I gotta ask this Petey, just because I do. Has a conservative ever done anything to meet with your approval? There is dirt on Obama a mile long and I have yet to see you post one negative story about him. I have yet to see you post one negative story about Biden. Are you that dishonest or does it not fit your partisan agenda from the other side of the world?
You claim "dirt" on Obama, and yet all I have seen is partisan smear with no foundation. May it be the attacks that he is elitist, a closet muslim or commie, terrorist back him, his friendship with a convicted criminal or 2, or other baseless attacks. Where are the personal favours done for backers? Where is the abuse of his office for personal gain? Has he been involved in any scandal that has cost the tax payers billions? Where are the 180 flip flops?
As for conservatives meeting my approval. Depends on the man or woman. To me people who are so conservative and let logic and common sense be triumphed by "conservative values"..(aka religious nut jobs views) do not deserve my respect or anyone's. And that has been the problem of the Republican party.
Conservatives rambling on about how bad homosexuals are, and yet hiding them among themselves and even defending them when they are caught with their hands down under aged children's pants. Or conservatives calling for the opposition to force their corrupt politicians to resign, and yet the same conservatives dont utter a peep when their own politicians refuse to resign. Why is Ted Stevens still part of the Republican party? If the Republican party is the party of justice and law and order, then kicking out corrupt politicians must be the least we can require. The Republican's touting freedom of speech and yet in some states trying to ban books.
The double standard and hypocrisy of the Republican party has tarnished the good name of conservative politics world wide.
Now this woman is still very "young" in our minds, which shows in what we know about her. She claims to fight corruption and yet is being investigated for it. She claims to hate corrupt politicians and have asked them to resign, and yet when it comes to Ted Stevens she says she cant. Now this is a troubling issue. Why cant she ask a man who is obviously corrupt, to step down? What does he have on her?
On the other hand she has gone against classic Republican conservative policies and actually allowed homosexuals the same rights as hetro marriages in her state. She is opposed to gay marriage, but not to allowing homosexuals the same legal rights as heterosexuals. Now that alone is a huge plus, but the question is how long she is allowed to have such a view. She also had gone against (for the most part) the Republican machine, by kicking out the previous Republican governor in Alaska and she survived it. That's something many who have tried before have not as we have seen in the present Republican administration.
Now this is early days, but its hardly a slam dunk pick.. plenty of negative issues and plenty of positive issues. We shall see, the next few days will be interesting.. lets see what the blogs and media can dig up.
But even her youthfulness can not change the fact that John McCain is too old and that she could very well be sitting in the oval office before the end of McCain's 4 year term. The age math is against McCain, and no amount of spin or attacks on people pointing it out, can change this fact. Is she ready to lead the US?
Her gay marriage one helps sure that part up, while not being so extreme to possibly knock some independents away due to her history of backing rights for gay couples.
