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hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Political: Oh, dem skeletons be rattlin' in the closet!! (9/2/2008 10:34:16 AM)
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Call me crazy (yeah, I know, several of ya already do!) but what I saw of Mz Palin's family history in that particular article gave me MORE reasons to like the idea of her being in office rather than Fewer reasons.
Oooooooh - her hubby got a DUI 20+ years ago. Whoopie. One of the best known democrats in this country Killed Someone while drunk driving rather than Just having a spouce that got a dui in the distant past - Mr Palin's former ticket doesn't exactly phase me compared to .. oh... Chappaquiddic.
Oooooooh - her daughter is pregnant and getting married. So what - how many of US - regardless of our political leanings - can say we've never had a family member do something that we would have prefered they not do? How many of US have a perfectly clean slate? How many of US have children that we love and support their decisions even when they might be making what we consider the Wrong decision?
Oooooooh - she was a member of a group that promoted doing something through legal means that isn't exactly Popular with our national government. I think it shows a lot of character - and even greater Potential - to openly stand for something that has, and probably will be again in the future, met by violence and death at the hands of that same government.
Ms Palin - like the rest of us - like Every Politician Out There regardless of party affiliations - is Human and has a Human Family. Maybe with some of the "skeletons" that are coming out about her, things that so many of us face in Normal Life, she'll actually have a clue about the rest of us. (Though perhaps That part is wishfully thinking and praying in vain.)
Personally I figure the best case scenario goes something like this... McCain keeps Palin as his running mate and wins the election in November - then get promptly assassinated sometime in, oh, say February or early March, and Palin takes over the Big Chair.
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