The Democratic Party owes Sarah Palin

[denem]

(an addendum to President John McCain)

Apart from her outstanding contribution to the 2008 election, Ms 'Gov is the poster child of the unacceptable face of the GOP. It takes someone really low grade before 'Joe Six Packs' can get their head around the idea of 'teh stupid', but Sarah's their gal.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I'm sick and tired

Of hearing/reading her name and seeing her face. Sick. And. Tired. She's set women in politics back by 20 years with the stupid.

[denem]

2. She's on TV every other day

Celebrity is famous for being famous - Andy Warhol.

[RichGirl]

3. As a woman...

...I don't expect ALL women to be wonderful. I don't expect them all to be worthy of respect. There are female idiots and male idiots...and many are in politics. It is sexist, IMO, to expect a certain behavior from someone just by virtue of them being a woman.

I wouldn't want women to get automatic respect just because they are women. Then someone like Palin would get a point just for being a woman. We need to accept the fact that women like her, Bachman, Ann Coulter, etc...exist. And base our views on what kind of human being a person is regardless of sex. I would love to see a woman, gay person, hispanic, etc...become president. But I would vote for the old white guy if I thought he was a better person and more qualified.

What I do have a problem with is how everyone was so quick to see Boenher as sensative, etc with his escessive crying but if it was Nancy Pelosi one can only imagine the media backlash. Hillary teared up ONE TIME during the campaign and was lambasted for it. Double standard is what hurts us. But women have just as much right to be ignorant morans as men.

[sammytko]

4. I thought Hillary went on to win a primary after her tearing up incident?