It offends me to no end that the Republican response to the nightmare of George Bush is to appoint someone to the Vice Presidency who is 100% polarized. This woman makes W look like a consensus builder. She has absolutely no idea what anybody wants, and nor does she care. She has her agenda, and she drives it. Voting public be damned.
Ugh. You would think at some point that the Republicans would wake up and realize that government in this country is supposed to be of, by and for the people. The government isn't something we should have to work against, or protest about. It's us. It should represent us. It should be how we accomplish goals that are too large for one person, group or company.
Before I said that a Palin presidency would be a disaster. That's true. But not for what she would actually accomplish. She would accomplish nothing. She would come in with crazy ideas, put them forward as policy and be completely denied by the congress. The only thing she could do would be through executive fiat, a Bush has done, and what he has done there, well, the results speak volumes for themselves.
This just reinforces for me why I am a Democrat. It's not because I believe in everything the Democrats stand for. It's because I don't belong in the wacko conservative Christian club that is the Republicans. And in this polarized world you are either a Republican or you are not. And I am not Republican more than I am a Democrat.
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