Posted by
Sanity 102 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:42:35 PM
I got the below comment from fellow blogger Wil (the Ramblings of an Average American):
"Second, I have searched and I have yet to find what Palin would do in the war. This is such a pivotal issue, that to me, a person one heartbeat away from the Presidency would have to show a grasp of this issue, and come to the right conclusions for me to consider them. True the VP does not set foreign policy, but they must be competent in it for there to be any confidence int he ticket as a whole. (Think Dan Quayle...despite the jokes, he was a departure from the old part of the old white guy club, yet his opponents played on his age and inexperience as weaknesses and exploited them for political gain)."
I thought it a fair concern.
For me, the War on Terror TRUMPS all other issues.
It is the issue that SHOULD have united the Right with all the stubborness of a price tag on a plastic bottle.
Unfortunately, for the last two years, one issue, illegal immigration, did the complete opposite--and after the blood and gore, very little is left of the original "product" to sell.
In fact, the marketing of the GOP ticket is near impossible because the two major partners said and did too much to hurt each other. There is no going back. No playing the "winning" tune again.
It takes approximately 4,856 sentences to win someone's trust...one sentence to lose it...an innumerable amount to regain it. The absolutes on illegal immigration, pro-life, WOT have shown that they do not trust each other or the GOP.
Yet, the battle still has to be fought. And the war still has to be won.
And life is still a matter of choices.
We may not always like the cards life deals us.
We may sometimes wish to sit out games.
But some games are just too important to walk away from.
And we are faced with the ONLY control we have: to replace what we have with a new card from the deck.
For me...I would have walked away if not for the WOT.
So, my "new" card is a Palin.
Only time will tell me if it is the ace I needed...or I should have gone with the Jack knowing it had no chance against the Queen.