Friday, September 26, 2008
Obama set to dump Biden - September 19, 2008 11:14 PM EDT
Terry M: "The two were badly defeated."
What happened to the winner of that election? Did the country learn anything about conducting a democratic election? Like, for example, running on issues? Or putting your candidates energy into dirty tricks?
Now, one could make the argument, that Americans want a real bastard to run the country and protect them against external threats. So someone really nasty, someone who will do ANYTHING to defeat an American for this office, will, we hope, do ANYTHING to protect us from a dangerous world.
But with Bush we've learned that an external enemy is only a serious enemy just before an election, and the rest of the time... not so much!
The productivity/efficiency/usefulness of that approach is beginning to decline.
But I digress.
Its occurs to me that this is not such a bad idea. My understanding of the electorate is that about 25% would never vote for a woman. But that understanding comes from the last ten plus years when Hillary was most likely to be the woman who would be running for the Presidency. My suspicion is that most of those people were conservatives/Republicans. But with the nomination of Palin there's a seismic shift in the polls--to the point where those same people would now vote for a woman, but only because she was conservative.
Why not turn the applecart upside down and change the ticket to Obama/Clinton? She's had eight years in the Senate, a decade plus as a nationally recognized lawyer, ten years in the Arkansas statehouse, and eight years in the White House. Imagine the exploding conservative heads trying to cope with the idea that she doesn't have the experience--yet who have spent so many years trying to make the claim that she has been a shadow President, which has now been replaced by the idea of Bill as the Shadow President.
Obama set to dump Biden - September 19, 2008 11:14 PM EDT
What happened to the winner of that election? Did the country learn anything about conducting a democratic election? Like, for example, running on issues? Or putting your candidates energy into dirty tricks?
Now, one could make the argument, that Americans want a real bastard to run the country and protect them against external threats. So someone really nasty, someone who will do ANYTHING to defeat an American for this office, will, we hope, do ANYTHING to protect us from a dangerous world.
But with Bush we've learned that an external enemy is only a serious enemy just before an election, and the rest of the time... not so much!
The productivity/efficiency/usefulness of that approach is beginning to decline.
But I digress.
Its occurs to me that this is not such a bad idea. My understanding of the electorate is that about 25% would never vote for a woman. But that understanding comes from the last ten plus years when Hillary was most likely to be the woman who would be running for the Presidency. My suspicion is that most of those people were conservatives/Republicans. But with the nomination of Palin there's a seismic shift in the polls--to the point where those same people would now vote for a woman, but only because she was conservative.
Why not turn the applecart upside down and change the ticket to Obama/Clinton? She's had eight years in the Senate, a decade plus as a nationally recognized lawyer, ten years in the Arkansas statehouse, and eight years in the White House. Imagine the exploding conservative heads trying to cope with the idea that she doesn't have the experience--yet who have spent so many years trying to make the claim that she has been a shadow President, which has now been replaced by the idea of Bill as the Shadow President.
Obama set to dump Biden - September 19, 2008 11:14 PM EDT
# posted by ADL : 11:29 PM
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