What does Sarah have?
Does she have experience? In fact, her experience is good but not great.
Does she have a solid record of accomplishment. In fact, her accomplishments are good, but given the fact that she quit as governor (regardless of how good her reasons were, reasons I agreed with, and continue to agree with), it limits what she can point to as her accomplishments.
What she does have — or what she did have, until she started campaigning for McCain — was an absolute and ruthless honesty that no other person on the American scene had. She had believability. She had rock-solid conservative credentials that were wedded to a rock-solid personal integrity and deep, deep abiding honesty.
Then she stood up and called McCain a good conservative. She didn’t just say (out of understandable loyalty) that she is supporting McCain in his run for Senate re-election. She said, in effect, that he is one of us. That he is one of the true ones. One of the ones who will help us save this great country of ours.
No matter what you think of Sarah, you cannot accept that that is anything other than a lie.
And once Sarah tells a lie — and she has told this lie in regards to McCain — she has lost credibility.
And for Sarah, more than any other politician on the American scene today, credibility is the fundamental reason for supporting her in the first place.
Unless you worship her as a Michael Jackson fan worshiped Michael, then you must coldly and objectively look at what she has done and say, “This is unacceptable.”
Chill out a bit. She is paying her dues for a 2012 run.
If she does not do it, she will receive no help from other politicians.
She is earning her run and doing it well.
Damn it must be horrible to be you!
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