(07-01-2009 11:17 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote: She's a politician. Isn't this kind of a given?
They're all shameless self promoters, but her particular shtick to get elected as someone you like, or because she's "hot" (boy is that ever subjective) is exactly what is wrong with our political system right now. You guys have crucified (even going so far as tout him on a cross with your own designed images) Obama for shallowness in terms of his experience and "slick" (aka very measured and controlled) handling of the media, but this dumb broad basicly makes the case that the soccer mom two doors down from you should be veep.
I'm not that big of a fan of the establishment, and it is becoming more and more apparent that Obama is just as establishment as the rest of them, but a Palin is not the answer. That's the stupid reform option.
We have a lot of supposed "lift yourself up by the bootstraps" types here, and yet most of these are just blindly loyal republican partisans (apparently because of social issues such as OH NOES TEH GAYS), because they're busy playing hypocrite with every criticism of Obama's continuation of much of the Bush policies, but almost none of them prefer a smart, self made person who is campaigning on substantive, experienced positions on difficult economic and foreign and domestic issues, rather than "lipstick soccer mom" and wedge social issues such as gay marriage and abortion.
There's a few Paulians that I guess can claim that, but he's as much of an establishment type ideologue as the rest.
Would love to see a real pragmatist make a run. None of this "outsider" spray paint bull****. I want someone with some experience and a good track record, but who doesn't give two ***** about partisanship and approaches every decision without already having made up his/her mind because of ideology.
Unfortunately, our system doesn't work that way. So dittoheads like GGNiner will rush to elect someone who couldn't run the local PTA let alone the world's premier super power, on the off chance that she'll make whatever specific brand of christian dogma into the letter of the law for all of us.
And dont let GGNiner fool you. The only reason he wants this dummy in office is to do just that. He jerks off to dreams of a realized W.A.S.P. nation. The comical part is how he wants world WASP domination, completely missing the irony of his islamic extremist criticisms.