Dred what you just wrote makes a ton of sense and by that reasoning Palin IS the perfect choice to bring in that independant middle of the road voter.
Think about it like this. I'm an independant middle of the road voter and I think this woman is awsome. She isn't a career politician, she's a working mom with a real life who saw how bad things were screwed up in her home state so she ran for office, won, and promptly started getting rid of all the crooked state officials that were causing all the problems, even people within her own party. How many of us middle of the road indepandants haven't had the desire to do the exact same thing she has done for the exact same reason?
I believe she is going to appeal to a big majority of that independant middle of the road crowd because of who she is, how she lives her life, and because for the first time we actually have a choice to put someone "just like us" in the white house as the XO that actually stands a chance of making it.
I wish she was running by herself for President. I'd vote for her just because she IS just a regular person who has had a bunch of different jobs, and has actually WORKED for a living along with her husband, just like the rest of us working stiffs. I think she just clinched it for McCain once people get to know her and realize they can put someone that can really relate to the average American into the second highest office in the Nation.
You may just get your wish anyway if McCain wins. As I predict the geezer kicks the bucket before the end of his first term.
One of the problems I have with Mccain for me is I can in no way shape or form relate to him.
Not a single thing in his life can I relate to. Other then his father being in the service at the time of his birth. Born a military brat. Went to largely high end private schools, Military acadamy (where he graduated at the bottom of his class) I can respect his stint in the armed forces. but that was a long long time ago.
Wait. there is one thing we have in common. We both know what its like to have guns stuck in our faces on several occasions by unsavory people and not knowing if we would be alive 30 seconds from then.
But outside of that
Has had several wives before finally settling on a money bag.
He's never known what its like to be out of work, Refused work because of race or presumed nationality.
He has nothing in common with the common man. And more specifically...ME.
::edit:: forgot to finish with what I indended to say.
for his sake I hope she is as you discribe. One of us.
Her downside would be if her views are too conservative.
If so. then regardless of how much like us she is. He might as well have picked someone from Washington.
Im as tired of the right wing as I am from the left.
I want someone "Like us" who is more middle of the road and actually makes and has common sense.
Hard to see that happening from someone with very conservative or liberal views who has shared the same experiences as the common person.
