Palin

A few words about Sarah Palin.

1. First of all: Sarah Palin was only chosen because she was a woman. This would have been the same thing as nominating Barack Obama simply because he's black. It's a gimmick meant to pander to disaffected female blue-collar Democrats. Again, McCain assumes that these women only supported Hillary Clinton because she's a woman, and that, frankly, is insulting.
   
2. Palin's other credentials are tumbling quickly: she employed a lobbyist to get $27 million in earmarks when she was mayor of her town, Wasilla (8,500 people). Boise, ID, population 200,000, got about the same amount. In other words: she was for earmarks before she was against them.
3. I don't care that her daughter is pregnant. However, she could have saved her daughter a lifetime of misery if she had given her proper sex-education. Bristol Palin will be stuck with some hometown schmuck for the rest of her life simply because she was horny at 17 and didn't know what to do about it. In the mean time, she's five months along and there's nothing more she can do.
   
4. Another note about her kids: while they're supposed to be given privacy and respect, she's not below parading them on the national stage. (Of course, Obama isn't exactly innocent on this front, either.) Her daughter's beau is even attending the convention; I wouldn't be surprised if that's the last place on earth he wants to be.
5. And finally: "Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor."