Here's what a POTUS reader writes via email:
Brilliant!
(unintentionally so, since according to the Prince of Darkness Ol' Blunderbuss was ready to pick Joe Lieberman up until last week, apparently)
Several advantages this gives McCain:
1.) Neuters Biden. Also, can't wait for him to make a gaffe at the VP debate and infuriate women everywhere.
2.) Woman = unprecedented, plus she's a regular person, something Biden and Obama most assuredly are not
3.) She will be ridiculed by the press and the elites, but no matter, it will play well in gun hugging, beer chugging, NASCAR watching Appalachia -- exactly the demographic Obama's gotta win.
4.) Can't be attacked on the experience issue since it will just boomerang back to Obama's thin resume. She has more executive experience than Obama (can't believe I'm writing that)
5.) She'll inspire the base
6.) Allows McCain to hammer Obama on Infant Born Alive Protection Act (see number 5)
7.) Proven reformer and about as far (3000+ miles) outside the beltway as you can go
Your thoughts?
I agree. It looks brilliant at this point. Palin's had a great weekend. But we'll see. She is not a battle-tested candidate on the presidential campaign trail. Obama and Biden are. As far as experience goes, Palin not only has very little but has a lot less than Obama when it comes to the national spotlight. A lot less. The blinding spotlight is now turned on full blast. It doesn't get any brighter. Palin is not going to be judged by voters in the voting booth in November on her fabulous introduction back in August. Rather, she'll be judged on what she's done since then. And if it's gaffe after gaffe, then she'll actually be a drag on the ticket. I would be shocked, completely shocked, if she didn't make any gaffes. I think it's impossible. She's going to make some, perhaps a lot. I don't anything about her, and need to read more.
So right now it looks like a great choice, but we'll see.
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3 comments:
I'd love you hear your ideas on how Obama-Biden can neutralize this republican shot in the arm, while still courting women voters.
Also, how comfortable are you of Palins ability to lead the country? Did McCain show a lack of judgement in this regard?
Thanks for using my analysis! But now that my excitement at John McCain NOT going with the usual suspects has worn of, I think her downside (i.e. neutralizing McCain's best line of argument against Obama) outweighs her upside. At least it makes for a much more interesting race.
Oh, and I love the name dropping, Mr. D.C. Insider.
Sarah Palin said John McCain is the same, implying Barack Obama presents different faces to those who hear him. I’m going to take her at face value. At a fundraising dinner in Arizona a decade ago, John McCain asked, “Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?” adding, “Because Janet Remo is her father” This remark packed into it’s 15 words several layers of misogyny: it disparaged the looks of Chelsea then 18 and barely out of high school; it portrayed Reno as a man when she was serving as the first female US Attorney General; and it implied that Hillary Clinton was engaged in a lesbian affair while the Monica Lewinsky scandal was blazing.
Any of these elements would seem potentially terminal for a public figure. Yet here he is 10 years later presenting himself as a champion of feminism appointing Sarah Palin as his running mate. The puzzle is explained partly by the US press, which barely reported the story. The Washington Post broke it in June 1998 but declined to relate the joke on the grounds “it was too vile to repeat.” Clearly the American electorate are viewed as wayward children in need of moral protection!
After his misogynist joke. McCain apologised to Bill Clinton but interestingly made no direct apology to the three women involved. Clearly to do so was more difficult than withstanding torture in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. This is the fearless former war hero prepared to take anyone on. Be careful Sarah Palin. Do you really know the man you are running with? Is he really the same or do you think he was capable of making a mistake. When Barack Obama makes a mistake he puts his hand up. Palin was an impressive speaker but the aggressive style and misleading comments took us back to the old style politics we so desperately need to leave behind
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