Sarah Palin for VP? YES!

Several news sources are confirming that McCain’s VP pick will be Alaska governor Sarah Palin. As an Alaska native (I lived there from 1982-1992), as a mother of a child with a disability (Palin’s youngest has Down syndrome), as a woman, as a true political conservative and as a Christian, I have been hoping it would be Palin ever since Wizbang blogged about the possibility in May. I’ve suggested it several times in online forums only to be shot down by folks who thought it would be Pawlenty or Romney.
It’s a stroke of brilliance for McCain. Now whining about racism from the left can be easily met by whining about sexism from the right. I’d like race and gender to stay out of this election, but it’s going to happen. You can bet some of those disenchanted Hillary supporters will support McCain because of this pick as well. Barack who?
John McCain, I still believe you are a dick, but you have selected the one VP candidate who could get me to vote for you. Hmm… if McCain and Palin do win, would I be bad for hoping McCain becomes unable to perform his duties in office soon?
Hat tip: WizBang!
UPDATE 10/29: This post has been getting an unusually high amount of traffic, which is strange to me since it was just my uninformed, exuberant personal reaction to the Palin pick. If you were looking for actual insightful information on Sarah Palin, sorry to disappoint. This blog is fail.
UPDATE 11/10: The election is over and this post still gets a high amount of traffic, I guess mostly from people who like that picture of Sarah Palin finding it through the Google image cache, however I have no desire to further police the comments on this thread from trolls, so I’m closing comments. I still believe that Sarah Palin was the best choice for the VP slot and that she did more for the ticket than any Vice-Presidential candidate in history. To paraphrase Allahpundit, anyone who can draw crowds and raise funds like that has a future in national politics if she wants it.
So, Governor Palin, I salute you, and I hope we see you running for President in 2012 if Obama is vulnerable, 2016 if he isn’t. /salute

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Sarah Palin for VP? YES! — 9 Comments

  1. You know, using that word to describe Senator McCain and wishing for his death as the final paragraph also hopes for, is not very Christian. You really need to talk to someone who reads the Bible and walks the talk.
    I like Sarah Palin’s values and I think she really understands the needs of so many of us in a way those spoiled brats on Capitol Hill never could. Go Sarah!
    Now I want to talk about Obama’s TV show. Why doesn’t he give that money to the poor? His money is worisome, its source very very worisome.
    Sittin in Jersey where politics are as crooked as Chicago.
  2. It’s always great when judgmental, self-righteous people drop by my site. Why on earth is it “not very Christian” to call people what they are? A man who calls a sitting President’s teenage daughter “ugly” and calls his own wife a “trollop” and “c*nt” in front of a group of reporters (joking or not) is a dick by most people’s reckoning, and I’m perfectly comfortable with both being a Christian and calling that behavior what it is.
    If you think I wished death on McCain in my final paragraph, then your reading comprehension skills are extremely poor. While I would love to see a President Palin someday, I never have and never will wish any ill on McCain.
  3. Even though there are 3 ways a Vice President can take over the presidency (the President dies, resigns or is removed) historically, the Vice President has become President 9 times in the following circumstances: 4 times when the President died, 4 times when the President was assassinated and once when the President resigned.
    I guess I must have poor comprehension skills too, but if you look at how a President typically “become unable to perform his duties in office” it is almost always through death so that is what your comment implied to me.
  4. It does not have to be through death though, and I deliberately left it ambiguous for that reason. I was also ambiguous in my method of bringing up the idea, phrasing it as a question and not as a definitive wish. Both of those choices were deliberate so as to specifically not wish death on McCain, and I think anyone who reads that playful exit question as “You wish McCain would die, how mean and un-Christian of you!” really needs to lighten up.
  5. Sudden traffic spike….I can’t speak for everyone else but I found your blog via an image search for “Sarah Palin”..I liked the picture( hadn’t seen that one before) and followed the link…
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