According to the attorney charged with the McCain 2008 vetting process, the Palin pick was "high risk, high reward." McCain's response? "I've been a risk-taker all my life."
You did say that. I still say that you shouldn't take risks with the VP pick. I reject the premise of their reasoning. Just because they knew it was a risk doesn't mean that taking such a risk was a good idea. The very fact that McCain said, "You shouldn't have told me that. I've been a risk-taker all my life," plays right into the stereotype of McCain as someone who is impulsive. The Palin pick was a huge disaster. She came off as such a novice that independents thought that McCain was willing to take too big a risk with an important decision. Risk-taking is not what people want in a president.
As a side note, I disagree with announcing her the day after the DNC ended and two days before the RNC began. I know they wanted to keep the news cycle from being too much about Obama, but that news cycle was one weekend. They would have stopped the news cycle on Monday with the RNC coverage anyway. I think they wasted a good summer opportunity. Really, if anything, they should have announced her the Friday before the DNC. Then everyone would have been talking about her during the week of the DNC and the week of the RNC.
I dispute the "high reward" part. I don't see how they thought picking a person they knew nothing about just because they liked her "profile" and McCain talked to her once and liked her was going to turn out well. Clearly, it was an impulsive move by an impulsive man, but I still say that the true "high risk-high reward" pick that "risk-taker" McCain would have picked would have picked Lieberman... Fox News be damned.
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You did say that. I still say that you shouldn't take risks with the VP pick. I reject the premise of their reasoning. Just because they knew it was a risk doesn't mean that taking such a risk was a good idea. The very fact that McCain said, "You shouldn't have told me that. I've been a risk-taker all my life," plays right into the stereotype of McCain as someone who is impulsive. The Palin pick was a huge disaster. She came off as such a novice that independents thought that McCain was willing to take too big a risk with an important decision. Risk-taking is not what people want in a president.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note, I disagree with announcing her the day after the DNC ended and two days before the RNC began. I know they wanted to keep the news cycle from being too much about Obama, but that news cycle was one weekend. They would have stopped the news cycle on Monday with the RNC coverage anyway. I think they wasted a good summer opportunity. Really, if anything, they should have announced her the Friday before the DNC. Then everyone would have been talking about her during the week of the DNC and the week of the RNC.
I dispute the "high reward" part. I don't see how they thought picking a person they knew nothing about just because they liked her "profile" and McCain talked to her once and liked her was going to turn out well. Clearly, it was an impulsive move by an impulsive man, but I still say that the true "high risk-high reward" pick that "risk-taker" McCain would have picked would have picked Lieberman... Fox News be damned.
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