I haven’t changed my mind about these aspects of her-
she’s probably a decent woman & good at being mayor and governor,
she was getting unfairly piled-on by some media & nit-picky liberals,
she agrees more with my views than does Obama-Biden,
she has the potential to grow into a capable future leader on a national level,
she has my vote as McCain’s running mate.
But I have changed my mind about being convinced she is presently informed enough to be a great V.P.
If you mean her as the successor to the Presidency if anything happens to Pres. McCain, I’m concerned but not scared, because there will be a lot of experienced people around her to keep things steady. Neither the staff nor Congress nor her own party will allow her to run wild.
Nice post, but being able to this convincingly comes with the territory. And not just in politics. Before going in public, a set of advisers and the top dogs agree on a message and a spin. Everyone who goes out there talking needs to stay on message, and make it sound like it is something they both came up with and believe in, even if they are busy working on a contradictory press release. What the hell is she going to do if she needs to talk about a diplomatic crisis and sounds like she doesn’t buy into the message.
I have a feeling that if she was allowed to say what she really thought it would really cook her goose, but that isn’t her weakness here.
I’ve done booth duty selling complex software, which, like any software, had weaknesses. You got to answer questions about not so great features with the agreed upon spin, and sound convincing. If she can’t do this kind of thing, she is not qualified for any high office.
But she would be the boss. Say the McCain people keep the same lid on her that they are doing now, and it makes here angry. Are you sure that the minute she assumes office she won’t call them all haters, kick them out, and bring in her buddies from Alaska, who she feels comfortable with? She might have problems getting new cabinet officers through the Senate, but presidential aides don’t need approval. And I’m sure that there would be an outcry from the same people who like her now to let her have her own Cabinet.
She has no business running for the vice-presidency, if in her case an ordinary sit-down interview, for which she had plenty of time to prepare, counts as “communication under stress.”
Premptive apology accepted. Georgie Tirebiter is the* Vice Presidential *nominee of the Natural Surrealist Party, which makes the jape even more insightful and trenchant.
You would be well advised not to question my scholarship and authority in matters to do with drug-related humor.
Since she has the luxury of governing a state that can afford to give every resident an annual oil dividend, that might be something she has never even had to think about before.
It’s not as if most of this hit her like a series of earthquakes. She obviously knew she was going to give birth, and later, that the baby would be handicapped. Her son Track is fresh out of training and our military is stretched thin. Where did she think he’d end up? Rammstein, Germany? And the realm of national politics is full mostly of men and women who have extensive experience and education, including graduate and professional (mostly JD) degrees. If she honestly imagined that she could hold her own in that milieu with six years of drifting through one school after another, it only makes me more contemptuous of her. If you ask me who I think would gain more from their education–a mediocre student who squeaks into an Ivy by virtue of his family background, or a bright and motivated kid at Podunk State, I’ll choose the latter every time. But she is none of that.
Oh yeah. We’re laying in popcorn for tonight’s extravaganza, and looking forward to 10/2 as well.
Yeah. Looking at her record, I don’t see much evidence of a driving purpose. If Alaska were a state where the power lay in the Democratic party, I think she’d be a Democrat. If the power lay in the Froople party, she’d be a Froop.
She’s reminding me more and more of that beauty contestant rambling on and on about how children in South Africa don’t have maps and that’s why our schools are failing today.
Only those who never mastered the difference between “lie” and “lay”.
Those of us who can’t remember not knowing this sort of thing can sometimes forget the misunderstanding that can ensue, as most people probably use the words interchangeably.
If your position on a person wholly unsuitable for the Presidency is “well, there will be people around to keep her/him in line,” then why are you even bothering to vote? Logically, anyone would be more or less as good a candidate as any other, since the staff around them will keep them in line in proportion to their ineptitude.
