Open Season

I am not a Sarah Palin fan. When many conservatives started wetting their knickers over her, I was left speechless. How could any rational person know so little about another and are willing to hand them the keys to the White House? It was absurd. All the talk about being a maverick and her good, moral stance on all the issues the far right consider...well, right was just beating the drum to the same ol' chant that we've been hearing for the past 8 years. We know that she likes to shoot moose, her 17 year old daughter is pregnant, and she tries to charm middle America with her "aw shucks and golly" personality. We can only gleam from her interview with Katie Couric that she doesn't read periodicals, she thinks looking across the ocean at Russia is foreign experience, and she is oh so happy to be on the winning ticket to the White House.

I could go on and on talking about Mrs. Palin, but I won't because everyone else is doing a fine job of it. Their job is so well done that it looks like it's open season on the female politician. First their was Hillary that everyone wanted to dress down and humble. Michelle Obama got beaten into a side note after her feisty personality started to look a little too...much. Cindy McCain can be called a c*nt by her loving husband and no one really stands up for her. Now poor, mousy Sarah gets to dodge the unkind arrows aimed at her carefully styles hairdo.

I watched her debate tonight. When you think about the person who will be a heartbeat from the presidency, you want to see someone who you could trust to take on that responsibility. When Truman, LBJ, and Ford took over, they managed to hold it all together. Can Sarah Palin do it? I don't know. I don't know her. What I do know is that there seems to be open season on the women who are in the spotlight of politics.