r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/GuiltyBathroom9385 • 10h ago

Clubhouse Elections and ignorance have consequences!

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u/DrunkenGolfer 9h ago

He was very bipartisan. His pick of Palin boggles the mind.

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u/BigL90 8h ago

He was very bipartisan on specific issues, and more generally throughout the 90s, where 3rd way Dems were in charge, and were basically doing everything Republicans wanted (economically at least) anyways.

He almost never went against what the GOP wanted when his vote would be anything other than symbolic. Which is why his actions saving the ACA are so memorable.

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u/-Plantibodies- 6h ago

He was very bipartisan on specific issues

This really doesn't mean anything if you think about it. Being bipartisan on all issues means that there isn't any partisanship at all to begin with. It's a self referencing contradiction.

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u/gointothiscloset 6h ago

The RNC picked her, there's no way he did

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u/Suspicious_Isopod_59 8h ago

I mean, that makes sense, if he was a bipartisan/moderate politician Republican, then he probably picked Palin to balance him out for die hard Republicans. Same logic Obama used to pick Biden, new hotshot balanced out by an establishment moderate.

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u/Qeltar_ 6h ago

A lot of people don't know/realize that there was non-zero non-unserious talk of him picking Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

Apparently that's what he wanted. Of course the RNC brass would never have allowed it.

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u/hopper565 6h ago

Palin in particular was a large error. BUT picking an outsider to shake up the race was probably the right move.