Posted on 10/21/2008 9:00:48 AM PDT by jessduntno
POLITICAL FUTURES
“Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media.
The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be ‘a heartbeat away from the presidency’ if Senator John McCain were elected.
Sarah Palin’s record is on the record, while whole years of Barack Obama’s life are engulfed in fog, and he has had to explain away one after another of the astounding and vile people he has not merely ‘associated’ with but has had political alliances with, and to whom he has directed the taxpayers’ money and other money.
Sarah Palin has had executive experience—and the White House is the executive branch of government. We don’t have to judge her by her rhetoric because she has a record.
We don’t know what Barack Obama will actually do because he has actually done very little for which he was personally accountable.
More than that, her whole life has been outside the realm familiar to the intelligentsia of the media. She didn’t go to the big-name colleges and imbibe the heady atmosphere that leaves so many feeling that they are special folks. She doesn’t talk the way they talk or think the way they think. ...
Whatever the shortcomings of John McCain and Sarah Palin, they are people whose values are the values of this nation, whose loyalty and dedication to this country’s fundamental institutions are beyond question because they have not spent decades working with people who hate America.” —Thomas Sowell
Can this not be included in the new "Unfit for Duty" campaign that P{lugs Biden has now made possible?
Ripped off for my tagline...or something to that point
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Democrats are just plain scared of Palin.
Palin wasn’t ready. Those first interviews hurt. Sure, they were ‘gotcha’ interviews, but what matters was how she handled them. She needed more seasoning and experience. Otherwise, she’s a great political talent.
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