(Opinion alert)
My opinion: Sarah Palin will help John McCain win the presidency. As a vice president, she will work mainly on reform. If John McCain dies in office, she will sit on her hands and hope that we don't get attacked (or she will resign).
The experience question. I think the whole experience debate is ridiculous (in regards to both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama). I will blog on this later. And hey, if the New York Times is willing to admit that governer of Alaska is one of the toughest state-government jobs in the country, there's got to be some merit to her time served there.
McCain dying in office is not something I forecast. Look at his mother: she is 96! If the man can survive five years of torture I think he can handle some papers being thrown on his desk for four. And another thing: when your mother or grandmother turns 73, go ahead and tell her that you want to move into her nice house because she's bound to croak in four years anyways. Yeah, thought so.
Past policy. As far as I can tell, Palin has been a fairly good leader. She focuses on spending cuts and reform. Although her few falters from fiscal conservatism are disturbing, I ham it up to her being a rookie (or maybe making some comprimises?). Honestly, I need to look more deeply! That's what I like to do when I blog. Other than her terrible windfall profits tax I haven't examined her record at great length. Anyways, examining records isn't my favorite thing to do. I like to focus on the proposed platform, which is McCain's.
Last and least, the rumors. I just came upon a neat blog post which dispells most of the anti-Palin rumors. Although he doesn't list his sources for all of them, he does for many. It's an interesting read. Here are my favorite highlights:
- Palin never, ever supported Pat Buchanan. In fact, Buchanan now supports Obama*.
- No, she was never for Alaskan secession. Ever.
- No, she did not try to get books banned from a library. She got complaints from parents about some books, so she rhetorically asked the librarians what the policy was. They said they couldn't remove the books, so Palin said OK. Yes, Palin did try to fire the librarian a month later. No, she never did loose her job. (And no, it wasn't about the books, it was about administrative junk.) 1996 news source.
- No, she didn't cut funding for teenage mothers in need. She quadroupled it. No, she did not cut special needs funding. She trippled it.
*I really, really wish I could link to some proof of this one. I'll keep looking. In any case, there is proof that Palin never supported Buchanan. Buchanan claims she supported him, but at the time she was helping out Steve Forbes' campaign.
A note: I really, really don't feel like researching this for five hours and blogging on it, but many of these false rumors have been portrayed in The Boston Globe and on CNN as actual news(that's actual fact, not editorial). I'm sure of it myself because I remember reading/seeing some of them. I'll probably end up blogging it sometime anyways....even though it will probably kill me.
So, there you have it. I love her, I hate her. Sarah Palin.
(Final note. Hot librarian look: yes)
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