Replace Sarah Palin with Elizabeth Hasslebeck!!

Judging by the reception of John McCain’s choice of a young female character to his campaign, he may well have been on to something.  His only problem,  picking the wrong talking [pretty] head.  The choice of Sara Palin was suppose to show McCain’s ‘Maverick’ tendencies.  Demonstrate that he will not make decisions based on the status quo.  He almost had America at ‘hello’.  Sara Palin looked the part, she had their value,  even had enough credentials to give the campaign something to promote.  However, when under pressure she could not string together a coherent sentence unless she had memorized it (See debates) or read it from a teleprompter (See convention).

McCain needed to choose a woman who is dedicated to the cause, willing to learn and follow like a little Nazi youth.  That person is Elizabeth Hasslebeck.  Such has always been the case; the republican movement is based on propagating ignorance and demanding blind loyalty in its followers in order to acheive personal gain for its leaders.  Elizabeth Hasselbeck clearly is not one of the leaders, a pawn who has been programmed to spew campaign generated talking points.   At no time has she been able to eleaborate on a point, only distracting from the real issue or ensuring the ‘right’s’ point of view is injected into the sub conscious of the viewer.  She stays on message, no matter what. 

Elizabeth Hasselbeck demonstrates qualities that would be useful and  qualifications easily promoted by the GOP campaign.   Above all, she carries a complete and utter disregard for any other view point.  From the perspective of the Republican machine, there could be no better quality.  As if a micro version of Fox News; no matter the information or the reality Fox News blindly directs the viewer to their ‘other’ reality.  What else could you ask for?

Things heated up even more after Elisabeth took a swipe at Joe Biden, prompting Barbara Walters to say, “Every single day you never ever say, maybe there’s another point, so this is your chance….Tell us now why you think that Sarah Palin would make a very good President.”

Elisabeth’s response? “Tell me why Barack Obama is qualified to be President.

Does she know the issues, will she be prepared should the President go down?  Of course she can.  In some cases Elizabeth Hasselbeck may be even better suited than Palin.  Who of these 2 woman has spent more time preparing and learning all the republican talking points?  Who is battle tested on television each and every day?  Who is ready to take on the ‘elite liberal media’?  She has been in the trenches Monday through Friday, for a 20 minutes each day.  Bring on Katie Couric!! 

Just as Sarah Palin is qualified because she has lead “a microcosm of the United States of America“,  Elizabeth Hasselbeck has dealt with the trials and tribulations of Survivor, a ‘microcosm’ as any other.

 By the way…..Comedy Central has ideas for her replacement as well.