Posted on 08/31/2008 2:39:24 PM PDT by Royal Wulff
[In the following, "I" is the author of this excellent comment at Hot Air, and not me, your humble re-poster]
I lifted and partially rewrote this from Damiano in another thread. He gets the credit, not me. Nevertheless, let the truth be told:
Palin is completely inexperienced and utterly incapable.
You heard me. The initial euphoria over the idea of a naughty librarian on the TV news each night for the next 4 to 8 years has worn off. Now, it back to hard, pragmatic reality and the reality is that she has no place in Washington, DC.
Want proof? Consider the following:
Only an amateur would speak off the cuff, as she usually does. Experienced politicians avoid speaking extemporaneously whenever possible. Otherwise, the electorate might find out what they really think.
If Palin had meaningful experience, she would have known that the job of Ethics Commissioner is SUPPOSED to be corrupt, thus saving her the trouble of resigning in protest and then running for the highest office in the state.
Only an amateur would attain political office by actually defeating opposing candidates at the ballot box. An experienced politician would have eliminated opposition candidates by protesting technical glitches in their nominating petitions or petitioning to change the party rules on how votes are counted in primary elections or hiring groups like ACORN to register 14 people who all, coincidentally, have the same names and reside at the same abandoned and boarded-up restaurant. Did she not once consider taking lessons from the Chicago political machine that got Obama elected? Sheesh.
Any experienced politician knows that upon assuming high office, you are supposed to demand a larger plane; not sell the useless behemoth that was recently purchased by your predecessor.
Only an amateur would implement a comprehensive energy and conservation policy shortly after taking office. A more experienced politician would have avoided the issue outright for at least 30 years while demonizing oil companies, then banning any voting on the topic followed by a recess vacation through the next election
Any experienced politician knows that once elected, you are not supposed to spend your first 20 months in office actually doing the job you were elected to do. You should be campaigning for another office – as Obama could have told her.
Sarah Palin was only supposed to TALK about government reform and utter platitudes about exiling corrupt, entrenched politicians – not actually do anything about it. She demonstrated her naivete by creating a smooth running government that included representatives of other political parties, thereby making it impossible for her to find a scapegoat if anything goes wrong.
Only a political greenhorn would thumb their nose at the environmental lobby by hunting and actually shooting moose and caribou. Worse yet, she foolishly told the truth: the proposed oil drilling site in ANWR is NOT the secret location of Eden but is, in fact, a barren wasteland.
What Sarah Palin does not seem to understand is that here in the 21st century, chief executives do not negotiate beneficial business deals for their states with foreign nations or take time to actually hang out with soldiers in Iraq. That time is better spent preening for the cameras in Berlin – something else a more seasoned and experienced politician such as Obama could have told her.
Holding oil companies accountable and successfully negotiating mutually productive agreements with them proves she does not understand their true purpose: if you work with them to the benefit of your state, you will no longer have a faceless villain to scare people into voting for you.
By creating new jobs instead of demonizing capitalism, Sarah foolishly enabled people to become more reliant on themselves and less reliant on government, hereby diminishing the dependant voter base – a classic newbie mistake. After all, if people have jobs, they will not have much need for the government and will be too busy enjoying their lives to protest the U.S., its corporations and, of course, opposing candidates.
Worse yet, Palin created a budget surplus and mailed it back to the taxpayers. Doesn’t she know that if the government generates a surplus, it’s doing something wrong? An experienced leader like Obama or Biden knows that taxpayer money belongs to the government – not to the people.
In another rankly amateurish move, she cooperated completely with government officials investigating accusations made against her. Experienced politicians know that you are supposed to stonewall, obfuscate, pressure libraries to expunge any record of unsavory political associations and ship potential witnesses off to Caribbean islands – another good reason not to sell the executive jet.
Yup, she is hopelessly inexperienced.
That is why I ♥ SARAH’CUDA and why I am voting McCain/Palin ‘08
No, I’ll just tell you that you are overly obsessed with the negative.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Sarah is just another human being that has a fantastic resume thus far in her career and has admirable and inspiration qualities that I myself can learn from. I do think she is a talented leader and I do think by learning of her many of us are reminded of the type of great ideals and gonads that were needed and were set forth in the early years of building this country.
I do believe that God does put people in our path. However he does not want us to place them on a pedestal along with Him nor does he want those leaders to place themselves on those pedestals--like Obama has and as his followers have. Great points. Thank you for pointing this out. :)
God bless and guide Sarah and John as they go forward in the last leg of this election as well.
By the way your comments were not only right on, but wonderfully written :-).
The initial euphoria over the idea of a naughty librarian on the TV news each night for the next 4 to 8 years has worn off.
>>>>>If this is what this ass-clown sees in the first place, any comments that come later with his skewed view of her were not worth my reading them.
A good slogan for the campaign!
We are a passionate group, but I am glad we have shown up in droves to donate money as McCain/Palin are going to need it to finish this off and they are also going to need to perform well at the debates. This is a close one folks and as fired up we are, we need to get back into making sure this pick results in new votes and a won election. We can not afford Obama. Unlike the 'bots we need to keep our heads screwed on tightly and not take anything for granted going forward. We also need to prayer hard if we are believers. We need all we can get against this false Messiah and need not be swayed away from the real battle to stop him.
I think Obama’s stupid pill is his own arrogance and pride. McCain’s team has come up with some fantastic curveballs to set him off his game and catch him when he is blinded by his cross (most of the time). I am concerned though about the coming weeks as they are critical and the RNC convention is in flux. McCain Palin and their team need to be on the airwaves in droves going forward. I hope the RNC does not turn into a flaccid joke operating on just the 2 x 4 support structure that created it. We need meat and to turn votes to McCain.
Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:
Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.
Great!
I came to the thread intent on bruising the troll that posted it :o(
Go Sarah.
I have prayed for her, for God’s support and protection for these people who would lead us. And to cover all the bases, I sent them $$ too!
Ditto!
Yep, that’s our boy.
Racist. Oh yeah, Carter said that. Sorry, dims are never racist.
*blush* Thank you! It's a living.
After a platry 140 day as a Junior Senator he's supposedly has the delusion to be leader of the free world - NOT!!
Palin has real experience as a Mayor and Governor of an actual state and know something of the ins & outs of running a government.
‘Zackly the kind of inexperience we need in Washington now...
Once again the GOP VP pick has at least as much experience as the dem potus pick and also has as much experience going in as the dems favorite past presidents (clinton and carter) did when they ran for potus. The radio and TV talking heads should be shoving this up the democrat arses constantly until they bleed from the eyeballs.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.