Sarah Palin Is Ready!

Is Sarah Palin Ready To Be President If Necessary

I had an old friend ask me if I really wanted Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency...
My answer is yes, because I think Sarah Palin is capable and would be a fine and capable V.P or President, if put in that position!! And she will get even better with time! I also think that McCain-Palin and the experience team that McCain will bring with him to the White House is exactly what we need during these difficult times. (The constant chant by the Democrats of more of the same is b.s... I have even heard several honest informed Democrats speak about how McCain has stood up to fellow Republicans, including George Bush, many times!). And Sarah Palin certainly is not more of the same!

She seems to be a quick study, full of energy and is obviously not controlled by Washington or previous alliances there... nor other negative influences and associations like Obama. And I think Biden is a bumbling idiot!! Sarah is also not hiding things like her or her husband's thesis or college records etc etc, like 'both the Obamas are. As soon as people have to have things closed or hidden until 'after the election', no matter how benign it may seem, it raises a flag... and is often just the tip of the iceberg. And Obama just has too many of those unknowns, unclear and unquestionable issues for me!

Neither presidential candidate would have been my first choice for President... but we have to work with what we have. And I am not a Hillary fan either, so it is not like I'm for Palin because she is a woman. I have read all four of the candidates' books, and just about every book about them, written by anybody and everybody that is out there. I watched both Conventions, virtually in full, have seen all four candidates and several of their rivals in the primaries speak in-person at rallies, and I read whatever I can on line, on the paper or magazines listen to contrary views on the radio. And I try to watch news about them on TV from varying sources, including BBC Coverage. And I blog myself and do some ghost writing on politics for several sources... so I consider myself better informed than most.

First of all, John McCain's mother is 96 years old and as ‘with it’ as you or I... although sometimes I worry about myself. ;-)  So longevity with mental acuity runs McCain's family. So I am really not that worried about McCain not making it through at least one term, if not two in decent health, and Palin will be ready if she needs to step into his shoes in the future. And some of what makes McCain seem older is due to the injuries he suffered in service of this Country, while many people were burning their draft cards, for which he should be thanked... not penalized or made fun of, as I heard by some young journalists doing after the last debate. I say shame on them!! He could have and maybe should have died his hair, for this reason, but I see it as a lack of vanity and an example that he is comfortable being himself...

Secondly, Sarah Palin has more executive experience than Obama, just not at the national level, so some of the things Katie Couric and gang asked her, in order to make Sarah Palin look stupid, just weren’t in her frame of reference or things she had needed to know up to his point. And as she said herself, in the end, she stopped answering the questions because she thought they were getting to be stupid. I heard Brian Williams, a journalist that prides himself on being neutral and reporting the news, not his opinions, say that Sarah Palin really has gotten kind of a raw deal and that he would love to interview her. Sarah Palin is also full of raw excitement that hasn’t been marred by the battle scars of being Washington.

All of Obama’s cloak and dagger stuff coupled with his lack of experience and game playing… like voting ‘present’ 45% of the time because he doesn’t want to look even more liberal and less mainstream than he is or already does, if that is even possible, plus his propensity for spending boils down to lack of trust, lack of character and questionable motives to me… and Biden is a ninny who spends half his time taking his foot out of his mouth and the other half changing his position from what it was before Obama chose him! Whereas McCain, who is not perfect… but again who is or could be after 30+ years in Washington, is pretty honest and does have a record of reaching across the aisle and standing up against his own party over the years… and he is a generally honest man who has given his life to the service of our Country, so has the experience we need. And Palin is a breath of fresh air!! She is a "real" person and closer to the concerns of average American than any of the other 3-candidates... and Obama is the most elitist of them all. Obama is great at talking in circles, but if you look at his voting record and do the math of the bits and pieces of his elaborate plans vs. his tax policy that he actually talks about... we can't afford him and he will definitely put us on the road to socialism and cut our freedoms!

"And some of this Obama philosophy is discussed in the book, The Case Against Obama… that I really feel everyone needs to read before the election, but he does not speak about it often… which again, in itself, is odd! In writing, he also candidly explains that effect of his (Obama’s) purposeful ‘opacity’ and lack of specificity on voters: 'I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them." Indeed... and he has taken money and created alliances with all kinds of worrisome associates that just might add to that disappointment!

By Ask Marion - I encourage everyone to check out the Audacity of Socialism