Has anybody been watching the campaign trail speeches lately? It seems that whenever Palin is on her own, she goes off on rants and tangents about things she wants. She tends to state ideas that she disagrees with regarding McCain. In one of her speeches yesterday, she was saying she will make sure that there is plenty of funding for ‘special needs children’.
Okay.. what about cutting funding in Alaska for the special Olympics? If you’re going to try to fund special needs children, why would you take away something as recreational and character building as that? Special Olympics is a place where all children, regardless of handicap, can play, have fun and compete. If the woman is going to build a case for something she should make sure she hasn’t been a hypocrite. Also, she said that when McCain is president, there will be a spending freeze on all unnecessary government spending… so now the question I ask, is what about the ‘special needs’ children? Where are they going to fall and qualify under this plan? Is she going to make them a necessary fund, yet cut out other important things such as after school programs? Or will she just neglect the fact that she was pushing for funding to special needs children and ignore them if McCain is president? Another thing I ask myself is, if she didn’t have a child who had down syndrome, would she even be caring to push this matter upon the public? I’m fairly sure the McCain campaign didn’t set her up to do that, those are her little rogue speeches that she’s giving.
The McCain campaign and McCain sources seem to be becoming increasingly frustrated with the way Palin is handling herself as the vice presidential nominee.
Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue.”
…You know you’re doing something wrong when the party who is supposed to be behind you in every way possible is questioning your motives when you’re on stage. Obviously she’s Maverick and they just can’t handle it. I find it interesting because I had always presumed that the Mccain campaign and advisers would stand behind any tactics she used, since they (and don’t hate me for saying this) tend to play dirty.
Another Mccain adviser had stated this:
She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone, she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.
Why would we want somebody like this as a vice presidential nominee? A McCain Adviser and Palin associate both stood sturdy behind their decision to limit her press interaction. They both flatly said that “she was not ready and that the missteps could have been a lot worse.”
If she has to be monitored by people working within and for their campaign, and she can’t even really control what on earth she talks about when she’s doing something as simple as a speech (which, might I add usually has those little teleprompter thingys anyway) then how can we trust her to possibly take John Mccain’s place in the instant that something (god forbid) happens to him if he gets in office? Does anyone else besides me have a feeling that her views will change radically if they get in to office and she may try to push issues and funding that McCain doesn’t support? ‘Cause I do.
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(CNN.COM)
