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After John McCain famously picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, he lost the presidential election. She was supposed to appeal to women voters, which didn’t happen because women could see right through her. The empress had no clothes.
McCain’s quirky choice of Palin turned out to be his political suicide, when all the facts about her rolled in – her ignorance of domestic and international issues, her lack of experience and historical perspective, her simplistic views on a wide range of subjects including the environment, and so on. After the initial flush of “Drill, baby, drill,” the chant turned into “Burn, baby, burn.”
Palin walking out on the governorship under fire before her term expired is her own act of political suicide. If you can’t take the heat in Alaska, you’re sure not going to make it on the national stage.
One commentator quipped that Republican politicians are so damaged from all the negative events of late that they may need to enlist kids from Junior Achievement to run for public office on their ticket.
That should be a wake-up call for the party to go out and find some leaders.
Here is a related article about where Palin could be headed: http://www.examiner.com/x-12720-DC-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d3-A-rush-to-the-airwaves-Sarah-Palin-could-be-the-next-Rush-Limbaugh
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