Re: Why the left is scared to death of McCain's running mate.; by by William Kristol


"SMBalloon" <smballoon@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm curious as to what people think of Kristol's analysis.

Since when is an uncritical paean of praise to a woman he never heard of two
weeks ago an "analysis?"
Let me sum up the actual argument here: Most people think Biden will wipe up
the place with this woman. If she does any
better than being humiliated, then she is the big winner.

Does this "analysis" remind you of anything? Yup. This is the way Kristol
and his pals handled Bush debating his own opponents:
"Since the pundits think Bush is an inarticulate buffoon, if he comes away
with a few complete sentences, we can paint him as the big winner!"
It happened, and then they sold it. And we ended up buying eight years . .
..of an inarticulate buffoon. Just set the bar low. . .and congratulate your
candidate when he/she clears it!

I don't care if the Governor of Alaska reads a teleprompter or a script
better than Joe Biden (after all, she was a TV news/sports reader, wasn't
she?). Her unapologetic
religious beliefs, as Kristol put it, don't belong on a resume for VP or
President, any more than they belong on a resume for dogcatcher. I notice he
left out the two ethics investigations
ongoing in Alaska. As for her being qualified because she is a wife and a
mother, those are both honorable estates, but no qualifications to holding
office, any more than John McCain's two marriages make him twice as
qualified as Barack Obama, or the two religions he has deeply believed in in
his life make him twice as qualified as Barack Obama. Kristol's discussion
of the Alaska Governor "breaking through all kinds of barriers" is
mystifying. I'm not sure what barriers she broke through. There have been
plenty of woman on fishing boats, on small town councils, as mayors of small
towns, as TV news talking heads, at University of Idaho, and heaven knows,
plenty of female governors of states, big and small. Which barriers did this
woman shatter, other than the small-resume barrier?

This is a puff-piece, not an analysis. Kristol is the one who is scared,
pointing at the other side, calling THEM scared. The only thing this woman
brings to the table is that she appears young, healthy & entirely uninvolved
in her academic and public life with the two issues most plaguing our
nation: Foreign Policy and the Economy. If we wanted to fight another 8
years of a culture war over religion, abortion, or the rights of fishermen
in coastal waters, she's your candidate.

In the end, I have no idea whether this strange electorate of our's will
find this woman beguiling, charming, or somehow qualified. The only thing I
am sure of is that if Bill Kristol and Steve Balloon were looking across the
aisle at a Democratic Nominee with this personal history, they would be
writing columns entitled, "The Coming Democratic Electoral Catastrophe and
Their Elitist Contempt for the Voter."


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