Sarah Palin is an Outstanding Choice
Posted by: Randy Samuelson | 08/29/2008 10:37 AM
There was rampant speculation over the last couple of days as to who Senator John McCain chose as his running mate. The speculation is over. Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was been selected and will be introduced in just minutes at a press conference in Dayton, Ohio.
This is an excellent choice for John McCain and the Republican Party. Many people will site her pro-life record and her stances on drilling in ANWR as great policy points. Many others will site the fact that she could attrack many of Hillary Clinton's "PUMA's" to vote for McCain. Others will site that she has cleaned up a culture of corrupton in the Alaska Legislature. Many pundits will say that this balances out the GOP ticket with the same level of experience level that the Democrat ticket has. I have another take.
Senators seldom make good Presidents. The last Senator to be elected to the highest office was John Kennedy in 1960. My knock on Senators is that they never have had to be leaders. They can wax eloquently on issues, philosophize on the direction of the country, and build relationships with other Washington insiders.
But, Senators are never expected to lead. They do not have to determine the best way to organize a cabinet to get the best results. They do not have to determine heads of bureaucracies to get the most efficiency out of their work force. They do not have to represent the broad base of their constituents while still working to achieve the best results for their citizens. Just look at the most famous Senator of all time, Cicero. He was a great political philospher who helped moved Rome into a grand direction. But, Cicero was no Julius Ceasar.
This is where Governor Palin gives John McCain a strong advantage over the Obama/Biden ticket. Sarah Palin leads a state economy and infrastructure. She puts leaders in place to achieve results that are in the best interest of her state. She focusus on the big picture of the direction of her policies and then utilizes her cabinet and staff members to execute her vision. Governors must put their vision into action or they will not get re-elected. Senators simply cast visions and then argue over symantics of the vision with others.
Governor Sarah Palin is an asset to the GOP ticket in her role as Governor of Alaska. She is the best possible pick for John McCain and the Republican Party to compliment the Presidential ticket. To quote the monk in Indiana Jones, The Last Crusade, "You chose wisely."
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Palin 2016!
Game over Dems
Definitely a game changer. She's tough.
I'm curious. What makes a Republican most proud to be a Republican?
Because up here in Canada we have a parliamentary system and if any party screwed up as badly as the Republicans have done for the past 8 years, that party would spend at least a decade in the wilderness.
Keith, I'm all for throwing corrupt politicians and failing politicians out of office, too.
Many people see the Republican Party as the same stew...you cannot separate out the good from the bad because they are all cooked in the same broth.
I see things in a different way. Philosophical conservatives, those that want to limit government, cut taxes, and to enact policies to get the government off of the backs of the American people. Politicians from this train of thought are cooked separately from the rest of the stew and can point at their brothers to call them out. I believe Sarah Palin is one of these people that, because of her record of reform and her policies, can be effective at reforming not just the country, but her own Party as well.