*head-desk*
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/08/pawlenty_signal.html
I wasn't worried about this election until today. I think anyone who's ever lived in the South or in a state out west that keeps to its own (like Montana or Alaska) knows that this woman is exactly what a lot of people in our country want. Hell, I think that if she were a bit more experienced, she could have beat Hillary, or even McCain himself.
Obama's campaign released a solidly true statement (“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said in a statement. “Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies - that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same.”).... but most of America doesn't care about solidly true statements. They care about electing people that are exactly like themselves.
As much of a joke as she may seem like to intelligent (perhaps smug?) liberal voters, the following facts will go a LONG WAY with most of the people from my homestate (esp my family), and a lot of people everywhere, because politics aside, they show quite a bit of integrity in her and her family:
*In November, Ms. Palin spoke at a redeployment ceremony for the company of her husband, Daniel Norman, an Army sniper who was awarded a Purple Heart for shrapnel he took from a roadside bomb in Iraq.
*Ms. Palin is known to conservatives for choosing not to have an abortion after learning two years ago that she was carrying a child with Down syndrome.
*She took intense criticism from members of her own party for turning the spotlight on the failures of Alaska Republicans, some of whom had been beset by corruption scandals.
*She and her husband have been married for 20 years; they met in high school.
*Her oldest son has been deployed to Iraq.
And a little side thing: she was runner up for Miss Alaska, AND she was a feisty basketball player in high school. And she's not going to let pesky little polar bears get in the way of PROGRESS and OIL and JOBS (sigh).
Okay, panic button has been pushed. I'm going to buck up and go fight harder for Obama now. We're still going to win; it's just going to be really effing close.
I wasn't worried about this election until today. I think anyone who's ever lived in the South or in a state out west that keeps to its own (like Montana or Alaska) knows that this woman is exactly what a lot of people in our country want. Hell, I think that if she were a bit more experienced, she could have beat Hillary, or even McCain himself.
Obama's campaign released a solidly true statement (“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said in a statement. “Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies - that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same.”).... but most of America doesn't care about solidly true statements. They care about electing people that are exactly like themselves.
As much of a joke as she may seem like to intelligent (perhaps smug?) liberal voters, the following facts will go a LONG WAY with most of the people from my homestate (esp my family), and a lot of people everywhere, because politics aside, they show quite a bit of integrity in her and her family:
*In November, Ms. Palin spoke at a redeployment ceremony for the company of her husband, Daniel Norman, an Army sniper who was awarded a Purple Heart for shrapnel he took from a roadside bomb in Iraq.
*Ms. Palin is known to conservatives for choosing not to have an abortion after learning two years ago that she was carrying a child with Down syndrome.
*She took intense criticism from members of her own party for turning the spotlight on the failures of Alaska Republicans, some of whom had been beset by corruption scandals.
*She and her husband have been married for 20 years; they met in high school.
*Her oldest son has been deployed to Iraq.
And a little side thing: she was runner up for Miss Alaska, AND she was a feisty basketball player in high school. And she's not going to let pesky little polar bears get in the way of PROGRESS and OIL and JOBS (sigh).
Okay, panic button has been pushed. I'm going to buck up and go fight harder for Obama now. We're still going to win; it's just going to be really effing close.