A dislike of Gov. Palin = a dislike for brave Americans.
More generally, an envious dislike for valor.Still more generally, an envious and arrogant contempt for those in all fields who work to a bottom line and get things done.
Theodore RooseveltThere is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . .
As a Republican, I find John McCain seriously lacking in just as many Republican ideals as I found in both the President's Bush. And also President Reagan.
As an individual voter, I am left to vote for one of two candidates for POTUS.
Yet again, it is a choice of the lessor of two evils.
With the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ballot, I can force myself to not take a shooter before I cast a vote for McCain.
There is no amount of alcohol that would induce me to vote for Barack Hussein Obama for POTUS.