| rocketpig said: After reading that, I think it's safe to say anyone who jumped on Palin for this now looks like a giant fucking douchebag. With that said, I still don't like many of her policies. But the way she's being attacked for the slightest thing is fucking ridiculous and the left should be ashamed of themselves (including many posters on this forum). Repulsive. It's sad to see how many people have shown their true colors when debating Sarah Palin. My lack of faith in humanity has been reassured on a daily basis since she was nominated. The liberal left is no fucking different than the fear-mongering right. Sad creatures. I used to think leftists were slightly more tolerant but that's not the case. They're the same slimy, backstabbing greaseballs that right-wingers are. I'm having a hard time articulating just how disgusted I am over this entire situation. I have lost all respect for many "journalists" and certainly a few posters on this forum in the past two weeks. |
Palin is still one of the most unqualified VP picks to date. Dragging her through the mud went and is still going way too far, but it doesn't change the fact that she isn't qualified to be president if McCain kicks the bucket (which is a much bigger probability than with most presidents because of his age). I think it shows some of McCain's true colors that he turned picking a VP into an overtly political choice, although it does seem to be working.
I like McCain probably about 5 times more than I like Palin. In the best interests of the country, he should have picked someone like Lieberman, but instead he choose someone to increase his electability. I don't begrudge a politician doing that, but I do begrudge them doing that when their choice was an objectively poor one.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
