Last night I presumed that either Mittens, Pawlenty or Lieberman would have been picked to be McCain's VP but I was wrong, though I am so glad I was. No one is perfect and Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is a testament to that. By picking her, McCain throws his lot with the right-wing of his party and assures us that he'll never bring up that "experience" crap again. Two years ago, Palin was a part-time Mayor and now McCain expects people to believe she'll be ready to lead our country if something happens to the 72 year old (Happy Birthday John!), yeah right! People are already comparing her to Quayle or even worse.
Heck, she doesn't even know what a Vice-President does:
In an interview just a month ago, she dissed the job, saying it didn’t seem “productive.”
In fact, she said she doesn’t know what the vice president does.
Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain ticket mate.
Palin replied: “[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”
Someone should probably hand her a copy of the Constitution before she debates Senator Joe Biden, sheesh, what a joke that will be. What she does know is how to be another corrupt and crooked Republican. With one of her state's Republican Senators under indictment and charged with seven counts of false statements and a Congressman that is as ethical as day is night, she brings to McCain's table the pinnacle of Republican malfeasance (at least on a state level). She was touted as a reformer and something new, but already within two years, she has a troopergate story that rivals my own ex-Governor's saga. It turns out she had a state commissioner fire to fire a state trooper that her sister was divorcing. Tsk, tsk on that one Sarah.
Then we have your "beliefs," such as teaching creationism in public schools and siding with energy companies over the environment. She is inexperienced, a joke on the national stage and a true desperation pick from a washed-up Senator from Arizona that is clearly crumbling under the tremendous appeal that Barack Obama brings to America. Sarah Palin, like John McCain, is merely more of the same.
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