McCain's VP Choice: Sarah Palin

Now the question Hillary Clinton posed in her speech at the DNC on Women's Equality Day really needs to be answered: were we in it just for her?

Were we in it because she was a woman, or because of what she stands for?

John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a clear move to get disenchanted Hillary voters to support the Republican ticket, but with Palin's frightening anti-choice, anti-marriage equality, creationist, anti-LGBT views, she couldn't be further from Hillary Clinton.

On one thing they do line up: just like Hillary, Sarah Palin is going to have to wade her way through sexist comments throughout the rest of this campaign. Over at Shakesville they've started up the Sarah Palin Sexism Watch, and they have two examples already. While we may not support her positions on the issues, her physical appearance and the fact that she has a young child have no bearing on her ability to do the job of VP. However, her lack of experience does.

Let's face it, Palin is no substitute for Hillary.

Comments

[MinerSam]

I love Hillary, possibley more than many here. But I am NOT STUPID.

Republicans are using women just as they have the Kansans To vote against their own interests.

While the left is as moronic as the right The candidates of the Democratic Party are more pro women in their pinkies than any Republican policy maker.

The Gas and Oil Party represents the financial interests of about 7 million people. That leaves out the rest of us 293Million people.

Anyone who votes for the GOP's Next Moron in Chief Front, yet works for a living and cares about the We the People of the United States (as in the Pre-amble of the constitution) aught to have their head examined.

Republicans hate our government and by their governance it shows.
They would defacate on the heads of every woman (as they often have) if it meant their getting into power.

Their current candidates are a TROJEN House. With an army of the devil within.

[AllFiredUp]

While the woman in me is happy for this historical day, the feminist in me is reeling.

The Republican Party isn't pro-woman just because they have a Vice Presidential Candidate who happens to be one. John McCain's choice as a running mate shows just how ignorant and misogynistic the Republican Party really is. Many may cry, "How could you say that? McCain chose a woman as his running mate!". Ms. Palin, though she may be a very nice person, was not selected for her experience. She has none. She was not selected for her notoriety. She has none. She was selected to brand the Republican Party as woman-friendly and to serve as a spokes-model. She is a token for the Republicans. As such, this latest move by the republicans is fundamentally non-feminist; it proves exactly how degrading to women the Republican Party actually is.

I have this sad picture in my mind where a bunch of strategists got together to think about the Republican choice for Vice President and someone mumbled allowed, with a mouth half-full of doughnut, "Well, we're getting the feeling that the American Public wants to vote for a woman now. That sort of thing is groovy in politics at this point in time.". And Palin was the obvious candidate because she's anti-choice and married to an oil executive from Alaska.

The American People didn't vote for just ANY woman. It's not as though the American Public woke up and decided that this is the year we vote for women. The women who have been getting elected, and the women who have broken and cracked glass ceilings all over Washington, did so on their own merit, not because they were valuable and worthy WOMEN, but because they are valuable and worthy PEOPLE.