Jenny
> JoB: Perhaps it’s time to ask the harder questions. what makes Sarah Palin relevant? What do we need to know about her? How much could she affect our political landscape?
> Our history is full of Vice Presidents nobody remembers. So why does Sarah Palin matter so much?
As VP I don’t think Sarah Palin matters as much as the left thinks she does. I think the VAST majority of the invective & terror the left is spewing about her is a pose.
Unless it’s because of what Palin represents. Seriously, I keep seeing this classic scene from Easy Rider play over & over in my head when I see y’all yelling “UNCLEAN!!! UNCLEAN!!!” at the sight of her name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHd6m_cirrU
Substitute “feminist” for “freedom” or “liberated woman” for “free individual”, and “it’s real hard to be independent when you’re a professional victim working for the Women’s Auxillary of the Democratic Party” for “it’s real hard to be free when you’re bought and sold in the marketplace”.
As Nicholson says, “It’s not about [her]. It’s what [she] represents.” Did y’all really expect that when the Feminist Revolution succeeded, that all women would become pro-abortion, atheist, pacifist, gaia-worshipping multiculturalists? True freedom begets diversity of thought, people!
Now, in the long run I think that Sarah Palin means “only Nixon can go to China.” So maybe in 4 or 8 years Palin will go up against Clinton & this time Clinton will win. Or Pelosi. Or hey, Patty Murray or Darcy Burner, LOL! The point is, after Palin is in office, it’ll be Katy bar the door.
Now, frankly I do wish she’d been tapped in 4 or 8 years instead of this year. But even if McCain were to drop dead on January 21, President Palin would have had 4 months of intensive briefings to get up to speed. Plus she’d have McCain’s cabinet & the Executive Branch to support her. Plus she’d soon appoint her own VP, who would surely be a foreign policy expert.
And thus would the Sarah Palin/Condoleeza Rice administration continue to lead the country for 4 or 8 years. Causing half of all US Feminists to flee to Canada in despair. =:-D