The media is awash with declarations that McCain’s choice of Palin fulfills his maverick’s promise and that Palin herself is a maverick.
Great boots. Since when is McCain’s toadying to the religious right, the women electorate, and the military/industrial complex a sign of maverickism?
What makes Palin’s return to the early 20th century maverickism? She wants creationism taught in the schools. She advocates home teaching lest students be corrupted by actual knowledge. She would deny gays and lesbians even the partner rights that most today would endorse. She is an 19th century woman oddly catapaulted into a semi-governmental position who, according to her own staff, knows little about the administrative details about gubernatorial life. Palin in 2000 wanted Pat Buchanan for president after his essentially fascist speech at the Republican convention. Turn back the calendar to when women had no rights, individual rights were swamped by Christianity as the one true religion, replace wiferly and motherly activities for nationally significant acts and you have Sarah Palin. She thinks human beings have no relation to environmental change. She cares for wildlife in the same way an amateur hunter cares—keep one in the gunsites, and the world is good. Blessed with authority in the last free state in the union, she shills for the gas industry and tourism. Yetch.
And McCain! No one has found McCain to be a maverick since his last campaign, and even then he was “maverick” only in his willingness to shoot the shit with reporters. His voting record tells us how much those chat sessions had to do with his actual beliefs which, anus mirabulis, became dups of George Bush’s. And to call his appointment of Sarah Palin a “maverick’s” choice is to buy into his campaign without insight or canniness.
McCain is a political fellow who, as he noted in his book, was driven by ego to run for president. For him to say now that he ran and runs for the sake of those of us who can actually count our houses is the most specious of statements. He lies. He wants to be president. Leave it to the shrinks to figure out his motives. But these motives surely have nothing to do with helping me pay for my new Ford Focus or helping someone buy health insurance or helping the USA regain its moral standing in the world.
McCain panders. Palin sucks up to her mentor.And both pretend they have something useful and inspiring to offer us.
It is a con. It is an insult. It is a lie.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Jamie Holts // Aug 30, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read!
2 Jamie Holts // Aug 30, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Hello. I was reading someone elses blog and saw you on their blogroll. Would you be interested in exchanging blog roll links? If so, feel free to email me.
Thanks.
3 admin // Aug 30, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Jamie, send me an email and tell me a bit about your blog, ok? Thanks for stopping by.
4 Rob J // Aug 30, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I don’t know much about Ms. Palin, but perhaps that’s because she’s a first-term governor of the only part of the U.S. that virtually touches Russia. I understand that Alaska has a population of roughly 700,000, which is about the number of people that live in my city. If she’s “ready to be president”, then McCain no longer has any semblance of a valid argument for why Obama isn’t.
In my opinion, her pick is pandering at is worst. Hopefully, the women he aims to pander to by picking her will see right through him, turn their noses and run to Obama.
5 chippy // Sep 3, 2008 at 8:29 am
I don’t understand this article. Any number of studies show that home school students are better educated than those in public schools. What is wrong with teaching creationism? Shouldn’t all ideas compete in the marketplace of ideas? How is running for VP 19th century? Why do you think we cause enviromental change? I am old enough to remember the ice age of the 1970’s. What rights are you talking about? Why should I buy your car or your health insurance? McCain wants to be president because he has seen what communists and totalitarians are like by spending 5 years in a POW camp. He wants to defend the freedom that made this country great. Why are you so angry? I sure hate to be you.
6 admin // Sep 3, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Jamie, did you email me>
Rob, thanks for the comment.
Gee, Chippy, I don’t think I can respond to all your questions until I have a week avail to write you a book. I expect that you can piece together many of the answers just by reading this blog. Is it that you do not “understand” this entry, or that you disagree with it. Seems to me you understand fine, and disagreement is not odd or unwanted in this world, right?
I do appreciate the comment.
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