I believe the real tragedy concerning the Palin pick, shouldn’t be so focused on Palin herself.
The real scandal was that McCain himself was so repulsive to the party as a whole, that he had to do the outlandish and nominate some unknown that the public would see as a Conservative and counter-balance his Leftist leaning stupidity.
McCain had to find a person that was not well known, because he didn’t want them to have enough chops to be able to force his actions after being elected. He planned to pick her, get elected, and ignore her.
As others have stated, without her he would have been destroyed at the polls. As it was, the vote didn’t go into the realm of ‘embarrassing’.
I have said it a number of times on this forum. You do join a team to moderate it from full on Leftist. You do not back a full blown Leftist for return to office.
Palin did this. Her endorsement of him to return to Washington, D. C. was a full-on Leftist enabling act.
Conservatives don’t enable Leftists.
Palin’s endorsements today may mean something to some people. They mean nothing to me. If you can endorse McCain for office knowing what there is to know, how in the Sam Hell is it a reliable endorsement when you endorse others.
Her endorsements are worthless. Unless you know the candidate’s history yourself, I’d advise people to dismiss her endorsements.
If only they would have in Arizona...
Palin today loves to play the role of Conservative spokesperson. She destroyed that ability in my eyes, when she decided to back the worst Republican I’ve ever been aware of.
Thanks but no thanks Sarah. Cheney was right. I still don’t know what other choice McCain had at the time. Known visible Conservatives would not have been as malleable as Sarah turned out to be.
Was she ready to be president? No.
You are 100 percent correct D1.
On the question of being ‘ready to serve as President’, there are few people (including me) who would have chosen either McCain or 0bama to be President if Sarah Palin had been running for the same office and not as Vice President. Her conservative credentials, regardless of how one views them, are certainly preferable to the Kenyan Douchebag, and the Arizona ‘Maverick’ (cough, choke, spew). Everyone wishes she had gone after the GOP nomination this year, it is generally accepted that it was hers for the taking IF she had chosen to compete.
She didn’t. And I remember clearly the shrieking, howling, the gnashing of teeth and the fury from some of her supporters right here on FR when she made her announcement that she would not be a candidate, one could almost hear them plucking their own eyeballs out of their sockets, burning down their own houses, and killing their farm animals in a paroxysm of rage.
MANY (not all, but many) of Sarah’s supporters are quite frankly mentally unhinged. As unhinged as the mindless zombies who chanted ‘Hope & Change’ for 0bama-lama-ding-dong 4 years ago.
They did her a disservice then, and some still do.