2008 Woodie Awards
Palin's Failin' Puts Nail in McCain Campaign
David McKinley
Issue date: 10/8/08 Section: Opinion
A long time ago, in a land far away, in the year 2000, John McCain was a die-hard maverick, a staunch defender of voter rights, the slayer of corporate lobbyists and demolisher of greedy, capitalist campaigns - an odd stance for a Republican presidential hopeful.
Obviously, that didn't work out too well for Johnny Mac and now, much older and a bit wiser, he has come back as the model Republican candidate, with a stable full of lobbyists managing his campaign, a donation list filled with corporate influence and a cute little country personality called Sarah Palin.
Palin, who from her first rousing speech at the Republican National Convention, has now fully and completely caved into a stuttering and unknowledgeable girl from the woods.
We've had that type before Mr. McCain, it went by the name of George Bush and it really didn't work out too well for us.
But Palin wasn't brought on to identify with the Republican base; her job is to attract disenfranchised female voters from the Democratic party, still yearning for Hillary Clinton's chance to shine.
This however, doesn't seem to be working out too well for the McCain campaign, for many reasons, including the fact that Obama now leads by 14 percent among women in tracking polls, but mostly because Palin is not Clinton. She is not a powerful and dynamic public speaker, she has no stance on any matter of policy and she has no experience on the national stage.
She does share one important quality with Clinton though, catty and sharp tongued attacks, which worked so well for the former first lady, well no they didn't.
Palin has proven to be little more than a joke over the past few weeks, as the McCain camp has tried to package her as a maverick who never earmarked a bill in her life and who never once asked for that $400 million bridge to nowhere, to connect 50 some-odd people to the mainland of Alaska. Oh wait, she was an earmarking machine during her mere two years in office and she definitely wanted that bridge, it would have looked so lovely draped across the Tongass Narrows.
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kim
posted 10/08/08 @ 1:07 PM PST
He deserves to lose for picking Palin.. what a insult to women.. yuk
Carlos Navarro
posted 10/09/08 @ 7:53 AM PST
That John McCain is out of touch with America is evident in his asking who Barak Obama is. The senator from Illinois has been vetted and re-vetted more thoroughly than any political figure in recent history. (Continued…)
Elizabeth Horton
posted 10/10/08 @ 1:46 PM PST
That was a horrible article! Not only because you unfairly attacked Palin, but because you cannot write properly! They're called commas; you may want to consider using them when necassary. (Continued…)
Liberty's dying
posted 10/22/08 @ 12:33 PM PST
Let's face it, the government propaganda machine, a.k.a. the mainstream media, has offered us two horrible choices for President this year. One is an old washed up guy who isn't too bright (with all due respect to his military service), the other a smooth talker who delights the young folks with his thinly veiled Marxism under the guise of "change. (Continued…)
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