Suppose ...

[unixronin]

... we all wrote in Sarah Palin as President instead of VP?

On a separate but related thought, one of the things that I find most depressing about American politics is not just that the electorate is so deeply and bitterly divided between Democratic and Republican, but that both sides seem to invest so much hatred and vitriol in trying not to heal that rift, but rather to deepen and widen it still further.  Sometimes it makes me wonder whether this century will see a Second American Civil War.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing either the religious fanaticism you're seeing or the cronyism. The closest I see to religious fanaticism is her statement that she personally believed both evolution and creationism have a place in schools — a position which she later clarified with a statement that she did not believe creationism "needs to be" on the school curriculum, and that under no circumstances would beliefs on the issue be allowed to influence Board of Education postings.

Cronyism? I can see leveling that charge against Murkowski. He appointed his own daughter, fer crissakes. Blatant nepotism right there. But if there's cronyism ongoing in Palin's administration, it seems curiously absent from reports. (I assume you're not referring again to the ongoing, unresolved trooper/Monegan business.)

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

There was more than the Monegan business; though even that counts--one simply doesn't hire someone for a critical position if they are the subjects of a credible criminal investigation. The petroleum-industry connections alone are enough to raise my eyebrows. The connections between the petroleum industry in Alaska and the state Republican Party mean that any Alaska Republican is going to have to make a very strong case for their independence from the oil industry before I'd even consider them. Hey! I wonder if that's who put her forward. That would make all kinds of sense. Have to wait and see.

In any event, I've said my piece; I'm going to let this discussion drop for a while.