McCain/Palin
Friday, August 29th, 2008
She reminds me of Tina Fey.
Yeah, I think people are underestimating McCain. He’’s sharper than I gave him credit for.
He has done a few things here with this pick…
1. For those Hillary voters who were only energized to vote for McCain out of spite, this gives them an excuse to “feel better” about their choice as it will stick it to the Dems in a poetic justice sort of way.
2. This will and has already secured his base…which is what he was going to need. I knew they were going triangulate anyway. I personally think the Republicans were playng up this antipathy for McCain to lull the Democrats into a false sense of security.
3. He can begin to point out Obama’’s inexperience more through Obama’’s attacks of Palin’’s inexperience. What I mean by that is…while Obama is taking about the bottom of the ticket, McCain can talk about the top of the ticket being inexperienced.
4. The Republicans will ultimately use the sexism that the Democrats showed against Hillary…against them. Meaning, they will highlight every sexist thing said against Palin to paint the party of “progressives” as the hypocrites they are. It’’s amazing really cause the Republicans are sexist, but they have now seen that Democrats are JUST as sexist if not more. This will have a two fold effect…
A. Obama will have to come out and apologize for the sexism to make sure he keep his female voting block in tact ESPECIALLY the Republican women that supposedly flocked to him so he”ll always be in apologize mode.
B. If Obama ignores the inevitable attacks of sexism, Republicans won”t hesitate to draw parallels with what happened during the primary which will turn people off of Obama because they”re reliving the history of the past year and a half.
I mean just like the laughing at Obama’’s celebrity…McCain knows how to play this game…while looking like a doddering old man who wouldn”t hurt a fly.
Should be interesting how this all plays out in the next couple of months.