BitaTruble
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ORIGINAL: barelynangel
i am saying people are saying he SHOULDN'T admit to and correct the mistake instead he should stand by his decision even when he probably realized how bad of a screw up it is because he then may hurt his campaign even more which tells me the American people are more concerned about win or lose than a President admitting openly what we all know and then correcting the error because hell they casterize a candidate for same and believe he shouldn't admit his mistake BEFORE the bloody election but allow to remain the possibility she may still be VP.
Well, I don't know about 'people' but as a single voice speaking only for myself, I firmly believe that McCain should have stood up and told the voters why he believes Palin is 'still' a good choice for him and us given the results of the investigation into Troopergate. That's not what happened, however. What happened is the party put a spin on, calling the investigation partisian (although Palin herself offered full support and invited it .. then didn't give it any support at all and refused to cooperate).
The problem here is that the window of opportunity was missed by McCain. If he had said last night .. we accept the findings of the Branchflower investigation, but even so, people need to understand the circumstances surrounding the issue and ask themselves, what would you have done given the situation. Palin is not perfect and she probably could have handled things better, but she was frustrated by what she perceived to be inaction. I don't condone the action, but I can't help but understand it and I know that it won't happen again. It was a one-shot. It's really hard to be impartial when it comes to family. Ask yourself how impartial you would be if your parents had been threatened with death, if you were stuck in the middle of this situation. Ask yourself where you would draw the line to prevent the unthinkable from happening. Where you draw the line when fear for the safety of your loved ones overrules any position you may hold in government.
Something like that would have allowed him to go either way. Dump her to make sure it doesn't happen again or keep her. Either way, that would have been presidential (in my view).
Ask yourself .. do you want a robot in office or a human. I've chosen a human. I've chosen Sarah Palin and I stand by that choice.
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As much as I admire Sarah Palin, I must ask myself what I would have done, I can only answer that I must put country first. There are sacrifices that must be made, especially in these hard times so for that reason, I have no choice but to ask Ms. Palin to step down, deal with her family issues as she deems necessary and I will choose another running mate to help lead this country in the right direction. A direction in which the people won't have to worry about abuses of power because the person sitting in the big chair is fully aware that, ultimately, the power belongs to the people.
Now THAT would have been the way to handle it rather than poo poo the process then call it an Obama trick and discount the fact that it was 11 pubs and only 4 dems that were involved in the investigation in the first place.
Eh, just call me one of the 'people'.
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