The Young and the Very Old

McCain-Plain’08 in trouble already.

The conservatives in the Republican party really got thrown off by John McCain’s curve ball. Waking up in the morning after praying all night for Mitt Romney to find that McCain had selected a virtual nobody from Alaska as his running mate, they are having a real hard time trying to get their minions excited about the pick. Here are a examples of the their talking points -

-She calls her husband “First Dude”

- Her favourite meal is “Moose Stew”

-She’s a lifelong member of NRA

-Former beauty queen.

-Alaska first female governor and youngest ever.

The last one get buried underneath everything else. We wouldn’t want to highlight the inexperience now, would we.

McCain makes a play for Hillary supporters

I can come up with no other explanation for John McCain’s selection of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, as his running mate other then that he is desperately vying for the disgruntled supposedly Hillary, but not-Hillary, supporters.

As a Republican argument for experience, I don’t see anybody as inexperienced as Gov. Palin come as close to being the POTUS as Sarah Palin. Talk about on the job training. The Mayor of Los Angeles has more experience running an institution of much more larger scale then the state of Alaska (no disrespect to Alaskans, but that is how it is). The total population of Alaska is less then 700,000 people. How does that prepare one to be the second in line to be the President ??

In her own words after being elected the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin remarked ” The voter’s of Alaska took a chance on a virtual nobody by electing her”. Well if that is the case why are the Karl Roves in Sen. McCain’s trying to scare people about Sen. Obama.

Any Hillary supporters who support Gov. Palin couldn’t have been Hillary Supporters to begin with, since the two are diametrically opposite on issues near and dear to female Democrats. She is not just pro-life, she is anti-choice. She is a moose burger chomping, commercial fisher, animal hunting member of the NRA. I guess it is OK to hunt animals but not OK to destroy a few cells in the human body. How can they even consider voting for somebody like that.

What is even more intriguing to me, is that the same conservative advisers to John McCain, who get so riled up at the suggestion that blacks would be supporting Obama because he is black, calling it reverse racism, have no problem with assuming that women would just vote for women because of gender without regard for issues. Does anybody else see the disconnect?