First, to anybody with eyes, particularly red-blooded males, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard said about Bristol, and one of the dumbest I’ve heard said about any member of the family. And that’s an impressive achievement.
Second, aside from political disagreements, the one major beef folks on here had about President Bush is that he didn’t want to mix it up with folks when he was right and they were wrong. So now we have a candidate who will go at you if you do that, and so will her kids if you do it to them. And we have folks who say “ooh, that’s not nice.” Well...up yours, and the horse you rode in on. Enough is enough.
Pardon my language. Really, I’d like to tell you that if the GOP nominates somebody other than Sarah Palin, they’ll be able to win the election while avoiding the drama. The problem is that avoiding the drama is most likely not going to be an option, this election or probably the next few. The other party and the press will create drama for anybody who gets the nomination. So the question is, who can stand the heat and the pressure, turn them to good use and keep up the fight anyway? From what I’ve seen, I’ve got a pretty good idea that the gov can. The other guys? I don’t know. Well, in Huckabee’s case, I’m actively unimpressed with his temperament, and the rest I just don’t know. And it’s something we really would be better off knowing before we nominate any of them. It’s going to matter as much as anything else, if not more.