The Answer Revealed
I’ve been wondering for a while now what it is, substantively, that Sarah Palin would bring to a McCain administration. This old article from December 2007 explains McCain’s thinking:
McCain said his staff hates it when he discusses his shortcomings on economics, even though he has read widely and studied the subject.
“I’ve never been involved in Wall Street, I’ve never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I’d like to have somebody intimately familiar with it,” he said of a potential vice president.
It was a bit prescient of him to recognize that familiarity with the world of finance was a quality he’d need to add to his team. That surely explains why he went with Alaska governor and former local TV news sportscaster Sarah Palin rather than, say, Mitt Romney who wouldn’t have been able to contribute on that front.
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September 18th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Meh. Nice attack line, but this would also be kind of a tough time to have a CEO on your ticket. Kinda undermines McCain’s born-again populism love. Really, any other governor of a non-petro state would have probably worked fine.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:52 am
The big coup for McCain would have been to put Bloomberg on the ticket. But then the pundits would massacre them for being short – the Napolean ticket.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Speaking of Bloomberg, how common is it for a city’s mayor to also be its richest person? This may have been the case in New York at some other post-2002 point, I don’t follow the Forbes billionaire list.
Also I thought this post was going to be about Arenas, and was wondering what he’d said on his blog now.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am
McCain said his staff hates it when he discusses his shortcomings on economics, even though he has read widely and studied the subject
Does anyone believe that second clause? It reminds me of those claims that Bush had an extensive reading list that included the likes of Camus.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am
McCain Wants to Gamble With Social Security!
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
A Conservative Former Editor of National Review Endorses Barack Obama
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod…. Pages
(Excerpt)
“I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.’
“Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.”
And now conservative writers (5) are reporting on John McCain’s bad judgment in picking the inexperienced Sarah Palin!
There are lights at the end of that Conservataive Tunnel!
September 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Bragan,
It is common knowledge that Ziggy comics are actually a tutorial in economics.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Actually, the week of a market collapse is a very good time for the Democrats to roll out the “gamble with your social security line.”
September 18th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Sarah Palin has a great deal of experience with economic issues. Alaska produces XX%* of America’s oil, and she understands that oil is an important economic issue.
*I’ll have my staff get back to you on that.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I’m sure that the fundamentals of Cindy McCain’s bank accounts are strong. That may be what John was reading and studying.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I for one would have liked to see rachel nichols as mccain`s choice, or maybe jeanie zelasko. Melissa stark anyone? Much more cred. I mean, does alaska even have any sports teams? Thats not an attractive female sports caster i can believe in.
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