Comments on: Lalor on McCain’s VP pick http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/29/lalor-on-mccains-vp-pick/ Political news in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York state. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:36:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: edgeofnight http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/29/lalor-on-mccains-vp-pick/comment-page-1/#comment-37849 edgeofnight Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:13:55 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/29/lalor-on-mccains-vp-pick/#comment-37849 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has a reputation of being a reformer: Shaking up the status quo and weeding out corruption in government. Her GOP nomination reminds me of another GOP Vice-Presidential nomination. Like Palin, this governor had been in office for less than two years, but he was shaking things up and the Old Guard did not like it one bit. What did the members of the New York Republican Party hierarchy do to combat this 'take no prisoners/no-holds barred' governor? They got the brilliant idea of burying him in the Vice-Presidency, and that's just what happened to NY Governor Theodore Roosevelt. There is a famous cartoon of angels leading TR into the murky waters of the vice-presidency. What happened next? Six months after becoming VP, TR became President upon the assassination of President William McKinley. On January 20, 2009, John McCain, at age 72, would be the oldest man to assume the presidency for a first term. Are we looking at another TR -- this time in a skirt? Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has a reputation of being a reformer: Shaking up the status quo and weeding out corruption in government.

Her GOP nomination reminds me of another GOP Vice-Presidential nomination. Like Palin, this governor had been in office for less than two years, but he was shaking things up and the Old Guard did not like it one bit. What did the members of the New York Republican Party hierarchy do to combat this ‘take no prisoners/no-holds barred’ governor? They got the brilliant idea of burying him in the Vice-Presidency, and that’s just what happened to NY Governor Theodore Roosevelt. There is a famous cartoon of angels leading TR into the murky waters of the vice-presidency. What happened next? Six months after becoming VP, TR became President upon the assassination of President William McKinley.
On January 20, 2009, John McCain, at age 72, would be the oldest man to assume the presidency for a first term.
Are we looking at another TR—this time in a skirt?

]]> By: 7curses http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/29/lalor-on-mccains-vp-pick/comment-page-1/#comment-37782 7curses Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:47:15 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/29/lalor-on-mccains-vp-pick/#comment-37782 whew - it seems mr. lalor is delusional whew – it seems mr. lalor is delusional

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