| rocketpig said: Wow, what a biased title. I disagree with Palin on a lot of things but someone who is clueless does not oust an incumbent Republican for the position of governor at the age of 42. Besides, that Bush Doctrine question was bullshit. But go ahead and keep piling on Palin... You're only making her more and more popular. |
Bush was a Governor of Texas in his 40s as well and is equally clueless. On the republican side, hell in politics in general, having a clue is not a requirement for holding political office. You should see some of the congressmen interviewed by Steven Colbert in the discontinued better know a district series, a lot of them are dumber then you would hope our leaders would be.
She is indeed dangerously clueless, and with Bush we know exactly what dangerously clueless+power equals.
Liking McCain is justifiable in some ways for some people, but Palin is just not qualified at all. I would argue, given the excessive abuse of power shown time and time again in both her mayorship and her governorship she is not even qualified to remain governor much less be elevated to vice president. How do you have 3+ running scandals in just a few months as governor? I would greatly prefer the old style scandals of infidelity, hers are about things like fighting for the bridge to nowhere earmark and then only later saying she was against it after it lost support, then keeping the 200 million dollars from the earmark and spending it on other things. I would prefer Monica Lewinski to finding out that as governor she took tens of thousands of dollars of extra tax payer money in the form of a travel per diem to stay at home more then 300 days of the year 400 miles away from the state capital. I would prefer she hire a prostitute to finding out she used her office to attempt to ban books and carry out personal vendettas against people she knows.
Not only that but she is a huge fan of cronyism just like Bush. She took rampantly unqualified people from her high school days and put them in high paid positions of power (see todays NYTs front page, also on the new york times website). I mean she really is Bush but worse, at least Bush knows what the Bush doctrine is.
It wasn't just that sound bite though, everything she said had clearly been prepared for her just like her convention speech; she managed to say she would start another war, this time with Russia, lied yet again about her bridge to nowhere stance and clearly lacked understanding on many pivotal foreign policy issues of the day. On top of that on the Sept 11 commencement for troops stationed in Alaska she AGAIN drew a connection between 9/11 and Iraq which has been shown again and again to be patently false. Even president Bush has cut that out by now. It's disgusting how unqualified she is, and given McCains age if he wins there's about a 1 in 3 chance she will be president (both the historical rate of VPs becoming president and from the actuarial tables for someone of McCains age, with his history of cancer it might be even higher then 1 in 3).
I disagree with McCain on a lot of things, but he is more then qualified for the job. She has neither McCains experience or Obama's judgment and intelligence however, she is a danger to this countries future if she is put anywhere near the white house.
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