I saw an extensive interview this afternoon on Fox News with Geraldine Ferraro. Aside from cramming her partisan views on this election into her closing remarks, I found Ferraro to be dead wrong in her assessment of the situation confronting Sarah Palin.
Simply put, one cannot be what one is not. Sarah Palin cannot, and should not, attempt to become a policy wonk for tomorrow evening's debate in Saint Louis.
Ferraro all but chastised Palin for having no grasp of the 'big issues,' the 'Federal issues' with which she must grapple, both in the debate and in the office of President, should she rise to that. Then Ferraro laughably argued that Lying Joe Biden has 'experience' as a long-serving Senator.
I disagree. Emphatically.
What Sarah Palin brings to the table is an intelligent, well-educated American's view of many important issues confronting our government and nation. This isn't somehow wiped out simply because she is running for VP on McCain's ticket.
Ferraro's comments displayed her typical politician's disdain for the lower class whom she represented. Those silly voters who just don't know anything, until Geraldine would tell them how to think.
Palin is from the opposite end of the spectrum. Unlike Ferraro, the product of Democratic machine politics in New York City, Palin ran against and toppled Alaska's corrupt state government and the GOP leaders who fostered the corruption.
Sarah Palin is the quintessential citizen governor and representative.
Thus, to me, it seems simple. Palin ought not try to train in only a few weeks to sound like a Senator. Instead, she should simply become acquainted with what the issues are. From there, any intelligent, educated American can form reasonably cogent views in a matter of days. Usually, Washington politicians make these things out to be far more difficult and intractable than they really are.
What Sarah Palin should emphasize, to Biden's disadvantage, is her real and formidable experience as a sitting chief executive. Like most Senators, including, regrettably, McCain, Biden has never managed or been a responsible executive of anything.
Sarah Palin has, and is. She should drive that home with fierce determination. Biden is less qualified to be President than Palin simply on the basis that he has no executive experience. None.
If Palin's handlers recognize this, they will facilitate her scoring a clear victory over Biden in tomorrow night's debate.
By responding to 'the usual issues' in Washington as a thoughtful, intelligent outsider, while reminding everyone that she has executive experience, while Biden has none, Sarah Palin can win that debate simply by being herself.
For her to be otherwise will be to play the Washington insider game, and, thus, invite disaster.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment