Lieberman’s old aide: Palin a big risk
Blogging for the New York Daily News, Dan Gerstein writes:
In picking an unknown, untested, half-a-term woman governor from Alaska to be his running mate, John McCain is following in a long line of reckless men who have rolled the dice for a beauty queen. Except in this case, McCain is taking one of the biggest, boldest gambles in modern American political history.He's betting his presidency on a naked political play for holdout Hillary supporters and other female swing voters - and hoping that a large share of these predominantly pro-choice women will ignore or overlook Palin's staunch pro-life, anti-stem cell views.
But that's just the better half of it. McCain will now have to pull off a grand slam of cognitive dissonance - trying to discredit Barack Obama as unready to be Commander in Chief while trying to pawn off the least qualified candidate put on a national ticket in our lifetime as the second best choice to lead the most powerful nation in the world.
In theory, Gerstein continued, the choice could end up helping John McCain shore up his standing as a maverick and reformer. But not likely:
[W]hile it's plausible that Palin could prove a fresh-faced asset, the odds are that she will turn out to be a noticeable liability for McCain - if not an outright disaster. Running mates typically have little to no impact on voter decisions, but when they do, they tend to be negative. And Palin has the potential to hurt McCain in multiple ways.
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Talk about hypocracy and incompetence. obama voted against the war. ready is a skill that’s pretty handy…
I’m paraphrasing something I read elsewhere when I say there’s “mayor with 5,000 constituents/governor with 650,000 constituents” experience, and there’s “state senator with 210,000 constituents/US senator with 14.8 million constituents” experience.
Sarah Palin is a pander… a selection for purely political reasons.
...we need to keep an eye on those Canadians, who knows what our so-called best friend and neighbor might be plotting against us.
As for Senator Obama’s leadership ability, consider the tall tail of an unknown, mid-western Senator who launched and goes on to win a bare-knuckles primary campaign against a ‘shoe-in’ rival. To support this Hollywood screenplay, he raises $30,000,000 a month in small donations and then, in the middle of the dirtiest part of the fight, writes and delivers a speech on race that our grandchildren will read in school.
How did Senator Palin leadership earn her a place on his stage?
Sarah Palin is an extreme right wing NEO NAZI who openly supported Buchannan who is a HOLOCAUST DENIER and praised Hitler “as a man of great courage”. Palin never expressed her views about ISRAEL.
In addition, she is an evangelical idiot who still believes that THE EARTH IS FLAT and that evolution is wrong.
Jewish associations are outraged
link:http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Palin_on_Israel.html?showall
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Frederik
08/29/08 07:26 PM
***Lieberman’s old aide: Palin a big risk***
Question for Liebermann’s “old aid”: I PRESUME OBAMA IS NOT A BIG RISK WITH HIS “LOAD” OF EXECUTIVE AND FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCES?
Palin might have not been an Ivy League graduate nor she is black, but she ran a city and now is at the head of a state which borders with Russia and Canada.
What are Obama credentials, apart that he can read from teleprompter??