As someone who cast a vote for Hillary Clinton in this year's Illinois primary, I have something to say about McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential running mate.
This is bullshit- Palin is the ideological Opposite of Hillary-
If you preferred Hillary to Obama, then voting for Palin would be like saying you preferred Toyotas Prius to Hondas' Insight... and since you can't have Toyota's Prius, you're gonna by the Lexus SUV...
Here is why she is less qualified.
The office of President has nothing to do with being Governor of anything... Bush was a governor longer than Palin and look what a gem he's been.
So was Carter...
It has nothing to do with being in the Senate... Bill Clinton was never in the Senate- he did okay- Reagan was never in the Sensate- he did pretty well.
Being president has to do with your ability to recognize and hire and manage the expertise of others.
Its an Organizational skill.
Obama has run, despite bitter and well funded opposition of far more experienced politicians, a brilliant campaign and remianed astonishingly cool under fire.
He clearly knows how to organize and run a campaign. Who to hire and how to manage the efforts of those he hires.
Palin has not come to her position thru campaigning... she was selected as the most salable product by the people who are running McCain's campaign.
Aside from winning a popular vote in Nowheresville, Alaska... she shows not one Iota of competency to recognize and hire and manage excellence.
She has spent 2 years as governor- during which time she flip-flopped on a bridge boondoggle... and then after reversing her stance on the bridge- refused to give back the money... And she is already, only 2 years in, under investigation by her own State for abuses of power.
She has ZERO history of any form of accomplishment as governor...
I would feel better if she at least had a term or two under her belt by which to measure her effectiveness.
What we do know is that she was picked for jaded, public relations purposes... because she had a Cute "story" and photographed well... and for a lot of Americans... that is as deep as they go... ( which is what got us Bush...)
And we know she holds extremist Christian views and would be unwilling to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States, because she believes separation of church and state doesn't count.
Seriously... ANY person, of ANY gender claiming publicly that they believe in creationism is simply far too staggeringly STUPID to hold the highest office in the most technologically dependent nation on earth.
FOr 8 years, nations like South Korea, have been making HUGE inroads into technologies in which the US was the world leader.
But 8 years of Bush's politicization and christianification of science has resulted in the US falling behind on everything from biotechnology to high energy physics.
The woman's politics are as extreme as the taliban's... A Christian flavor of religious fascism.
Enough already with the Christo-fascists.
Keep God in your heart and in your church, but keep him the fuck OUT of law and government.
A vote for Palin is a vote for 14th century solutions to 21st century problems.