Bye-bye Barry…
August 29th, 2008 by Republican By DefaultI’m voting for Palin… I mean McCain/Palin.
I think this spells the end of Barry O’s lead in the polls. Barry O-bam-bam (a name I’ve given him for his campaign’s heavy-handed handling of bad press in the Ayers matter) can plan on a good 4-6 point spread in next weeks polls (my guess, not a prediction).
Barry, you should have picked Clinton as a running mate. Instead you picked a more liberal version of John McCain. Beltway inside. Senator since the Nixon administration. Old white guy. Doesn’t say ‘change’ to me.
For the first time I’m actually impressed with John McCain. And without this pick as VP, I would not have voted for him. Smart move, Johnny Boy.
Palin is a strong conservative. She’s a reformer and is outspoken on pro-life issues. She’s younger and better looking than Barry.
I’m feeling old. Not only is a major candidate for President a few months younger than I am, a candidate for Vice President is a few years younger than that.
I have a lot to say about this, McCain, Bush and the Republican Party. Busy day. More later.
Update: I was off by a little. With a 10% spread among likely voters in the latest poll and an average of about 2.5% among recent polls, I guess I wasn’t too far off. I’m going to give it a few more days and see where the average falls.
By the way, conventional wisdom says that if a Republican is down by 3% or less in polls of likely voters he (or she) is likely to win. The best reason to explain it is that Democrat voters are more likely to respond in a poll as being a likely voter then not show up.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I am less enthusiastic about this than you. Sarah Palin strikes me as an outstanding mother, a great wife, a very popular governor, and just an all around wonderful human being. However, she also strikes me as someone who’s potentially waded in over her head. When she sits down on the Sunday morning shows and has to answer questions about Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia, Georgia, North Korea, Nato, Non-proliferation, missile defense, free trade, fair trade, tariffs, and your over-all world turmoil, is she going to shine and show us how enlightened and capable she is? Or is she simply going to dispense broad wikipedia-type answers with little to no background and understanding. I like her domestic policy. I(along with everyone else) know nothing of her foreign policy. This is what scares me.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
She’s been put on the spot many times both by local interviews in Alaska and by the national media. She has handled it well every time (that I’m aware of, and if she hadn’t it would be well known by now.) I simply can’t imagine that an intelligent woman who has proven herself to be smart enough to become governor would stumble over such important issues as foreign policy. She has a son in the military so foreign affairs are very personal to her.
As governor of Alaska she has undoubtedly had to deal with many free trade, licensing, tariff and general international trade issues. The U.S. is not the only nation that is active in Alaska’s oil industry.
To put Sarah Palin into the ‘housewife’ mold is a serious underestimation of her abilities. She’s smart, articulate, down-to-earth and has clearly shown herself to be a warm human being. But that’s not all she is.
The lefty blogosphere is already attacking her, mostly with either the kind of thing you just mentioned (CA) and with the usual baseless corruption allegations that the left throws at people that they can’t destroy any other way. The one that’s thrown around the most is that she fired a police commissioner (state police maybe?) because he wouldn’t fire her estranged ex-brother-in-law. In a televised interview she welcomed the investigation because she has nothing to hide. It’s typical leftist tactics (Delay, Libby, GWB). There’s nothing there but they’ll make as much out of it that they can for publicity purposes and on the off-chance they’ll find a liberal judge or jury who will convict.
I’m not surprised that the attacks are both leftist and sexist. Democrats don’t want any women (or any other minority member) to excel and break the ‘glass ceiling’ unless they’re liberal. As an example there was barely a peep about Condi Rice being the first woman NSA or Sec. of State but when San Fran Nan became speaker (the worst one in history with a congressional approval rating in the single digits) it was heralded as a triumph for women. As always, hypocrisy abounds in leftists’ rhetoric.