Really?
Is he serious?
John McCain thinks all he has to do to get Hillary Clinton supporters to vote for him is to pick someone with a uterus and ovaries as his running mate and they will all come streaming over to him?
John McCain is so out of touch it is comical. He knows nothing about computers and he also apparently knows nothing about women.
Does he really think that all those women who believed in Hillary Clinton, someone who has worked for thirty years for the causes of women and children, for reproductive choice, for health care for all, for equal pay for women, and who would promote gay rights, will just jump to support an anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-universal health care, anti-health care for children candidate?
Is he completely and totally certifiable?
Yes.
He has decided to court the evangelical right wing, to play by the Karl Rove play book, and to go for conservative ideology in a year when Democrats and progressives have increased in numbers and are fired up to support Barack Obama.
He has decided to pick a governor of the most back woods state in the nation, a governor who has no foreign policy experience, an unknown.
Does he really think Hillary Clinton's female supporters will throw all their respect for her overboard just so they can support a woman who is against everything Hillary Clinton is for?
Does he really think Hillary Clinton's female supporters have given up on her becoming president someday, and does he really think they will abandon Hillary because all they care about is having any woman be president - even Sarah Palin who has no experience at all - a female Dan Quayle? Hillary Clinton's supporters are not stupid and they are not suicidal. They supported Hillary because she was experienced and because she was for the things they were for. Sarah Palin is neither experienced nor in favor of any of the things Hillary Clinton supports.
This is not only stupid on McCain's part, it is insulting to women. It is a reflection of his belief that females are so stupid they will simply follow any woman.
Reporters are saying this is a gamble. It is more than that. It is insulting to the intelligence of the women of America. And it will not help him.
