On Sarah’s Shoulders
- Posted by Chris on October 2nd, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, General, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin won elective office for city council, mayor and governor. She took out a sitting governor and a former governor in her run for governor. She took down corruption and smacked the powerhouses around. She didn’t do that by being held back. She waded into the fray with a baseball bat and used it. Why haven’t we seen Sarah on the offense? Because her hands are tied by the McCain campaign. She has handlers that give her her speeches and talking points and keep her sheltered. This is a terrible decision and it has been very costly. Just as her popularity peaks and she lifts the campaign to a lead, the people in the campaign tied her up and shut her down. No interviews. No talking to the press. No unchauffeured stops. It’s like they actually think she is the lightweight that the press is painting her as. She’s not. She can more than hold her own and it’s time to get her going again.
Sarah Palin needs to be the attacker of the McCain team. She needs to be the Mrs. Hyde to the Senator’s Dr. Jekyll. She needs to be let loose and allowed to fire up the show. McCain can stop campaigning to help and be nice and bipartisan. Sarah Palin needs to start naming the names that the Senator refuses to. I understand that this is a choice of the campaign. He wants to take the high road. The problem is when he refuses to answer the charges, they stick. When they stick, he loses support to Obama. This has to change and fast. This bi-partisan make nice garbage is only going to get Obama elected.
The time has come to name the names Senator. You said you would in the convention, it is time to do so. The democrats are responsible for this banking mess. That needs to be said. Frank, Dodd, Kennedy, Clinton, Carter. It’s time to name them. Raines and Gorelick from Obama’s campaign. Name them.
The American public thinks the republicans are at fault for this when they are the only ones that have tried to fix it. How the heck has this happened? That answer is easy. While McCain tried to be nice, Obama tagged him over and over, day after day with “the republicans caused it and we’ll fix it”. He set the message and stayed on message. It could have been countered. Palin was out there. She could have gone on and refuted it. It would have helped her too. As opposed to being the disappearing VP candidate of late, she would have been seen in the spotlight and seen fighting Obama night after night on the news. Obama has been successful in his “I’m youth and McCain is a dinosaur” theme. Palin would have stopped that dead in its tracks. The people in the McCain camp who are responsible for such a poor use of a great asset should be fired.
So where are we now? The dems have the bailout and THEY are seen as taking the credit for fixing it. Of course it’s still an illusion. The cause of this mess, giving loans to “under served” neighborhoods, is still the law. THAT wasn’t changed. But for now, they have the “fix to the republicans mistake” and as long as McCain allows that message to stand, Obama can be seen with a live boy, girl and the corpse of Eddie Murphy’s transvestite prostitute and will still win.
Right now, this whole thing rides on Palin’s shoulders. She is more than up to the task. Palin needs to be unleashed. It needs to start tonight and not stop until election night.
reaganomics is dead says:
Wow you play fast and loose with the facts. Granted thier is enough blame to go around on both sides, dems blocking regulation of fannie and freddie in light of the accountting fraud that was going on and the rush to regulate in the aftermath of the enron scandal to gop free marketeers to undermine government agencies such as the fda and epa that were put there to protect the american people and deregulation that seperated commercial banks from investment banks and mortage lenders so that they didnt have to use the same rules, the reason we are where we are as a country is the ideology that the markets can do no wrong and the government can do no right ie Reaganomics which is fully embraced by the gop is the reason we are in this mess. Now for your assertion that home loans were pushed on people who could not afford them is completely false. The CRA (community reivestment act) had nothing to with this. The CRA has been around for 30 years and this “housing bubble” began about 5 yeras ago. The majortity of these loans were given out by mortagage lenders which are not regulated and do not fall under the CRA and the reason for this is sen. phil graham, republican who sponsered the bill to deregulate banking. And these are the same lenders and investment banks that are being investigated for fraud and predatory lending. Now the trick for the GOP or Dems is how to navigate this new terrain, and find a coherent message and bring it to the american people.
Chris says:
Um no. The CRA is the only cause of this. Deregulation didn’t do this. Regulation that said give loans to people who don’t qualify did. That’s why it is the subprime crisis. Bush tried to stop this in 2002. McCain in 2005. The democrats blocked it. Sorry. No amount of fluff will change that.