I’m a Libertarian-leaning Republican who has been watching this presidential selection process unfold with great interest. I’m pretty fed up with the way this whole system of government is evolving, but unfortunately Americans do the definition of insanity everytime we as a people stand before the voting machines and elect those who say one thing and do something else.
Enter Governor Palin. New kid on the block. Great looking. Not afraid to speak. Feisty. That’s not my beef with her. My beef about her during the VP debate was her reluctance to answer the questions posed by the moderator. There’s no doubt about it; the questions were not comfortable to anyone who has been defending this hot mess called Iraq, or who thought the financial stability of the country was just fine, but to literally change the subject every time something uncomfortable was brought up was not fair to the voting public. Yes, it is OK to defend Iraq from the perspective of the soldiers who have and are serving our country, and it’s okay to acknowledge the lack of knowledge about the financial crisis, but let’s get honest these things and just come clean.
Not that Joe Biden was that much more willing to let ‘er rip, even though the questions were geared more towards an antagonistic stance against the current administration. Could this be because it’s been a democratic led congress for the past 2 years? I don’t know. He was restrained in expressing his views, when that is clearly not his forte.
Note to Candidates: Main Street just wants transparency. Main Street wants to believe someone and not have its intelligence insulted by talking points.