The Parrying Over Palin

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I am sure Palin is a nice lady. Probably very smart and certainly nice to look at.
The problem is McCain's judgment or rather the lack of it. Palin is not ready for national politics much less interacting with world leaders. This shows immediately when she interacts with the press and is not her fault. I feel sorry for and am angry that McCain made such a lousy call.
This 9th hour decision McCain made, obviously without due diligence or vetting illustrates the kinds of decisions he would make as President. Shoot from the hip and aim later. Cearly he had no strategy and picking Palin was a tactic to appease and energize the religious base. A poor decision and a bad mistake.

SkysB of MD 10:25AM September 27, 2008

A lot of people are discussing what criticisms of Palin are the truly valid ones - should we be worried about her lack of experience, her documented lies, her odd behaviour regarding the Troopergate investigations, her medieval policies regarding abortion and sex-education? Should we be ignoring the fact that she's a woman and has a pregnant teenage daughter? Do we need to worry that she thinks her ability to see Russia from her kitchen window counts as foreign policy experience?
I submit that none of this matters because a woman who believes that the world is 6000 years old should not be in charge of so much as a late shift at MacDonald's, let alone the most powerful country in the world. I don't care about anything else - none of it matters in light of the glaring evidence that the woman is a young-earth lunatic.

Clare 5:18AM September 27, 2008