Re: McCain announces a weird choice for VPrazy

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McCain has just announced the name of his running mate: Governor
Sarah Palin of Alaska. She's younger than Obama, has no federal
experience, and has limited political experience. She's an unknown.

I don't get it. McCain has the risk of dying or becoming disabled in
office and he chose an inexperienced unknown. From Alaska.

Wake me up when the election is over.

Let me take a wild guess:

- Many women voters who voted for Hillary Clinton feel disenfranchised,
some even saying they would rather not vote or vote for McCain than vote
for Obama. Fact.

- McCain knows this and has actively been pursuing their votes. Fact.

- McCain is pandering to disenfranchised Hillary voters buy putting a
woman on his own ticket.

- Let's say for the moment that he decided some time ago that he
definitely wanted a woman on the ticket for the above reason. Can you
therefore think of a better Republican selectee than a Governor from a
western state (he needs western states), albeit with little experience?
If not, then this is the obvious choice, not weird at all. So, who
better
than Palin, if the first criterion is a Republican woman? Kay Hutchison?
He doesn't need Texas. It's already a lock. Liddy Dole? Too old.

- The current President won as a Governor of a western state with zero
federal experience.

- Because McCain is "old", the disenfranchised Hillary voters have all
the
more reason to fantasize that a woman can become President.

- Strategically, it is a brilliant move. Brilliant! It just might work,
if the disenfranchised Hillary voters are stupid enough to now vote for
McCain, just because there is now a woman on his ticket.

Get it now?

Well said, plus, she is a normal woman compared to the crazylady Hillary.
Palin is well rounded as an outdoors person, mother of 5 with a special
needs child, husband is a union worker. The middle class will identify
with
her.

Also, 16 presidents were former governors.- Hide quoted text -

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Bill Clinton and many others were forger governors.  That doesn't
bother me.  What bothers me is Palin has been governor for only 2
years and has little additional experience.

Virtually all of our presidents were "forger" Governors, Senators, and
members of the House.  I would think that once a person has attained that
level of government service, the next level of promotion is to the
Presidency.  As much as I will not vote for the Irish candidate O'Bama
(despite my Irish father coming to America in 1950) , I do not have a
problem with his experience.  HillBillary is in her second term as a Senator
and that amount of experience gives her the opportunity to run for the
Presidency.  Nothing about her term as First Lady can be called experience.
A First Lady ='s June Cleaver, of Leave it to Beaver fame, so those 8 years
are out.

I view the little experience as the ability to think outside the box of the
experienced Washington insiders.-


It sounds as if Palin appeals to you very much.

I agree that being able to think outside the box of Washington
insiders is nice . . . . but McCain's VP choice must also have
experience in key areas such as foreign policy, the national economy,
etc. Palin has some experience but of short duration and her
experience is in Alaska. I'm not knocking Alaska, but being governor
of Alaska means to me she has no foreign policy experience which is
currently very important since we are at war and given all the crazy
things happening in the world. Plus Alaska is a unique place with
unique issues and problems. Based on her experience, I don't see how
Palin can be "in touch" with the needs of heavily populated,
industrialized states. I don't see proof that she has experience on
national economic issues.
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