Its not over untill the cute white lady with square glasses cries... Blog 8

As the days draw near the questions begin to rapidly arise about each candidate and their ideas. I am pretty sure that almost every person in American can agree on one thing, that this election has been one of the most controversial and flat out weird elections in Americas History. Both candidates are very interesting characters. You have an old white conservative man, partnered up with a Woman for VP and then on the other hand you have a less conservative, more liberal Black man partnered up with a white man who is older. These generalizations in themselves are interesting. The main point that I would like to bring up for this week’s blog is how the media is still scrutinizing Governor Palin with a very fine magnifying glass. This week CNN.com posed that “Palin’s Future causes Republican Rift”. The article highlighted the fact that many republicans believe that Palin has hindered John McCain’s voter status, thus causing him to eventually lose the race. It also touched on the point that many people could see her running for the President independent from McCain in 2012 this idea has caused many people to think that if the GOP loses, it will face a huge identity crises. As I read through the article I found that people are questioning Palin’s ability to be in the White house. For example Peggy Noonan wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal column ,in regards to Palin, that, "She is a person of great ambition, but the question remains: What is the purpose of the ambition? She wants to rise, but what for? It's unclear whether she is Bushian or Reaganite. She doesn't think aloud. She just ... says things (cnn.com), what a clear cut opinion about one aspect of the GOP’s current situation. In addition, CNN.com stated that, it’s an argument that has been echoed by a string of conservatives -- including David Brooks, George Will, Kathleen Parker, and David Frum -- who believe Palin exhibits a poisonous anti-intellectual instinct of the party that threatens to ultimately destroy its foundations. All in all, the real concern that I have is that all of the clutter that is discussed about Palin has taken away from the main messages that the GOP should be sending to the people which has caused even more problems for the GOP. In regards to my ideals over the CNN comments, I feel that throughout the campaign Palin has clearly tried to do a good job in dealing the crazy and overwhelming political world, but through many of the conversations that I have watched her have with interviewers and such she has demonstrated that at this current moment she is not ready to be in office. But, I am not saying that she does not have the potential to someday be in office, all I am saying is that she has quite a ways to go.