My Canadian counterpart has done it again. He’s taken a complex issue and narrowed it down to it’s salient points.
Bottom Line up front-Just because you are gun loving, baby making, snowmobling MILF-does not mean you deserve to be on the ticket.
I’ve quoted his post for you below in its entirety. If you want to understand Gov Palin, The Canadian Skippy has done it for you:
The 2008 presidential election is turning out to be a campaign of firsts. Barack Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major party, John McCain is the first cancer survivor, and Joe Biden is the first guy with really bad hair plugs to be on a major party ticket. And now The Republican Party has nominated the first candidate that I want to have filthy, filthy sex with.
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is hot in that naughty librarian way that I dig so much. She’s much like Tina Fey in that you know that if you unbutton that blazer, take her hair down and remove those glasses, you’ll have a fireball of a minky on your hands. She’s the kind of woman that you know is an intellectual, but she still wants to impress you with how much knows about the care and feeding of the penis.
Unfortunately, those are the only things I know about her.
Don’t get me wrong, I see the political angle of nominating Palin. It’s a blatant play for Hillary voters. As you may have noticed, Hillary has been the star of several of McCain’s latest ads. In giving the governor the nod, McCain is essentially saying “You want a broad? Well, I’m gonna give you a broad!”
The problem is that it isn’t going to work. If you assume that Hillary’s supporters are going to overlook the fact that Palin is psychotically pro-life, a gun nut … oh, and a Republican, you might have a problem in that you think women are idiots. As a general rule, women aren’t half as confused about women as men are. Expecting women to vote for a woman just because she’s a woman is not only stupid, it’s contrary to all of the available evidence. Women tend not to vote for women because women tend to hate one another until they have a reason not to. And they hate women who are hotter than they are twice as much.
Furthermore, you know how many times the GOP has lost Alaska in a presidential election? Once. In 1964.
Then there’s the issue of experience. The biggest advantage Senator McCain had was the fact that Obama’s a dillitante and he’s essentially throwing it away by selecting Sarah Palin. The best defense that the McCain campaign has for this pick is that the governor isn’t as much of a dilettante as Changey McHope is. The fact remains that Sarah Palin is the governor is of a place where no one lives and the sun is afraid to go six months of the year. And she hasn’t even been that for very long. And please don’t tell me that living between Russia and Canada is foreign policy experience. If that’s true, I trump her because I actually live in one of those fucking countries.
Does anybody really think that Sarah Palin is the most qualified Republican to be president, which is the real test here. Is someone who runs tundra really what the United States needs in a time of war? Is she a better pick – for anything other than politics – than Tom Ridge or even that lunatic Huckabee? True, she’s better than that prick Romney, but so is the top five percent of any sex offender registry you can find.
Seriously, would Sarah Palin have been picked at all if she had a different set of genitals? If you believe that, you just might be a fucking idiot. Or an Obama supporter. Republicans have been bitching and moaning about “identity politics” for a goddamn year now, and that’s now officially off the table, too.
Furthermore, putting a someone under investigation for abuse of power might not be the best way to signal that you’re breaking with the Bush years. Just sayin’.
The fact is that if Palin was a Democrat, the Republicans would be knocking her fucking teeth out. They would point out that there was another governor with two years experience, but who was responsible for the National Guard, a giant state budget, law enforcement and other executive neatos, too. His name was Jimmy Carter.
This was a chance for McCain to make a big play. He could have said “I want this election to be about the presidency and who is best prepared for it. The United States, for the first time in 65 years is fighting two wars abroad. This is not a time for party or incidential issues such as abortion, guns or gender and race. This is a time to defend the United States and if factions of my party don’t see that as a priority, then I ask that they do not vote for me. I have sacrificed for this country and I do not intend to stop just to win an election. I would rather lose a campaign than endanger my country for political advantage.”
Instead, he chose a woman that I’d like to fuck.