http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/05/romney-palin-is-qualified-to-be-president/?fbid=b3P9qv2zW_o
You know as a person Sara Palin may be great. She may have even been loved by Alaskans as the Governor, but when she stepped into the role of a VP candidacy and after losing the election she made a huge political blunder.
She quit.
That alone does not make her qualified in my book.
Many would disagree with me, and there was a time, once upon a time, that I would have voted for her had she ran for president.
Now?
Not a chance in hell, even if it were frozen over. Does that mean I don't like her as a person? I don't know her well enough to say I do or don't. I liked a lot of things about her, her faith, where she stood, the fact that she knows the challenges of raising a child with down syndrom, what parents face with special needs children........One who knows the struggle of a special needs child.
But she quit.
She lost whatever confidence I had in her as a politician, and I've read many people feel the same way. And the fact that she doesn't hold a chance to win the GOP nomination. She was a scapegoat for John McCain. It was bad enough that he made some very crucial blunders during the election and campaign, but afterwards the GOP even turned on Sara Palin saying it was her fault he lost. My opinion was they knew they were going to lose and they knew they were going to lose huge. Sara Palin became their scapegoat.
Now she is a commentator for Fox, and people have not stopped making fun of her or her son and family. If she even considers a political bid again she is going to have to know how hard it would be to get past that, to get past that she quit, and to gain the trust of voters who stood by her.
So I ask, how the hell does Mitt Romney believe that she is qualified, when so many people, myself included look at her as a quitter? After the race was over and it was back to being a governor, I have to say I was watching some of the decisions she made and I was less than happy with them. They seemed to go against who she claimed she was, or she was bowing to political pressure from somewhere.
She started to show a side of herself that I wasn't sure I could live with. And she showed that she won't be true to the GOP. That itself is not a bad thing.....to be true to who you are, to be true to what you think is right for the people you represent, and for country. However, with that being said the GOP would likely blackball her, if they haven't already for endorsing a candidate that was not the one they chose and were supporting. In short she could keep the party divided.
She said that the GOP should take over the Tea Parties and make them their own, that is the furthest thing from the truth. I don't want the GOP running tea parties, I don't want hte GOP taking over what was started as a Grass Roots campaign. I don't want people to even begin to think that it was their idea. I think Sara Palin made a tactical error when she said that.
At some point in time she is going ot have to realize how much what she hurt herself politically by quitting.
My husband seems to think that she willl make a stronger show for herself because of her 'fundamental and conservative values'. I'm not buying it.
But as far as what I think of Mitt Romney?
Can someone please tell me what he is smoking?
Mooch
PS thank you to the member that pointed out to me that I had Trigs diagnoses down wrong.
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Comments: 27
AND GET ME SOME OF THAT STUFF!
i never did like her, but when she stepped down that was the last nail in the coffin for me. im all for a woman president, almost any woman but her.
You know I'm going to ask you how is Palin any less "qualified" than an ex-community organizer, one-year junior senator from Chicago.......
Since Obama has hit office I have repeatedly said he's incompetent, and not cut out for politics on this level because he has NO EXPERIENCE!.....
I didn't feel it necessary to Bash Obama in a post that really had nothing to do with him.......Sorry....
Mooch
Two incompetents do not make a competent......
The answer is simply. One is an unemployed blogger from Alaska and the other is the President of the United States.
Are we clear now?
The other can order a wing of Stealh bombers to strike anywhere on the globe.
1) Be Born in the U.S.
2) 35 years of Age
3) Lived within the U.S for 14 years
Per the Constitution, That's it.
The rest resides around competency. She has more executive experience than Obama had when he started. She is smarter than what the media makes her out to be. She makes fewer gaffs than Joe Biden does. Is she the best person in an interview? No, that means she is more of a real person. Personally, I am getting tired of all the Yale and Harvard grads mucking up the country. I would rather have someone with less prestigeous background and some street smart common sense.
The reason people hate her, is because she is a likeable conservative female who doesn't stand with the NOW gang and is pro-life. It is amazing how conservative women are demonized, while liberal women are idolized.
I know the media made her out to look stupid....But she's got some brains....
No matter
Could you vote for someone knowing that they left their post due to whatever reasons, long before the time was up? Would you always worry that she could win, and then would step down when the pressure got to much?
Sorry but there is a lot of questions in my mind about her sticking it out....
She may be qualified within the guidelines of the Constitution of the United States, however, that doesn't mean she is qualified to handle the job, the pressure, or based on what she did as the governor of Alaska----quitting.
Mooch
You began this by saying here resignation from the Alaska governor position, if nothing else, makes her unqualified. I completely agree. Expecting the state of Alaska to wait for her to return from a VP campaign, only to work a few months and resign, just doesn't hold up. While I would not want her for many other reasons, this one is the strongest indication of whether she could handle the intensity of the presidency ... she couldn't.
Special need child......
Thanks for posting this to 4 US, World News & Opinions.
One of her last acts as governor really gave me pause and really made me question who she is, what she is about, and if she really was trying to use religion to pull in votes.
Mooch
I've had to stop and figure out my feelings about her a number of times this year. Here's what I think. I think men that have 'climbing the political ladder' in mind are reading all the papers, pulling up everything on the net, getting familiar with the countries and their backgrounds. I believe they are certainly A personalities that are driven.
I think when she got off work (of course she still had many evening tasks as governor) she couldn't wait to see the kids, help them with their homework, take them places and spend time with her husband.
I was a little embarrassed for her as the vice presidential candidate; I was a little angry at what's his name for choosing her because it put her in a situation she wasn't prepared for.
Maybe once her kids are gone ... but even then, does she have the interest to tackle learning about the whole world and the names of all the bills and who proposed what. It takes a gigantic intellect to do it right.
Very few people have what it takes to be President of the US; she is not one of them.
Frankly, I don't know who is.
Right now, the only person that I would want, baggage and all, is Newt Gingrich. I didn't want him before because he didn't 'look' presidential. But when I look back over the years and see who always had hold of the issues; who always had a plan of action; who I feel has integrity in spite of his divorces, I would choose him to be on the republican ticket.
Thanks for a wonderful post Mooch.