My Defense of Sarah
September 3rd 2008 20:32
While I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that the media is putting the level of scrutiny on Sarah Palin regarding things they wouldn’t even touch on Obama or Biden, I think it’s important to defend her. So here are the points one by one that they are trying to make against her:
1. She wasn’t properly vetted.
What they mean by this is that the media didn’t get to vet her FOR John McCain. They charge that he didn’t meet her until the day before. They say his campaign didn’t investigate well enough to find the other things I’m going to list here.
The fact is, she had to complete a 70 question (70 page by some reports, either way, a lot) evaluation, was investigated by others in the campaign and interviewed by McCain aides. One McCain aide warned her that they were going to come after her like this and she asked, “Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?” The answer: Lipstick.
2. “Trooper Gate”, the charge that she tried to use her position to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, then fired the State Police Commissioner because he didn’t act on it.
Truth is, she fire a lot of Murkowski’s appointees. It’s very traditional for elected officials to do that. Clinton didn’t keep Bush’s Attorney General, did he? She offered him a job in a different government agency, which he turned down.
The former brother-in-law sounds like he should have been fired. Read this information on Glenn Beck
So far he has only been suspended for 10 days for some more directly job related charges, but this investigation into his threats and abuse of his wife and kids.
3. She supported the “bridge to nowhere” before she opposed it.
So? She got to a position where she had more information and killed it. She saw the waste and corruption and realized the bridge was part of it and stopped it.
4. She supported Ted Stevens and was part of his campaign.
She was on his campaign before he was indicted. She supported him when she thought he was clean. If it’s wrong to support somebody you think is innocent that later turns out not to be, then everybody who voted for Nixon before Watergate came out lacks ethics as well. She supported a fellow Republican and didn’t know he was going to be indicted, not to mention that he still hasn’t been found guilty and we hold people to an innocent until proven guilty standard in this country.
5. Todd had a DUI.
22 years ago, before he met Sarah Palin, Todd had a DUI. At the same time, Obama admits he was doing cocaine and other drugs. NEITHER OF THEM ARE RELEVANT. Clinton smoked marijuana, Bush drank heavily, etc. We all do things we are sorry about, nobody is perfect. Now, if Sarah had a DUI last year, since she got rid of the limousines, then maybe it’s a story, but this isn’t.
6. Bristol is pregnant and that shows abstinence only education doesn’t work and that Sarah should have been home more.
Let’s take this apart. First of all, if Bristol had been abstinent, she wouldn’t be pregnant, so yes, it would have worked. Second, Bristol was not some uninformed, stupid, little girl when she got pregnant. She knew the risks, knew about birth control, etc. at age 17. She messed up, every parent with teenagers know their kids mess up. Obama’s mother was pregnant and unmarried at that age as well . . .
It wouldn’t matter if Sarah was home because she was home for as many hours as any other working mother. You can’t exercise 100% control over a teenager. Period. They wouldn’t blame the pregnancy on Todd if Sarah was home but Todd was working, so how can you do it the other way around? Her statement on it will only further endear people to her:
7. She or her husband was involved with the Alaskan Independence Party, a party that wants to secede from the United States.
She spoke once to the group to welcome them into the political debate. Alaska is a very independent state, because it’s so geographically and climatologically separate. This isn’t a militant or violent group, any more than the northern California folks that want to split off into the State of Jefferson. A non-story and too long ago to worry about.
8. She has less experience than Barack is only a heartbeat away from the Presidency!
Actually, she's been managing a state with 25,000 employees and a $9 BILLION budget for the last eighteen months. Barack has managed what? A campaign? She has a long list of accomplishments: busting many top Republicans down to garbage duty for corruption, getting the oil companies to foot 100% of the bill for a $40 Billion dollar Natural Gas Pipeline, killing the bridge to nowhere and managing the day to day operations of the state. Not one Democratic spokesmouth can name one accomplishment by Barack. I've seen them try.
Then add in that she is the vice-president nominee and will have at least four years under McCain before being President. His mother is 96, he should be around a while . . . Republicans have experience, including McCain's executive experience running a Navy base and a squadron, at the top of their ticket. To paraphrase Senator Thompson last night, Democrats have a "Sunday Morning Talk Show guest" at the top.
She will get to go to state funerals and learn everything she needs to know at the feet of a teacher. Barack will have to learn from the student at his feet, once the student gets his feet out of his mouth.
What I believe you’ll see is this: McCain doesn’t need California, Washington, New York, etc. to win. He needs Middle America. Middle America is conservative; they’ve had more kids since Roe v. Wade than those other states. If you take apart any electoral map, even if Obama wins 55% of the popular vote, he can lose in the Electoral College. If you give McCain the undecided Middle America states, and Obama the undecided northeast states, McCain wins. Pure and simple electoral college math.
The more they go after her for this petty, unsubstantiated stuff, the more she will win people over in the middle. When the full details on the “Trooper Gate” comes out, she will be seen as a woman standing against an abuser, and the rest will blow over as the pointless garbage that it is.
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What they mean by this is that the media didn’t get to vet her FOR John McCain. They charge that he didn’t meet her until the day before. They say his campaign didn’t investigate well enough to find the other things I’m going to list here.
The fact is, she had to complete a 70 question (70 page by some reports, either way, a lot) evaluation, was investigated by others in the campaign and interviewed by McCain aides. One McCain aide warned her that they were going to come after her like this and she asked, “Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?” The answer: Lipstick.
2. “Trooper Gate”, the charge that she tried to use her position to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, then fired the State Police Commissioner because he didn’t act on it.
Truth is, she fire a lot of Murkowski’s appointees. It’s very traditional for elected officials to do that. Clinton didn’t keep Bush’s Attorney General, did he? She offered him a job in a different government agency, which he turned down.
The former brother-in-law sounds like he should have been fired. Read this information on Glenn Beck
That's all that matters. What doesn't matter is the fact that the allegations were that he was abusing the family, shooting a stun gun at their child. It doesn't matter that when she said she was going to get a divorce and she wanted to divorce him that he came up to her and said, if you divorce if you hire an attorney, I will kill your father. That, by the way, is one of the verifiable facts in Trooper Gate. The rest, the investigation is still ongoing. We do know he said to her, "I'll kill your father if you hire an attorney." But why by the way, that would be the governor's [Governor Palin’s] father.
So far he has only been suspended for 10 days for some more directly job related charges, but this investigation into his threats and abuse of his wife and kids.
3. She supported the “bridge to nowhere” before she opposed it.
So? She got to a position where she had more information and killed it. She saw the waste and corruption and realized the bridge was part of it and stopped it.
4. She supported Ted Stevens and was part of his campaign.
She was on his campaign before he was indicted. She supported him when she thought he was clean. If it’s wrong to support somebody you think is innocent that later turns out not to be, then everybody who voted for Nixon before Watergate came out lacks ethics as well. She supported a fellow Republican and didn’t know he was going to be indicted, not to mention that he still hasn’t been found guilty and we hold people to an innocent until proven guilty standard in this country.
5. Todd had a DUI.
22 years ago, before he met Sarah Palin, Todd had a DUI. At the same time, Obama admits he was doing cocaine and other drugs. NEITHER OF THEM ARE RELEVANT. Clinton smoked marijuana, Bush drank heavily, etc. We all do things we are sorry about, nobody is perfect. Now, if Sarah had a DUI last year, since she got rid of the limousines, then maybe it’s a story, but this isn’t.
6. Bristol is pregnant and that shows abstinence only education doesn’t work and that Sarah should have been home more.
Let’s take this apart. First of all, if Bristol had been abstinent, she wouldn’t be pregnant, so yes, it would have worked. Second, Bristol was not some uninformed, stupid, little girl when she got pregnant. She knew the risks, knew about birth control, etc. at age 17. She messed up, every parent with teenagers know their kids mess up. Obama’s mother was pregnant and unmarried at that age as well . . .
It wouldn’t matter if Sarah was home because she was home for as many hours as any other working mother. You can’t exercise 100% control over a teenager. Period. They wouldn’t blame the pregnancy on Todd if Sarah was home but Todd was working, so how can you do it the other way around? Her statement on it will only further endear people to her:
“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned,” read a statement issued on Monday by Ms. Palin and her husband, Todd. “We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”
7. She or her husband was involved with the Alaskan Independence Party, a party that wants to secede from the United States.
She spoke once to the group to welcome them into the political debate. Alaska is a very independent state, because it’s so geographically and climatologically separate. This isn’t a militant or violent group, any more than the northern California folks that want to split off into the State of Jefferson. A non-story and too long ago to worry about.
8. She has less experience than Barack is only a heartbeat away from the Presidency!
Actually, she's been managing a state with 25,000 employees and a $9 BILLION budget for the last eighteen months. Barack has managed what? A campaign? She has a long list of accomplishments: busting many top Republicans down to garbage duty for corruption, getting the oil companies to foot 100% of the bill for a $40 Billion dollar Natural Gas Pipeline, killing the bridge to nowhere and managing the day to day operations of the state. Not one Democratic spokesmouth can name one accomplishment by Barack. I've seen them try.
Then add in that she is the vice-president nominee and will have at least four years under McCain before being President. His mother is 96, he should be around a while . . . Republicans have experience, including McCain's executive experience running a Navy base and a squadron, at the top of their ticket. To paraphrase Senator Thompson last night, Democrats have a "Sunday Morning Talk Show guest" at the top.
She will get to go to state funerals and learn everything she needs to know at the feet of a teacher. Barack will have to learn from the student at his feet, once the student gets his feet out of his mouth.
What I believe you’ll see is this: McCain doesn’t need California, Washington, New York, etc. to win. He needs Middle America. Middle America is conservative; they’ve had more kids since Roe v. Wade than those other states. If you take apart any electoral map, even if Obama wins 55% of the popular vote, he can lose in the Electoral College. If you give McCain the undecided Middle America states, and Obama the undecided northeast states, McCain wins. Pure and simple electoral college math.
The more they go after her for this petty, unsubstantiated stuff, the more she will win people over in the middle. When the full details on the “Trooper Gate” comes out, she will be seen as a woman standing against an abuser, and the rest will blow over as the pointless garbage that it is.
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