Democrats Alter Attack on Palin

Posted by dingo on September 3rd, 2008 filed in Election, McCain, Politics

Maybe Democrats finally realized attacking Sarah Palin on experience is a horrible idea. Bringing up a running mate’s lack of experience is a huge mistake when your top candidate has experience issues. Regardless whether you believe Obama is ready to lead or not, experience is not something Obama’s folks should be talking about.

  1. Let’s be honest, Obama’s experience IS pretty thin for a President. An inexperienced VP who might be President if John McCain dies and dies soon is simply not a good counterweight.
  2. Obama has defined his entire campaign on CHANGE. Why in the world he want to start talking about experience? Experience is not his strength and it’s not his core message.

So Democrats have dropped experience and gone after McCain’s lack of vetting. This is a much better line of attack. Unfortunately, this approach has a couple problems.

  1. How many times did McCain talk to Palin and did the FBI do a thorough enough background check are a little too “inside baseball” to really affect the average voter.
  2. Sarah Palin can completely obliterate the experience argument by having a fantastic speech at the Republican National Convention tonight.

Palin has a heavy burden today. Well see how she responds. If she performs well, Democrats will have to move on. ;-)

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4 Responses to “Democrats Alter Attack on Palin”

  1. Ridgeliner7 Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 am

    I love how the media make things up out of whole cloth.

    There isn’t any obligation, under law, to “vet” running mates, and there certainly isn’t any established procedure for doing so. Nothing brought up about Governor Palin was unknown to (at the very least) Senator McCain’s staff.

    What this whole thing is about, is the press being “surprised” by her selection, and McCain’s failure to listen and act on their “conventional wisdom” on how he should have chosen.

    I have taken to reminding people about the Teddy Roosevelt story. When he was chosen to be VP he was younger than Sarah Palin, and had served just about the same length of time as Palin. And yet, few would argue, looking back at history, that he was somehow ineligible to have been selected, or that his being selected was somehow “wrong”.

    I would give $1,000 if someone had the stones and ability to force the Media say just how many reporters and investigators had been assigned to dig into Governor Palin as opposed to the number assigned and actively digging into Barack Obama’s associations with Bill Ayers, among others.

  2. wyldbanana Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 am

    I’ll play. Let’s assume that McCain didn’t properly vet Palin before Bristol, the “Dude’s” 20 yr old DUI, and the firing involving her brother-in-law. Given these events, McCain can either stick to his choice or throw Palin under the bus. If McCain were to do the latter (let’s be honest, if his incarceration at Hanoi Hilton is any indicator, he won’t), Obamanites would defile McCain as a waffler-traitor to his conservative base, women, & families - and Dems would love the outcome. Much better for McCain to burnish the Maverick in him and to continue commanding the campaign trail with Palin at his side.

    If McCain did know about all of these things (which is most likely the case), then Obama can point to how bad judgement gets when you’re an old guy (never mind that Obama would latch onto Warren Buffett’s coattails any day). Or, perhaps McCain is just that sure of his choice in Palin. For McCain, Palin’s ‘detractions’ are irrelevant and perhaps even underscore the stengths she brings to this campaign table.

  3. ShakiGreene Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Look, Sarah Palin is a poor choice on the behalf of the McCain party, bottom line!!! I would be pissed the F— off if I was a Republican and offended of the lack of decisiveness my competition chose as a running mate if I was a Dem!!

    I am neither and I realize that this is yet another weak move on the Republican party’s behalf!! Its not clever or strategic by any means to pick an inexperienced governor of what,”Alaska?”

    What exactly does her less than 3 years experience Governing Alaska prove!! “She helped to usher the seals to safety!!!”Approving the dog sled team to perform at the Olympics of 2000 never!!!

    Let me be fair here!! It is cool that she is a female whom has an accomplished career as a PTA president turned governor who is a hunter-gatherer which believes in abstenence before marriage but did not convince the ones close to her of this successfully!!!Oh,but she is pro-life, so all you religious people should vote for her where McCain falls short!!! “Get out of here!!!”

    She is just as unqualified as all the candidates accept Joe Biden!! McCain should have picked Mitt Romney but he was a coward so he picked the lesser of the two evils that includes Liberman, just to appease these hypocrite religious organisations hence-Evangelicals!!! The Real Republicans and Independents will not vote for this forest park ranger!!Check the polls, their going down and Obama is ahead for the first time excluding popularity as of yesterday @50%,if they have gone up any further I would not be suprised!!! Long Live Da Greene!!!

  4. Minus 1 Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Now I like Northern Exposure just as much as the next guy, but to choose one of its likely cast members to run as your VP choice is ridiculous. I don’t think the writters of the show would even have conceived of such a plot for Maggie. But maybe she might help reform those in Washington, schucks she already transformed the so called conservative party into a party that now supports and champions teenage preganancy. What a load of hypocrisy.

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