Republican strategists have lost their edge (thankgod)

Now that I've had a few days  to mull it over and get over my initial reaction of 1.) Sarah who? and 2.) how desperate! I feel all the better about the Republican VP pick because I think it totally plays to our advantage.  But I am amazed that the Republican strategists on McCain's team could be so stupid and I'm even more amazed at those people who are saying it's a "brilliant" choice.  Brilliant?  Are you fucking kidding me??  How out of touch can you be?

If the idea was just to find someone with a vagina instead of a penis that's a pretty pathetic understanding of the average female voter.  And if they think that former Clinton supporters are going to be so distracted by that vagina that they won't even notice the woman's reactionary Reformation-era policies they must think female Democrats are pretty stupid.  I am seriously offended by that, and you should be too. 

So if the choice of Sarah Palin for VP isn't going to get "the female vote" who's it intended to get?  Religious nuts?  Maybe.  But even they have got to be turned off by the idea of having such an inexperienced person so close to the Presidency especially when McCain's so old and historically 1 out of 3 vice-presidents do actually become President.

Did the smart strategists who worked the last two elections all just suddenly abandon the Republican party this year?  Seriously.  They are in dire straits.

Comments

[Chris]

"the idea was just to find someone with a vagina instead of a penis"

On the Daily Show on Friday, commentator Samantha Bee did a very funny segment on precisely this, insisting that she would of course vote for someone with a vagina regardless of issues. Ooh, found it on youtube! Unfortunately, the sound seems a bit out of synch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzcTTzzAHG0

And you *gotta* watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBt_gX0gwXs

If the links don't work, I found 'em by seaching for:
Samantha Bee Daily Show Palin
Colbert Palin

Perhaps the Republican strategists are totally relying on Diebold this time...

[Kevin]

hatful though the republicans are they seem quite sad as they struggle to be the cool party. Mcain always seemed the real nice guy that never made it...clearly he is an out of touch fool ergo so must the Republicans be.

[Chris]

Interesting stuff about our fellow citizens (acc. to polls) and about Palin:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-compassionate-conservative.html

And, while that blog article doesn't bring this up, I'm glad I'm not one of her kids, as being expected to live out her beliefs might make one nuts. But at least they presumably are well-off financially and certainly well-connected. These factors cushion the lack of (authorized) choice and the stressful (and costly) pretense of sanitization. Most of the families Palin influences do not have anywhere near those luxuries, with some thanks to other aspects of the ideology that Palin embodies.