>>NahnCee:
Jefe – good catch on coyotl. When you’ve run out your welcome using one name by posting too much Stoopid Stuff, then switch names and you’re good for another 100,000 miles or however many new threads that equals, until everyone catches on that the new name is just posting equally Stoopid Stuff.<<
Relax NonSensCee. Benj quoted me from a previous post, referring to me in his blurb as “C.” Go ahead and reread it before you go off, yet again, half-cocked. BTW, here’s Ramesh Ponnoru from NRO asking some vital questions about the Palin candidacy and what her pick means for the ticket. In particular, I’l like to hear the Belmont Club take up the charge of tokenism:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWY0YmM3N2JhMTVkYmI0ZjU0OTBiYTY3NmUyMjgxNTc=
Cold Water on Palin [Ramesh Ponnuru]
Both the pros and the cons are pretty obvious. I’m going to focus on the cons, mostly because conservatives right now seem to be paying them less attention.
The pros: She’s a pro-life conservative reformer from outside Washington, and a woman. The pick signals a boldness and willingness to mix things up that the McCain campaign, like Republicans generally, need.
The cons:
Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain’s age raised the stakes on this issue.
As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.
And it’s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.)
Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?
