Sure enough, "maverick" bows to the party
McCain's running mate has been selected, Sarah Palin. She was not one of McCain's top choices (Ridge, Lieberman, Pawlenty), but the Republican party bosses had parameters that had to be met.
First, the veep pick must be against women's choice (eliminates most of McCain's top choices) and in favor of drilling our way deeper into oil dependence, that was a given.
This year, there's another wrinkle - it's looking really bad for the GOP because Obama is such a strong candidate and McCain is rather weak, now that he's abandoned his pre-2000 "maverick" persona and become "candidate McCain" that fully embraces what party bosses demand (major flip-flopping to say the least). Therefore, something new is needed. The party feared losing almost all of the under-60 vote and really covets the momentum that Hillary had built up. The problem is, they had no young (compared to McCain) women in the party who were against women's choice that were ready to be on the ticket. So they had to keep looking lower and lower down on the experience chain till they found Palin.
Most curious of all has been the enormous amount of time, energy and money the McCain camp has spent to tell us that Obama is too young and without enough national political experience to be President. But now the party has selected that and more to accompany him. If that is their definition of required qualifications, how does a 44-year-old who has been a governor for only two years and was a small-town mayor before that qualify?
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For anyone that doubts that the Party made the choice instead of the nominee, McCain even admits that he only had a single conversation with Palin. That's it.
Now, Palin might be a fine person, this is absolutely not disrespecting her as a person in any way. It just makes me nervous when a political party would select a Vice-Presidential candidate, not on the primary qualification of being ready to be President, but instead on their age, gender, and stance on a single hot-button issue. In contrast, Joe Biden would absolutely make a fine President, and has a wealth of relevant experience do draw upon.
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/begala.palin/index.html
caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/29/mccain-vp-pick-younger-less-experienced-than-obama/
www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/30/palin/
First, the veep pick must be against women's choice (eliminates most of McCain's top choices) and in favor of drilling our way deeper into oil dependence, that was a given.
This year, there's another wrinkle - it's looking really bad for the GOP because Obama is such a strong candidate and McCain is rather weak, now that he's abandoned his pre-2000 "maverick" persona and become "candidate McCain" that fully embraces what party bosses demand (major flip-flopping to say the least). Therefore, something new is needed. The party feared losing almost all of the under-60 vote and really covets the momentum that Hillary had built up. The problem is, they had no young (compared to McCain) women in the party who were against women's choice that were ready to be on the ticket. So they had to keep looking lower and lower down on the experience chain till they found Palin.
Most curious of all has been the enormous amount of time, energy and money the McCain camp has spent to tell us that Obama is too young and without enough national political experience to be President. But now the party has selected that and more to accompany him. If that is their definition of required qualifications, how does a 44-year-old who has been a governor for only two years and was a small-town mayor before that qualify?
http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
For anyone that doubts that the Party made the choice instead of the nominee, McCain even admits that he only had a single conversation with Palin. That's it.
Now, Palin might be a fine person, this is absolutely not disrespecting her as a person in any way. It just makes me nervous when a political party would select a Vice-Presidential candidate, not on the primary qualification of being ready to be President, but instead on their age, gender, and stance on a single hot-button issue. In contrast, Joe Biden would absolutely make a fine President, and has a wealth of relevant experience do draw upon.
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/begala.palin/index.html
caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/29/mccain-vp-pick-younger-less-experienced-than-obama/
www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/30/palin/
posted by zblog at
7:49 PM
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Another contrast between the parties. When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his VP pick, the McCain campaign immediately started attack ads, slandering Biden's character.
When the GOP selected Palin as McCain's running mate, this is what Obama said:
[Palin is] “a compelling person” with a terrific personal story and said that her nomination next week is one more indicator that the country is moving forward.
“I think [it] is one more hit against that glass ceiling and I congratulate her and look forward to a vigorous debate." “I'm pleased with my choice for vice president Joe Biden. I think he's the man who can help me guide this country in a better direction and help working families.”
Obama ads that have come out since Palin's selection show her in the ads with McCain, but do not attack her character in any way. It's nice to see that at least one campaign is about the issues instead of just the politics of personal attacks.
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