VP

Slimline?


It seems yankeepez (Mark) and I are doing pretty good at predicting VP candidates. In his blog a while back, Mark surmised "If I had to pick for him I say Biden as VP" that Joe Biden would be the best candidate to run with Barack Obama. In this blog a while back, I said that "If McCain has sense enough to select a middle-of-the-road minority or woman outsider as his political help-mate, he should be a shoo-in as our next president".

I don't know about the shoo-in part, but this surely has the Obama people worried. If Sarah Palin is politically clean in her home state of Alaska, she can be a tremendous help in wooing women voters whom see Obama as too much show and not enough go.

The good:

• She has a history of being her own woman and no one's patsy
• She seems to be able to get things done, at least in Alaska. (I know; being second or even first in command for all of America is quite a step up from sparsely populated Alaska)
• She talks the talk and walks the walk
  
• She has a child with a major disability (not a good thing, but it does give her a lot of insight on problems the handicapped and disabled and their families face)
  
• She has only two years experience in any kind of major political office
• She has pissed-off people in both political parties
  
• She is physically attractive, and that seems to be important to how much media coverage a candidate receives
• She is no Dan Quayle
  

The bad:

• She has a lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association, an organization to which a lot of women are flatly opposed
• She has only two years experience in any kind of major political office
• She is a proponent of breaking the constitutionality of separation of church and state
• She opposes same sex marriage
• She is for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and McCain is against it
• Her husband works for British Petroleum

Of course all of these things aren't necessarily real bad or real good, but they are all going to be talked about a lot in the coming presidential marathon.

McCain's timing was perfect on this selection because it steals the thunder from the freshly invigorated Democrats, and gives him some needed momentum going into the Republican convention.

This is building up to be one hell of an election, but I still won't vote. None of the concerned parties running deserve to be in high office!
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