Politics

[ellenmillion]

I don't generally follow party politics, and I usually lean slightly more democratic than republican (when forced to choose), but McCain TOTALLY won me with his VP nomination. I have nothing but respect and admiration for our governor Palin. I think I may have cheered out loud when I read that. Go Sarah!

PS: Don't worry, that's probably all the politics you'll get out of me for the whole rest of the election.



ETA: WHY I like Sarah Palin. Disclaimer: I don't generally follow politics, and I base this fondness on not much more than my own personal experiences... you want a fair, in-depth and researched opinion, that's not here. This is the stuff that affects me directly.

Point 1. She's tough and charismatic. She usually has a smile on her face and is upbeat and cheerful. I really like her get-it-done attitude. It's something I respect in anyone.

Point 2. She repealed the fee hikes for business licenses that her awful predecessor levied.

Point 3. She thinks ahead and gets it done. Alaska is going to get a natural gas pipeline someday soon. Not only is she working towards that, she's not considering 'oh, we've negotiated it' as the end of the deal. She's already allotted the money to improve our roads to the point where they will handle the construction equipment needed to make it happen. She's looked at things that slowed the 70's gas pipeline and thinking YEARS ahead.

Point 4. At the same time, she's managed to get an oil relief bill through the red tape so that every Alaskan is getting an extra $1200 with their PFD next month. I dunno that it's the best possible solution to the problem, but it Got Done, and I gotta give kudos to her for that.

Point 5. She doesn't say stupid things. There are so many people in politics that I otherwise like that just up and say Stupid Things periodically and make me cringe to support them. She hasn't done that (that I've noticed).

Point 6. Some folks are saying her 'husband is in oil' like this is a bad thing, but he is an oil operator, which is a far, far, FAR cry from being an oil CEO or an oil executive. An operator is a blue-collar, dirt-under-the-nails job. I like that, too. If we smear everyone who ever works in oil ever with the paintbrush of Slimy Big Oil Execubots, that would include a LOT of good, hardworking technicians I know and would be brutally unfair. I like politicians who come from families that work for a living.

Someone mentioned that she ran on a creationism in school campaign, too, but I honestly don't remember ever seeing that. Like I said, I don't pay much attention to politics.

As with all politics, I do suggest you do your own research and go with your own gut. But I feel GOOD about Palin being our VP.

Comments

[eregyrn.livejournal.com]

... Maybe you can explain it a bit more to the rest of us, because before today, I'd never heard of her before. And from what I'm reading, I'm having a hard time accepting her as "heartbeat away from the presidency" material.

[ramurphy.livejournal.com]

You're kidding, right? You seriously want Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?

[amanda-now.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME that he picked a woman to be VP. She sounds great. McCain was already going to get my vote but this definitely helps. I think this was a smart move on his part. I like that her husband is in a blue collar field, because mostly politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) are all so "above" that kind of thing.

[gymnopedie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting more :)

I still think this is just a move to snag up the Hillary voters, imo. But, I wouldn't vote republican, EVER, so... (I can't get past them tinkering around with my right to decide if I should have a baby or not, even if it'd kill me)

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

(I realize you've said you don't follow politics closely, and I'm not trying to badger you if you don't want to get into it, I'm just passing through.)


You said you tended to lean Democratic usually. I just wondered why you lean Democratic normally, was it sort of a family tradition or was it based on any particular polices...you seem to be a small business owner so I reckon you care a lot about fiscal issues... do you have any social issues you care about?

I guess my feeling is that Palin seems to be a pretty rugged, energetic leader, a "go getter" so to speak, which is admirable, but at the end of the day (for me, anyway), she's still aggressively anti-choice (apparently she feels rape and incest aren't necessarily sufficient justifications for abortion), she still supports teaching creationism in schools, she's against comprehensive sex ed, and her fiscal experience is in Alaska, which has pretty unique economics that don't seem to translate to the rest of the country.

She's a very conservative veep for a pretty conservative ticket, and I'm just having a hard time seeing a Democrat, even a nominal one, voting for that.

[winterswitchery.livejournal.com]

This just furthers my desire to find a brick wall and introduce my forehead to it. AAAALL of it does.

[mon-enfant.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting. I was hoping you would, since most of us haven't a clue who she is or what she has done, other than the sound bytes.

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

She's charismatic and I don't doubt she's done a lot of good for Alaska. It's possible she'd be a good VP. But I just can't get behind the pro-life thing, no matter how smiley the candidate is.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

I don't really know anything about her but what you said. Thanks for letting us know what she is like!

[strangelightart.livejournal.com]

That is the only reason McCain, who looks like the Emporer from Jedi and whom I believe is totally evil, chose a woman to get women to mindlessly vote for him just because they are desprate for a woman in the whitehouse and don't care necessarily about what is good for the country.

McCain is a bible thumping, evangelist f**king, war mongering, ignorant, 'good-ol-boy' who wouldn't mind continuing to allow the christians to run the government until we all have no more rights and are living in Jesus-land.

We can't let the Reverend Trasks, Dark Shadows refference, of the world govern the world.