For those Dads who refuse to consider the Palin factor:
1. The actuarial tables on the Social Security Administration website suggest that there is a better than 10% chance that McCain will die during his first term in office. Should President McCain survive his first term and get elected to a second, there is a 27% chance that Palin will become the first female U.S. president by 2015. If we take into account McCain's medical history and the pressures of the presidency, the odds increase considerably. The combination of actuarial statistics and American history to date (odds of vice president's becoming presidents) raises a Vice President Palin’s chance to be president some day to about 50 percent.
2. Does any true Republican think Palin would be a good president? If so, why? The fact that she does not favor the ban of AK-47s or wants creationism taught in schools?
3. Most importantly, how can it not insult Republicans to have the party pick her? If I was a fiscally conservative, socially moderate person (like many dads) it would infuriate me to no end that McCain (another formerly fiscally conservative, socially moderate person) picked a born-again Christian zealot that up until last year had never left the United States. McCain's pick was too political and it's insulting to genuine Republicans concerned about the welfare of the country.
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I'm actually willing to give McCain the benefit of the doubt about picking Palin. It just seems too easy to say it was purely political. On the surface it might seem like he picked her to appeal to the neoconservative base he has a hard time relating with. Plus she's a woman and may be able to pull in more of the female vote than McCain could on his own. These would seem like all good reasons to pick her, if it wasn't for her lack of polish when it comes to the questions she's received on the campaign trail about national issues.(Really her interviews with Couric can't be over scrutinized.)
So on the surface it would seem like McCain made a rush pick and it has backfired on him. But like I said, I'm willing to accept that there was more to his pick than that.
I think Palin will end up looking like a great pick for McCain, even if he loses. People in America are tired of politicians and Washington. Look at the polls numbers for Bush, Congress and Pelosi.
Palin gets a lot of attention when she accurately points out that she's not a Washington insider. Heck my Governor, Brian Schweitzer, won the office by pushing the "I'm not an insider line."
Really, Palin can legitimize McCain's claim on being a different type of politician.
I think my dad likes that about the McCain/Palin ticket. He likes that she's a "straight shooter" and he's coming to her defense with all the attention paid to her gaffes and quirks, just like a lot of conservatives and borderline Dems are.
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