September 11, 2008There has been much talk of experience and qualifications in regards to Sarah Palin and the VP slot. While one looks at the person of Sarah Palin, both as a person and from her experience, one finds that she :
is young (under 45)
has a reputation as a Republican Reformer
has taken on Republican Party Establishment
has a large family [...]
Read the full article → July 13, 2008Well, the first part of that isn’t entirely true, but I did spend fifteen months writing a rather long historiographical thesis on Theodore Roosevelt back in college. In that work I used some of John McCain’s campaign rhetoric from early 2000 as evidence of TR’s increasing influence amongst politicians of both parties today (I also quoted [...]
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