppose I'll never know.
Anyway, I think this may be the calm before the storm as there appears to be much more to discuss about this unlikely candidate. I suspect the next outrage will be over her invocation of executive privilege and refusal to turn over documents into the probe concern abuse of her executive power. Sounds familiar . . .
Joansy, I bet you are right. I am fascinated as well. I would love to be a fly on the wall of some GOP discussions!
I'm still pissed.
LOL. ;)
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