I’m not going to get a long wind up. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Unity, New Hampshire.
First, Senator Hillary Clinton. Senator Clinton was thoughtful and graceful. This is going to work because it has to work.
“Senator John McCain and President George Bush are two sides of the same coin which don’t add up for a whole lot of change.”
Next, Senator Barack Obama. In a phrase – Hillary Clinton rocks.
Now that we’re beyond Hillary, we can look forward to the first female VP, Sarah Palin, to become the first female President of the United States in 4 years!
I feel pretty confident that Sarah Palin will not come anywhere close to the White House as the Vice President. Maybe she will be an invited to a reception or something.
Thanks for your comments.
I dunno, seems like Palin is fast becoming McCain’s Veep frontrunner, and with her tie in to the female Hillary voters and now tie in to the centrality of the energy oil drilling issue, she seems like a big boost for McCain.
I have to agree that Palin isn’t getting anywhere near the white house through an election. As much as the republicans stoke the pro-life fire, there is no way they are going to actually work to make abortion illegal; nominating someone as pro-life and anti-environment as Palin would alienate McCain from anyone in the middle. And that is not something he can afford to do.
Palin’s bio states she is both a femenist and environmentalist, signing on to global warming and benefits to state same-sex couples.
Just because she favors oil drilling (when gas is approaching $5 a gallon), so long as it can be done in an environmentally sound way, that does not make her “anti-environment”.
And insofar as pro-life, while that’s her view, she never has imposed that on anyone else. (She is a member of “feminists for life”.)
It’s not good to be a single issue voter. And I’m aware that while many women favor choice, many of those same women feel it is very important finally to get a woman (who happens to be very accomplished) in the White House.
Ted –
Palin is a strong governor. She comes from a state that most Americans forget is in the union. Whether she is pro-life or for drilling or against it. That’s not going to matter.
First, she is unknown. McCain will have to spend a lot of money to get her known. A lot of money which he doesn’t have. Secondly, she isn’t popular with the Republican base and McCain disparately needs someone to excite the base. Thirdly, McCain does need to make a bold move to try to slow or stop Obama’s momentum. So, you may be right, she may be the one but I think someone like Governor Crist or Former Senator Rick Santorum. I don’t think that Mike Huckabee should be ruled out. He is very popular with the base. Mitt Romney has been smiling in front of the cameras a lot lately so don’t rule him out either. So, we’ll see.
thanks again for your comments.