Palindrone

Holy Cow. Not used to having a female politician that's a looker. Is she, or am I just getting older? I dig the glasses. Big Time. I can't wait to hear her speak tonight as I have yet to even see a news clip of her in action. Depending on what you read, the move to name her is either genius or idiotic. Howard Stern was leaning towards voting for McCain until now. He thinks it's totally irresponsible to have a woman who was just the mayor of a 6,000 person town 2 years ago a heartbeat away from leading the country. He also wonders how she has time to manage all of this with her family and her son with Down Syndrome. Who knows? If a woman with a DS child can be a lawyer or a CEO and work 14 hour days, I suppose one can also be Vice President or President. It's a weird question really. Why should we assume she should be home with her son when we wouldn't if it was the child's dad running for office? I guess it's really the preconception that the mom should be home with the kids, especially a special needs kid. Why is that? I don't know but I have to admit, on the surface Stern's argument holds some water with me. Heck I don't even aspire to be a VP of a company because of the time it would take to put in. I would miss my kid growing up to some degree but I'm a very involved parent. If Dad is home every night at 5-6, why can't Mom hold whatever job she wants? Celebrities always have other people and nannies raise their kids. The real question is, is it any of our business anyway? For all I know, other governors and other VPs have had special needs kids and it's only an issue now because of the 24/7 media. I'm more concerned with her experience. I hear she hates corruption and wants to fight it, yet the case against her for wanting someone fired looks bad. There is talk her daughter was pressured into saying she is going to marry the father of her unborn baby. Again, I'm not sure what this has to do with her ability to lead. What one person believes or follows is hard to push off on their children. Look at it this way......how many politicians that preach family values have children under 18 that are sexually active? Right. All of them that have children under 18! It's only bad if they get pregnant because then everyone knows. In today's age, how can you pick a candidate that doesn't have things you don't want to disclose? You can be the most conservative person on the planet and try to raise your kids to make good choices.....but short of chaining up a 17 year old in their room, how do you stop them from getting pregnant? If she makes a bad choice at 17, is it the Mom's fault? If she failed to use birth control just that once....does it make her mom any less worthy? Think about it....this woman is being judged because her daughter may have had sex one time out of 100 without making sure that jimmy was wrapped. What does one have to do with the other? All of the negative media attention may actually end up working in her favor. I know all the liberal Hollywood types that hate the tabloids are probably enjoying this episode yet they rail about it when it happens to them. I don't know how I feel about it. I want to judge her solely on her record, but her record is more like a vinyl 45 right now. I think if the McCain people think Hilary voters will move towards Palin, they are wrong. Romney or Huckabee would have been safe picks. Tom Ridge was a safe pick. Joe Lieberman would have been a safer pick, but still rebellious. This pick is way the heck out there and like I said in the beginning, it's either brilliant or a brilliant mistake. Time will tell. It's just hard for me to imagine looking at this woman who could be Vice Frickin President of the United States and saying to myself, "Hmmmm, I'd like to see her in her knickers....with her glasses still on".