A Work of Staggering Genius?
By dcmediagirl on August 29, 2008 at 8:25 PM in Current Affairs
It’s too soon for me to decide whether McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate is a colossal f***up or a history-making brainwave. I confess that when I first heard the news I thought that the press had screwed up their information or that they’d been played by some bored interns at the McCain campaign with access to the blast text-o-matic. Or that the MSM had lost its moorings, much like during the “Chet Edwards has been vetted” burst of insanity.
My initial skepticism about McCain’s pick and rush to compare it to the Dan Quayle disaster of 1988 soon gave way to suspension of disbelief. Now I’m blown away and utterly charmed.
That right-wing lady, with whom I disagree about pretty much everthing (gay rights, abortion, on and on) has totally won my heart. And I’m not ashamed to admit it.
First off, McCain has brass balls to have pulled this off. He knew what he’d face: Cries of tokenism. Bleating about her lack of experience (message to the press: SHE’S ON THE TICKET AS VP, NOT THE #1 SLOT). Poking fun at her beauty queen background. Hell, some of my female friends, feminists all, even suggested that a woman with a Down’s Syndrome child should be at home with the baby and not galivanting around the country campaigning.
But although I think she’s wrong on issues dear to my heart, I still love her spunkiness, the fact that she lives in a remote state that most Americans know nothing about and will probably never visit. I love that she’s taken on the staggering corruption up there (Alaska rivals Louisiana for most shamelessly crooked). I love that she eloped with her Inuit/Caucasian high school sweetheart. I love that she shoots big guns and hunts (again, not my thing at all, but it works for her). Yeah, I may not see eye to eye with Sarah Palin, but something tells me she’d be a hoot to hang out with – not that she’d have the time, what with her being a mom of five kids and running for veep and all.
If this woman manages to keep it together and not crash and burn between now and November 4, I’d even go so far as to vote for this ticket. Any man who’s got the stones to double down like this is my kind of guy. The whole maverick ticket thing is cool, as is that fact that McCain has shown us what “change” really means. Bonus points for not having chosen the irritating Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Well played, Senator.
Sarah, 44, had her water unexpectedly break (just a slow leak of amniotic fluid, she shared) while attending an energy conference in Texas, but checked in with her doctor, was able to stay, deliver a 30 minute speech, and then get on a plane to return to her home state in time for the delivery (which ended up needing to be induced) early this morning.
“I am not a glutton for pain and punishment. I would have never wanted to travel had I been fully engaged in labor. After four kids I knew what labor felt like, and I wasn’t in labor.”
Sarah said that while she did not tell the pilot or flight attendants that she was 36 weeks along, she did not hide her condition either.
GodDAMN that is a woman right there!
And maybe she’ll make it cool for girls to wear glasses again.
Go Sarah Go!
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