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It doesn't matter how well-educated the candidates are if the majority aren't going to vote for them.
Kerry is just the latest case in point.
What the anti-Palin faction just don't get is that a lot of her support comes from the rejection of the unknown in Obama and the consolation of the familiar in her. And as a result of the very many sorts of division Obama has become iconic of. He has not managed to unite anything other than his opposition. Which is exactly why Karl Rove made4 very sure he was the candiate on the ballot.
How else could you possible get an GOP candidate in the White House after 8 Bush years other than to find an even more unelectable Democrat? After eliminating any viable candidates.
What a coincidence that this is just what has happened, isn't it.
God, how can you possibly be so gullible.
And there may be an element of sanity on this, oddly enough.
All the Obamabots seem to think Inauguration Day would mean Happily Ever After while the problems would just going to be beginning.
Obama is the least team player of any candidate in memory except for George Bush. And Richard Nixon.
Put Obama's personality before Congress and Congress will simply hand him four years of being treated like a marshmallow at a campfire.
He has no record at all, at any time, of working well with others. How many of his "community organizing" compatriots have you heard praising what it was like to work with him? How many of ANYONE who has worked with him has said anything good about the experience? Consider that, why don't you?
We aren't giving the power to Palin. We are going to hand it, like it or not, to McCain. At least we have the consolation that he has some idea of what he is doing some of the time.
McCain was in Congress literally before Obama was old enough to vote. If you want things to get done somehow, it's going to have to get through Congress at some point.
The Senate will have no qualms about telling Obama which ear he can stick it into if he tried giving them just an average dose of his arrogant rhetoric-R-us approach.We need someone who knows how to get it done. Not someone who can cant about why we should and not do anything other than be self-serving about it.
Moot point. In order for Obama to do that, he'd have to win. In order to win he'd have to have a majority of voters behind him.
And there are just too many reasons why he doesn't. And you all know it. Or you've never set foot in a small-town cafe.
Obama's urban base vanishes proportionally to city limits.
Palin means so utterly little other than to reassure small-town America. She is their mirror reflection against some guy even whose name represents everything they are against.
Especially now that Wall Street is imploding, Biden means nothing to them, people who never read or listen to the news, other than the status quo propping up an inexperienced too obviously narcissisticly ambitious baby politician.
And you are all wasting so much time tying Palin into the bow on the package while therest of us are trying to figure out how to get through this scarily expensive winter as our assets devalue around us.
-gala1
