Just when I worried that all republicans have thrown away their integrity to support Sarah Palin as Vice President Republican Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska steps forward and says what everyone else who follows politics knows, (but the Republican seem to be more interested in putting party first over country so they won’t admit) Sara Palin isn’t qualified to be Vice President. Hagel said it’s a “stretch” to say she’s qualified and “She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials, … You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”
I think it’s a very fair question to ask if Palin could be President if anythink happens to McCain, after all he is 72 years old and the insurance companies say that a 72 year old male has a 1 in 3 chance of dying of natural causes in the next 4 years. When asked about her qualifications Hagel said, “I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States.”
I laughed the first time I heard McCain say that because Palin lived near Russia that somehow qualified her as having foreign policy experience. (That’s kind of like saying because June and I live near a golf course June is qualified to be an expert on golf.) In the Charlie Gibson interview, which the Fox Noise people say was so unfair, Plain said “They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
Senator Hagel’s thoughts to that statement has to be the same as what many Republicans are thinking but most seem not Maverick enough to speak the truth. “I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,’” The senator said. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”
I think the whole Palin nomination is insulting to the American people. With this economic crisis that is going on right now, I’ve got to think that Mcçain is wishing that Gov. Romney hadn’t turned him down. (OK, I know everyone thinks Romney really wanted to be VP and I don’t know for sure that Romney did in fact turn him down with a VP offer, but I find it hard to believe that McCain’s first or even second choice was Palin. to me it seems pretty clear that the McCain people didn’t even vet her, if they had they would have moved on to another choice.)
Too true. Look, Palin is a smart lady and an excellent politician…but her politics are right of Bush, more in line with Cheney.
As far as Romney goes…I think Romney wants to run in 2012, so he turned down McCain flat because he knows McCain is going to lose (as the latest polls are suggesting now that everyone has gotten over the newness of Palin).
you could be right.
Another thing that bugs me about Palin’s ascension is that her voice will now be added to the so-called political discourse of the nation. Win or lose, she’s going to be asked her opinion about every subject that comes up for the next 40 years.