@sneakypete
I'd agree that for all her peculiarities, you are correct, and the ticket was upside down.
I think people like Sarah Palin and Ross Perot lead the way to President Trump.
I am okay with this.
It is not meant to be an insult.
The parties have become too much alike and need some shaking up like this, from time to time.
I suppose you could count me in the Quasi-Never Trump Camp, more of the Skeptical Trump camp, but I've come to be wrong about that, and I am quite happy to be wrong about that.
@GrouchoTex @sneakypete
I'd agree that for all her peculiarities, you are correct, and the ticket was upside down.
I think people like Sarah Palin and Ross Perot lead the way to President Trump.
I am okay with this.
It is not meant to be an insult.
The parties have become too much alike and need some shaking up like this, from time to time.
I suppose you could count me in the Quasi-Never Trump Camp, more of the Skeptical Trump camp, but I've come to be wrong about that, and I am quite happy to be wrong about that.
@GrouchoTex We don't live in an ideal world,so there are always compromises that have to be made in order to be practical enough you don't harm yourself,even if the solution doesn't completely please you.
It's just the way of the world.
I also happen to believe because I have seen it happen myself in real life in the army,that sometimes unlikely people get put in a position they don't really understand and would NEVER be anybody's first or even second pick for that position,and they are like creme rising to the top to meet and defeat the situation.
One example was named "Stanley". No kidding. I have no idea why he didn't murder his mother and father for naming him Stanly when he was 12,but knew and served with him twice before the "occasion arose". I never once even heard his raise his voice to argue with anyone. Quiet,unassuming,always smiling and trying to get along.
Stanley was some kind of radio technicial. Not an operator,but a radio mechanic,if there is such a thing. By mere chance,he did NOT volunteer,he was assigned to be a radio repairman for a classified organization,and he and everyone else THOUGHT he was a safe as in his mama's arms with that position at a classified compound outside of Saigon,protected by and surrounded by hard-core SF types armed to the teeth.
Then came Tet of 68. The grunts were out in the bush doing what grunts in the bush do,when the compound was attacked. The security troops and the walking wounded that were left behind were the only ones to man the walls,and the NVA came in waves and breached the gates with shape charges. Next thing he knows,the commo shack comes under attack,so Stanley picks up a M-16 and web gear from a killed guard,and goes to war.
By the time the day is over,he is wounded twice,and is put in for Distinguished Service Cross,but gets it downgraded to a Silver Star,if anyone wants to be foolish enough to consider a Silver Star a downgrade.
He also discovers he has found his calling. Next time I saw him was when I went to Recon Team Leader School outside of Saigon,and he had been promoted twice and was an instructor there. No more Mr.Quiet,unassuming shy guy. Self-confidence and competence just seems to ooze off of him. More than that,VERY senior NCO's who had been on patrols with him admired him,and senior SF NCO's are a tough audience to impress if you are a young soldier. Trust me on that one.
It was like he was reborn in his early 20's. Stanley had found his calling. He might have found it by accident,but make no mistake about it,soldiering was what he was born to do.
Yes,indeed. People WILL sometimes surprise you and rise to the occasion once put into that position. The job CAN "make the man."
Or the woman,in Palin's case. I honestly think if she had been elected that she would have just taken the ball and started running with it.
