First, we just spent the summer listening to the McCain campaign insist that the most important qualities in a candidate for national office are experience and a background in national security. We have had to endure adnosium attacks that Obama has too little foriegn policy experience, and too little experince period. Yet Sarah Palin was the mayor of a town of less than 9,000 people, and is currently the governor of a small state with a part-time legislature, with only one-and-a-half years under her belt.
Given that McCain is a 72-year-old man with a history of health trouble, isn't it odd that McCain picked a woman with less than two year's experience at the state level? Was it not important to have someone this nation could see as commander and chief? Will they not have to waste a lot of time making this case? Seems like a waste of resources and effort.
Now one of my co-workers says she is pretty impressed with the little she has seen of Palin, but I wonder how long that can last. So far it is almost all glowing stories, and only brief sound bites. We know that a major strategy of this campaign has been to target upset Hillary supporters, but are they not a little late? Any Hillary supporter that was not with Obama before last night's speech an
d are not now, are never going to be with him, so Palin does not bring much here.
Now McCain may still want to improve his appeal among women voters, but he skipped right past more qualified Republican women like Kay Bailey Hutchison, Christine Todd Whittman, Elizabeth Dole, and Olympia Snowe, all of whom would have brought a lot more to the ticket.
Am I wrong? What do people think?
posted by jrolsen 
