It is now about a week and a half since McCain picked Palin as his VP nominee and she has yet to take questions from reporters. Actually, I'm not giving her enough credit. She did field one question from an Alaskan reporter who wanted to know if Palin was still there for Alaska. That's it. We still know nothing about any of her policy positions. She has not answered a single question about her abuse of power while in Alaska. She has not answered a single question about her repeated exaggerations and outright lies on the campaign trail about her "opposition" to the Bridge to Nowhere (she favored it and only tepidly opposed it when Congress would no longer fund it. She kept the $223 millions the Feds earmarked for the project, though, and used it as she saw fit) and earmarks (see previous parenthetical along with Palin's extraordinary success at securing federal money as mayor and then governor). Now comes word that Palin will sit down several times over the course of two days (who is she, some kind of celebrity???) with ABC's Charlie Gibson. The announcement, of course, came one day after Gibson stated that questions about Palin's personal life and associations (think nutty churches and the secessionist Alaska Independence Party) should be off-limits. So, Gibson got the interview after he announced that he'd treat Palin with kid gloves. Excellent. In a rare example of honesty, McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, stated on one of the Sunday news shows that Palin wouldn't deal with the press until they showed "her some level of respect and deference." So there you have it. McCain made a reckless and dangerous selection in tapping a complete unknown (after performing virtually no vetting) and now he refuses to allow the public to find out just who she is (and, ultimately, what a tremendous mistake he made) unless the press agrees to grovel and only ask nice questions. Un-fucking-believable. McCain's complete disdain for the American people is appalling. And the sad thing is that it might actually work.
These are the sort of thoughts that can ruin a week in Charleston. Bah.
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I read somewhere this morning that McCain now has a 12 point lead among white women voters. Pre-Palin, Obama was in the lead among white women voters. I truly don't understand that. This patent manipulation worked / is working??
Yeah, because "supposedly," she is bringing to the center what it means to be a working woman--raising a family. It's messy and uncontrollable. I agree, families are messy and uncontrollable, but I'm not sure why that makes her a viable "female" (because of course that's the selling point) candidate.
grrr.
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