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Friday Night Fights: Lies

By Jeralyn

You don't win elections with one hand tied behind your back. The Democrats need to come out swinging against Sarah Palin, the unqualified, radical right choice of John McCain to occupy the nation's second most powerful leadership position. The fact that she's under investigation for abuse of power alone should be enough to disqualify her. Tell her to come back after she's been cleared and has shown she brings something other than tokenism to the job.

The Democratic strategists and pundits who think Obama should ignore Palin and stick to debating the issues are the best example of why the Democrats lost the last two elections.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not remotely qualified for the Vice Presidency. She has zero foreign policy experience, nothing to add about health care, education, jobs, social security, the economy, terrorism, civil liberties or criminal justice. She's about to go into hiding from the media in Alaska so she can be prepped like a Stepford Wife to regurgitate the lies Republican have been peddling for the past 15 years, since Newt Gingrich's Contract On America.

The real threat to our country is the phony legitimization of an unqualified candidate plucked from obscurity. She is totally unprepared to assume the presidency if something happens to the 72 year old, frail candidate with a long history of medical issues, including four bouts with cancer, who heads up her ticket. (Yes, I know he was a P.O.W.)

Evangelicals do not yet make up the majority of voters in this country. Obama needs to look past them and strike his own brand of fear in the heart of every other voter. The evangelicals are already lost. The rest of the voting public is still up for grabs.

Every day Obama and the Democrats wait, she gets more training and another opportunity is wasted.

Ads? Forget the 3am ad, how about a 3pm ad, depicting John McCain taking his afternoon nap while Sarah Palin answers the phone and has no clue of how to respond and searches everywhere for the 1970's style rolodex telling her who to call? (There's no computer in the oval office because John McCain doesn't know how to use one.)

The best hope of beating McCain/Palin is by investigating her heretofore unexamined public life to the Nth degree. No impropriety is too small to report.

By the end of October, one will come to light that by itself, or in combination with the others, becomes the final straw that gets her out of the race, causing the implosion of the McCain campaign.

The Democrats are letting Sarah Palin turn into a runaway train.

(Big Tent Democrat positively and absolutely disassociates himself from this post.)

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).