Because she’s utterly unqualified. Not a chance in the world she’d have been offered the VP if she was a man with identical qualifications, and the Republican Party is SUPPOSED to be against affirmative action tokenism. And if the Democrats had nominated a woman with a pregnant 17 year old daughter and a nursing infant, the same people who are celebrating Palin’s nomination would have been howling about her being an example of the sort of liberal feminists who are bringing about the downfall of American society by pretending that a high-powered career is perfectly compatible with motherhood, and that leaving the raising of their children to nannies is just fine.
And, no, Todd Palin has NOT been a stay-at-home dad, so even if mothers don’t really need to raise their children as long as the father fills the role instead, this family doesn’t cut it. As the NYT helpfully pointed out, when Sarah found out that she was a carrying a Down Syndrome baby, she didn’t tell her husband for several days, because he was out of town, out in the oil fields. Mom’s busy being governor, dad’s out in the oil fields not coming home at night, and Bristol is off in bed with her boyfriend, and not bothering to use contraception. And somehow, nobody managed to tell the other children prior to Trig’s birth that he had DS, leaving 14 year old Willow to notice his appearance right after he was born and ask if he had DS. Yeah, he made an unexpectedly early appearance, but supposedly Dad was there in the waiting room too, with the children . . . not sharing important info about the new baby with them.
Something is way off with this family. Shades of Keyes family, with the daughter who picked the middle of her father’s Senate campaign as the time to announce to the world that she’s a lesbian. If Palin really had such a devotion to “family values”, she’d notice that much more of her time and attention are needed at home, and not go galivanting off on the campaign trail, aiming for a job which will take up a huge amount of time if she does it justice, and also involve relocating the family just around the time her 17 year old gives birth to a baby sired by an immature 18 year old boy. If she ends up as VP, I fully expect to see 4 years of tabloid headlines emanating from her family.
Wow.
I guess you REALLY hate Dick Cheney and his family, huh?
What with his LESBIAN daughter who adopted a child with her LESBIAN partner.
I actually think exactly the opposite. I think that if her name was Sam Palin, no one would be stating any of the things you do about his family. Her resume mirrors many Presidents we've had, funny enough, many have compared it to Teddy Roosevelt's resume. Through out previous election cycles, it is often stated by both sides that being Governor is the most logical predecessor to being President as it is a microcosm of the presidency. If you stack her head to head against all of the other top tier candidates for VP, removing the names and just looking at policy and resumes, she really does stand out.- Especially when it comes to Conservative reform values.
IMHO, it is good that we have someone far, far outside the beltway. Many of the problems we have are business as usual politics. I think she can be a challenge to you scratch my back cronyism.
Well what do you know, nobody is perfect.
Show me a family without its problems.
I can't put it any more plainly than this: You're wrong.
An objective review of Palin's history of government service and achievements shows that she is a very good match for McCain. She's a "maverick" and a reformer, opting for honesty and truth over party loyalty. McCain's heart is in the right place on this, though his judgment is often questionable.
That she may not have been chosen if she were a man is a naive and irrelevant argument. "If" doesn't mean squat.
Campaigning is all about drawing distinctions between two differing ideals, points of view, goals, etc. Sarah Palin pulls back the curtain of deceit and highlights the true differences between the Left and the Right in 3-D, full color and high definition.
She was not chosen simply because she's a woman, but because she's an experienced, intelligent, courageous, politically successful and conservative woman!
She blows the elitism and the hypocrisy of the Left out of the water with a single shot.
Her very existence disproves a major part of everything the Left stands for!
She's a woman who isn't scared of guns, not a victim who depends on others to coddle and care for her.
She's successful and assertive, but not deceptive and backstabbing.
She's a politician who stands for character and honesty in public office.
She's hugely popular, and not because of pork projects.
Her nomination was an absolutely brilliant decision, for solid ideological as well as strategic reasons.
Your post pretty much sums up my thoughts on Palin.
But even if she didn’t have any children, it wouldn’t matter.
She will not be President, McCain will, so she will not be vetoing socialist legislation, she will not be appointing SCOTUS’ first true pro-life justice, she will not be openly speaking out against abortion...but she will be surrounded by hordes of liberal, socialist, statist, Democrat, pro-abort & anti-gun politicians and bureaucrats who will never allow her any influence. If she were to try, she would end up being the most marginalized VP in the history of the Republic. There will be ZERO pro-life, conservative or constitutionalist influence in a McCain administration, just as there will be ZERO of the same in a Hussein Obama administration. There isn’t even an absolute guarantee that she will be in office for her full term. Giving the purported ideological differences, I’m sure McCain would welcome an opportunity to replace her with Lieberman or Ridge.
I admire Alan Keyes for sticking his neck out like this. Most of our national Christian leaders appear to have accepted their thirty pieces of silver in exchange for a place at the table.