Palin’s speech
Writing by abuhatem on Friday, 29 of August , 2008 at 12:13 pm
Some thoughts:
- She’s better for the GOP than a socially liberal, fiscally liberal, foreign policy militant democratic imperialist like Joe Lieberman.
- She’s better than a former socially liberal, economically moderate, foreign policy militant like Mitt Romney.
- I know she is supposed to be a “Buchananite” but I don’t see what Pat Buchanan sees in her.
- Her contention that John McCain is the best solution to the republican party shows how “traditional” she is.
- I know she is his VP, but any true traditionalist conservative does not endorse McCain.
- She praised her son’s army service. I am very pro-defense well. However, being pro-defense doesn’t mean being pro-offense, and that is what our army is being used on today.
- She truly is pro-life it appears, and she is pro-family and opposes same sex marriage. I don’t know if her strong anti-abortion stance will truly win her over with Hillary voters. It doesn’t win over pro-lifers like me because I can’t be pro-life and vote for John McCain who doesn’t respect the sanctity of life in Iraq.
- She’s been governor for 1 year and 8 months. Before that she was a mayor for a very short period and actually put “City Council” and “PVA” on her resume in her speech today. That wins over people like me who hate people with “experience” in Washington - but the McCain camp now can’t keep pulling the experience card on Obama - and Obama is going to fight back when they attack him on foreign policy experience. Obama’s campaign’s argument will sound something like this: McCain said that his VP was going to be primarily someone who was qualified to be President - Sarah Palin has less experience both in government and in foreign policy than I do - thus I have sufficient experience to be commander in chief.
- Palin’s emphasis on her ability to be a “reformer” and not be “bound to the GOP” kills two birds with one stone. To Christian conservatives and others on the socially conservative Right she is arguing that she is not bound to the GOP’s corruption and loss of principle concerning the original Reaganite message. To average Americans watching at home including Hillary voters and independents it is saying “Although John McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time - I am a maverick and an independent and not bound by my party.” Yet this is a fundamental contradiction - she can’t be all things to all people - and one wonders what she truly is?
- Chuck Todd on MSNBC said that Joe Biden will not be able to pounce on her now during the VP debates, thus McCain has effectively neutralized everything good about Biden. If Biden gangs up on her during the VP debate it will appear like he is bullying since Palin is a woman.
In all, I have to agree with David Beito the Independent Institute’s the Beacon blog on this one:
Truth in adversting. I despise nearly everything McCain stands for and hope he loses. Having said that, unless the media finds skeletons in her closet, the Palin pick is a very smart move on his part. It reinforces his conservative base and helps him with women and independent voters. He might just win this?! A depressing thought.
Obama’s choice of Biden, by contrast, was completely uninspired. Biden. as the ultimate insider, only serves to undermine Obama’s “change” message.
Category: American Politics
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