Vice President Barbie

According to Karl Rove, having a unmarried 17-year-old pregnant daughter makes Sarah Palin more sympathetic to millions of Americans, presumably not  those Americans who would have cast stones had the pregnant daughter been Democrats, or just some body who lived down the street.  Sometime during her "abstinence only" lecture, Palin might have added that having unprotected sex is not the best choice for a child still in high school. Should McCain win, I hope Palin has a clearer line of communication with the military, or with whomever the vice president communicates. "Families are off limited," because the family in this case is White and Republican, can you imagine the field day Palin would have had if the unwed pregnant teen had been Obama's?

The Conservative Right, and maybe the whole right wing, agree with Sarah Palin that birth control is a form of abortion. Sarah Palin does not believe that women should have birth control and she believes that educating girls about condoms is wrong because it prevents them from becoming pregnant. Sarah Palin believes that if you are raped, even by a member of your family, you must prolong your agony by carrying to term and giving birth to a child of that rape or incest. She is also against helping pregnant women in any way. And she now has the power to make these beliefs law. Can you imagine what she will be able to accomplish as vice president or president.

Statistically, John McCain is more likely to suffer some catastrophic illness or die while in office than any of  the other candidates or the incumbent. That means that the United States will have a woman president, who, in this case, is the female version of our current Commander-in-Chief. Statistically, we now have a better chance of having a woman as president. And although Palin has compared herself to Harry Truman, that buck won't stop at her desk. When Harry Truman became president he had served as a judge and a US Senator, he had more than 40 years experience as a public official, a politician, and a businessman. Palin's comparison of herself to Harry is dishonest and uneducated, and maybe designed to attract those who are ignorant of their own history.

The Republican Party seems to think that a female, any female, is enough to attract the votes of disenchanted Clinton supporters. And they think that because they have nothing but contempt for women. Sarah Palin is the female George Bush, she is as sarcastic, she is as mean-spirited, she is as narrow, and she is as dangerous. She is a sideshow that pulls attention away from John McCain 's inability to understand the economic ills of this nation, much less propose a solution. The Republican elite have created a situation in which any criticism of Palin can and will be characterized as more proof of Democratic elitism. The Republicans have thrown Palin to the media wolves in an attempt to draw attention away from John McCain whose answer to our fuel crisis is to increase drilling for more oil--or maybe Palin believes that if she prays hard enough her God will replenish the Earth's depleted fossil fuel sources and all will be well for us and the oil industry.