Post #173

Subject: John W. McCain Rushes to Judgment... Again!

Why did John W. McCain pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate?

It's been reported that McCain didn't seriously consider Palin until a week before. She rose to the top of his list only after influential conservatives strenuously objected – threatened a floor flight at the RNC – if McCain picked either Senator Joe Lieberman or former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, who both favor abortion rights.

Palin, of course, is opposed to all abortions. I heard on TV a couple of nights ago that she was now OK with abortion if the life of the mother was in danger. I heard on TV yesterday that she was now OK with abortion in cases of rape and incest. What’s next? “Roe V. Wade is the law of the land, and we must respect that.” :p

When Palin was announced as McCain's running mate -- no one had been sent to Wasilla, Alaska, to look through the archives of Palin's hometown newspaper, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. And, according to one source, no extensive research into the city council records from her 10 years on the council and then as mayor of Wasilla has been completed. Aides were sent to pour over that newspaper AFTER Palin was picked.

A Republican close to the campaign. “This was really kind of rushed at the end, because John didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to do Joe or Ridge.”

Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group. Earmarks? Isn’t MCain opposed to those?

The Republican president of Alaska’s state Senate, a woman who hails from Palin’s hometown, rushed to tell the press, “She’s not prepared to be governor; how can she be prepared to be vice president or president?”

But she’s got more executive experience than Obama, say the Republicans, as tho McCain’s experience in the Senate doesn’t matter

It looks as if the vetters were so focused on Palin's appeal to Republicans' conservative base as an opponent of abortion and gun control, for instance, that they stopped asking questions about her background too soon. Indeed, from another blog, “McCain made an impetuous decision in order to prove his fealty the Republican right while demonstrating that he will do anything to get elected. Is that the kind of president the rest of us want?”

“John W. McCain – the selection of Sarah Palin is all about you and your judgment.” A President McCain will choose leaders such as Cabinet members and Supreme Court jurists – a McCain who is hostage to Right-wing Nuts!

By the way, the McCains with their $100 million did not buy me a new computer – I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps and fixed this one. Ya know, my taxes are supporting McCain’s snout in the trough of big government,… and that is a disgrace!