To tidy up some of the scattered orphans that I've sewn throughout the universe of blogs, I'm resettling some of the best of my pithy little missives right here. ((The ones that I thought stunk. . .. you'll have to search and destroy on yer own)))
In one fell swoop, senator McCain has given up ownership to just about every tactic and strategy that the GOP had in their arsenal.
With Sen. McCain’s Pick of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, he has taken away the “experience”argument that would’ve been mildly effective in this time of über uncertainty on so many issues.
Also, by getting not only an inexperienced running mate, but one who’s only experience has been on the small frozen stage of being Mayor in a small town for a brief time before moving on to the barely larger stage of governing a state with a population smaller than some of our large cities, McCain has ceded the talking point to Obama.
The “Are You Experienced“ argument is still there, and still valid, but it cannot be used in the quick-n-easy sound bites that the public loves so much. Now this issue will have to be saved for the more lengthy discussion periods, such as the debates or Question and Answer press conferences.
We know that there will be far too few of these types of informative sessions, from now until Election Day in November.
McCain has also added an unwelcome and unnecessary tie-in with the scandal plagued state of Alaska.
Even If Gov. Palin is not directly linked to any scandal in Alaska, she will no doubt have to defend charges that she is.
She will also have to defend the small scandals she has levied against her, dealing with the state troopers in Alaska.
This li’l political defect generally takes away the GOP strategy of tying Senator Obama with Joey Resco, and the Chicago housing scandal.
And last but not least, many are going to say selecting such an inexperienced woman, when for the past few weeks The entire GOP has been trying to foment division among Democratic women and their party, has a high probability of being seen as patronizing to women.
Democratic women may be upset with Hillary not getting the VP slot, but they are not stupid.
It is the utterly asinine thought that says, since they are upset, we can put just any old woman in the VP slot and those Democratic women will come running to us.
This FoxNews logic will be seen as very disingenuous and patronizing to many women.
This brings to mind that same tired GOP tactic that failed miserably when Obama was running for the US Senate seat in Illinois. His opponent dropped out so the GOP “Brain Trust“ said, let’s plug in any old black guy and we’ll keep the seat.
That was a horrible, patronizing and ultimately failing strategy then, and it still is.
And playing on the emotionalism of having a downs syndrome baby is living on a very dangerous thin ledge that may win some points in the short run, but cannot be used for any sustained length of time.
All in all, this was a strange pick at best_ and an out-and-out bizarre pick in the minds of many political junkies out here.
But if it turns out that Johnny Python’s Flying Circus wins, then the ol’ maverick will prove once again smarter tougher and better than those of us who participate on the sidelines.
Cheers !!!
No comments:
Post a Comment