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2009-07-04 Home Front: Politix

We Get the Political Candidates We Deserve

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Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-04 09:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Not the common cancer across all these points?

Our defective press. Before we start hanging politicians, we would be wist to start shooting editors and reporters first. THey have done the most damage to the republic, along with our leftist indoctrination education system and those who have steered it into a union dominated ditch.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-04 10:53|| 2009-07-04 10:53|| Front Page Top

#2 not-> Note

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-04 10:54|| 2009-07-04 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I confess I dont understand the point of the McCain staffers in the Vanity Fair hit piece on Palin (and thats what it is, a hit piece) if the staffers were so brilliant, why arent we addressing President McCain today?

Memo to Steve Schmidt: when you run a losing campaign, shut up afterwards.

I generally like Ms. Palin; shes a political natural and an engaging figure who connects with a lot of people, and if shes a welterweight, that was clearly good enough for Alaska. If she made a mistake, it was the very first one she agreed to sign on to the McCain campaign even though her family life was some stressed, she clearly hadnt done enough to be ready at a national level (to be a heavyweight) and, most importantly for a politician, she didnt understand that the McCain campaign was incompetent. It wasnt clear that McCain was a loser at that point; indeed he was only a point or two behind Obama in August. But a savvy pol would have looked at the internal dynamics and would have predicted that the campaign would falter in the stretch. A lot of non-savvy commenters saw it, and she should have seen it.

Sarah didnt see it, and she didnt do her homework. Thats her mistake and Ill bet she sees it now.

Now that she has the experience she has (an experience Id like to avoid for my own family), I wonder if what she might do in the future is, in part, start to deal with the nasty MSM and pols who think that going after family is just fine. She stared down Letterman and made him look a fool; perhaps she can do that to the rest of the MSM. That would be a worthwhile legacy.

Posted by Steve White 2009-07-04 12:21|| 2009-07-04 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Palin can now take up fundraising in a major way and also take on the MSM at the same time. She's young & could well forge a new identity in the process.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-04 12:35|| 2009-07-04 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Personally, I'm all for taking the entire McCain staff (and McCain) out behind the woodshed for a little character-building. I don't like McCain. I've never liked McCain. Palin was the reason I voted, instead of sitting this one out. It's time for McCain to fold the tent and slip back to Arizona, permanently. His "staff" should be unemployed and unemployable.

As for the title, it's wrong. We get the political candidates whose ego is so large they're willing to do anything, even murder, to gain power. We'd be better off picking names randomly from the telephone book every two years.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-07-04 13:58|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-04 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 would you hire Steve Schmidt or any other backstabbing little McCain toadie? Cut their own throats.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-04 14:05|| 2009-07-04 14:05|| Front Page Top

#7 If Palin waits until she is just a bit younger than Hillary, that will be the 2024 elections.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-04 16:07|| 2009-07-04 16:07|| Front Page Top

#8 think of 4 years from now, when that Yahoo Dem who won because the the Stevens fiasco will be up fo r the senate... Palin will be a shoo-in for the senate. Then in 2020 she looks to be 11 years away form this with several years in the senate behind her, and all her kids except Trig are adults...

She's not done yet, not if she doesn't want to be.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-04 16:12|| 2009-07-04 16:12|| Front Page Top

#9 McCain lost my respect when he sat out the Abu Ghraib "panties on the head torture" routine. The one sitting senator who could have shut that cr@p down, decided to let GW stew in it for old times sake - piss off old man - once a hero, now a zero.

Posted by Rob06">Rob06 2009-07-04 16:23|| 2009-07-04 16:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Palin's "weakness" is that she cares about her family. I suppose we'll end up with more politicians like Mark Sanford who don't.

Posted by DMFD 2009-07-04 19:08|| 2009-07-04 19:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Sara's a tribute to the real meaning of independent minded American woman. Politically savvy - no, honorable - yes. F*ck the MSM and the east coast elite weenies, I'll take the Air Alaska flight attendant any day.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-04 22:49|| 2009-07-04 22:49|| Front Page Top

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