I used to wonder why someone as woefully unprepared to be President as Palin would run for V.P. Given recent revelations, I now understand: it’s for the shopping spree! She went to New York, did the photo op at Ground Zero, and then hit the shops. In two months, she’s spent $150,000 on clothing. That’s just on herself. She also got new duds for her husband. You gotta love the perks.
All the shopping was paid for by the RNC. I’ll bet that’s going to make for some angry conservatives. But it doesn’t end there, not wanting to take advantage of her gracious hosts too much, she had her home state pay for the airfare and hotel rooms for her kids. One hotel room was $770 per night. Then she cooked the books a bit to make it look legitimate. Not a smart thing to do when you are under so much scrutiny. Especially when, upon digging a bit deeper, reporters discovered that she’s been charging the State of Alaska a per diem to allow herself to live in her own home. I guess she figures she’s renting it out to herself. But hey, it’s another $17,000 per year out of the tax payer’s pockets and into her own.
I mean, how foolish do you have to be to run scams while you’ve got every reporter in the world looking into your life? Either you have to be so naive as to border on brain dead, or you have to be so much in the habit of cheating your way through life, that you can’t tell the difference between what is ethical behavior and what isn’t. Either way, I don’t want someone like that anywhere need our fiscal crisis.
This is someone who pretends she knows what it’s like to be middle-class. How many of you would have the audacity to try that kind of stunt on your employer? You wouldn’t. Why not? Because you can be fired. You aren’t elected to an office that you merely plan to use as a stepping stone to an even better gig. You don’t have a job where you can just leave your responsibilities behind and go on the campaign trail for a few months. I realize that’s the reality for politicians, but it’s nothing like the reality for the rest of America. Politicians know they are safe in their jobs until the end of their terms. No matter how bad the economy gets, they’ll be just fine until the voters have a chance to boot them out. The rest of you have to worry that your boss will walk in at any time and tell you that they’ve just decided to cut back and your name is on the list.
It is Palin’s desperate hope that you’ll vote for McCain/Palin on November 4th because she looks pretty and claims to be just like you. But saying it doesn’t make it so.
When you get into the polling booth, think about the kind of leader we need and what happened the last time we got fooled by someone who claimed he was just like us. Can we really afford Sarah Palin?
