“It’s the Second Amendment, Stupid!!!!”
It kept Huckaby in the race. It was the bone McCain threw to try and bury Huckaby when he should have been clintonizing Obama.
It resulted in Gore losing Tennessee of all things. Powerful stuff that Second Amendment...
I’ve been paying attention to politics for many years. I have a record on this website of predicting what the presidency of George Bush would look like, written in posts from 1999 to 2000, that turned out to be scarily correct. Unfortunately, he got the nomination anyway, and as it ended up I had to vote for him, both in 2000 and 2004. However, I read his character, his strengths and weaknesses, correctly in 1999, and my reading was that, although he was a nice enough fellow, he was unqualified for the intellectual challenges of the presidency. I was right, and his failed presidency is the proof.
Palin is less qualified than Bush was, far less.
It may give you satisfaction to pretend that only “kool-aid drinkers” and “dupes” would find fault with Sarah Palin. Knock yourself out. But the reality is, Palin, because she doesn’t have Bush’s family tree, is not only far less qualified than he was, she’s also far less electable.
I’m not at all worried that she’ll make it to the White House, a luxury I didn’t have with George Bush. She has no shot whatsoever.