Things I Look Forward To
I’m excited about the Palin pick…I think it’s a good pick on several different levels (fiscal conservative!)…but, here’s the battle I look forward to.
Palin as VP, and Obama as President have comparable political experience. Does this mean that criticisms of VP by Democrats as inexperienced going to be valid? Obama has little experience and they’re okay with that. So that means that the criticism will lie on Dems criticizing Republicans for choosing someone with little experience after criticizing their candidate having little experience. This again, holds little water…the Vice President is not the Commander in Chief…and does not sign anything into law, has no veto power, and does not make policy directly. What the Vice President does (currently more it seems, not necessarily historically) is advise and council the President.
Where Palin has “credentials” is Fiscal Conservatism. In her 2 years of executive experience as Governor (this doesn’t include any of her political offices she’s held since 1992), she’s made a 180 with Alaska. Ted Stevens aside, she’s actively attempted to depork the state of Alaska, which per capita, was number one suckling at the federal teet. She cut millions from the budget, sold the unnecessary governor’s jet, and has been actively working on opening up pipelines to provide more energy to the United States. In my mind, she’s a good pick, because at each level of government she’s been in, she has taken the job seriously…and done her job faithfully, and kept true to her conservatism…she hasn’t used it as a leap pad into more power. Maybe this is me just emoting, and putting aside the more “cerebral” (to borrow Prager terms), but I like the fact this isn’t something she was looking for, and it wasn’t something she was actively pursuing. She seems to me (is this what Obama supporters feel like?) that she cares about the country first, and takes her duty seriously, not simply as ego affirmation.
What comforts me is the fact that as unknown and as inexperienced as she is, she’s not going to be number one. What comforts me is that she’s support. What comforts me is that she can’t be criticized directly for her inexperience…but can only be attacked by attacking the views of those who attack Obama, which really only validates our views anyways.
As an aside,
Dear Chris Matthews,
If you don’t vote for Palin, you’re sexist, and worse than Hitler.
You opened this door.
Additional: Mr. Coleman hit’s the nail on the top of the nail with a hammer used for hitting nails.
When it come to executive expeirence, Palin has more then Barry O,Bidin and McShamnesty combined.
None of them have been a Mayor, nor a Governor.