Seriously. When i watch John McCain on tv, it takes all of 8 minutes before i'm knocked out, dreaming of better healthcare coverage, lower foreclosure rates, adequate education for our children...you know- all things anti-McCain. For a woman who works 8 hours a day (sometimes 10 when i've eaten my Superwoman Wheaties), enrolled in night classes to finish my Masters, AND half of a very productive and satisfying relationship, sometimes sleep is hard to achieve because my mind is constantly going going gone. McCain has helped in a very sufficient way and I thank him for that.
Now that Sarah Palin...she's no sleep inducer. Not at all. Leave the farm with me and let me explain to you, woman to woman (and the men who were bold enough to click on the title), that Sarah Palin is a very effective fire starter.
The minute I found out McCain chose Palin, my 1st reaction was who in the hell is that?
So i did what i know many others did, I googled her, I wiki'd her, I Yahoo'd her and used every other search engine known to wo[man] to learn something, ANYthing about the elusive Ms. Palin.
Boy did I learn something.
Of course by looking at Sarah, we know she's a woman. Duh. And i'm willing to admit that I had a moment of HELL YEA, representin for the X gene, woooooooo hooooo!!!
A woman in either place on the ticket is a beautiful thing and is a LONG LONG LONG ass time coming and the women who held that very first Women's Rights convention at Seneca Falls are partying in their graves because of HILLARY CLINTON'S 18 million cracks, and im sure that like myself, they were proud of Sarah Palin's achievement as well.
But then Sarah Palin made the fatal mistake of opening her mouth and every iota of respect, admiration, and giddiness at her being a female contingent flew right out the window and committed a gruesome suicide on the streets of San Francisco.
No, she's not a bad public speaker. Quite the opposite. She is no John McCain. That is why she is the GOPs saving grace, as temporary of a save she may be, she's still a smart save and a save is a save. Even though its sad and pathetic that it takes the person on the bottom of the ticket to finally rev up your base to support the man nominated on the top. She's still the fire cracker of her party. And she has lit the hell outta me. My wallet has opened more in the past 2 weeks than in the last 2 months and i have poured dollar upon dollar into Obama's campaign.
I am a woman who would bend over backwards to help put a woman who i KNEW was highly morally,mentally and emotionally qualified in the White House. And i know the vast difference between highly qualified and highly over-rated. I know the vast difference between choosing a woman because the female VP candidate is truly the cream of the crop and choosing a woman solely because...well because she has a pair of ovaries, can talk a lot of scary shit and served as Mayor of Alaska which is in Russias backyard which obviously makes her a foreign affairs GENIUS.
I am a well-informed woman voter and it is MY voting bloc that will more than likely help sway this thing. Please re-read the words welll-informed. I do not vole solely on gender. I do not vote solely on race. I am an ISSUE-VOTER and MY issues are not John McCain's or Sarah Palin's concern in the slightest. And I have full belief that most women will see past the cute frameless glasses and the quick-witted snubs to view the woman that Sarah Palin truly is. And it's not much to look at.
McCain will have his bounce. Let him have it. He pulled in an attractive/appealing team member who knows what to say in order to cause a frenzy so let him play her out. But she will wear thin. She's doing so as I type. May I remind you of:
"Do you believe in the Bush Doctrine?"
Blink.
Dead Air.
Blink again.
Sarah Palin is shiny and new right now but only things of substance and quality last long. Barack Obama survived the primaries against a FAR more formidable opponent than McCain and Palin put together and multiplied by four. Why? Because he is it. He is the substance, the quality, the fortitude, the intellect, the strength and the CHANGE we have all been waiting for and no pandered pick of a lipsticked pitbull in a pair of stilletos will trump that. So let's set her aside as she self-destructs and concentrate on getting our nominee into that White House. We've got bigger fish and pigs to fry.
WOMEN for Barack Obama and Joe Biden 2008.