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Flameworthy confession... maybe.
I'm sort of digging the feisty new "rogue" Palin.
One of my biggest beefs with her in the beginning, before learning how vapid she truly was, was that she was allowing herself to be caged and controlled by the MPC. She let her surrogates scream sexism at inappropriate times and was playing the traditional role of the submissive little woman.
Now I don't respect people who jump ship when that ship is sinking because I'm big on loyalty and she clearly is angling for herself at this point. I also suspect she isn't doing the MPC any favors at all by doing this, although I wouldn't be surprised if some others felt the way I do. I sort of like to see her break away. I dig women with backbones and at least she's trying to add a little actual maverick to her end of the ticket.
Now if she would just educate herself about... well, everything, I might reconsider my Palin-hatred.
Re: Flameworthy confession... maybe.
But her feisty-ness is self serving at this point. Self serving qualities are hardly ever attractive, whether it be coming from a man or a woman. Cool, she's exerting herself, but at the expense of her campaign, not cool, IMO.
Oh I am HAPPY to see the uncaged Palin. All the better to put that final nail in the coffin of the McCain campaign.
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But her feisty-ness is self serving at this point. Self serving qualities are hardly ever attractive, whether it be coming from a man or a woman. Cool, she's exerting herself, but at the expense of her campaign, not cool, IMO.
Hence this part of my OP: "Now I don't respect people who jump ship when that ship is sinking because I'm big on loyalty and she clearly is angling for herself at this point."
I'm just enjoying watching her grow some balls. Pun intended.
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I think she's acting more like herself now than she has been in past weeks, and I have more respect for this version of her in some ways.
I still don't buy that she's in the top 10 list of reasons McCain won't win this thing. ?Any Republican victory would have been a huge longshot given Bush's unpopularity and the public tendency to blame the party in the white house for economic issues, among other things. ?McCain has been unsteady at best on the economy (despite the fact that I think his positions are actually more correct on it), and he hasn't been able to get that message across. ?This election won't be won or lost on Palin, it's about McCain's inability to articulate why his economic policy is the right one.
Deductive reasoning isn't a conservative or liberal attribute. ~epphd
Ditto.
What are your thoughts on the recent polls showing the Palin pick as McCain's highest negative? I don't think it's her in particular that's dragging down the campaign as much as it is the judgment it shows from McCain.
I'd love to love the feistiness, and I am glad she's not playing trophy wife, but she still scares the bejesus out of me. I don't want her more feisty about, say, taking away my reproductive rights, or drilling ANWR into oblivion.
Ditto. It's refreshing to see her actually wanting to talk to the press. Too bad she doesn't realize how clueless she sounds, but hey, at least she's not their little caged bird anymore.
Do you think John McCain is "proud of" the rogue Palin?
Actually DH and I were undecided and leaning towards McCain until he picked Palin for his VP candidate. I know we're only anecdotal evidence, but his picking her showed us his lack of understanding of what the U.S. needs right now and is looking for in a leader/possible back up in case something happens to him. Also the method in which he selected her - such an important decision made so quickly with so little information.
So that one decision snowballed and led us to re-examine everything else he's done since then. It also pushed up to re-examine Obama and guess what - now we're both voting Obama wholeheartedly.