The republican 'king makers' don't want a maverick. They don't want a "new blood" Washington outsider for vice president.
Except that they didn't get a maverick, and they got a typical Republican Washington insider. McCain's status as a "maverick" is a
myth perpetuated by the media. The only difference between McCain and the rest of the contemporary Republican Party is that McCain hasn't had a tradition of pandering to the Religious Right, which, too, has now changed, as his choice of Palin as running mate shows.
The problem is that the "moderates" in the Republican Party (that is, the traditional conservatives) have been marginalized, and leaving the extreme right in control. But their policies have been abject failures, and they neither know how to handle this, nor have they really come to admit that large numbers of former supporters don't have patience with their monkey-boy antics any more.
A lot of big name conservatives and neo-cons have now come out in support of Obama. Most seem to use Palin as an excuse, but Fukuyama, for example, has admitted that by and large the Republican Party's policies have failed and failure shouldn't be rewarded by being given another term in office.
Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
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M. Alan Kazlev
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