here are some quotes about governor sarah palin:
“she’s either a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus”
“palin simply knew NOTHING about foreign and international issues”
“palin is a whack job”
what makes these quotes kind of surprising is that they came from
some of mccain’s staff and advisors.
i still have no idea how the election will turn out, but it’s interesting that the republicans
are basically in the midst of a gop civil war.
so many republicans are defecting and now endorsing obama.
and so many other republicans are just dismayed at mccain’s irresponsible choice of palin as his vp nominee.
i mean, conservative republican columnist david brooks called palin “a fatal cancer on the gop”.
in an odd way i hope that mccain loses so that the republican party will re-invent itself(hopefully
in a moderate, small-government, rational way).
the ‘creationist/anti-science/anti-harry potter/anti-immigrant/anti-everything’ wing of the republican
party has completely marginalized the republican party(unless you live in alabama, i guess).
i actually like the dialectic between the two parties, especially when neither party is in the grips
of extremists and ideologues.
as odd as it sounds, i don’t even like the democrats when they’re too far to the left.
the middle of the road may be boring, but rational and moderate governance seems to serve the needs of the people the best.
that’s my biggest complaint about the last 8 years of republican rule(well, that and the ineptitude…).
that the republicans have governed from a place of ideological extremism, which has led them to make egregiously wrong-headed choices and led them to advance policy initiatives that are baffling in their short-sightedness.
hopefully the republicans will lose big in 2008 so that they’ll be forced to reinvent themselves in a more moderate, mose sensible, more viable way.
and hopefully if they win the democrats won’t get too cocky and swing back to the extreme left.
moderation just makes sense, ultimately. at least that’s what i believe.
and i can’t imagine it’s too much fun being on mccain’s campaign bus these days…
apparently things are, uh, frosty between the mccain camp and the palin camp.
moby