Shouldn't McCain Learn from Mondale?

Question

As is well-understood in most Democratic, Independent, and Republican circles by now, John McCain seems to have chosen Governor Palin chiefly because she is a female.

Former President Ronald Wilson Reagan documented in his best-selling 1990 autobiography, An American Life, that his opponent in the 1984 presidential election, Walter F. Mondale, chose his running-mate, U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro, mostly because she was a woman. Reagan considered this to be a fatal error in Mondale's campaign, as there were several other women governors who would have been better than some Representative of whom nobody's ever heard and putting her a heartbeat from the Presidency.

Should McCain learn from his hero, Ronald Reagan, and have appointed someone more qualified, rather than someone just because she's a woman?

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

Mondale promised to raise taxes in his acceptance speech.  That was pretty much the end for his candidacy.

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Do you wish the democrat party had learned from their mistakes and elected someone more qualified, rather than someone just because he's black?

I'm proud to belong to a party that embraces change and a great woman candidate.  I'm glad I don't belong to a party that treated their most qualified and likely to win candidate like a piece of ****.  Then they expect her to kneel and act like she is happy about the slight.

Answer 3

This is the TWENTY FIRST CENTURY.  This sort of **** shouldn't matter anymore.

Answer 4

No, McCain made a great choice.  Palin will be president in 2012.

Besides, you're asking him to learn from Reagan .. .not from Mondale.

Answer 5

Nope. On all accounts.

Answer 6

With the rejection of Hillary Clinton by the media, a vaccuum was created within the female voting block. Hillary's rejection turned into a loss for Hillary and the female voting block. Considering that half of the voting block is female, that voting block has no representation. So yes, gender does play into this.  

Answer 7

Mondale's fatal error was in promising Americans that he was going to destroy the prosperity created by Reagan's tax cuts and fiscal policies.  Mondale was and is a hopelessly corrupt and narrow minded idiot who was lucky to carry the one or two states that he did.

Ferraro and the class she brought to the campaign couldn't save Mondale from himself.  Tie a balloon to an anvil, it still falls like a rock.  

Lost in all the nattering about Ms Palin's gender are the facts that she is a hard-nosed conservative governor with a reputation for taking on the corrupt establishment.  Like we couldn't use that in Washington D.C.  She's an all American woman from the heart of the conservative base that McCain needs.  

Answer 8

I must admit my first reaction was that she was chosen because she is a woman.  Then I started researching her achievements. Governor Palin has more actual experience than Senator Obama and actually is obviously not inside the beltway politics.  Now, Joe Biden has decades of the same tax and spend democratic agenda.  One candidate talks about change and pick the insider because the democratic machine told him to do it.  The other candidate has chosen a running mate with a record of breaking from the old boys and party leaders.  Which one is going to bring change and represent the people?

She was chosen because she is a maverick.  She and McCain each have their sons in service to our country in Iraq.  They don't take the easy road.  She is a leader and a revolutionary.  Originally I was voting against Obama; now, I am voting for McCain and Palin for real change and leadership.

Answer 9

People didnt vote against Mondale, they voted 'for' Reagan.  It wouldnt have mattered who Mondale had picked.  

Answer 10

Please do not go by gender. You seem to be more contemptuous towards females occupying positions of power. As such she is a Governor, should be treated as qualified and experienced.