McCain’s suprising pick
The blogosphere is going crazy today with opinions on McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin (Alaska) for his vice presidential pick.
Just how does McCain’s pick affect the election? I can only relay what I have observed in the short time since his pick. Some of the Hillary Clinton supporters are thrilled with McCain’s choice….they see it as a poke in the eye to Obama and the Democrats who chose Biden over Clinton as a VP choice. Others see McCain’s choice as pure pandering and have no interest in supporting an anti-abortion ticket.
One Hillary Clinton supporter expressed it this way:
It’s going to be interesting folks. Fasten your seatbelts. An already interesting and at times volatile election season just got more interesting.
I highly recommend that the Obama campaign be very careful in it’s comments about Palin as it’s already pissed off a lot of women with it’s treatment of Senator Clinton.
Nice site. There?s some good information on here. I?ll be checking back regularly.
Where did you get your blog layout from? I’d like to get one like it for my blog.
I’m sure Obama et al are terrified of annoying Clintonistas.
Hi Jamie,
My blog is the standard Wordpress theme Pressrow.
I’ll be doing numerous posts over the next couple of days about Palin based on her press releases and then I’ll be start a series of posts about Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate.
Poor Puffin…life isn’t so great for Obama supporters today, is it? You can be sure that the Obama campaign finds Palin as VP extremely troublesome. There are a lot of disaffected Hillary voters…enough to determine the outcome of this election. Repeated put downs by people such as yourself iare a big part of why they feel they way they do….keep it up, you only hurt Obama.
Geetings from Disneyland where I have been out of circulation for couple of days and checked in to this amazing and unexpected news.
I guess there is enough excitement to go around for everyone over this.
Hi sactodan. I have conflicting feelings about the pick of Palin. I’m pleased that a woman is on the ticket although I am very realistic about the reason for the pick…it’s pandering to the disaffected Clinton supporters as opposed to a new enlightenment of the Republican Party. It doesn’t convince me to vote for McCain but it will convince a significant number of female Democrats to vote for the Republican ticket.
look at GW’s cabinet and u will see that the enlightenment already happened. Multiple women and minorities in high positions but not lauded because they are off the liberal plantation.
All VP picks are made for political considerations so this is no more pandering than Biden, just a better job of it.
If Palin is elected she will be no less the vice President because of the motives for selecting her, and it will be just as historic.
I agree about the pandering…my attitude is so what. All politicians pander and quite frankly it’s kind of nice to have one pander to women for a change.
Not to argue a mountain into a mouse, but I think it is fairly important that the electorate realize that Palin is anti-environment, for drilling in ANWR, anti-abortion even in instances of rape and incest, advocates teaching creationism in the schools, has admitted no interest in the Iraq war (probably will change as sonny gets there), and was instrumental in a recent vote that rejected outlawing the shooting of wolves from airplanes. I have family and friends in Alaska and no one I talk with does anything but shudder at the thought of her inheriting the oval office. She is pap to the lunatic right and the finger to Hillary supporters who at least chose to sulk over a talented and experienced woman.
And don’t forget the desperate wag who endorsed her foreign policy experience by pointing out that Alaska was close geographically to Russia.
Drilling for Oil is not anti-environment if it is done responsibly. If you don’t own a car that uses fossil fuel than you are lucky, but most people need to go to work, and they drive there. The poorest among us are most impacted by the high prices. Incidentally, that price has dropped at the mere lifting of the drilling ban by President Bush. Without sinking a single drill bit to earth he sent speculators running to the sidelines. (Are you listening Nancy Pelosi?)
Back to the point, there is no currently affordable, readily distributable alternative to gasoline. We need a replacement, but in the mean time, by refusing to drill (responsibly) at home we allow ourselves to be held hostage by foreign interests and spend huge amounts of money that could be used for better purposes protecting foreign oil supplies and transportation routes.