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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
So, basically, she's a conservative. She must be so ashamed  |
I don't know why you would attempt to make that argument. It is far deeper than that and the issues go much further than her positions related to the environment, global warming or whether to just "drill baby drill." This must surely go beyond these issues and the answers will be important to all of us- red or blue, or any other color.
I don't believe the issue is a conservative or a liberal one. I believe the issue with Sarah Palin is that what little we have learned of her with absolutely no help or "transparency" from her- is that she is not to be trusted to even be honest with America.
During her acceptance speech she made several material misrepresentations concerning her "stated" positions and/or "accomplishments" which were designed to paint a picture of her as somebody who was a "straight talker" and reformer. And yet since that speech- she has "refused" to make herself available to the media in order to answer questions. A reasonable expectation that most Americans, Republican and Democratic alike certainly and justly expect of a candidate for the second highest office in America.
Instead of being "transparent" and a "reformer" she has done everything possible to avoid transparency. What we have been left with to date are lies and avoiidance. Her latest self inflicted wound has been her refusal to turn over hundreds of emails concerning the so called "trooper gate" investigation. She cites... "executive privilege" in denying the release.
The fact is that while it has already been proven that Husband Todd made several contacts with Alaska's highest law enforcement official in order to advocate for the troopers dismissal the Palin Camp denied that he did so as an official representative of the Governors office. Problem is that Husband Todd was carbon copied on these emails. If her claim is "executive privilege" then the admission must be that Todd DID bring inappropriate pressure to have the trooper fired in an "official" capacity. If the claim is that Todd was NOT acting on behalf of the Governor then the admission is that the emails were never covered under "executive privilege" since they had already been released to the public... ie: Mr. Todd Palin- private citizen.
Either way- Mrs. Palin is doing herself no good and the longer this continues, and the more we learn, the more it appears that Sarah Palin is herself a political creature prone to abuses of power and cover up on a much grander scale that we have learned in just these 10 short days despite her every effort to pretend otherwise.
John McCain made a bad selection and it is being compounded by his failure to conduct and real vetting. And THAT poor decision was the first real example of what we can expect from his administration were he to be elected. Off the hip decisions not grounded in fact, not supported by a careful and realistic examination of the action to be taken, with no real thought given to the final outcomes, and based soley upon his "instincts" and "gut" feeling.
Hey- isn't THAT the same BUSH process that landed us in Iraq??
Apologies for going further afield than this thread perhaps warranted- but we are talking same person, same issue with the sense of discovering just who this lady really is and where she would take us if John McCain for any reason were unable to complete a full term if elected.
The fact that she plans on giving her first ever interview on 9-11 does not impress me much either. I believe 9-11 should be a day free of politics and her decision is one that screams "Me first, country second."
Shame on Sarah Palin for that alone.