Palin Is Ready? Please.

For those people who think that the press is being too hard on Sarah Palin or that this is a liberal attack on her, please step back and examine the facts. Sarah Palin has done three interviews since being selected as VP, that is unprecedented. Given that Palin, her views, her record, and her skills were virtually unknown to the majority of the country it would be an absolute crime to not investigate her. We need to understand her position on everything since she could easily become our next President. McCain and his people clearly do not trust her to speak on her own. That is fact, not liberal attack. She was not even allowed to do spin last night, something that should have been fairly easy as she could have stuck to fairly easy praise for John McCain.

If you read what she said just in the excerts in this article they clearly make no sense. It is a rambling comination of memorized talking points coming out together in a combination that makes no sense. This has nothing to do with her being a woman, or her views. This is about her being qualified to help run this country, and her ability to run the country. I want her treated as an equal and that means that McCain has to let her stand or fall on her own.

Each day I believe it becomes clearer that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President or one heart beat away from the Presidency. Senator McCain's judgement in the last few weeks has been so poor, he does not deserve to be President of the United States. McCain has played politics with the financial crisis. He has supported Bush for 8 years and now asks the American public to allow him to continue the failed policies of Bush for 4 more years. The Country needs change. We do not need a person that refuses to look his opponent in the eye, claim to be bi-partisan, and yet refuses once to agree with any opinion expressed by Senator Obama in last night's debate.

What sort of education is required to be considered "ready" for vice-president of the country? Is there a degree at stanford or harvard that certifies one as "VP qualified"? What sort of experience did Hillary Clinton have before running for Senator - how about running for president? Some in the media clailmed that Nancy Pelosi was qualified to be speaker of the house because she was a grandmother! WHAT!? Stop and take a moment and reflect on the way the media has treated liberal women in politics vs conservative women. Sarah Palin is their worst nightmare come true...and therefore she must be destroyed.

Bravo....I have been waiting for someone to show the guts to say what I have been thinking about McCain and this choice. This is very irresponsible. If Senator McCain is such a maverick, why did he have to pander to that lunatic religious faction that continues to hamper the Republican Party. He is just like any other Republican politician that continues to feel the need to satisfy the religious right. He should have picked Gov. Huckabee.

Based on all available facts and logic, McCains choice is simply irresponsible. Hey, maybe Palin is some wonderwoman and turns out (if elected) to be as good as Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton (whatever your preference). But the choice itself, right now, based on available information, is just plain scary and irresponsible. About 90% of Democrats would be uncomfortable with her as President. Also, about 30% of Republicans would be uncomfortable with as President. If McCain wins, there is a chance he will not live out his term. Why in the world does he have to put the Nation under such stress? Its just plain stupid and irresponsible!! .

Republicans clearly have a problem, why else would they be keeping Palin in the plastic bubble?

She wasn't even allowed to speak to the press to provide the usual spin and "McCain won" talking points babble that campaign staff habitually provide. If she spoke to the press, she'd have to answer questions, too, and that would implode the debate talking point storyline, right?

Each day I believe it becomes clearer that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President or one heart beat away from the Presidency. Senator McCain's judgement in the last few weeks has been so poor, he does not deserve to be President of the United States. McCain has played politics with the financial crisis. He has supported Bush for 8 years and now asks the American public to allow him to continue the failed policies of Bush for 4 more years. The Country needs change. We do not need a person that refuses to look his opponent in the eye, claim to be bi-partisan, and yet refuses once to agree with any opinion expressed by Senator Obama in last night's debate.

If you think John McCain is such a strong military leader then you had better think back to the South Carolina primary of 2000. The Carl Rove machine painted John McCain's military career as flawed and brought out veterans to discredit him. If you agreed to believe this about McCain then, how can you give Sara Palin any credentials.

McCain's VP choice should be seen as political malpractice. A group of us regular joe citizens in So. CA have sentiments that match Mr. Zakaria's, as well, which we publish in this 44 second video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpT8h4cX0U8

palin is trailer trash stupid and Mc Cain is a weak man. he is full of the bravado that has sunk this country the last 8 years. fake man. weak man. castrated man. just like bush. pathetic, outrageous liar that is representing the rich to get richer. how could anyone with an income less than 250,000 a year support McCain?

As Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin ordered the town hospital to make women who were sexually assualted or raped pay for their own forensic investigation kits. The federal law that Joe Biden got passed through Congress specifically prohibited this. Alaska state legislators had to pass a state law requiring Wasilla to stop this practice. We need to ask her why Wasilla did this to women in the first place.

Pali is a stalking horse who, having got the extreme right on board, will be replaced by Mit Romney a few days before the electiion.

Lastly:

The great insight of the Palin VP choice is that huge chunks of American voters no longer even demand that their candidates actually have policy positions; they simply consume them as media entertainment, rooting for or against them according to the reflexive prejudices of their demographic, as they would for reality-show contestants or sitcom characters. Hicks root for hicks, moms for moms, born-agains for born-agains. Sure, there was politics in the Palin speech, but it was all either silly lies or merely incidental fluffery buttressing the theatrical performance.

For those people who think that the press is being too hard on Sarah Palin or that this is a liberal attack on her, please step back and examine the facts. Sarah Palin has done three interviews since being selected as VP, that is unprecedented. Given that Palin, her views, her record, and her skills were virtually unknown to the majority of the country it would be an absolute crime to not investigate her. Further, by refusing to allow her to be interviewed the McCain camp is saying that they don't trust her abilities or her judgment. Given just the excerpts of her interview in this article I challenge anyone to say that it makes sense.

This is not liberals attacking Palin, it is the plain, hard truth. If she cannot handle the American press we cannot dare put her across the negotiating table against anyone. She wasn't even allowed to do spin last night where she could focus on just saying that McCain did a good job. If they can't trust her to do that we can't trust her as VP or worse, as President.