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Sarah Palin is Channeling the Secret Thoughts of Republicans
Fri, 09/19/2008 - 2:08am | posted by Shana Kluck
Before Sarah Palin became McCain’s running mate, I have to admit that I really didn’t care if McCain or Obama won. They both seem equally evil, though for different reasons. One’s a populist warmongerer, the other a feel-good socialist - both are bad for America, so what difference did it really make?
But then Governor Palin popped into the picture and my perspective changed a bit. I realize she’s not perfect and it’s somewhat sickening to have to listen to her toe the party-line right now, but I still think she’s the best thing to hit a major two-party ticket in decades.
Senator McCain is not a conservative and the only reason he won the Republican nomination is because the conservative vote was split between the numerous other candidates considered more conservative, leaving him with a larger percentage of the vote compared to his contenders. McCain was not the the pick of the majority of Republican voters- he won by default.
But McCain is also no fool; hence his choice in running-mate. There can be no doubt that Palin is an olive-branch offered to win over the disgruntled Republican conservative voters. And after talking to many Republican voters in the past few weeks, I’m convinced that a large portion of them would be happier if McCain and Palin switched seats, allowing them to vote according to their conscience, not their party affiliation.
So, is Sarah secretly thinking along the same lines? Recent comments made by the Governor might lead one to think so.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The What and What administration?
Sarah Palin flipped the Republican presidential ticket around this week when she spoke about things the “Palin and McCain administration” would do in office.
To be sure, the vice presidential candidate is the top draw at joint rallies with her boss, presidential nominee John McCain. But he’s still the top of the ticket and the one who gets to order the drapes in the Oval Office if they win.
Palin made the comment at a rally Thursday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when she said she and McCain want to cut taxes for small business: “That’s exactly what we’re gonna do in a Palin and McCain administration.” Later in her speech, she reverted to the normal order in speaking about the “McCain-Palin administration.”
Palin also referred to McCain as “my running mate” Friday in Green Bay, Wis., as she did twice in Iowa the day before. Vice presidential candidates are usually referred to as the running mates, no matter which one is speaking.
Shana, one of the first things this chick does as McCain’s running mate is meet with LIEberman and AIPAC privately in her hotel. They probably did some weird Kabbalah ritual and made her pledge allegiance to Israel. She’s a total neocon puppet now.
I’m a conservative, and I’d actually prefer Obama win. McCain and his inner circle scare the shit out of me.
I’m not sure that Palin is enough for me. I love her and every time I see the media trying to destroy her, it makes me more sympathetic and supportive of her. However, McCain is absolutely not what America needs and he’s the one at the top of the ticket.
How anyone could be fooled by this woman is beyond me, but I’m learning to accept this fact: the people she appeals to don’t want to hear the truth, they want to hear their own prejudices parroted back at them by someone in power, validating their opinions. Then they don’t care what the powerful actually DO, and will make excuses for their political betrayals and incompetence.
Which explains eight horrible years of the Bush Crime Family. They have preached Love, and Freedom and Democracy, all while invading sovereign countries to steal their oil, and passing legislation purportedly to fight Terrorism, but ACTUALLY designed to wipe out the freedom of Americans, and running political prisons where those who are labeled “enemy combatants” - even American citizens - are taken after being kidnapped, held without benefit of counsel or indictment, and tortured.
Dude, who stole my country? Oh, yeah… it was Bushco. And now they want to hand it over to McCain and Palin for four more years of the same thing? Let’s change that line in the Pledge of Allegiance: “…And to the Republic, Which stands for pretty much NOTHING anymore…”
Yeeeeah. She smacks of the kind of woman that my mother meets working at the library, who notice that my little brother has a tattoo and then ask: “I thought he was a Christian…?”
Since I was a CHILD those anathemas have been wrong to me, and yet most adult conservatives have found a way to justify the banning of books (just not the bible), the right to choose (which you ‘keep’ if you make the ‘right’ choice), blatant fiscal irresponsibility (in the name of patriotism)—just to name a few. I’m a fiscal conservative who has watched conservatives build a bigger, more intrusive government, fail to keep taxes low, spend taxpayer money on everything under the sun with no accountability, then turn around an limit the rights of Americans. Sarah Palin embodies that which is wrong—arrogance, ignorance and politick rhetoric. I may think Obama’s stance on education and taxes could use some work, but I see him willing to listen to reason and the voice of the people. He at least chose a running mate qualified to lead the country. I see the Palin choice as the choice of a politician, not a leader. I see McCain/Palin as unable to listen to reason or the voice of the people when it comes to the issues I disagree with them about. In my opinion, we need to restore honor to the vice-presidency as much as the presidency.
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