Plessner Chronicle Blog

John McCain is the last person America needs answering that 3:00 a.m. phone call in the white House!
With his shoot-from-the-hip tendencies and his irresponsible decision to select a vice-residential running mate with zero experience in world affairs or Washington politics, John McCain has once again shown his utter lack of qualification to hold the
And this has nothing to do with Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s possible sordid family history, her religious zealotry, how many Alaskan political reprobates she has gotten rid of or her Caribou-killing or moose-stewing passtimes.
I am the father of two daughters about Sarah Palin’s age, both of whom are successful career women. The eldest owns a 900 cc motorcycle which she rides on Southern California freeways and a wakeboard power boat on Lake Mead. So don’t think for a minute that I am anti outdoors-woman or anti-feminist! (After writing the above I had to add: And neither daughter ever had a child or grandchild out of wedlock!)
John McCain’s choice of Palin has turned from dangerous to sordid to ridiculous! And the supreme irony is that it is not all McCain’s fault! He was compelled to go about it as he did because the forces within the corrupt Republican party are too self-centered, too greedy and too power hungry. And they cannot hold themselves together long enough to create a program that a majority of Americans will support.
Thankfully, American voters are beginning to understand what the miserable Republican leadership has done to America over the last twenty years. And its not only about George Bush and Dick Cheney!
This isn’t about Sarah Palin or her record either. It is about the other unqualified Republican officials rumored to have been considered. Its about the need for a deliberative, open and democratic process that chooses the best, most qualified, adequately experienced candidate for vice-president.
It is about a system that thinks about America first and about corporate greed, religious zealotry and chest-beating, imperialistic, phony patriotism dead last!
But the Republican party is so divided, so dominated by its religious factions, so controlled by big business, the neo-conservative Washington think tanks and a core of political criminals like Karl Rove, that it can’t even look out for itself, let alone the American people.
One has to have sympathy for Sarah Palin and her family. She must have been floored when John McCain called and her family must have been overwhelmed.
But now it is time to put all of that aside. And it is time for the Republican party to begin to show its good faith to the American people by cleaning up its act, in the vice-presidential candidate voting process and in how it might govern the United States of America in the future.
The most distant future we might add!