Was She or Was She Not Vetted?

 Excerpt New York Times  "Palin Disclosures Raise Questions on Vetting":

Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in Alaska now to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin’s background. A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice. The campaign was still calling Republican operatives as late as Sunday night asking them to go to Alaska to deal with the unexpected candidacy of Ms. Palin.

Although the McCain campaign said that Mr. McCain had known about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy before he asked her mother to join him on the ticket and that he did not consider it disqualifying, top aides were vague on Monday about how and when he had learned of the pregnancy, and from whom.

Seeing as Republican politics and McCain's 'gut feeling' may put a person with so little experience into the presidency, this is important.

I heard one liberal laud the decision saying that the whole idea of having a candidate choose who would hold the office if he or she dies is anti-democratic and maybe this will do away with the archaic process.

I hadn't thought of that before, but he's right.

Just as long as Ms. Palin is kept out of the heart beat away position by the American voters, I'll be happy and then maybe this process can be changed.Rent the movie "Idiocracy*".  It's a wonderful look at the future if we keep going down the stupid slogan route of W and his natural slogan loving follower John McCain.

*Link goes to the IMDB site for "Idiocracy".  I see that they now have a link to Amazon.com where you can buy the DVD.  They probably receive some money for that, but I am not in the money loop on that. (If there deal with Amazon is the same that bloggers get it might be $.05 not enough to twist the website's purpose, I think. I have been in the habit of using IMDB because I thought they didn't make money off selling movies, but I guess that can't be said of anyplace now.  I still like their nonjudgemental way of handling movies.  They might not warn you away from bad movies enough, but at least not every movie is considered something you must buy since the site gets money from a sale linked to them.  

I mention this because many bloggers are little more than hidden advertiser, even some supposedly political ones.  This is one reason I wasn't as upset as many about the horrible commenters that abuse bloggers.  The bloggers who ran away from what I saw of the blogs who were linked in news reports wer actually people not well versed in politics who were using the rage building against the Bush administration to sell products.  Their politics was very simplistic and would have been easily coopted by the right through coercion.  I may be adding Google Ads through a sponsor (low money, believe me) soon.  But I won't be putting links in posts that would earn me money without acknowledgment.

tags: john mccain  sarah palin  2008 presidential campaign  

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