A bit more on Palin and the debate…

The reason I was not impressed by Palin’s debate performance is simple.  It’s not that she was bad.  She was okay.  She read her talking points fine.  She was not a great deal less substantive than Biden, who certainly stumbled more.

I think what it is is the fact that I’ve simply lost all faith in Palin’s ability.  Her debate performance didn’t change my mind, and apparently didn’t change anybody else’s either.

So now the McCain team is going on the attack, because there is very little else they can do with only four weeks left.  I don’t blame them.  This is probably the only move they can make at this point.  But I wish they wouldn’t.

When this election finally turned out to be an Obama v McCain election, I was pretty excited.  The Obama/Clinton battle had been fierce, ugly, and I thought the Clinton’s played dirtier.  In fact, I remember saying to myself that the Democratic contest would surely be uglier than the final contest between Obama and McCain, as I could not imagine McCain taking the low road.  Ever.

I guess I was wrong.  Watching McCain lately is painful.  He sneers, jeers, rolls his eyes, makes sardonic comments about his rival.  Sucker punch after sucker punch.  It’s politics, sure, but it’s not what I expected out of John McCain.  And Palin is more attack dog than leader.  The debate, with her folksy charm and her colloquialisms does not shore up my faith in her.  On the contrary it simply reaffirms my belief that McCain has stabbed us national security types in the back in order to get a larger piece of the female vote.

Well surely, McCain, you could have found a more qualified, knowledgeable (and dare I say intelligent?) candidate to run alongside?  As it stands, I feel abandoned by the candidate I thought would exercise strong judgment in his quest to keep America safe, strong, and competitive.