Posted on 09/14/2008 7:43:21 AM PDT by Religion and Politics
I think part of the dynamic with Governor Palin and the American Electorate is a kind of "Jesse Venturaism" of sorts. We are full up to our eyes of the establishment "vetting" our leaders for us. The Minnesota politicians completely discounted Jesse Ventura as "not vetted" by the establishment and therefore "not allowed" to be Governor. Of course, I'm not associating Governor Palin with Governor Ventura on policies, but I think there is a dimension of this that was pioneered by Jesse. It is a completely different kind of "glass ceiling" that Jesse broke through and I don't think that the spirit of that accomplishment is now dead, but rather just in infancy. I believe we will be seeing many more "servants" coming to office in the future.
Thought?
Obama in a walk.
He’s like a drowning guy that won’t be saved. Doing the wrong stuff.
Instead of clinging to a rational strategy of running against McCain, he’s attacking the number two on the ticket. And every time he brings up a perceived shortcoming of hers, he highlights a real shortcoming of his own.
Could anything be more moronic?
Sneer? Contempt? Only when someone tries to trade on experience he doesn’t have.
And what would that be? Please be specific. If he has ever claimed Seal combat experience I have missed out on it.
You can't be serious. I am no Ross Perot fan, but the man completely upended the two-party system in 1992 running primarily on the idea that we needed somebody who was from completely outside the political system. Before his bizarre withdrawal from the race, he had a very real chance of winning that election and ended up with almost twenty percent of the vote. He followed it up with a second, less successful run representing his newly formed "Reform Party" in 1996.
Ventura was an outsider, for sure, but he ran as the candidate of Perot's Reform Party, only two years after Perot's second Presidential run, and in the wake of what appeared, at the time, to be a political landscape that had been changed in no small part by Ross Perot. To dismiss Perot's impact on those events as somehow irrelevant ignores history.
The best place for her to GET the experience would be as VP, if McCain acts like a good officer and treats her as his XO (Executive Officer) and grooms her with a view towards her being his successor.
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