On the same ticket, but are they on the same page?
Back in September there were reports about a early gaffe by Sarah Palin on the campaign trail.
Gov. Sarah Palin is now talking about “a Palin and McCain administration.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/a-what-administ.html
Oh, that kooky Sarah! How she does go on! Doesn’t she know it’s supposed to be McCain first, then Palin?
At first I thought this was just another example of Palin’s mouth disengaged from her brain, but following her debate performance, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich finds her unseemly aspirations a bit…well, creepy.
Maybe she’s not kidding about this being a “Palin/McCain” ticket.
…there’s a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon. She often sounds like someone who sees herself as half-a-heartbeat away from the presidency. Or who is seen that way by her own camp, the hard-right G.O.P. base that never liked McCain anyway and views him as, at best, a White House place holder.
This was first apparent when Palin extolled a “small town” vice president as a hero in her convention speech — and cited not one of the many Republican vice presidents who fit that bill but, bizarrely, Harry Truman, a Democrat who succeeded a president who died in office. A few weeks later came Charlie Gibson’s question about whether she thought she was “experienced enough” and “ready” when McCain invited her to join his ticket. Palin replied that she didn’t “hesitate” and didn’t “even blink” — a response that seemed jarring for its lack of any human modesty, even false modesty.
In the last of her Couric interview installments on Thursday, Palin was asked which vice president had most impressed her, and after paying tribute to Geraldine Ferraro, she chose “George Bush Sr.” Her criterion: she most admires vice presidents “who have gone on to the presidency.” Hours later, at the debate, she offered a discordant contrast to Biden when asked by Gwen Ifill how they would each govern “if the worst happened” and the president died in office. After Biden spoke of somber continuity, Palin was weirdly flip and chipper, eager to say that as a “maverick” she’d go her own way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html?hp
Maybe I’ve had Palin pegged all wrong. Not about her lack of intellectual ability and unfitness for the vice presidency. That still holds true.
What I “misunderstimated” about her as liberals did about George Bush Jr. is how much she really wants to be president. For her to suggest she is “ready” for a position Republican women like Senators Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Elizabeth Dole and Olympia Snowe or former Governor Christine Todd Whitman were clearly readier than her is a ludicrous delusion.
Palin would have made a dandy Secretary of the Interior in a McCain Administration. But his weakness with the GOP right-wing and fondness for beauty contestant bimbos led him to pluck a deservedly obscure 22- month governor from one of the nation’s least populous states and put her on the fast track to the White House.
The people in the world who scare the hell out of me are the one who have no doubts. About anything. That’s Sarah Palin. She doesn’t think very deeply, but she believes passionately and she really believes she’d make an heckuva swell vice-president.
Or president, should the opportunity present itself.
Within a month we will learn if it was the catalyst that put McCain in the White House or the determining factor in his greatest defeat.
And Sarah Palin will be standing faithfully by John McCain’s side praying for his continued good health. How hard she’s praying is debatable.
There’s a lot of horny bastards trolling the web in search of a nude pic of Palin according to compilers of web search engines.
They can stop looking. Palin’s naked ambition is on exhibit for all the world to see and it isn’t the least bit sexy.
