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“John McCain Could Have Chosen Better”~Blanche Africa Reilly Dark
Blanche Africa Reilly Dark has opinion about John McCain’s choice for vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin. As you may recall Blanche is the outspoken mother of our ace reporter Clark Dark. The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the management.
Senator John McCain what were you thinking when you selected Governor Sarah Palin as your choice for veep? Were you thinking at all?
Sure, it’s a real clever strategy to pick a female for the number two slot on the Republican ticket. It’s a decision that could have worked very well…. if you had chosen the right woman.Don’t get it twisted Mr. Senator from Arizona. We voting females are not as dumb as you may think. We are, however, in the words of actress Jamie Lee Curtis, “gullible to fear, lies, misinformation and calculated deceit.”
It really does not matter that the party faithful love your choice. Many of them are not too bright either, which partly explains how President Dumbya was elected for two terms.
John McCain could have chosen Kay Bailey Hutchison the first female Republican to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Or Jack Mack you could have chosen Olympia Snowe, the senior Republican senator from Maine. Both of these female senators have more experience and appear to be more capable than this sports reader-turned hockey-mom/pit bull with lipstick who knows much about nothing and even less about everything. (Has anyone told the candidate what the vice president’s duties are?)
Olympia Snowe serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. She chairs its sea power subcommittee, which oversees the Navy and Marine Corps. I think these are good qualifications for the next vice president. According to a wikipedia entry about Snowe in 2001, she became the first Republican woman to secure a full-term seat on the Senate Finance Committee. Hmmm the current candidate for vice president doesn’t seem to know very much about finance, especially as pertains to the housing mortgage industry.
Snowe also seems more conciliatory in her dealings with the loyal opposition. So much so that hard line conservatives attack her as being a Republican in name only.
On the other hand, good old Jack Mack could have selected Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison who is the most senior of female Republican senators. She was elected to office in 1993. Her name was among those promoted to Jack Mack as a vice presidential candidate to balance the ticket; the thinking was a conservative female from the southwest would attract feminists’ votes on election day.
In an article about Hutchison in wikipedia it is stated she “voted against prohibiting oil leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and has supported legislation promoting drilling in the refuge in 2002 and 2003. In 2005 she also voted against including oil and gas smokestacks in the Environmental Protection Agency’s mercury regulations.” Sounds to me like she paid her dues as a Senate Republican.
I’m a Republican, one of those rare birds, a female Black Republican. I am insulted by the Senator from Arizona’s choice of a vicious, less accomplished, near-do-well in a dress to try to capture my vote.
We’ve had nearly eight years of pitifully poor executive performance by a pathetic representative of the GOP. Now we’re expected to cast our vote for more of the same? You want we should vote for old John McCain and Dick Cheney in a dress?
This ticket has the ghost of Ronald Reagan–in the older candidate and the personage of mean Dick Cheney in the veep candidate. Both Jack Mack and his fly-girl are short on intelligence. Americans have already experienced a presidential administration headed by a person who is not as smart as I am. Why would I want to have a pair of stupid people leading my country for another four maybe eight years?
The thought is like a terrible nightmare. After eight years of being manipulated by the stupid people in charge, the more stupid people want a shot at governing the country. I’m thinkin’ this ain’t gonna fly. As I suck my teeth and roll my eyes, I’m prayin’ the American electorate will not continue to make the same poor choices as they’ve made in the past two elections with the expectation of getting different results. That would be insanity!
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