“So if it’s the economic crisis, she can certainly speak to the fact that she carries a mortgage. She’s got kids ready to go to college, she has a son who is also heading off to the military. So from a military perspective, she is engaged just like any ordinary American. So if she is one heartbeat away, as she is one heartbeat away as a vice presidential candidate, and she assumes the presidency, god forbid — in terms of John McCain, I don’t wish ill, but as your question points — if she becomes president of the United States, she is ready, and that is because she has the experience of an ordinary American who can get in there and knows what is on people’s minds and what people need.
McCain aide Meg Stapleton setting the bar as low as possible for Palin’s debate performance tonight. They want to show she is a regular person and not some “smooth talking” Washington insider. This pre-spin is as despicable as it is stupid. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want regular people making decisions about how to solve this financial crisis or negotiating with Iran. I want people who know shit and all the regular people I know don’t know shit.
If all it took was knowledge of paying a mortgage or sending a kid to college then anybody could do the damn job. The fact that she can write a check each month to a mortgage company in no way qualifies her to lead the country in dealing with the current financial crisis. Hell, she can’t even explain why it’s a problem. Anyone who can vote for McCain-Palin because they like that Sarah is ‘regular folk’ is just flat-out stupid. This anti-intellectual crap is going to kill us one day and I don’t want to go down like that.
(via election08)
Seconded!
