Posted by
Marc T. on Friday, August 29, 2008 4:47:33 PM
It was 10:00 am and I get a call from my wife at work saying that McCain has picked his running mate, it was a women who she has never heard of (she isn't as policially savvy as myself, but don't hold that against her), I wasn't happy about it. My horse in the race was Mitt Romney. Although I have heard there were a couple of females in the running for VP, I have heard names like Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona. Decent choices but not the type of candidate I want being a heartbeat away from the leader of the free world. I called a few other politically oriented co-workers to vent figuring out why would McCain do this to us. Well, I wasn't happy until I got home and listen the speech Sarah Palin gave in Dayton Ohio, accepting McCain's invitation to be his running mate. WOW, this is the spark that McCain needed to energize the conservative base. Up to now, McCain's campaign albeit a decent one, didn't wow people to get out of their chairs to write checks and vote come November. Palin is the type of conservative McCain needed, she was pro-life, pro second admendment, will fight pork barrel spending and is a fighter with a great story to tell. I believe based on her speach and what I have been reading and hearing in the hours since she will hold her own in the election, espcecially in her debate with Joe Biden.
Even though there is a slight and I do mean slight ethics investigation on her, she has battled her own party and big oil successfully. She is my kind of conservative, part of me wishes McCain was more like her. She has executive experience unlike Obama (although a statement from the Obama camp she lacks experice)???? I don't get that, and has experience with energy and oil. She wants us to tap the reserves of Anwar and places across HER state containing billions of barrels of oil and natural gas. McCain was smart making this announcement the day after Obama's speech, no one is talking about him (more on the speech later) and are talking about Sarah Palin. WOW McCain hit a rare home run against the slick campaingn of Barack Obama. I also bet that Hillary is steamed that her destiny could be ruined by a conservative woman!!!! WOW there are many layers to this pick, too many to talk about in one blog all I have to say is John McCain, keep it up and this election will be in the bag.
As for the acceptance speech of Barack Obama, for a guy who has preached change from day 1, his speech is the same one that we hear from Democrats every 4 years. It talks about how bad shape America is in and that we need to fix social security, health care, race relations, the economy, education etc and they are the ones to do it with the same old solution, throw more money at it instead of rebuiling the foundation. Any Democrat could have written this speech. While America isn't perfect, we still live in the greatest nation on earth, no matter what the American hating Democrats have to say about it.