Thursday, September 18, 2008
Palin = Epic Fail
I have really been trying to give Sarah Palin a fair chance. She's a neocon, for sure, but she has a libertarian streak and likes to shoot stuff. The problem is that instead of coming off as an up and comer who is taking advantage of her big moment in the spotlight, she looks like McCain held a reality show to pick his veep. For the love of god, she's used a Yahoo account for state business! What the fuck? That's absurd to me. She didn't even try to make her usernames hard to guess. They were one step above Gov4U2Luv@yahoo.com, which for all I know she has too. What would she do as VP or , god forbid, president? Text missile codes to the pentagon? Use google docs to draft up some ideas for troops placements?
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Sorry but Palin was the best possible choice McCain could've made. She probably won him the election in November.
God help us all.
As much as McCain/Palin scares me, Obama/Biden scares me much, much, much more. Their economic plan will push us even farther into a nosedive.
We're screwed either way but it's a matter of scale, I think. Do we go with more of the same and slip quickly into a recession or do we go balls out into a depression?
Quick follow-up:
Hate to say it but maybe we need a depression. Until we hit rock bottom, the status quo will be maintained. The legacy of Roosevelt and Johnson have hung over us like a spectre for our whole lifetime.
Social security has to be privatized.
Public education is a failure.
Lobbyist and lawyers have far too much sway in public policy.
So, perhaps, Obama and Biden should come in, raise taxes (those who don't get a hike in income will get a huge hike in payroll taxes) and let the country go even farther into Hell. Maybe we need Jimmy Carter II to come along and make an even bigger mess of things so that we can finally get rid of all the crap that's been plaguing us for the last sixty years.
How would the Obama plan make us dip even further than what we are?
I just don't think that I understand your worries about Obama and Democrats. Yes, they are for more government. Yes, the closer we walk that line, the closer we get to socialism.
The problem is, ultimately, socialism is the penalty for capitalism that has lost touch with the people it serves.
I guess I need to ask you before I go any further, why do you feel that Obama's plan would move us from a recession (and we are in a recession, I refuse to believe your idea that we are not in one)to a depression? And how would 4 to 8 years of further socialization of the economy under McCain/Palin be better?
As recessions are defined, we're not in one. We're in something worse.
We're in a state of economic collapse.
Taxing us to death, as the Obama plan would do, would be catastrophic.
What we need is legitimate, new growth in the economy. Stimulus checks are not the answer as that's just the redistribution of wealth or, realistically, the printing of capital. We need to spark industry, consumer confidence and spending.
Higher taxes on the rich and higher payroll taxes on everyone else ain't the answer.
Things are really bad but they have been and can be worse. It's a matter of scale. McCain has offered very little in the way of answers (and false promises) but what Obama has offered is, plainly, the epic fail.
hasn't Mc C said (the only way to improve our economy is to furthur free trade).
Or as I posted on boingboing:
I bet I can hack her email if McCain wins:
Login: vicepresident@whitehouse.gov
Password: SarahPalin
btw. The public demands further posts, Miller! I like your blog.
I agree with Brian. Palin was the best choice for McCain under the circumstances. McCain was losing (and still is), so he has to take more risks than Obama. He is like a boxer losing in points in the last round, he has to swing big and hope for a KO.
Palin did several things, most importantly shoring up the base (including both the Christian conservative and libertarian/small government portions). Her performance has not been great, but she has not hurt McCain's campaign. Even though emailing on Yahoo is dumb, so far, her scandals are underwhelming. And given some of the bizarre criticisms that have been made, many legitimate criticisms might be shrugged off by supporters and independent voters as mere propaganda.
I also agree with Pete. I like your blog.
Hey Matt! Good to see you around.
While I know exactly why they picked Palin, I think there were better picks out there. I personally think that the smarter pick would have been a McCain/Romney: Why Vote For The Lesser Evil? ticket. Romney has experience and would have drawn more traditional conservatives.
I know that the GOP was courting social conservatives with the Palin pick. On that front, Huckabee would have been a better pick. He has experience and has shown an ability to excite the base. They also could have took Chuck Norris with them everywhere. This would have inspired countless old people and mental incompetents. (For some reason, old people love the shit out of Walker: Texas Ranger. At work, if the Hallmark Channel goes out, old people call in droves.)
I think that Palin satisfies every single thing that that the GOP was looking for on paper, but ultimately she is going to be a detriment to the ticket. She has been destroyed by Katie Couric (nobody's idea of a journalistic pitbull) in interviews. I am looking forward to watching her debate on Thursday.
Jason, I definitely see your point and it may be that she will crash and burn. But I just don't see how McCain could have had a better chance of winning by going with the short list of middle-aged white guys. They certainly would not have garnered the media attention (aka free advertising) that McCain needed after being ignored during the Democratic primary.
I doubt anyone inclined to like Palin will be discouraged by the Couric interview. Any damage that will occur will occur because of a poor performance in the debate. After that, I doubt Palin will affect the race either way.
Have you seen the Palin Facts? They are very similar to the Chuck Norris facts, so maybe Norris = Palin...
I will concede that the Palin choice garnered a great deal of attention for the McCain campaign. The problem is that most of it is negative.
While picking Romney or Huckabee would have not gathered as much attention, I think that the presence of someone competent would allow them to not only maintain their base, but grow it.
Last week, she could have helped salvage the week for McCain after his transparent campaign suspension stunt, but she gave one of the most amateurish interviews that I have ever seen. While I am inclined to agree that the people who would have voted for McCain would not be discouraged by such a thing, I think that people may be looking at her more critically because of McCain's age. A woman who equates her geographic proximity to Russia as a foreign policy experience should probably not be president.
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