Palimonium

It's rather amazing watching all the reactions to various news reports on Sarah Palin. Based upon those reports, if I had to choose one word to describe her and her life - it would be "normal."

Is America ready for that, as opposed to the cleaned and covered-up images we generally see of our politicians?

Wait a minute ... Barack Obama's Father deserted him, he bounced around, having some number of lost years in which we at least know he did some pot and some Coke. He has a family member living in a hovel in Kenya getting by on a buck a month. But Palin's "normalcy" somehow makes her inadequate for the VP slot?

Please! The woman owns guns and knows how to shoot. I suspect she just might hold her own.

Obama presented himself for 17 months to the American people, they heard him debate more than a dozen times, they made their own decision that he was ready for the job and the Democrats voted him their nominee.

That's an unfortunate reach. A bunch of hardcore liberal Democrats may have made up their mind. As for what a broader America thinks, that jury is still out.

As for Palin, my biggest concern is that she probably poses the best mirror of ourselves I've seen on the National political stage for a long time. Whether America is ready to come to grips with that view is unresolved. But I certainly prefer it to the plastic image of Obama that has nothing to do with his reality after all.

Comments

[Steven Den Beste]

For the Politically Correct, this is the Year of the Victim. We must elect a member of an officially-recognized victim group.

"Women" are such a group, of course, but the problem is that Governor Palin refuses to think of herself as being a victim. She isn't qualified to be President because she doesn't hate white men and doesn't think of herself as being downtrodden.

[SacTownmMan]

"Abortion IS infanticide"

Amen brother Seek!

Can't have those pesky globs of flesh getting in the way of that liberal, me first, lifestyle.

God will be the final judge for all of those non-believers that think the same way as President Carter does.

But hey it's just that whole "choice" thing rearing it's ugly little head (or whatever misc. body parts are left over after the abortion is complete.)

[Spartan112]

I finally figured it out...this move is exactly in line with McCains thinking. He voted against equal pay for equal work for women so this is simply a move to save money for the government.

According to encarta the VP's salary is $221,100 given that women earn 77 cents on the dollar for the same work the salary for VP Palin would be $170,247. Fiscal conservatism at it's best.

[Worst President Ever]

"It is nothing short of genocide against the unborn, and those who have aided and abetted the legalisation of abortion-on-demand should be tried for crimes against humanity."

What of all the women who've had abortions should be jailed? And all husbands, boyfriends, family that have assisted?