There were some unintentionally hilarious quotes by our NC state leaders about Gov. Palin in the print-version of The Charlotte Observer this morning:
Rep. Sue Myrick (Rep): "Beside every good man is a great woman --- brilliant choice!"
Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory (Rep): "I think Gov. Sarah Palin, a former mayor with a background of cleaning up state government, is a great choice for vice president."
Rep G.K. Butterfield (Dem): "I can't even pronounce her last name."
Rep Mel Watt (Dem): "I don't know what to make of it. I never heard of her before today."
There's so much daylight between the Republicans' "Most mavericky, brilliant choice EVER!" and the Democrats' "Sarah, Who?" Are they even talking about the same person?
This selection is about as cynically political (no surprise there) and irresponsible a choice that the oldest-ever-presidential candidate could have made. It will backfire on him. While tactically this announcement succeeded in stepping all over Obama's after-convention victory lap, in the long run it's a strategic blunder with two important groups of voters. The Hillary Clinton-like, moderate women will not move to her (in truth, Palin scares the wits out them.); and Blue Collar men will not vote for a hockey-mom Governor, because in the end she'll remind them too much of their wives.
What makes McCain's choice so clearly frightening to me is when I view it in context of the other stories of the day -- the Gustav hurricane evacuations in the Gulf States and Friday's anniversary of the Katrina's devastation of New Orleans. We all know what happened when Bush appointed an untested, inexperienced Michael Brown to head FEMA . This vice presidential appointment of McCain's has the potential to be disastrous to much more than just his own campaign.
Rep. Sue Myrick (Rep): "Beside every good man is a great woman --- brilliant choice!"
Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory (Rep): "I think Gov. Sarah Palin, a former mayor with a background of cleaning up state government, is a great choice for vice president."
Rep G.K. Butterfield (Dem): "I can't even pronounce her last name."
Rep Mel Watt (Dem): "I don't know what to make of it. I never heard of her before today."
There's so much daylight between the Republicans' "Most mavericky, brilliant choice EVER!" and the Democrats' "Sarah, Who?" Are they even talking about the same person?
This selection is about as cynically political (no surprise there) and irresponsible a choice that the oldest-ever-presidential candidate could have made. It will backfire on him. While tactically this announcement succeeded in stepping all over Obama's after-convention victory lap, in the long run it's a strategic blunder with two important groups of voters. The Hillary Clinton-like, moderate women will not move to her (in truth, Palin scares the wits out them.); and Blue Collar men will not vote for a hockey-mom Governor, because in the end she'll remind them too much of their wives.
What makes McCain's choice so clearly frightening to me is when I view it in context of the other stories of the day -- the Gustav hurricane evacuations in the Gulf States and Friday's anniversary of the Katrina's devastation of New Orleans. We all know what happened when Bush appointed an untested, inexperienced Michael Brown to head FEMA . This vice presidential appointment of McCain's has the potential to be disastrous to much more than just his own campaign.
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Poor Grandpa, His dementia has flared up again.
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