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... I still say that both of our Presidential candidates suck. (And that's in the "wet farts out of dead pigeons" way, not the good way.)
But I gotta admit, after today's perhaps-surprising news, I think our Vice-Presidential choices — or the Republican one, at least — just got a whole lot better. Sarah Palin appears to be sane, honest, and fiscally responsible, and she's not afraid to out corrupt members of her own party. She cleaned house in the Alaska state legislature. Further, it looks as though she stands by her principles, but is willing to calmly accept being overruled or proven wrong, and she's not afraid to publicly change her mind.¹ Her approval ratings in Alaska are frequently in the 90s. When she ran for Mayor of Wasilla in 1996, she made a campaign promise to cut her own salary — and kept it. Then when she ran for Governor of Alaska in 2006, she made a campaign promise to sell the IAI Westwind II executive jet purchased (on state government credit) by the Murkowski administration ... and kept that promise, too.
I mean, DAMN! Can't we, you know, swap the ticket around and make McCain VP? C'mon, folks, our first female President doesn't HAVE to be a Democrat.
[1] "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day." — Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
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For starters this (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/palin-corruption-investigation/), if true, is a disturbing abuse of power.
She also appears to be a bit shorter on experience than Obama, especially in the foreign policy area. Sort of a new Dan Quayle.
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(Actually, let me restate that: As noted in that article, she has released tapes corroborating that aides or staffers of hers did pressure the Public Safety Department. She has denied that her firing of Public Safety Commissioner Monegan had anything to do with the issue, and in fact she offered him the position of executive director of the state ABC board. She has further denied that she instigated the pressure, and she took disciplinary action against a staffer who tried to play the family-issue card with Monegan. Time will tell what the truth of the whole thing is.)
I'm sure she's not perfectly squeaky clean. No-one is. Everyone has flaws. But hers seem minor compared to just about any other player on the board.
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Oh, and as for foreign policy experience, she's the governor of a state surrounded by foreign countries. And she's had infinitely more executive experience than Obama, as any number divided by zero equals infinity.
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And DUI in a patrol car ... yeah, this guy was clearly a real credit to the Force. (Not.)
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Well, the Union knocked that down to 5, but still!
The System Works!!!
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Gonna have to do better than that.