I said a long time ago that Sarah Palin would make a great Veep pick. Check the comments on this post from last December. Now if they could switch places, with Palin as President and McCain as Veep, I’d vote for them. Unless someone can guarantee me that McCain will have a stroke as soon as he takes office, I’m still sitting this one out.
Update: Lack of experience: So what? The last thing we need is more politics as usual. Obama, Biden, and McCain are just more of the same nanny-state-do-what-we-say-is-good-for-you-or-die-with-your-puppies politics. I’d like to see someone with nothing but backbone, character, and a giant axe take on Washington. It doesn’t take years of foreign diplomacy. It takes moral uprightness and perseverance. It takes a determination to stay out of other people’s business. It takes humility. Neither McCain nor Obama have any of those things.
Feminist: That’s a problem. Of course, everyone knows she has to be a feminist to want to be a mayor, governor, or vice president, but that doesn’t necessarily preclude high moral standards and good judgment in other areas. Public acclaim of Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro is something else, however. It demonstrates a serious lack of wisdom. She should have continued playing the hard-line moralist. Admiration of hedonistic, murderous, authoritarian mysandrists doesn’t fit the image she needs to portray.
Down Syndrome: That she has a child with Down Syndrome isn’t negative in any way. That she knew her son had Down Syndrome before he was born and chose not to kill him is a big positive. That her son is still an infant and will always require a great deal of care is a big negative. It’s not a flaw, but it means she cannot possibly be both a good vice president and a good mother. Unless she has a specific divine calling to the White House, motherhood always comes first.
The long and short of it is that I am no longer so excited about Palin for Veep. Certainly, she would be an improvement over either Obama or McCain, but that’s not so hard.