McCain Has Given Up Any Claim to Integrity, Temperment, and Good Judgement
We’ve been hearing from him for the last few months that it’s all about experience, then he picks Palin, someone that makes Obama look like an elder statesman by comparison? How are we supposed to trust anything McCain says after this?
He picks Palin, without vetting her to discover the many skeletons in her closet (and in her livingroom, and on the front-porch swing, waving at passersby). How can we trust him to properly decide if we should , I dunno, go to war or something? (Not that any recent GOP administration would go to war half-cocked. That’s crazy talk.)
Is being unpredictable more important than good judgment, sound temperament, or integrity?
I think Rottenchester nailed it in this comment from a recent article:
My take is that this pick says a lot more about John McCain than it does about Sarah Palin She didn’t ask to be picked. McCain barely knows her, and from what I’ve read, the vetting process was incredibly superficial. McCain has put himself out as the solid, experienced, serious candidate, yet he made a very hurried and ill-considered decision. This pick says more about his judgment - he’s willing to roll the dice when it meets his political needs.
Also, isn’t everyone sick of narratives that are chucked aside whenever it’s politically expedient? For months, McCain has been declaiming on the importance of experience, how he knows all the players on the world stage, how serious the choice of president is in this dangerous world. He’s a 72 year-old cancer survivor. There’s a real chance that Sarah Palin could be president soon. But now the McCain campaign and its surrogates are concocting ever more silly talking points trying to spin a former small-town mayor and short-term small-state governor as an “experienced executive”.
Whatever Sarah Palin is, she isn’t experienced. Are we just supposed to forget everything McCain said in the past? Can’t we expect a little consistency from his campaign?
McCain is hoping that the media will continue to carry him and give him a pass, like they’ve done in the past (although they’re starting to wake up, to their credit.) Here’s hoping that they (and enough Americans) see through this.
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On the experience issue, here’s a ringing endorsement from a fellow Republican:
Of course, Sen. Green doesn’t know Palin as well as McCain, who met her for an hour and talked to her on the phone for a few minutes before making his choice.
http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/510249.html
Beyond what this reveals about what kind of people a President McCain would surround himself with [the second function of a VP is to offer learned advice], it also reveals something about the Republican party as a whole.
This is the leading Republican woman in the nation.
For a party that likes to think it’s a big tent, there sure aren’t many women there.
When the Republicans stopped being true conservatives, they lost their way.
Amen Ms Dogood!
Such a decision on a running mate (no pun intended) shows that McCain is not prepared to run our great nation…well, we will be great again starting next January.
No way do I want the American People being led by a man who makes such a lax, ill-advised and down right dotty choice!!!
How sad that in all the Republican Party, this is the best woman they can put forward.