Prometheus 6

I'm going to give you the bullet points...you gotta go to the other side of the link for the details. Except the foreign policy bit...that was too good to excise. And the comment thread is a repeated recitation of political panic...

Jeremy Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 11:35 pm

I think it would be better for the GOP to run a nasty campaign against Obama than removing Palin.

Time to Pull the Plug on Palin

EDIT/DISCLAIMER: This is not a pipe dream. Palin is currently being re-vetted. This information did not have to come to light. This is laying the groundwork for a possible withdrawal. It is only because of this that I felt it appropriate to post this.

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This post is not meant to antagonize, divide, or irritate. If Sarah Palin remains our vice-presidential nominee, I’ll throw my full support behind her. But this is a highly consequential post, meant to persuade all readers that Palin, in the next twenty-four hours, has got to go. I felt that a post of this nature was finally safe to make now that it’s a real possibility.

Let’s go point by point:

1. Scandals and Their Implications
2. She’s Not Ready to Lead
3. She’s an Intellectual Lightweight

One of the following quotes comes from Sarah Palin. Can you guess which one?:

A) “We are a nation at war and in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources”

B) “[O]f course, knowing the situation we are in right now — at war, not knowing what the plan is to ever end the war we are engaged in…”

C) “We’d better have a real clear plan for this war. And it better not have to do with oil…”

Which one was it?

Trick question. She said all of them! Sarah Palin thought that the Iraq War may have been for oil. And she thinks that Ron Paul, moreso than the other candidates, is worth praising. Gee, that’s reassuring.

And our future #2 said, when asked about the surge: “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe.”

With her son in the military, while remaining politically active and a high-profile citizen, the most she knew about the surge in 2007 was that she “saw it on the news” and that she wanted an exit strategy?

She not only has no foreign policy experience, but worse, she has no foreign policy vision. Exit strategies, speculating that the war was for oil, and little attention paid to the news — this is our future vice-president?

4. Her Untenable Abortion Position

UPDATE, 12:14: Palin was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates secession from America!

UPDATE, 1:58: Need more? Read this.

UPDATE, 2:20: In the interest of fairness, read this as a rebuttal to my claim that Palin’s decision to run for the vice-presidency even though it would put her daughter through a celebrity circus was cruel. Do I think that it’s okay that Palin didn’t veto her daughter’s yes? No. But there’s the other side.