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It's NOT Gov. Palin, it's Sen. McCain.
The more I read and hear about Gov. Palin this and Gov. Palin that, the more I get the uneasy sense that we're barking and snorting down the wrong track.
Gov. Palin is who she is, nothing more or less. That is to say she is a clever, attractive, media-savvy campaigner, with an interesting (if a little off-center) biography. She has some "outsider" traits that might possibly appeal to everyday moderate undecideds, especially women: Small-town mother-of-five, fisherman husband, and all that. True, not true? Hardly matters - that's the story, and they're sticking to it. She's not personally to BLAME that Sen. McCain put her on the ticket, and the highly personal backlash SHE is getting (not him), is rightly or wrongly rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.
Her one REAL problem is that she possesses abysmally few of the qualifications required to be President. That is on Sen. McCain and his advisors. They were the ones who made this calculated choice. It seems to me the debate would be better served and more to the point, if that was where the bulk of the criticism was directed.
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I agree with you 100%. Women are switching to McCain in droves and we continue to attack Palin. Turn the attack dogs on McCain, for crying out loud.
He IS the Presidential candidate, after all.
Gee-willickers...
September 9, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
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