Saturday, 30 August 2008

My 2c on Palin

From what I can tell, she'd make a better president than either John "Chips Glorious Chips" McCain or Obamalamadingdong. She's shown that she has actual principles; she's not scared put her money where her mouth is or pick a fight with her own party; she's actually run something, which neither Mr Chips nor Obamalamadingdong have; she doesn't seem to have any closet skeletons, openly admits to smoking dope legally; counters the Mr Chips age thing; ticks the diversity box ... I struggle to see a downside, really.

In fact, suddenly the McCain / Palin ticket looks like a genuine agent for change and makes the Obama / Biden ticket look like rhetorical, policy-free, business as usual pork-barrelers. I reckon if you're not sure you can go for fully-fledged Libertarianism, the Republicans look like a marvellously bolshie pair who are going to upset a lot of big government applecarts.

But then I'm pretty sure Americans aren't looking to me for advice on how to vote any more than they are the Graundia or any of the other non-American pundits.

2 comments:

Trixy said...

Finally! An answer to the question:

'Who put the bam in the bamalamadingdong'.

Tomrat said...

Obo,

http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2008/08/alaska-governor-sarah-palin-is.html

A useful article to describe the way thingsare going globally - I'm less convinced of Palin than others.