It really is interesting how the dynamic of the presidential race has changed with the vice presidential selections. Barack Obama could have utterly sealed the deal by selecting Hillary as his number two. I’ve yet to meet anyone who disagrees. Instead, he chooses Joe Biden – a man who, because he is a genuine asshole, makes the Obama ticket look tougher, sure; but, also a man who could never upstage the Anointed One. Obama, who actually was losing momentum going into his convention, as the knight in the Indiana Jones movie would say, chose poorly. Historically speaking, the V.P. pick should really be aimed at the one person who won’t do the ticket any harm. Radio talk show host Michael Medved has talked in detail of a candidate’s responsibility in applying the Hippocratic Oath to the V.P. selection. Obama may have done his party no harm, but he didn’t boost the ticket either. Then again, Hillary’s followers still seem quite jilted over the snubbing.
McCain, on the other hand, really is making himself look the part of the political genius with every public appearance Palin makes. Has there ever been second fiddle to ever cause such a stir? I don’t think so. Sarah Palin, over the course of a weekend and a thirty minute speech – that she was forced to give off the cuff because her teleprompter malfunctioned – has united conservative and republican Americans under McCain’s banner. The accolades that I could pour out for Palin could go on for hours and I don’t care to take the time to do it. I will say, though, that the woman is perfect for the republican party. I have wanted Romney as the V.P. all along, but looking at America’s reaction, left and right, to Palin, I am so very pleased with McCain’s choice.
Look at her qualities while keeping in mind the conservative American voter. She is a mother of five who is strong but does not dominate or hen-peck her husband. Instead, they appear very much to be a team – like every woman appreciates. She is our next door neighbor. She is a mom at a P.T.A. meeting. She is the lady cheering for her kids at the hockey rink. She is the woman in the grocery store who saw flaws in her local government and was courageous enough to do something about it – and was successful. In the face of very powerful forces, she has fought corruption instead of joining it. She’s pretty, but more importantly, she’s smart and extremely well spoken. In her convention speech, she showed that all of the media’s hurtful and mean-spirited attacks on her and her family couldn’t dent the armor of her resolve. The woman has grit. All of these qualities make her a candidate that Americans will gladly get behind, but her positions on the issues are what have united conservatives.
Think about all of the big-name, female politicians. Any conservatives come to mind? Probably not. The Democrat Party and liberals in general have come to see themselves as the party of minority defense. They must, I truly believe, think of themselves as the champions of the down-trodden and abused. (Have they forgotten which is the party of slavery and which party was formed to end slavery? Guess so.) Conservatives, by their very nature, are color-blind. It is because of this color-blindness that the Democrats have been able to get away with championing the notion of “minority rights.” Conservatives don’t care what color a person is or what gender a person is. What matters to the true conservative is finding the right person for the job – whatever the job. Liberals, conversely, will elect a politician or hire a worker based solely on the minority status of the candidate. This is mostly out of ignorance but also driven by a strong, indoctrinated guilt. A guilt, by the way, from which conservatives do not suffer. Conservatives have not had a candidate like Sarah Palin before, not because such a candidate wouldn’t be elected, but because such a candidate has never been the best possible choice for the job. Until now.
The Democrat stranglehold on minority candidates for the sheer sake of having minority candidates will, no doubt, continue. As for conservatives picking the best person for the job, that also will continue. But right now, in this election, the best person for the job of Vice president happens to be a conservative woman . . . and the crowd is going wild. My wife, normally a very logic-driven person, said that she is bonkers for Palin partially because she is a woman. I, at first, found this sentiment very wrong, wrong in that liberals are the ones who vote based on emotion. This feeling that my wife and millions upon millions of other conservative women are surely feeling must be backward, I thought. Then I thought some more and here’s what I came up with and I now understand my wife’s reaction better: conservative women (and men, for that matter) have never had a woman in politics to whom they could aspire. Sarah Palin is everything that a conservative woman wants in a politician and a female leader. Other female politicians – Pelosi, Clinton, Boxer, etc. – are mean, shrill, crooked, hateful women who are no one to be proud of. Sarah Palin is everything such women are not and nothing that they are.
I understand what my wife meant. Sarah Palin is, finally, a female politician who shares her political ideas and conducts herself in a manner in which to be proud. Sarah Palin doesn’t need anyone’s pity to gain the heights of state or national politics, she’ll do it on her own. – just like my wife would, if she had the notion. The Democrats are afraid of this woman and for what she represents. How dare this minority represent the Republicans; after all, they are the party of rich, white men. If Sarah Palin, the do-it-yourself mother who won’t back down from a fight and refuses to be a minority victim, can become the Vice President and, most likely, the next Republican nominee for President . . . how can the left keep telling women and the black community that they are held back and repressed? Except for outright socialism, what will be left for the Democrats to represent?
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