Well, if nothing else, I suppose we should be grateful to John McCain for introducing a new acronym in to the American lexicon: VPILF. Once upon a time, at the beginning of the Clinton Presidency, Whoopi Goldberg waxed rhapsodic over Hillary Clinton, "Finally, a First Lady you can (&^%!!" Yeah, well...that was then...and now we have Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, an unknown quantity with the possibility of becoming a Vice President you could...well, you get the idea. Once upon a time, Palin was just an anonymous GILF best known for her topless photo from her beauty pageant days. OK, perhaps it's possible that she wasn't topless, but I've got an active imagination...and I'm thinking she looked pretty goo...oh, never mind. I think you know where I'm going with this (Dammit, there Jack goes...thinking with the wrong head again.).
If you harbored any lingering suspicions about John McCain's judgement...well, his Vice Presidential selection should completely obliterate those suspicions. Don't get me wrong; I have nothing against Sarah Palin. Once you get past her uber-Conservative, rabidly anti-choice, pro-gun, pro-drilling in ANWR policy positions, I'm certain that she has many wonderful qualities...just none that would qualify her to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Not only that, McCain just lost what little credibility he may have had when it comes to experience. No longer can he ridicule Barack Obama for his alleged "inexperience"...because he just selected the former mayor of Cicely (uh, that's Wasilla...sometimes I still have Northern Exposure flashbacks), AK, as his Vice Presidential candidate. Yes, that's right; McCain proposes to place the former mayor of a town of just over 9,000 frozen souls just a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Then again, Steve Doocy from Faux News Channel thinks Palin's a foreign policy wunderkind since Alaska is next door to Russia. Uh...what??
Some pundits have already opined that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will have to go easy on Palin, lest they risk appearing the bully...to which I say, BULL$#!%! If Sarah Palin wants to run with the big dogs, then she needs to get off the porch. As a Vice Presidential candidate, she should be every bit the target the Joe Biden undoubtedly will be. Sure, Palin's gender will play to her advantage, and she does certainly have a compelling personal history...but that hardly means that she needs to be or should be treated with kid gloves. There are legitimate issues that her status as John McCain's VP raise, and these need to be discussed. Yes, she's an attractive woman, but so what? Underneath the eye candy lies some pretty disturbing and unpalatable positions...never mind the reality that she's every bit as qualified to be Vice President as I am. Now there's a thought that should scare the Hell out of any lucid American....
