[Vision2020] pre-VP debate

[joekc at roadrunner.com]

I agree with your assessment overall but (a) I have no doubt that Palin will be on the ticket until
the end and (b) she seemed to do what the Republicans wanted her to do. I think that they are
genuinely happy with her performance. But I'll bet a steak dinner that she doesn't do another 
interview until after the election. And I'm not counting possible "interviews" on Fox News.

--
Joe Campbell

---- keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote: 
> 
> >From my blog:
> 
> Nows that the bar for success, or even survival, in tonight's
> Vice-Presidential debate has been set baby-step high for Sarah Palin,
> I'd like to offer a few thoughts.
> 
> I'm surprised she's lasted
> this long on the ticket, and I'm not at all convinced that she'll make
> it through 'til November 4. Her out-of-the-blue, long-shot selection,
> which puzzled liberals and conservatives alike, has devolved into a
> "What the hell was McCain thinking?" What did he mean -- I'm guessing
> not "Country First" -- by putting a woman on the ticket who seriously
> considers her PTA work, mayoral experience managing a town of 7,000
> (which received some pretty hefty earmarks, thanks to the GOP Maverick
> Mayor), and less-than-two year term as governor of a small state as
> legitimate experience and background? (Love the "Joe Sixpack American"
> thing, but it strikes me that the vice presidency might be a place to
> aim a little higher). And now that she's been allowed, and I think this
> is an appropriate term here, to face the press, she's proved to be . .
> . well . . . utterly unfamiliar with foreign and domestic policy, not
> to mention general knowledge of American history and politics. Like,
> I'm just ill.
> 
> She is completely, unapologetically, shockingly,
> and perhaps irredeemably unfamiliar with the things we have a right to
> expect her to know. This isn't "gotcha" pop quiz stuff; this isn't
> "picking on Sarah" by the liberal media. This is what the game is like,
> and she vaulted over the fence and onto the field when invited.
> 
> And
> she's a 72-year-old guy's heartbeat away from the Presidency of the
> United States, which makes the thought of her assuming the office even
> more frightening than McCain's. To me, that's saying a lot.
> 
> Her
> defenders whine about a tough media gauntlet and fault McCain's staff
> for not "just letting Sarah be Sarah." It appears that it was Sarah who
> couldn't think of a single Supreme Court case in the Couric interview,
> who breezily lambasted Biden's long tenure in office while failing,
> evidently, to remember that her boss, six years older than Biden, has
> quite a lengthy and far less stellar Senatorial history, and who
> babbles incoherently about Putin, airspace, and Russian proximity when
> asked about her foreign policy experience. Letting Sarah be Sarah is a
> lovely idea, because it's shown us that this particular Sarah has no
> business contending for the Vice Presidency, period, and that Governor
> was perhaps a stretch.
> 
> Politics does, indeed, make for strange
> bedfellows. Here's where abstinence really ought to have prevailed,
> though. The sight of the Religious Right, notoriously antagonistic
> toward feminism, trying to whip themselves into a frenzy of support for
> Palin is pathetic and hypocritical beyond words. I assume Todd Palin
> can easily parent his children and run the household -- but, you see, I
> always have assumed, as a feminist, that men can do these things, and
> should more often than they do. It's embarrassing to hear that from men
> and women who, pre-Palin, foamed at the mouth in their rhetoric against
> women with young children working outside of the home, but now decide
> that a Jesus-loving pro-lifer on the ticket requires the pretzel logic
> of their blind-eye support. I suppose a little consistency here would
> be too much to ask of those who like their altars covered in the flag
> and decorated with Reagan buttons.
> 
> Joe Biden is a brilliant man.
> Sarah Palin doesn't seem to be a terribly intelligent woman. I know
> I'll find the debate cringeworthy because of it, and I know I'll be
> embarrassed for her. But this is what Sarah, being fully Sarah, signed
> up for. In an earlier post, I said she was being used and would be
> until whatever worth she brought to the ticket is exhausted. I believe
> that'll be tonight, when an overwhelming desire to spend time with baby
> Trig, hunky Todd, and pregnant daughter Bristol will cause her to
> graciously exit the ticket.
> 
> Maybe then the country, and the GOP
> especially, will see this choice as the nakedly condescending, sexist,
> selfish and reckless choice it was -- and then consider the character
> of the man who made it, all the while pontificating about Country
> First.
> 
> 
> Keely
> http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
> 
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