Even at 2100.  Nothing can dim my rosy left wing outlook. 

However, I will not bash McCain for his choice.  The fact that she is a woman makes her good enough in my book.  It's like when the Tigers and the Chargers met at the World Series.  Either way,  I win.

Hoping for Obama but willing to go with the flow. 

Always in trouble...

If you vote for Palin, you'll get McCain and 100 more years in Iraq.

Susan
Papergeist

I am a Republican but I can't vote for this woman. Electing her would be telling my daughter that marriage doesn't matter, God's teachings don't matter. And if she can't run her family why do people think she can run the country? This is a disappointment, a HUGE disappointment. Don't my fellow republicans understand what a mistake this is, the kind of role model this will be for our daughters? What this will do to marriage? We might as well legalize gay marriage because apparently nothing is sacred to us anymore except getting our team elected. I'm on God's team, not this one and usually I'd go Republican because of the values they share but that is no longer the case.

Jill
Writes Like She Talks

I can't believe you just called her "gun toting", lol. Love it. (She fishes too. And she sold her jet on eBay.)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

... It just made sense given the current political landscape. AND, now the media is talking about this and NOT Obama's speech last nite.

Crazy like a bunch of foxes.

washy || http://washwords.com/words || washwords.dc@gmail.com

 umm, i gotta side with Erin here. I'm trying to stay non-partisan as possible, former journalist and gov. employee and all, but this choice is making it hard. 

 or rather the spin around it is ... i'm sorry maybe it's something in my background / cynical personality but I feel insulted as a woman and a thinking person. it just seems soooo "hey, girls, here's a woman, that's what you wanted right?" who cares if she's pro-life, evangelical, wants to teach creationism in the schools, has no experience, wants to leave her five-month old to campaign, put her pals on the board when they had a policy she didn't like, etc. etc.

 Hey, I agree she seems like a nice lady and kudos to her for keeping her baby "even though she KNEW it was going to be handicapped!" gasssp. 

but she's no hillary clinton and she doesn't stand for the issues I as a woman, thinking person, democrat, etc etc. stand for. all i'm hoping is that all of you my fellow women look carefully - I know you will, rather than anyone leaping for joy because she's a woman.

and as for the orignal poster, your enthusiasm is infectious and fun. umm did you work for "sarah"? I'm just wondering what we're missing. here in dc my female colleagues and i couldn't be madder or more concerned.

That's great, Michelle. I'm with you!

Notions of Identity

Thank you. You put it right where it should be. I can't believe all the oohing and ahhing over this as though we couldn't see it coming. He probably really wanted Condi Rice, a two for one, but her presence would have secured his spot as the Bush twin. And of course, just too obvious if you're running a game on the people with a quota scheme.  On the other hand, mabe Rice wasn't "cute" enough.

Really, this is the same man who jokes/sings about bombing Iran, doesn't understand economic issues, and called his wife a "c**t" in front of reporters. Scary.

Nordette is a Contributing Editor with BlogHer.com whose personal blog is hosted on another site at this link.

Wow, great shot and great guy you're married to. Thank you for sharing the photo and your thoughts. I'd love to hear the story about your husband saving the woman and children. Wow.

(sorry, I'm feeling a lot of wows right now!)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Younger with less "experience" indeed! I'm loving that one, especially as how my McCain supporting friends aren't yet seeing it. (And I'm letting them live their own glow for a day or two. Waiting until Monday to rain on their parades!)

FireMom from Stop, Drop and Blog

And: the Birth Parent blog and The Chronicles of Munchkin Land

This is the very best commentary I have read on this topic. All in, what, 60 words? Pretzel logic! Excellent!

SJ also writes at I, Asshole.

Both candidates now have issues to defend with their VP choices. I love Biden and believe he was a great choice, but the GOP will attack the Dem ticket saying, how does Biden represent change? Now, the Dems will go after the GOP ticket w/ Palin as not ready.

Hopefully, we get can back to some real issues.

looking at the veepship in the context of the two selections earmarked for that office.

Obama erred, one of omission. Whatever Palin's views, whatever her experience level, this is what it comes down to.

18 million voted for Hillary. X percentage of those voters will not vote for Obama.

Y number would have voted for Obama if he selected say... Sebelius.

Z number will vote for McCain based on his selection today.

Obama's supporters tell me Biden is a good debater, he is fiesty, a good guy to have on your side in a fight. Oh, and he sponsored VAWA after all. (Every time that VAWA one is tossed around my mind wanders back to why bother with say... emily's list, after all... guys are going to take care of us, right? No. OK, then VAWA means he is an ally, not a viable substitute, not a viable replacement, for one of us being there.)

In presidential politics, candidates have to scratch and claw for every vote they can convince to go their way. In such a vote to vote environment, why in bloody hell would someone ignore that Y vote? Votes that would have been predisposed to go that way if only someone had the good sense to recognise those 18 million, like it or not, count. Like it or not, their views matter, and those views are significant in this election. 

This was not an election where a candidate could easily dismiss the collective vote of women - think on that... are we gaining some legitimate national clout now? Yet Obama, going first, made his choice, leaving a huge huge gift on the table for McCain, sorta like a football on your team's 10 yard line, your team is on the other end of the field, and one player on the other team is now picking up that football. Oops.

I said it last weekend, and I'll say it again. Selecting Biden was a huge mistake. And today, McCain took the first step towards making that mistake reality. 

nelle

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llhaesa

Not cynical. Jill has a great post here referencing the same idea.