You are completely correct, the Democratic party is misogynist to its core as they demonstrated within minutes of Sara Palin being announced as McCain’s VP. As to her experience, let’s be reminded that she has considerably more experience than Obama who is at the top of the ticket.

Palin fits as an example of modern family hood. She and her husband have conservative ethics and her family has problems just like everyone’s family. Her family pretty much fits into the normal range in a bell curve of all the possibilities.

So let’s debate her abilities as a professional leader, and get off the non-issues.

I think choosing her was a brilliant stroke. I learned a lot about her as I helped a female Republican run for a local office in Texas. In fact, we modeled our campaign on Palin’s. I liked what I learned about Palin then, even though I do not agree with all her stances. But then I do not think there is any candidate available who would agree with all my points of view. If I can find someone who fits 90% of my point of view. I would be luck. The U.S. chose a system of checks and balances and we do not elect 1 leader with omnipatant power. That way one person, the president, can’t change the country completely in 4 years of office. Palin fits most of my ideals and points of view.

She isn’t afraid to butt heads and she has proven record of getting things done. Obama doesn’t.
Both of them have made promises in their political careers.. Palin and McKane have actuall followed through on their promises and they have gotten things done. Obama hasn’t.

I also look at the Vice Presidential job as the person who takes over if the President gets sick or dies. I think she would do an outstanding job as our President. I just hope they have enough work to keep her busy, honed, and satisfied as vice president.

There, we fixed it for you.

Here’s the best comments on Sarah Palin’s “experience” issue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvwSuxpqCLA

Palin is a fascinating option for voters precisely because her persona and opinions are so counter the assumptions and prejudices that the lockstep faithful on both sides of the aisle find comfortable.

An individual American’s rights to an abortion, gun ownership, and same sex union are controversial because such hot-button issues make good political fodder. Politicians and boosters, pro and con, deliberately simplify these issues to the point of inanity in order to sway an electorate presumed to have the attention span of a flea.

Social conservatism, simmering since the YAF climbed on Goldwater’s conservative bandwagon, exploded full blown onto the national consciousness with Nazi apologist and Hitler fan, Pat Buchanan’s declaration of a Kultur Kampf in his speech at the 1992 Republican Convention. It is worth remembering that Barry Goldwater, the father of American Conservatism (dismissed as a mere libertarian today) was leery of the social conservatives. The proud son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Goldwater opposed government intrusion into America’s bedrooms, supported a woman’s right to make procreative choices and unreservedly loved his favorite grandson who was gay.

The thought of terminating a healthy pregnancy makes every American queasy. Americans are, quite properly, conflicted by abortion as polls have indicated for decades. What is improper is the deliberate manipulation of opinion by richly endowed political operatives, advertising and direct mail experts.

Until YAF activists like direct-mail-expert Richard Vigary and other inside-the-beltway mass opinion manipulators targeted them for opinion change, Protestant Christian conservatives were statistically pro-choice. Torn between the rights of the mother and a love for human life. Paleo-Conservative operatives skillfully narrowed the minds and closed the hearts of Christian conservatives.

There are no fewer manipulators on the liberal side. Consider the prominence of anti-gun legislation in the platform of Senator Schumer of New York. Guns and hunting are a urban vs rural issue. To Chucky Schumer and his overwhelmingly urban supporters, stock is a share in a corporation and a barrel is a container for marinating pickles or herring. Guns that go bang are scary.

Gun ownership and hunting are a matter of security, a tradition and a way of life guaranteed by the constitution to upstate New Yorkers. But the fact that infringement upon the right to own a gun is deeply offensive to their upstate neighbors troubles sophisticated Manhattanites not in the least. Never mind that gun control laws offend the Constitution and protect no one but criminals. Chucky Schumer, who has few principles and no agenda but his own greasy climb up the political pole, exploits the gun issue for all its worth.

Homosexual rights and same sex unions are issues liberals support and conservatives are newly sanguine about. But why? Partly because the gay rights movement has succeeded in shifting public opinion. Partly because recent scandals have forced even Paleo-Catholics to acknowledge that their priests, who are their moral teachers, are in large percentage, perhaps in their majority, homosexual.

Alaska is a unique State. A vast, extreme environment with few inhabitants where ordinary life is often challenging. Merely living in Alaska places you far out of the mainstream. Alaskans are famous for their pragmatism and their independence. My suspicion is that inside-the-beltway ideologues of all stripes are in for a big surprise. Sarah Palin may be the freshest, cleanest article to come down the political pike in a very long time.

My youngest daughter’s college roommate is from Ketchikan and some in the Ketchikan Jewish community are angry at Palin for changing her originally supportive position on the bridge to Gravina Island. Be that as it may, this Jewish conservative father of three independent-minded young women is voting McCain-Palin.

No, what are his alternatives? Liberman out, Ridge out, Romney out. The only viable choice was Pawlenty of Minnesota. That may help him win Minnesota but not enough electoral votes. He has no world stage experience either.

Similarly, Obama has no alternatives but the mouthy brainless plagiarist. Fortunately, Obama has 20 months running for the presidency “executive” experience, and two weeks touring European capitals “world stage” foreign policy experience.

That is why in all the polls, the question is: Do you think Palin qualifies for the presidency? (even though she is running for the vice presidency) The same question is never asked about Obama. Btw, two gifted experienced well-liked people, Russert and Snow, who just died were in their 50’s. Walter Cronkite, Helen Thomas, … are still kicking.

That is utterly ridiculous. Sarah Palin never supported Pat Buchanan. She merely hosted him and other politicians when they visited her hometown. And you should know this by now! I don’t what your problem is—but you need to get your act together and grow up.

I would refer you to an August 30 posting on WashingtonPost.com, headlined, “Palin Made an Impression from the Start.” Please give it a look. McCain picked Palin primarily because she’s a kindred spirit (a “maverick” who defies stereotypes; a “reformer” who bucks the party establishment), not because she’s a woman. He could just as soon have picked Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana for all the same reasons he picked Palin–but perhaps he figured poor Louisiana needs Jindal more than he does. (Jindal is really turning Louisiana around, as will probably become evident to everyone this week during Gustav). Or perhaps McCain knows that, sad to say, Americans may be even more prejudiced against Indian-Americans than they are against African-Americans and women.

As for the “experience issue,” it is, in my mind, overblown. A vice-president does not need to come to the job with a head already full of all the facts and data she will ever need; as in most management positions, you acquire these on the job. What can’t be learned on the job, however, and is critically important, is CHARACTER. Sarah Palin is one in ten million in that way; she has a CORE, unlike most politicians, and I commend John McCain for having the good judgment to know that that’s what a leader needs most, and the insight to recognize it when he saw it in Sarah Palin.