porchwise's Blog

Ailin Palin isn't talking...not to the Newspaper Reporters; not to the radio commentators; not to the television reporters...in other words, not to anyone since her RNC convention scripted speech (which probably took a week for the RNC writers to write).  Maybe blogdom has given her the blues for -as soon as her speech was done-bloggers took to checking facts and seperating the fiction from fact and found out a lot of fiction was in there.  For instance, the bit about selling the govs. plane on ebay and giving the profits to the state when, in fact, the plane was auctioned off elsewhere at a loss of $600,000 to the state.  Just goes to show, when you're reaching for Kudos, be sure the kudos don't come back to kick you in the kudo.

It's only a short eight weeks until the election and, if she's going to be an asset to McCain, she needs to start answering the multitude of questions that the public wants answered.  Even her supporters are getting antsy.

I suppose Palin is going to remain McCains choice unless something happens at the RNC convention this week.  It seems inconceviable that the party would go along with this choice of running mates.  More than likely, McCain shot himself in the foot with this one and I'm sure in November there will be a lot of election time blues.

Personally, I'll be glad when the convention is over and both Obama and McCain can get back to the issues although throwing Palin into the mix is probably going to cause more vicarious ads from the DNC.   Hopefully (at least for this Democrat) Obama will stick to the more important issues, both in his ads, speechs and possible debates with McCain.

If McCain made such a choice because he was thinking of Hillary's women voters then it was a poor choice in that area because Palin has little in common with these women, especially when it comes to Roe vs Wade and Feminisn (which her claim of being a Feminist is belied by her stance on many women's issures other than Roe vs Wade).

Yesterday I received a 9x12 mailer from Senator McCain.  In it was a picture of McCain and his missus and a three page letter with my name embedded in the text.  In short, a relatively expensive mailing.  As a life-long Democrat, I think someone in the Republican party is wasting a lot of money doing this type of spam mailing.  Personally, I could care less because I'm getting quite used to the government in generally wasting my money.  Facts and figures don't lie unless some politico puts a radical spin on them and the Republicans have handed the next administration the largest debt in our nations history. It will take a monumental effort to pull us out of this quagmire and the Republican Adminstration has shown it just can't do the job (or doesn't want to).  Another administration like this and we're simply going down for the count.

Senator McCain says out Social Security is being paid by the young of America.  I paid for my Social Security with 55 years of hard work.  McCain collected over 23 thousand in 2007 in Social Secuity cash.  If he thinks it's a disgrace, why don't he give it back?

Nope, it's time for a change, and Barack Obama is the only one I see who will be able to get us out of this mess.

Nothing about this election excites me.  Maybe I've seen too many of them, voted in too many of them, and been disgusted with most of them.  Nothing is new about this one.  McCain is too old, Obama should be in the pulput and Hillary is spouting the same old Billisms.  About the only thing that caused me to raise an interested eyebrow was when Ron Paul talked about the Fair Tax.

I've been a proponent of the Fair Tax for three or four years now.  To me, it's the only thing that will actually work to get this floundering country out of debt.  The biggest problem is people just don't get it and the ones who should get it simply won't take the time to investigate the facts.  And forget the under forty crowd, most of them are too electronically wired to their ipods and cellphones to get anything, much less read anything intellectually enlightning.

I will, of course, trudge down to the polls and vote as I have for more decades than I care to mention now, but where to aim the dart this year is still up in the air which, all things considered, might just be a good place to aim it.