My first reaction was, "is he out of his mind?" But after listening to the Republicans that were interviewed not only on Fox but CNN and MSNBC I realized why he made the choice. This was not really his decision. This came from the most brilliant political strategist of our lifetime, Karl Rove. There is no one that the Democrats hate more than Karl Rove, not even Dick Cheney. So that should tell you what kind of threat Karl Rove is to the Democrats. He made this decision and convinced our candidate McCain to do this. Why? Because she is almost bulletproof and it takes their only shot they can take and turns the gun around and aims it at themselves. “She is too inexperienced!” And their first statement was exactly that and why did they have to retract it? Because every Republican spokesman said, “she’s no more inexperienced than Obama.” BRILLIANT POLITICAL STRATEGY. That is why Obama had to retract the statement that Bill Burton his main spokesman made. Every time they mention the inexperience which is all they can say about her, they hit the Obama camp right between the eyes. She does not have enough history to attack her any other way. There is one issue however that could sink them and that is that she is under ethics review for having pressured to fire her sister’s ex husband, read the article; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26458400/.
However, there is one major BUT, and that is, this choice is terribly irresponsible. The truth is that as the Democrats say, it puts a virtual newcomer to politics within an earshot of the presidency. If something happened to McCain, who turned 72 yesterday and is a reasonable concerned based on that age and his continued struggle with Melanoma, would put someone that has been governor of a state that has less people than the city of Austin, Texas. This makes his decision a very irresponsible one that puts his candidacy first and the good of the people second. I understand that there is no prize for second place, but ideologically speaking running for president is the most important public servant job in the entire world. A man fit for the job is one that holds the utmost integrity and always without exception puts the good of the people first. Of course we know that is not always the case. We had the most corrupt individual a country could have with Bill Clinton for 8 long years. And we almost had an even more corrupt person with Hillary Clinton.
The bottom line is that I am disappointed with McCain that with 67 days to beat Obama fair and square with good judgement chose to make a desperate move as brilliant as it may be, this early in the race.
However, there is one major BUT, and that is, this choice is terribly irresponsible. The truth is that as the Democrats say, it puts a virtual newcomer to politics within an earshot of the presidency. If something happened to McCain, who turned 72 yesterday and is a reasonable concerned based on that age and his continued struggle with Melanoma, would put someone that has been governor of a state that has less people than the city of Austin, Texas. This makes his decision a very irresponsible one that puts his candidacy first and the good of the people second. I understand that there is no prize for second place, but ideologically speaking running for president is the most important public servant job in the entire world. A man fit for the job is one that holds the utmost integrity and always without exception puts the good of the people first. Of course we know that is not always the case. We had the most corrupt individual a country could have with Bill Clinton for 8 long years. And we almost had an even more corrupt person with Hillary Clinton.
The bottom line is that I am disappointed with McCain that with 67 days to beat Obama fair and square with good judgement chose to make a desperate move as brilliant as it may be, this early in the race.
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