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My Thoughts on Palin
Now that we’ve had (just under) three weeks to get to know Governor Palin, I think it’s time I posted some of my thoughts on the whole thing.
I’ll start by saying that I was quite shocked when the Governor was announced, and was somewhat convinced that the whole thing was a joke. I assumed that the election was going to be quite over with after reading about her stances on the issues, but I have been quite surprised as to the outpouring of support that she has garnered John McCain. I had assumed that McCain was already going to receive the support of the conservative base (as he has sufficiently changed his stance that he does fall under the umbrella of conservatism now), while I may have been wrong (or perhaps not) it does appear that the final nail in the coffin (… not the best analogy) has been driven in, and the conservative base will indeed support John McCain quite willingly.
In the first few days after the announcement, websites like Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, and yes, even my beloved Huffington Post, engaged in some deep attacks against Palin (that was after they were able to find out something about her, other than she was a woman, which seemed to be all anyone knew the first few days). Looking back, these attacks are about as bad as I’ve seen against McCain (and on conservative sites such as Fox News Town Hall, Drudge Report, and the awful site World Net Daily against Obama), but seemed much worse because of the short amount of time in which they were perpetrated. Some of these attacks were laughable, but others were, I think, quite important to the office of the President of the United States.
Now, as far as Palin as a person/the Palin “worldview.”
One quick side note on worldview- I am getting tired of that term. It was cool at first, now it’s quite overplayed, yet I can’t really think of any simple world to use interchangeably, thus worldview stays (for now… your days are numbered overused phrase!).
One other side note- Proximity to Russia does not an experienced Foreign Policy resume make.
Ok, back on topic. Here is my reasoning for the lack of (my) support for Palin.
First, Palin does not believe Global Warming is man-made (link), or at least pre-VP pick she expressed doubt over the issue. This would coincide with her worldview (I may be off base right here, but she appears to fall in line with the Darby-ist end time escapist eschatology) that the world’s going to end anyways, so why bother doing anything about it? The environmental issue holds a big spot in my heart, so I want politicians in office who will work for environmental change. Sarah Palin seems to fall short here.
Palin on Iraq as God’s will (link) is another issue which she is severely at odds with me. I’m not of the opinion that the murder war on anyone is God’s will. Now, I know that she went was hit with this by Charlie Gibson, and responded by invoking Lincon (and politifact finds that these two phrases are similar), I would say that her statement doesn’t ring like Lincon to me. She does seem to be (in her speech) implying that Iraq is, in fact, God’s will. I can admit there is some room for budging here, but I’m calling like it appears to me.
On the issues Palin appears to be a lock-step conservative, both economically and socially, an idealogical viewpoint that I find myself more and more distanced from each day. John McCain, you could make the argument, is more of an independent (I say could, I feel like he’s moved more to the right whilst chasing the Presidency). Because of this staunch conservatism, I don’t think I’d ever bring myself to vote for Palin, nor encourage anyone else to do so.
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A note about the comments section, lets keep it clean in here, now vicious attacks against Candidates (or other commentors), if your family I’m gonna request you read over your comment BEFORE posting it. I’d prefer not to have to shut down a comment section on another one of my posts.
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When you say…now…do you mean No? Also your desire to stop free speach put you in line with Mz. Palin as she wants to burn book. Now you have something to support her about……..only family has to reread their comments? I’m sure you have something else in common with Mz Palin given that position. You won’t try to get us fired…will you?
Choosing Palin was a brilliant move on McCain’s part because it attracts women and voters who feel McCain is too moderate/liberal to vote for.
It sounds more like Palin is praying that they will do what is God’s will, not that what they do will be God’s will. I think there’s an important distinction there. It seems she’s praying for wisdom to do the right thing.
I honestly don’t care what she believes about the global warming or creation in schools or any of that trivial nonsense. What matters is her level of commitment to reducing the tyrannical beast that the US government has become. It seems that few politicians on either side will take a stand against the behemoth, preferring instead to bend over and take some of its sweet lovin’ in exchange for money and power. But her actions as governor suggest that she might be a real conservative, instead of the fakes who populate the Republican party. I’m still pretty skeptical she wouldn’t be corrupted by greed in the event that she did become Prez.
Obama is a media-concocted phony with no real plan beyond meaningless inspiration phrases and undoubtedly horrific increases in government power and spending. At least nobody tried to hide Bush’s verbal incompetence, unlike Barack The Shining Gleaming Man-God As Long As He Has His Teleprompter Obama. McCain is barely any better; he’ll still waste catastrophic amounts of money, but he’ll probably try to start a war with Iran or get us entangled in some other ridiculous foreign affair when we should be wasting less money overseas on countries that don’t like us.
I almost hope Obama gets elected. Since there’s a chance he might screw this country up even worse than McCain, maybe, just maybe, real conservatives will step up to the plate in the wake of his mayhem - if there are any left. The socialist manipulation of the economy over the past few weeks is just the beginning - it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better, if that ever happens at all.
Voting Ron Paul as the write-in candidate is looking better all the time. I guess I’m turning into a pseudo-libertarian pessimist day by day.
kyle, you go girlfriend.
“That our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God…”
Why do I doubt that, in a New Testament light, the killing of anyone is Gods will?
Anyways, Kyle you make several good points, but here are some issues I have with what you said.
You call it a socialistic manipulation of the economy over the past few weeks, which in a certain light may be true (Over the past few WEEKS), yet this is in response to the “Deregulation” of the market that has taken place over the past few DECADES. We can thank both deregulated markets (with their loan shark-esque lending policies) and the lack of financial education (And some poor decision making) that let so many people into such piss poor loans. A regulated market would ensure that if you can’t afford a certain house, you won’t end up in that house. (I’m not saying that we shouldn’t encourage home ownership, in fact I feel the opposite, but I am discouraging the purchase of a house that is far larger than you can actually afford).
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One further point, Palin is not a true blue conservative. She’s a social conservative for sure, but fiscally she is certainly not a full conservative. She’s got a track record of cronyism (how many of her school mates ended up on her Gubernatorial staff?) which may be worse than Bushes, and now with the whole troopergate issue (regardless of guilt or innocence, blocking the proceedings is NOT the thing to do) I’d say she’s even closer to channeling Bush than McCain is.
How bout some thoughts on Biden…
good old Franklin Roosevelt on TV in 1929 talking about the stock market crashing. Wait a minute, Hoover was President, and there was no tv……… veeeeery tricky! hahaha I love it!
The fdr gaffe is the best Biden gaffe you could find?
There is a difference between saying something stupid and saying something like Iraq is gods plan. We can talk about stupid miss statements or we can talk about stupid foreign policy statements, stupid economic statements, and ignorant social policies.
come on now Matt, don’t you get sassy with me.
I have a feeling these topics are going to be similar to the braves for me……
Ouch, I think the Braves should be forbidden from discussion… until spring.