McCain's "Me Too"
Sarah Palin is being played by Karl Rove. Background: everything that Hillary tried to use against Obama failed: inexperience, bitter-gate, bringing up assassination, Wright, Rezco, Ayers, etc.
With the help of Fox, Limbaugh and some lazy reporters, McCain thought all of that along with Brittany, Paris, Moses and being a POW would surely bring him down.
But Obama is still standing on the message of change.
Palin is the pawn in the McCain's last-ditch effort to stay relevant. McCain is screaming, me too! me too! I am about change. I got a woman on my ticket.
Change is not about gender nor race. It is about policy. Window dressing in the workplace is a tactic of the 1970s.
Trying to co-op Obama's message of change is shallow if the policies are the same.
With the help of Fox, Limbaugh and some lazy reporters, McCain thought all of that along with Brittany, Paris, Moses and being a POW would surely bring him down.
But Obama is still standing on the message of change.
Palin is the pawn in the McCain's last-ditch effort to stay relevant. McCain is screaming, me too! me too! I am about change. I got a woman on my ticket.
Change is not about gender nor race. It is about policy. Window dressing in the workplace is a tactic of the 1970s.
Trying to co-op Obama's message of change is shallow if the policies are the same.
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I am guessing another reason behind McCain's selection of Palin, and I think its been said by others, was the hope her selection would draw attacks from Democrats; and, thus, cast her as a victim of sexism. A rather cynical approach.
Almost immediately there comes to TPM a poster with repeated posts of No Quarter type theories about Palin's pregnancy and suggesting that Palin's daughter is the real mother of Palin's youngest child. Even a suggestion that Palin's teenage daughter was a victim of sexual abuse which resulted in pregnancy.
It all makes me want to say Hmmmmmmmm.
September 1, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink