OK, it's time to put this whole fiasco to rest.
McCain is an idiot for getting this hockey-mom to be his VP. It was a dumb and desperate move. Let me tell you why:
1. She's really inexperienced. Alaska has a total population of just over 600,000. And she was governor for only 2 years. Her town that she was mayor of had only 8,000 people on it. Most of the time, you're a mayor, but you're doing it part-time. And being City Council of that small town is not even a part-time job. It's volunteer work. That's laughable.
2. McCain is old. McCain had bouts with cancer before. He's 72 years old. In 4 years, he'll be 76. This pick just amplifies his age and the dangers therein, because if something happens to him, Sarah is the President of the United States. A Hockey mom! Now can you imagine her staring down Hu Jintao or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Can you imagine her having to deal with the crisis in Georgia and Russia? But if something happens to McCain, she's going to be running the country.
3. She's already on record pretty much saying that she's not ready to be the VP. There's videos on Youtube that's killing her.
4. She's currently under investigation for abuse of power. Plus, her husband works for BP, doesn't he? Ties to Big Oil.
5. She is already on record endorsing Barack Obama's Energy Policy. So how is she going to debate it when she has endorsed it?
6. She isn't someone who's used to the national spotlight. Can you imagine her having to respond to attacks by Geraldine Ferraro? Hillary Clinton? And can you imagine putting her record next to Michelle Obama's? And do she know that right now the media is going through every inch of her background to find dirt on her? Or her family? Or her friends? Does she know that the bikini portion of her Miss Alaska pageant is going to be used in commercials by Moveon.org?
7. She is going to seriously put McCain's judgement into doubt. Look, he passed over Romney, Pawlenty, Fiorina, Hutchinson, Whitman, and many others who can probably step in and be President in the case of an emergency. People will see his pick as a potential national security risk. And some will start calling him senile. Tomorrow. Watch.
I can go on and on. I can talk about Ted Stevens. I can talk about the remoteness of Alaska and how she came off as completely out of touch with the lower 48 states. I can talk about how she's going to be debating Joe Biden. I can talk about that debacle of a speech earlier.
But I feel sorry for her. This is going to be a bloodbath. And I'm actually angryy with McCain for doing this to such a nice lady.!