Okay, two more things and then I'm going to stop blogging about Sarah Palin and get back to having a life.
First, any suggestion that Joe Biden has to go easy on her in the debates because she is a woman is simply absurd. If she wants to play with the boys, she'd better learn to be tough. She hunts moose and totes guns, apparently, and fires people who won't fire her hated brother in law, so she's tough enough. No one went easy on Hillary and she didn't expect it, so no one should go easy on Palin, unless of course the Republicans have some rule about going easy on former beauty queeens. And the media should stop saying this. It's sexist.
Second, if this woman actually makes it into the vice presidency, and McCain croaks, and she becomes president, whereupon she will fail miserably, every woman in this country better say good-bye to ever putting a woman in the White House again. The frame will be that women can't handle it. The Republicans, by putting this woman on the ticket, are trying to achieve two things: win this election, and eliminate the possibility of a qualified woman ever being president.
You have to pay attention to these guys. On the one hand they say they believe in family values and women taking care of their children, and on the other hand they say we'd better not criticize Palin for wanting to be president when she isn't even five months post-partum.
On the one hand they called Hillary Clinton, a highly respected and qualified Senator, every name in the book (McCain laughed when one of his supporters called her a bitch) and on the other they insist we respect this completely unqualified woman who they say has foreign policy cred because she was the governor of Alaska which is next to Russia.
They're messing with our heads like they always do.
John McCain has to be defeated because, contrary to his pitch to women that he believes it is time a woman became vice president, putting Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency would push back the cause of women a hundred years.
