VP Sarah Palin?
It's kind of weird to have been so detached from the lead-up to the 2008 election. That is, up until last Fri. 
As a conservative, it's been difficult to be excited about politics for a while. With Bush abandoning conservative principals in legislation, wasting our military and resources to build a democracy in a place and with a people that don't want it, and watching the legislative branch spin their wheels under the tragic yet comical leadership of Pelosi and Reid, I haven't bothered to get invested in much. I considered the next presidential term to be what sports teams call a "rebuilding year."
While I will always respect John McCain's military service and the heroic choices he made as a soldier, he is not very conservative. In fact, I didn't see a whole lot of difference between McCain and Hillary Clinton in the way they would lead the country. At least if we were going to have a liberal in the white house, I'd rather have a liberal democrat so the country could more easily attribute the product of socialism with the correct political party. I also tried to find something redeeming in four years with a President Obama. Barack Obama is a gifted speaker. I think it's a good thing for the country to be inspired by our president and Obama has clearly energized alot of otherwise uninvolved people. The trouble is, my distrust of him has grown with every month. As it was with the Deval Patrick campaign, we mostly hear about concepts, generalities, and poetic platitudes that amount to nothing. He is a politician, groomed since his 2004 DNC speech and favored by the media to win an election. If I hear the word "change" one more time...
Sarah Palin...how about that? Apart from the fact that she's a hottie and a half, I love what I've read about her. I knew absolutely nothing about her until yesterday. But she seems to possess the qualities and values I think are missing with John McCain. She's socially AND fiscally conservative and willing to put her neck on the line to stand for conservative principals. She cares about the environment but isn't for wasting money and attention on ridiculous measures to combat global warming when there are REAL causes to rally around. It does sound like she's jetted her way through a young political career. But I'm much more willing to take a risk with an inexperienced conservative who has demonstrated a commitment to conservative values than with an inexperienced Barack Obama who has demonstrated no commitment to anything important except his own electability. Now I'm interested!
As a conservative, it's been difficult to be excited about politics for a while. With Bush abandoning conservative principals in legislation, wasting our military and resources to build a democracy in a place and with a people that don't want it, and watching the legislative branch spin their wheels under the tragic yet comical leadership of Pelosi and Reid, I haven't bothered to get invested in much. I considered the next presidential term to be what sports teams call a "rebuilding year."
While I will always respect John McCain's military service and the heroic choices he made as a soldier, he is not very conservative. In fact, I didn't see a whole lot of difference between McCain and Hillary Clinton in the way they would lead the country. At least if we were going to have a liberal in the white house, I'd rather have a liberal democrat so the country could more easily attribute the product of socialism with the correct political party. I also tried to find something redeeming in four years with a President Obama. Barack Obama is a gifted speaker. I think it's a good thing for the country to be inspired by our president and Obama has clearly energized alot of otherwise uninvolved people. The trouble is, my distrust of him has grown with every month. As it was with the Deval Patrick campaign, we mostly hear about concepts, generalities, and poetic platitudes that amount to nothing. He is a politician, groomed since his 2004 DNC speech and favored by the media to win an election. If I hear the word "change" one more time...
Sarah Palin...how about that? Apart from the fact that she's a hottie and a half, I love what I've read about her. I knew absolutely nothing about her until yesterday. But she seems to possess the qualities and values I think are missing with John McCain. She's socially AND fiscally conservative and willing to put her neck on the line to stand for conservative principals. She cares about the environment but isn't for wasting money and attention on ridiculous measures to combat global warming when there are REAL causes to rally around. It does sound like she's jetted her way through a young political career. But I'm much more willing to take a risk with an inexperienced conservative who has demonstrated a commitment to conservative values than with an inexperienced Barack Obama who has demonstrated no commitment to anything important except his own electability. Now I'm interested!