[quote]flyboy51v wrote:
DeterminedNate wrote:
Matt Damon did not in any way sway me to believe this. He just articulated it brilliantly.
Just take a step back from your normally narrow-minded and myopic republican viewpoints and admit that Sarah Palin being elected as VP stinks of “Disney movie.” She’s a hockey mom. SHE CAN’T CONDUCT FOREIGN or ECONOMIC or ANY OTHER AFFAIRS for that matter.
But no, the republicans staunchly support her and convince themselves otherwise. I really admire how well you all can lie to yourselves.
And as far as experience is concerned. I’d take the smartest guy at Harvard Law over a woman whose probably really good at bringing capri suns and brownies to her son’s hockey practice. But thats just me.
Look, we both want the same thing, which is whats best for AMERICA. Its not about party affiliation or winning an election, its about freaking AMERICA. Do whats best for AMERICA.
Jeez man … in all seriousness the worst possible (and I mean WORST possible) thing for America would be anyone from Harvard getting anywhere near the Presidency. To quote William F. Buckley “I’d rather be governed by the first 10 names in the NYC phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.”
A truly profound statement.
Not to be patronizing but have you looked at her actual resume?
City Council, Mayor, Governor. Helped to run a small business. Actually worked her way through college.
If you don’t like her conservatism … fine. But this whole attack on her stupidity has an amazing cognitive dissonance thing going on … from people who just 4 years ago nominated John Edwards for Veep … young pretty boy trial lawyer who bought himself a senate seat which he sat in for 2 years prior to running for the Presidency …
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I’m going to have to agree with rainjack and thunder on this one–John Edwards is an excellent counterexample to your attack on Palin’s VP candidacy based around experience.
He didn’t get anywhere near the amount of flak for his lack of any experience that you’re trying to put onto Palin. A lot of the reason is because he was left-leaning, IMHO.
If you’re not a conservative, that’s cool. I’ll disagree with you on a lot of things; however, you need to be honest and admit to her experience with energy/oil/economic stuff–negotiating major contracts with uber-conglomerates counts as real economic experience in my book. As well as managing a business. Those aren’t cookies she’s been baking up.
However, I will give you the foreign policy point. I agree; she’s not good at it and completely inexperienced. Hopefully she will learn quickly. But at the same time, Obama is not good with it either–he talks very eloquently but has zero serious experience, just like Palin.
He has no experience in the executive branch, he has about the same experience as John Edwards did in the Senate (which is to say, not much), and he has never managed a business, small or otherwise. His firsthand experience with economics is absolute zero.
Bottom line, the experience argument just doesn’t work–it can be thrown right back at you because your top of the ticket is just as inexperienced as Palin. The primary difference between the two is left-leaning politics and Ivy league college rather than a “regular” college.