Video: Hey, are we totally sure Palin’s a supporter of Israel?

Allah, are you OK today? All your posts of late are “Oh My God, Palin won’t be liked by (Insert group here) because of her (Insert Daughters Pregnancy, Bridge to Nowhere, Statement on VP, whatever)” Allah, take it easy, Conservatives like people who are genuine, and honest. They don’t need every answer on the tip of their tongue. They need a track record of good judgment, and a core of moral values.

That’s why Rush’s ratings didn’t get hurt when it was revealed that he had become addicted to pain killers. We understand that, you do the best you can, aiming for the stars. You may not always reach the stars, but aiming for them is always the best choice. We like challenges, and we like people who overcome them. Starr Jones is a wonderful example of this. We don’t expect less of them, or think less of people who aren’t lily white and perfect. Todd Palin’s DUI twenty two years ago was just that. A mistake made twenty two years ago. It wasn’t last week, or last month. It was a mistake, he paid for, in the 1980′s for God’s sake. None of the traditional Republican voters are going to care one whit about that.

People liked Bush because he was genuinely honest about his ideals. He waffled on a few he knew wouldn’t be popular, but that is the thing, he tried to ease the impact. However, people felt he was more honest, and had better judgment than Al Gore. He espoused basic Conservative values, lower taxes, respect for life. While I disagree with some of the things he’s done, I still feel he is essentially honest, and he’s demonstrated the type of judgment we expected in 2000.

Palin strikes me, and most people, as an intelligent woman who didn’t set out in grade school to become President. Unlike Kerry, she wasn’t talking about it forty years ago. She eloped and didn’t have a huge wedding, this is what regular people do when they want to get married and aren’t worried about form over function. That is what Palin’s biography says to America, here is a woman who is worried about function, over form. She isn’t as concerned about the little distractions. She cares about fashion, but only so much. She cares about the image, but only so far. I guess the feeling I have after reading about her this weekend is she keeps things in perspective, not assigning too much emphasis on the image, instead focusing on the true issue at hand.

Allah trust me on this one, relax. Sarah Palin just won the election for John McCain, not because she’s a woman, or in spite of it. Not because she had a baby with Down’s syndrome. But because she has through her life shown she isn’t too serious to have a little fun, and isn’t too shallow to care about the form over the function. I would have no issue with her being President. Will she be ready on day one? I don’t know, who is ever really ready? No matter how prepared you think you are, the history of our Presidency has clearly shown something will come up that you didn’t expect, and you have to exercise your best judgment about.

That is what we want from a President, someone we believe will be able to see through the distractions to the core of a situation quickly, and will grasp the importance of the event. That is what hurt Bush and the Republicans in 2005 ala Katrina. It appeared to the people that Bush didn’t grasp the importance of the event, or ignored the suffering of the citizenry. It was untrue of course, however the truth is that Bush could have stifled that image, and didn’t. He trusted the people to take it for granted that he was aware and active in the role he was elected to, President. We took a great deal for granted, that he was doing the best he could on the War on Terror, that he was looking for solutions to Iraq, and that he was not stagnant in his approach to the war. Asking the people to have unlimited faith without some proof is fine, if you’re talking about a deity. Short of a deity, the people want something more than a press secretary standing there saying something like. “The President has been, and will continue to get updates on the situation in New Orleans, and has spoken to both Mayer Nagin, and Governor Blanco.”

Invite the press in now and then to see a briefing, and see what kind of information is being discussed. Open the occasional cabinet meeting to the press, and let them televise the discussion of issues by the executive. Of course it will be denounced as scripted, and to a certain extent, it will be. However, it will create the image in people’s mind that the President is informed, aware, and concerned with the many issues that face him or her.

Snake307 on September 1, 2008 at 5:08 PM