john mccain suffers from the disease that, with any luck, we will all suffer. he's old.
it's the one prejudice we hold that we also hope we'll be victim of. if only we got darker, poorer, and gayer with time.
he's hardly alone in the responsibly for sarah. you really need to go back to august 2008 and look at the political landscape he faced. it's not as if he could have nominated joe lieberman without an actual walkout at the republican convention.
he rolled the dice with a young, female, conservative pinup. that quelled the potential rebellion in his own party and gave him some hope that women (a vital cohort that his party had been steadily losing) would support his ticket in the general election. it's easy to look in hindsight and see what we all learned the last 5 years about palin.
i know the post was about another phenomenally stupid thing she said. but i hate to see a guy who i still think is the best candidate for president i didn't vote for get another "senile" shot.
he's a veteran and pow who dedicated his life to public service. she's a wanna be pageant queen who's living the dream on his dime. i don't excuse the choice he made, but i can understand it.
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