What concerns me about Governor Sarah Palin are not her personal beliefs alone, but the fact
that since she first ran for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (which was then smaller than it is
today) she injected and made issues out of these in her campaign. In other words, she used
them as vehicles to ride into the sought after office. I see and hear her doing the very
same thing as part of accepting Senator McCain's offer to become his running mate. Issues
are no substitute for honest, real, solid qualification or preparation for stepping into
either the mayor's office or into the second highest office in the United States of America.
While Governor Palin's family should be "off limits" - meaning they should not be attacked
or insulted - her family life and situation is at the same time niether a disqualifying or
qualifying factor in seeking any position or office. At the same time her family situation
does not qualify as preparation or credentials for any position or office - nor does this or
the fact of her teenage daughter's pregnancy or the fact that she has a Down's Syndrome
infant make her a better candidate. These are interesting and telling, yet, should not be
made or accepted as part of her resume.
What matters are her record and her real achievments in the political arena and the means
she is willing to use, and has or is using, to achieve any position or office.
If Senator John McCain is elected as our President in November she will become our Vice
President..and at any given moment may well need to be sworn in as our President - which is
a far cry from being an attractive, fresh, interesting, attention getting presidential
running mate.
Senator McCain, who appears to be an honorable man, has - by his choice of a divisive, ill
prepared running mate - lost not only votes of many who have been sitting back and taking a
good look at both Presidential Candidates - but has lost a good deal of the respect I felt
for the man. His choice, if he is elected, stands to do harm to the citizens of this
country. Senator McCain's age is, unfortunatley, a double-edged sword. With age comes more
life experience and, hopefully, more wisdom. Choosing Governor Palin is a risk he has chosen
to take seeing how this could re-fuel his campaign. He has the right to make his own choice
of a running mate, however, he has no right to at the same time risk the stability of this
nation and to in effect place its citizens in what could well be a precarious place if his
vehicle were to become our president.
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