It is now seven years since Arizona Senator John McCain selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate in the Presidential Election of 2008.
Other than her good looks, Palin brought nothing into the race, and came across as a massive negative in a losing campaign.
We have never had a Vice Presidential candidate as dim witted, as obtuse, as exasperating as Sarah Palin.
But we figured once she had lost, we would never hear from her again, particularly after she resigned as Alaska Governor.
But lo and behold, Sarah Palin made a career of being on Fox News Channel, having a reality show, and teaming up with the Tea Party Movement, all to infuriate all intelligent citizens.
And now, she made a total fool of herself, not by far the first time, yesterday when she spoke at the Capitol Hill rally against the Iran deal.
How can anyone take this woman seriously?
And it gets worse, as Donald Trump has praised Sarah Palin, and hinted she would be part of his administration in a cabinet post.
Sarah has suggested she would love to be Secretary of Energy, and then leave after destroying that department, giving the energy interests of the nation free reign, and letting states determine how energy is handled, instead of the federal government.
The thought that our environment would be affected by this woman is enough to make one scream, and hope he is waking up from a nightmare.
Senator McCain did a terrible deed in giving us Sarah Palin, and it is as if we had a massive pest problem, and nothing works to alleviate the menace!
The only good thing is, thank goodness,that Sarah Palin has not been a heartbeat away from the Presidency for the past seven years!
Serious questions. Why is it that you seem to assert as a fact that the federal government is better at “administrating” a department of energy than the state governments? Is it a fact of life that the federal government does everything better than the states? Is the 10th amendment completely irrelevant? Do you believe it should be repeal? Do you believe , and I honestly ask this, that we should abandon federalism altogether and have a kind of central government like the do in France, where the ”provinces’ are mere administrative entities of the central government where there is one single national law? In other words do you think it would be better to have a “National” government instead of a “Federal” government?
I’ll never forgive him for dragging her out of the woodwork!
As this article from Forbes says, if she wants to be energy secretary, she needs to learn what the DOE does.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/09/09/sarah-palin-as-secretary-of-energy-under-donald-trump/
Serious questions. Why do Republicans who don’t think government can work want jobs in government? Who wants to be in charge of something just to watch it die?
Amen to that Pragmatic! She is definitely not someone who should be tinkering with subatomic particles.
Way to go Rustbelt! 🙂
What Sarah Palin wants is the Department of Interior, which oversees the vast majority of federal lands. They’re the ones handling leases for coal mining or fracking on public lands, through the Bureau of Land Management, or supervising offshore oil and gas drilling, through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. If you wanted to devolve federal lands back to the states, you’d focus on Interior, not Energy.
Yes, the federal government is much preferred to deal with the energy issue.
If one studies most state governments throughout history, one finds (particularly outside the coastlines) that state government is most often reactionary, repressive of civil rights, and much more corrupt.
State governments have their role, but not to take over what are major responsibilities for the American people at large, as represented in the various cabinet agencies and commissions.
We should, of course, keep federalism, but realize the truth of the incompetence of most state governments historically, and make certain that the American people’s interests are protected nationwide in the public interest!
Rustbelt Democrat, to allow the Interior Department to be under the control of the states, would be horrific.
It would lead to the end of the conservation of our lands, and the destruction of the National Park system, as Republicans want to open up all nature preserves to mining, as with the Grand Canyon, for instance! What a disaster that would be, and make TR turn over in his grave!
I’m finding it quite entertaining watching the clown car going off the cliff! 🙂
Her as secretary of anything is enough to give me nightmares.
Yes, Rustbelt Democrat, it would be a literal nightmare to have Sarah Palin anywhere near any government job, as, after all, she quit the Alaska Governorship halfway through her term, in order to exploit the financial potential caused by her moronic following!
Given what an atrocious state the Republican Party was in in 2008—under incumbent 43rd president of the United States George W. Bush—the most serious question to be asked is this: “How in the hell did John McCain manage to hold 22 states for his party?”
2008 should have been a Franklin Roosevelt-style landslide, with the result being at least 40 of the 50 states for the Democratic pickup-winning ticket of Barack Obama/Joe Biden.
The Republican ticket of John McCain/Sarah Palin received plenty more than it what it deserved.