Okay, so I guess all the pundits and preachers on television were all wrong. As we thought, John McCain ( a noun, a verb, POW) was either going to pick Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, or Tom Ridge as his VP pick. Yet, he chose an unknown entity with hopes of getting disenfranchised Hillary supporters on board.
How typical. And yet, we're to believe that this is an honorable man.
I'm not fooled by this selection. I was not a Hillary supporter, nor did I believe at the beginning of this process that Barack Obama was going to win the nomination. But to think, after Hillary's magnificent speech just a few nights ago, where she poured her heart and soul to many, including her 18 million supporters, that the so-called disenfranchised woman is going to entrust their future to a party that virtually hates half of the people of this country is just insulting.
But this is clearly out of the GOP playbook.
The Republican Party knows that the American people do not trust them when it comes to domestic issues. Foreign policy, maybe.
John McCain has been proven wrong, time and time again.
From the economy to the Iraq War, John McCain has looked like a chump rather than a man of honor.
So, instead of having a clear and concise debate about these issues he turns to the gutter politics that have defined his party for many years. And to top it all of he chooses a virtual unknown as his running mate to appeal to women who have reservations about Obama because he beat Hillary in the primary.
We are seeing the actions of a man who clearly needed a way to top his opponent after the impressive political show that was the Democratic National Convention. We are seeing the actions of a gentleman who doesn't know how to respond to that gorgeous, patriotic speech that Senator Obama gave last night on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's I have a Dream speech.
I'm not the biggest fan of Hillary Rodham Clinton, but Sarah Palin, you are no Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If anything this affirms the belief that the Republican Party should just wither away into the wilderness for a long time until it transforms itself back to the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Once Governor Palin gets on stage to debate the man from Delaware, Joe Biden, the American public will get the idea that this just a con. And once they get that idea, John McCain will suffer a defeat that I don't he and the Republican party will never recover from.