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In an apparently successful attempt to steal the spotlight from Barack Obama's big night at the Democratic Convention, John McCain let it be known he had picked his VP. Who will it be everyone wondered...Mitt Romney, no... Tom Ridge, no... Kay Bailey-Hutchinson, no... It is...drumroll please... Sarah Palin!
Wait, what? The governor of Alaska who has been in office for 18 months? Seriously? Oh, ok, its an attempt to get the "disenfranchised" Democrats that voted for Hillary Clinton. Wow...What an insult to women everywhere!
Sarah Palin is EXTREMELY Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro Alaska National Wildlife Refuge drilling and is married to someone involved in Big Oil. She is also being investigated for firing someone in her staff that wouldn't fire her brother-in-law, whom her sister was in a major custody dispute with. The specifics are not known, but it is interesting that the Republicans would pick someone that is under an investigation of any kind.
During Palin's speech she mentioned the 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling that Hillary Clinton made with her historic Presidential Race. She went on to say that women everywhere can still shatter that ceiling with her VP nomination. Is she joking? Her nomination is pandering of the lowest form. She is the opposite of what women everywhere would need. In fact, it wouldn't be far fetched to say she is actually a step backward for women with her conservative ideas and lack of experience.
If, god forbid, something should happen to John McCain, this is not the person who should be "answering the phone at 3am". She has been the governor of Alaska for less than two years! And before that, she was mayor of a town of 7,000 (give or take). Really Republicans? Is this the best you can do?
Only time will tell if this selection will actually work in helping the Republicans win in November, but it is obvious that they did accomplish their major goal for Friday, distract from Barack Obama's speech. This election has just turned the corner from important to critical. Now its up to voters in November to see John McCain's VP choice for what it is and keep the Republicans from winning, again.
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Okay, where do we begin? How about with the facts.
1)Yes, she is pro-life. Hillary isn't. I hardly see how that connects.
2) Yes, she is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. You also forgot to mention that she is, herself, an avid big game hunter.
3) The "A" of ANWR stands for "Arctic" not "Alaskan". If you're going to be picky, let's make sure we get the WHOLE story right. There is not a thing wrong with drilling in ANWR. The area proposed is just down the coast from Prudhoe Bay oil field. ANWR itself is the size of South Carolina and the proposed drilling site is along the coast and is the size of a small town. Your allegation lies about these facts just so you can keep clubbing the rest of the world with baby seals and polar bear cubs.
4) Yes, her husband works for an oil company. The company is called BP and he is a field manager. He's not an executive. He's not even in upper management. He's a middle management grunt who has to work for a living like the rest of us. Your allegation is a fallacy at best and shows your ignorance of the facts.
5) Your contention of her being under investigation is dangerously close to being considered for the "trial by media" award right behind the Duke LaCrosse case. Thou shalt not convict someone in the media. Obama hasn't won the election yet so Americans -- even Sarah Palin-- are still innocent until proven guilty. Can you prove that she fired the director of public safety because he wouldn't fire the brother-in-law state trooper? If you can't, then I suggest you keep comments like that to yourself.
6) I suppose you really do believe that there is no hope for women to move forward in this world. That's a sad commentary on you. I happen to agree that Hillary did make those 18 million cracks and I also happen to believe that Palin can break through that glass ceiling -- and I'm a guy. I personally know women who believe that America should NEVER have a woman president. You call her "pandering"? If McCain had picked anyone else other than Palin, it would have been "the Rich Guys ticket" and you know it. After studying Palin, she's actually a far better choice from that stand point alone. I do agree that in other areas, Mitt Romney would have been a much better choice, but America isn't ready to elect a Mormon to the White House as president or vice-president.
7) Then you criticize Palin for her lack of experience. Even at 18 months, Palin has more management experience than Barack Obama's 145 days in the U.S. Senate where he has not accomplishe one single thing. Palin has taken on tough politicans in Alaska politics and won. She has pushed every way she can to help America wean itself off foreign oil. What has Obama done? In a word: nothing.
At least with Palin, America knows who she is, where she's from and what she's about. After almost two years of having Obama shoved down our throats by the whiny liberal media, nobody knows anything about Obama.