Let me add to the pile of diaries on the vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party - Gov. Sarah Palin.
Like a lot of people, I am leery of piling on Palin herself, as I think the only way she can add value as a candidate is if people see her as the victim from ruthless attacks on our side.
However, it doesn't stop me from falling down, peeing in my pants laughing at the hypocrisy of 1) The Republican Party; 2) The McCain Campaign; and 3) Those who support the McCain campain.
Follow me on this adventure of glee and wonderment.
First and foremost is the mob of Republicans who are now coming out to support Palin as VP. Among their arguments are:
- Intelligence;
- New face, new energy;
- Judgment; and
- Change.
Now, if I told you those qualities of a person involved in the Presidential campaign, who would you think I was talking about? Yep, Obama. Not only are they making arguments which not only support her legitimacy, but at the same time are corroborating why Obama should be President. It also reveals their shallowness, hypocrisy and insincerity in that it undermines every single smear that they have leveled at Obama not being qualified.
The Huffington Post has also come out with leading Republicans who smeared John Edwards as not being qualified as VP when he was a candidate, but in turn have glowing praise for Palin. So a first term U.S. Senator is not qualified, but a governor of one of our least populated states is - after 18 months in office?
Then we come to McCain's having hoisted Iraq as being the end all, be all reason we should vote for him. By her own admission, Palin knows almost nothing about Iraq and has not followed the war. "Has not followed the war..." Are you freakin' kidding me!
Two newspapers in Alaska have come out saying that she is not qualified to be President, and one of her chief rivals, Lyda Green, has even added this stinger, "She's not even qualified to be the governor of Alaska." Ba-da-bing! Her own mother-in-law, you know, the mother of the man she is married to and has been dating since high school 1) does not know who she is going to vote for; and 2) does not understand what her daughter-in-law brings to the ticket.
Finally, when the rubber meets the asphalt, a couple of Republicans, including the always thoughtful Cindy "Private Airplane is the only way to travel" McCain have made this point. "Well, people don't realize that Alaska is our closest state to Russia..." This is where I wet myself.
Some thoughts. Those parts of Russia are Koryak and Churkot, where almost nobody lives. True it is very close to northern Alaska, where...wait for it....almost nobody lives. Both are very distant from the heart and center of Russia, in fact almost a continent away.
Following this ingenious line of logic, if Palin's home were close to a hospital, does that mean Sarah is qualified to perform surgery? Maybe she could write prescriptions, which of course, would be very helpful to Cindy McCain.
Well, if that's the case for her expertise on international politics, I might as well point out that the closest state to the Middle East is Hawaii. Now if only we had a candidate from there....
God Bless you John McCain, thank you, thank you, thank you....