This article (click here) does a quite good job of explaining what it is about Sarah Palin that has many people so hot under the collar.
I think the big thing is that she has done squat to address any national issues that I am aware of, other than to play to Evangelicals on rightwing radio. Call me old fashioned, I have trouble seeing that as sufficient. I love her original claim to have been to "Iraq, Kuwait, Ireland and Germany". It turns out that "Ireland" was a refueling stop and Iraq was a "stand at the border and gaze at it" which one presumes must have been highly educational. And her talk of one being able to SEE into Russia from some parts of Alaska? Hey, I transited Moscow one time during the Cold War and went into the terminal and waited for two hours and then got back on the plane. Lots of guys in fur hats were carrying machine guns with rotary magazines, like the old Thompson machine guns in the movies. And they looked very, very ready to use them. When we left Moscow our Air India flight had taken on a half plane load of Russian vacationers, heading for India on holiday. A bunch of them stayed in my favorite hotel in New Delhi and drank constantly while displaying their disturbingly white and overfed bodies at the poolside.
Based on that week-long experience, don't you think that I qualify as an expert on Russia, Russian military affairs and Russian society? Based on the Palin-Principle, clearly that would be so.
So yes, John McCain has really stirred things up, got his crowds of supporters all stirred up, got the talking heads... well, talking, and he has captured a couple of news cycles and some polls. Now what? Aside from McCain enjoying her smart-mouthed trash-talk and her odd quasi-Canadian accent, what now? Can anyone imagine the havoc of permitting her to actually govern? Alaska seems embroiled in a political fight already. Are we looking for one, or are we looking for something more productive than a fight for fight's sake. Ever wonder why John McCain got into so many plane crashes? Just unlucky? No, I always suspected it was because he has something like ADD. He just doesn't pay too much attention to things and he does things impulsively. I am no flier, but I did ride motorcycles some, and on a bike one learned to really just pay attention at all times. It's not fun, but falling over is a lot less fun. It is nothing short of a miracle that John McCain is still alive. His aircraft did not do so well. Do we want John "the impulsive" McCain to become the pilot of our nation?
To put it bluntly, would our nation survive John McCain's next plane crash?
Arthur
Based on that week-long experience, don't you think that I qualify as an expert on Russia, Russian military affairs and Russian society? Based on the Palin-Principle, clearly that would be so.
So yes, John McCain has really stirred things up, got his crowds of supporters all stirred up, got the talking heads... well, talking, and he has captured a couple of news cycles and some polls. Now what? Aside from McCain enjoying her smart-mouthed trash-talk and her odd quasi-Canadian accent, what now? Can anyone imagine the havoc of permitting her to actually govern? Alaska seems embroiled in a political fight already. Are we looking for one, or are we looking for something more productive than a fight for fight's sake. Ever wonder why John McCain got into so many plane crashes? Just unlucky? No, I always suspected it was because he has something like ADD. He just doesn't pay too much attention to things and he does things impulsively. I am no flier, but I did ride motorcycles some, and on a bike one learned to really just pay attention at all times. It's not fun, but falling over is a lot less fun. It is nothing short of a miracle that John McCain is still alive. His aircraft did not do so well. Do we want John "the impulsive" McCain to become the pilot of our nation?
To put it bluntly, would our nation survive John McCain's next plane crash?
Arthur
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