This candidate is a big media celebrity, making speeches to large, adoring crowds replete with fawning media coverage. But this candidate has no experience in national-level politics. Are we ready to take a chance on a media celebrity with no substance or experience, whose supporters think is 'The One', chosen by God to lead our nation? What has this candidate really done to demonstrate the ability to meet the challenges of the day, and lead our nation through these difficult times?
The media has done very little to examine the life and career of this celebrity candidate. Has this candidate ever sat down with a world leader and negotiated a deal? Has the candidate ever had to make tough decisions that affect the nation? What do we really know about this candidate's associates and friends?
This celebrity candidate gives nice speeches, and is very telegenic. We can all understand where the celebrity comes from.
But what do we see when we look a little closer?
This celebrity candidate has a pastor who has said that God will curse this nation.
This celebrity candidate has made common cause with men who are known terrorists dedicated to the destruction of the United States of America.
This celebrity candidate has not yet faced the domestic press corps. How will the candidate handle a hostile world, in which our domestic security is at stake?
This celebrity candidate has not been properly vetted in a political campaign.
This celebrity candidate has not shown the ability to reach across partisan lines to build a consensus and get things accomplished.
This celebrity candidate belongs to a extremist, fanatical religious sect that says God punishes Jews because they deserve it, and that the Jews will have to accept its religion or face eternal damnation.
This celebrity candidate may enforce extremist religious views on everyone else, regardless of their beliefs.
This celebrity candidate's spouse has made associations with people who place other interests ahead of the country's interest.
This celebrity candidate's spouse may in fact hate America (or at least love it second).
Every past action by this candidate indicates that we are in for more of the same old politics. We cannot expect change from this celebrity candidate.
Once this candidate's celebrity wears off, we will see that there is no substance there, and that this candidate is unfit for high office.
For we will then see that the candidate's short political career has been built on wedge issues, cronyism, fealty, abuse of power, and dishonesty.
We will see that this candidate has only a superficial understanding at best of the difficult challenges we face as a nation, and no serious capacity to address those challenges.
We will also see that the man who selected her as his running mate is manifestly unqualified for the office of President, by virtue of that signal decision.
So let us work together, so that our nation sees the lies and hypocrisy of the GOP, who have placed themselves squarely in the crosshairs of their own attack lines.
Will the media do their jobs for a change, and show these Republicans as they are, hoisted on their own petard?