By Jesse Blumenthal CMC '11
Today’s announcement by the McCain campaign of the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee reminds this news reader of CMC’s Prof. Pitney’s prediction back in November of last year. Granted, Prof. Pitney went 1/4 (incorrectly choosing Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton to grace the tops of the tickets and Evn Bayh as the Dems. VP) still, it is laudable that CMC’s resident prognosticator foretold of the selection of one of the darkest horses of modern history. (CJ's note: In fact, just 23 hours ago, he thought it was a "tossup between Pawlenty and Romney.")
Claremont Conservative covered Prof. Pitney’s Picks here and though our editorializing at the time disagreed with the call we say kudos to Jack Pitney for being one of the few to foresee the selection of Sarah Palin!
We are not the first to note Prof. Pitney’s picking prowess (please forgive us for being alliteration happy, but it seemed to easy to pass up) and we offer our congrats, and eagerly await the CMC PR department’s announcement.
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4 comments:
Haven't been in here for awhile. You should probably fix the link to Pitney's prediction. Care to share your thoughts on Palin?
I am, will remain, and will always be a Mitt Romney guy. I wanted him to be the top of the ticket, or at least its bottom. I can't help but think of Palin as anything but a disappointment, however qualified she is. Of course Romney didn't get the nod for his Mormonism, his wealth -- since when have Republicans started bowing to class warfare, I don't know -- and his looks. He looks like corporate America and people fear that.
But he's still a patriot in my book. I have no doubt that he would look at his fortune one more time and would do everything short of bankrupt himself to run again and I'll be there with him.
Palin isn't the future of the party. You have to wait for 2012.
What an amazing pick by McCain!! Gov. Palin brings in a distinguished record of executive experience, running a successful and popular Government in Alaska. An ideal ticket is one where 1 person brings in the Washington experience/foreign policy/national security experience and the other brings in executive/administrative experience. This can be seen from all winning tickets in the past few decades. The republican ticket is the perfect ticket now. She has a record of clean governance, bipartisanship and reducing wasteful spending and is an ideal choice for McCain's VP.
For all those who wish to raise the 'experience' question - do you honestly believe that Gov. Palin is too inexperienced to be President (a post for which, btw, she is NOT running for) despite being the Governor of Alaska for nearly 2 years and a mayor for many years before that, while Sen Obama is experienced enough to be President (a post he is running for)? If you honestly believe Palin is inexperienced, there is now way you could support Obama. Palin brings in executive experience, McCain and Biden bring Washington, foreign policy experience - what exactly does Obama bring in? Neither of the 2.
Also, it is incorrect to see the choice of Gov Palin as a gimmick to pander to the women voters. While that is a bonus, the most important point is that she would be an excellent person for the role of VP in McCain's administration, with the executive experience, to help him run the country effectively. None of us know too much about her, but whatever little Ive heard so far is immensely impressive. I request all voters to give her a fair chance, do some research and find out about her, and you will see that her candidacy is no gimmick.
I have to agree with you, Charles, I was actually hoping for Romney on the ticket, he was the most appealing of the VP choices for me. Though I know I'm probably betraying the Democrat inside me, if it was Romney, McCain would have a huge shot to be voted for in my mind.
But to the person anonymous above me, I would say that Obama does have SOME foreign policy experience, what with his working for nuclear proliferation treaty deals.
You would have to work hard to convince me about Palin, someone who, and I quote, "Has no idea what the VP position does", and as for clean governance, it doesn't look that way since she's being investigated for abusing her power in office.
All I've seen is a woman who graduated from University of Idaho with a major in Poli-Sci, and all in all, her resume is pretty flimsy. I haven't seen much other than energy/oil issues in her past.
McCain has alot of foreign policy experience and I think he is an excellent candidate, but I would not trust Palin to assume the role of the Presidency. For someone who has no opinion on the Iraq War, I find this a dangerous time for someone to have to "catch up to speed" on the current events and policy.
She might turn out to be a great candidate, who knows? But I would avoid such shining commentary until, like you said, you hear a little more about her.
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