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In reply to the discussion: How do you think Sarah Palin is reacting to the news she's in McCain's regret column? [View all]dameatball
(7,396 posts)I may be a person that is less well read about Republican politics than many others on DU and elsewhere. But I vividly recall my thoughts when Palin came to be a possible option. When I first heard that there was a female governor from Alaska that was being touted I was sort of impressed. I assumed that it would be a new face and a good direction for the GOP and it sort of worried me. I wanted them to stay old white fogies. Up until then I was not familiar with her at all.
Then, after the first two or three times I heard her speak I could only think to myself "WTF has he done???" The woman was obviously a horrendous choice. Maybe she appeased a certain portion of the party, but certainly not the country. I still don't think he would have won if he picked someone else. The terrible thing is that he (McCain) helped elevate that idiotic voice into the general discourse and gave it even greater "normalcy."
His choice is one of the things that eventually contributed to where we are now.