McCain's Running Mate
Aug. 29th, 2008 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teaberryblueYeah, I know everyone else has already commented on this, but I was in the car and I had a couple comments no one else made.
1) Did anyone else go WTF at the part of his speech where he said that he stood for people who "value their privileges over their responsibilities" ? It was right toward the beginning of the speech. I was like, seriously? That's seriously okay to say? I don't know if it was a mistake or what, but he didn't correct it if it was.
2) Here's a little snippet of our conversation
McCain: "...historic..."
Me: "Oh, shit, he's picking a woman."
3) McCain's announcement sounded like the way a schoolteacher would pick the winner of a contest. He's all "WE had a lot of really, really good entries, but we could ONLY PICK ONE OF YOU. But you're all special and talented in your own way! Except for you, Mitt Romney, stop being cooler than I am."
4) I'm sort of, I don't know, insulted, that when we have a brilliant, amazing woman like Condoleezza Rice working for our country, he picks some no-name governor of Alaska? Like, if he wanted a woman to play token BS with, get one who is, a. a household name and b. a brilliant woman who has worked her butt off for this country.
5) I like how McCain's definition of a historic event is something the Democrats did 24 years ago? And they picked a woman people had heard of.
6) Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro because not only was she a woman, but she was at the forefront of many of the most important issues in America in the 1980s. She had chops AND boobies. If, in the 1980s, someone had felt strongly about nominating a woman and chosen someone not many people had heard of, it would have been more understandable, because there weren't many women at the top of politics at the time. Now? This is kinda inexcusable and insulting to a LOT of Republican women.
7) Listening to her talk, she kinda sounded like a kindergarten teacher?
ALSO.
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1) Did anyone else go WTF at the part of his speech where he said that he stood for people who "value their privileges over their responsibilities" ? It was right toward the beginning of the speech. I was like, seriously? That's seriously okay to say? I don't know if it was a mistake or what, but he didn't correct it if it was.
2) Here's a little snippet of our conversation
McCain: "...historic..."
Me: "Oh, shit, he's picking a woman."
3) McCain's announcement sounded like the way a schoolteacher would pick the winner of a contest. He's all "WE had a lot of really, really good entries, but we could ONLY PICK ONE OF YOU. But you're all special and talented in your own way! Except for you, Mitt Romney, stop being cooler than I am."
4) I'm sort of, I don't know, insulted, that when we have a brilliant, amazing woman like Condoleezza Rice working for our country, he picks some no-name governor of Alaska? Like, if he wanted a woman to play token BS with, get one who is, a. a household name and b. a brilliant woman who has worked her butt off for this country.
5) I like how McCain's definition of a historic event is something the Democrats did 24 years ago? And they picked a woman people had heard of.
6) Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro because not only was she a woman, but she was at the forefront of many of the most important issues in America in the 1980s. She had chops AND boobies. If, in the 1980s, someone had felt strongly about nominating a woman and chosen someone not many people had heard of, it would have been more understandable, because there weren't many women at the top of politics at the time. Now? This is kinda inexcusable and insulting to a LOT of Republican women.
7) Listening to her talk, she kinda sounded like a kindergarten teacher?
ALSO.
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at least it's not pawlenty
Date: 2008-08-29 08:07 pm (UTC)Meg Whitman was, y'know, the CEO of one of the internet/world's most influencial companies, would have a hold in Microsoft-Land/Silicon Valley (aka the West Coast). And I don't think she'd stoop to calling herself a hockey mom. And didn't have a scandal breathing down her neck. Okay, the scandal was that Palin was trying to get her brother in law (who was abusing her sister) fired, but.. y'know.
The problem, I feel, with the Republican party is that they should be embracing smart, powerful, rich women who earned their money. People can't get over the fact that Palin was once a bbbeeeeauty queen, instead of the fact that she's the governor of Alaska, in a biracial marriage, and y'know has an 80% approval rating. Don't like it! Not saying that that's a bad thing, but you do notice that Republican women always tend to be perfectly coifed and pantsuited with in an inch of their lives.
I really want the Republican party to push out all the crazy evangelicals, and get me a new Barry Goldwater so I can be proud again.
Re: at least it's not pawlenty
Date: 2008-08-29 08:34 pm (UTC)And you know I totally agree with you about the Republicans. I want some awesome AuH2O action too.