It's going to be an interesting election
McCain announced his choice for vice president, and it's pretty obvious that his decision took practically everybody by surprise. What's been fascinating is the amount of double talk that has occurred since then as Democrats try to explain away why this isn't significant and Republicans who act as if the Republicans just nominated the Second Coming of...oh, I don't know...Hillary?
The truly interesting thing is to study the interjection in political impetus this has caused without wearing partisan blinders. Not only does it make the choice interesting, but it also makes it even more interesting to study the people who are going off all nutso because they are convinced that somehow this decision will somehow serve their own side, even if they have to manufacture the reasons that only they believe because they've repeated the ridiculous conclusions to themselves over and over again.
The real ramifications of this choice will come towards the middle of the Republican Convention. To be honest, which no one ever is during an election, NO ONE has a clue what kind of an effect Palin's nomination is going to have until events start to play themselves out. Will she attract former Clintonites? No one knows, although "experts" just love to pretend they know, even though they're pretty much full of crap whenever they open their mouths. Will it hurt the Republicans with women? No one knows, but all sorts of people are already acting as if they're experts on this answer, even though they have zero evidence, zero experience and zero idea what it is they're talking about.
That's what makes politics so interesting to follow. It isn't the "who is going to win?" attitude that comes throughout the election season. No, it's the ridiculous mannerisms of people who take politics seriously, even though politics rarely have anything to do with them unless they're really the winners (the people running, the people being paid by those running, or people who will be given a cushy job by those who won...all others are just horse race watchers who are convinced they are getting rich, even though the track doesn't let them put any money on the horses, and if it does, it doesn't allow them to bank any winnings if they by some chance actually call the right horse).
I had someone tell me today that she believes that McCain's choice was a massive blunder because Palin has to answer for some illegal activities while she was governor in Alaska. I asked what those illegal activities were, and she couldn't tell me, but said they had to be important because she heard someone on the news talking about it. Yep, our elections have finally come down to "scandals" that may or may not be scandals but are obviously important because someone mentioned it on the news, but not in enough detail that we might actually remember what the scandals are. God, I love this country.
Stumble It!
The truly interesting thing is to study the interjection in political impetus this has caused without wearing partisan blinders. Not only does it make the choice interesting, but it also makes it even more interesting to study the people who are going off all nutso because they are convinced that somehow this decision will somehow serve their own side, even if they have to manufacture the reasons that only they believe because they've repeated the ridiculous conclusions to themselves over and over again.
The real ramifications of this choice will come towards the middle of the Republican Convention. To be honest, which no one ever is during an election, NO ONE has a clue what kind of an effect Palin's nomination is going to have until events start to play themselves out. Will she attract former Clintonites? No one knows, although "experts" just love to pretend they know, even though they're pretty much full of crap whenever they open their mouths. Will it hurt the Republicans with women? No one knows, but all sorts of people are already acting as if they're experts on this answer, even though they have zero evidence, zero experience and zero idea what it is they're talking about.
That's what makes politics so interesting to follow. It isn't the "who is going to win?" attitude that comes throughout the election season. No, it's the ridiculous mannerisms of people who take politics seriously, even though politics rarely have anything to do with them unless they're really the winners (the people running, the people being paid by those running, or people who will be given a cushy job by those who won...all others are just horse race watchers who are convinced they are getting rich, even though the track doesn't let them put any money on the horses, and if it does, it doesn't allow them to bank any winnings if they by some chance actually call the right horse).
I had someone tell me today that she believes that McCain's choice was a massive blunder because Palin has to answer for some illegal activities while she was governor in Alaska. I asked what those illegal activities were, and she couldn't tell me, but said they had to be important because she heard someone on the news talking about it. Yep, our elections have finally come down to "scandals" that may or may not be scandals but are obviously important because someone mentioned it on the news, but not in enough detail that we might actually remember what the scandals are. God, I love this country.
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Stumble It!
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