I was listening to POTUS on XM today, and had the chance to listen to the "GOP Women" press conference, as my XM Radio labeled it. I heard Carly Fiorina, former head of Hewlett-Packard, blame the media for everything Gov. Sarah Palin has ever done.
But that wasn't the most interesting aspect of the press gaggle. I expected that. No, this exchange, of which the ONLY mention I can currently find is from the UK's Guardian newspaper, was this:
Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn suggested that Palin's work on the parent-teacher association of her son's school gave her useful experience for the vice-presidency.
"Every woman in this room knows that if you can handle being a room mother... a PTA chairwoman, Girl Scout cookie mom, there's a lot of things you have the ability, the organisational skills, to handle. She transferred those leadership skills to the political arena."
See, we've gone beyond PTA activism as a needed resume entry for becoming Vice President. No, you needed to have handled a Girl Scout Cookie drive.
I don't want to make this a sexist issue. I laughed, because as a male, I've handled small-scale fundraisers as a high school wrestling coaches. I've run wrestling tournaments with a budget of $10,000 or so and a few dozen volunteers.
And I am in no way prepared to be president.
Girl Scout Cookie Mom. The latest prerequisite to be President. Yup, yup, absolutely.