Sarah and running mate Carrie
Sarah Palin is an enigma. The trouble is that she’s vilified by so many but to speak in less than glowing terms of her alienates many women and other conservatives.
Is she electable? After all, being tongue-tied and gaff-prone didn’t stop George Bush but then again, he had Skull and Bones assistance. Sarah Palin is a rogue factor, as Arnie was and Boris over here. Boris is Bullingdon though and Arnie has backers behind him.
It’s just her homespun real-life persona which appeals to something in the heartland of America and she seems, to me, eminently electable but maybe as a VP again. Her ideas on mothering might backfire on her though in the hypocritical public sphere [Harper Valley PTA].
After McCain delivered a concession speech and left the hotel, said sources, campaign manager Steve Schmidt got a call from another aide warning that Palin was moving back toward the stage to speak. Schmidt, said people who were there, ordered staffers to shut down the set and turn off the lights.
That sounds pretty dysfunctional to me and does nothing to dispel my notion that McCain was just in the race to make the accession of Obama look like a democratic process.
Levi Johnston at the Thanksgiving table?
“It’s lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing,” the former Alaska governor, 45, tells Oprah Winfrey in an interview to air Nov. 16, the day before the publication of Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue.”
“Because,” she said, “he is a part of the family and you want to bring him in the fold and kind of under your wing. And he needs that, too, Oprah. I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good.”
Cringe. On the other hand, that sort of Oprah homespun stuff goes down well in the heartland. On consideration, here’s my suggestion – Sarah for Prez and Carrie Prejean as VP. Can you imagine that?
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She’s not enough of a reptile.
James, are you trying to set the world on fire with a suggestion like that?
In fact I think it is a damn good idea that would really shake up the world political establishment.
Sackers – perhaps.
Ivan – moi? Trying to “shake up the world political establishment”? Would I ever stir? I’m a demure kitten, a little lamb.
She’s awful. She’s not even politically smart. Carrie Prejean spoke her mind and is to be applauded but other than she’s a cheap dumb glamour model. What does dumb glamour modelling have to do with politics or is it just you need women to look “hot” and lasivious to want them to succeed? Would you expect a boxer to go into politics if he mumbled the right things politically once in a while? Ugh
Politicians are generally useless.
At least this way we have something positive. They will be better to look at than Gordo or Obama.
Carrie did speak her mind. However it took a while for us to find out that was all of it. Her book will make her financially so she doesn’t have anything to worry about. You didn’t now she had a book? You clearly did not watch the King video.
Lord T – right.
Alison – wait till 8 o’clock and you’ll see what type of woman I prefer. I can assure you it is not the bimbo.
I’m not sure what that has to do with politocs. Women as leaders or as politicians should be there because they make the grade intellectually. Not because they offer some vox pop wonders to placate the increasingly desperate US conservatives.
Jees. Margaret Thatcher (my absolute heroine in this department) was a fine looking woman but she didn’t get there because she was a glamnour model, a beauty circus queen or wrote a book about her life. And anyway. Doesn’t the latter generally come AFTER you have achieved something notable?
I’m not disagreeing. Personally, I believe that everyone, even women, have to earn the respect and achieve something first before the accolades are given. Obama also needed to achieve something before his Nobel prize.