Sunday, August 31, 2008

The Palin Pick

It's official. John McCain has gone to the well and lowered the bucket and Sarah Palin emerged as number 1 on his bucket list. The pundits are having a field day--those on the right trying to defend the "experience" of Palin as better than Obama's since hers is as an executive (a governor) which,thus, makes her, automatically, a sounder manager than he. Because we all know that those with gubernatorial experience have superior managerial skills to those of mere Senators, don't we? After all, look at George Bush! (Oops, better not...better,um, let's move on.)

The pundits on the left are charging McCain with making a cynical political move. (With nary a nod to the redundancy of all that,either.)

Frankly, I find it a very honest choice. After all, what is the main requirement of a V.P. anyway? Why it's to replace the guy at the top should he (God forbid--the usual interjection used here) fall ill or become even more mentally incapacitated than recent office holders have been or (God...oh, the hell with it) dies. So, the veep need not be a superstar but merely good enough to fill the hole left by the departure of the sucker she supplants.

So, by choosing a backup with virtually no known accomplishments and even less grounding in international affairs than he has (see previous blog for that), he's admitting that it won't take very much to replace him should he go down. ( Reminds you of the Ravens' quarterbacking situation, don't it?)

And I say, hooray for Senator McCain for such an honest assessment --no matter how backhanded he might have been in making it.

I have often said that you'd have had to look long and hard to find a worse "leader" than the current occupant of our highest office, so someone who raises 5 children...or any of the children, for that matter, might do a better job than what we're currently having done. That's why I say: "Why not have a fresh hockey mom to replace one of our previously elected hockey pucks ?"

Congratulations to John McCain and to the Republican leadership for nominating a woman for veep a little fewer than 25 years after the Dems did the same. And thanks for the honesty of your choice.

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