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Amazing
According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, American men would vote Sarah Palin in for President of these United States (49%) before Hillary Clinton (45%). I don’t care what your politics, those are incredible numbers, and they make me question whether what’s there between men’s ears is little more than testosterone.
I’ve never been a big Hillary fan. For the most part, I didn’t support her for President because I simply couldn’t stand the thought of her husband in the White House for four more years. But I’ve never hated her, as some do. That hate has to be the reason for the numbers; there must be a deadly poisonous negative vote here—tons of men simply don’t want Hillary. How else can you explain that bozo judgment? Like her or not, Hillary is at least going to do what she promised throughout her campaign for the Democratic nomination: she will hit the ground running on Day #1, as she so famously used to say. Hillary knows her way around. She’d be a formidable presence in the White House.
I’m sorry. Sarah Palin might end up being the very first woman President of the United States. Last night she delivered a stem-winder that may just draw millions of otherwise disgruntled or disengaged voters to the Republican ticket. She sparkled. She’s a brilliantly fresh face. Today, this morning, the Republicans have their own rock star. Send her to Berlin and she’ll drum up a crowd too—more so, I’m sure, than the old guy she’s with.
She could collar scores of ex-Hillary-ites in the next two months, and she may well be as much of a pit bull as McCain himself can be. She’s already become the cover girl (may I say that?) for married women who want to have it all. Who knows?--she may be sharper than a tack on every last significant issue facing America. But that American men would choose her over Hillary for President, right now, today, having known Ms. Palin for less than a week, is just plain stupefying.
Sometimes the truly remarkable nature of the great American political experiment leaves me slack-jawed. Truly—that the people rule in this country seems, at times, just plain nuts. “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” old H. L. Mencken once quipped, and he wasn’t wrong.
But then, shoot, what red-blooded guy doesn’t start snortin’ at a babe with a gun?
Hey, toss me another Bud, man.
4 comments:
Oh, get off your high horse, Schaap. And have a little respect--John McCain fought valiantly for our country; the least you could do would be to refrain from calling him "the old guy." He's dedicated his life to our country--I think that's significantly more than either of us has done.
Great post! This kind of thing doesn't really surprise me. The Republicans have been looking for some face that they can put up against Obama, some way to counter his charisma. And what better way to do it than with a hot woman? I always knew that sex sells, but I never really thought that it was so accepted as to be used within a political campaign (especially one that is trying to appeal to the religious right). Apparently the GOP is even handing out pins with Governor Palin's picture and "Hottest VP" on it. I suppose it is not really all that surprising. The religious posturing has always been just that, posturing.
Let's see if I understand this correctly. According to Schaap, men who prefer the politics and person of Palin to those of Hillary Clinton are 1)lecherous, 2)beer-swilling, 3)gun-toting 4)morons. If they indulge this preference in the absence of beer and guns, does that make them especially perverse and stupid? Pastor Chad, it looks like you have your work as a messenger of judgment and grace cut out for you, with all of us political publicans inhabiting the pews.
Wow, I have to jump in on this one! The hype is overwhelming.
Hype: Palin has risen to the top in just two short years, what a story.
Reality: McCain picked her out of nowhere for her political views, not her reformist experience. She was stuck in Alaska until she got lucky.
Hype: What a great Mom she is making sure that her teenaged, pregnant daughter gets married to the hockey player father of her child.
Reality: What a selfish person she looks like to me in putting herself first and exposing her family to public scrutiny at a time when some private reflection might be in order.
Hype: She is a reformer and disowned pork barrel politics and the bridge to nowhere.
Reality: She is an expert at pork barrel politics and lied about the bridge to nowhere issue. She also has some questionable expense account issues as Governor.
Hype: McCain puts our country first.
Reality: McCain will do anything to get elected president, such as put up a rookie running mate just to get votes.
Chuck in Kennewick
Who loves our country too much to vote Republican so they can screw up our country even more.
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