Obama says that the candidate’s family is off the table. He means Sarah’s family. Okay. But what about the candidate herself? What kind of a person is she really? First off, she’s a truly died-in-the-wool conservative. Yet she glibly thinks that she can gather up the Hillary dems simply because they are both women. Well, that’s where the similarity ends between those two. Good grief. Hillary stands for everything that Sarah is against. I was definitely pro Hillary but now I’m pro Obama. Sorry, Sarah, this feminist simply cannot vote for you.

And then, of course, there’s Sarah’s personal stuff. In an interview today on NPR a gushing Alaskan delegate to the Rep convention said: well, she has raised five children. RAISED FIVE CHILDREN? What? One of them is only four months old, and a special needs child. I hardly call a four month old special needs child to be already raised. Won’t that little boy need to see his mom once in a while? And of course the other problem is Sarah’s pregnant seventeen year old. Where was Sarah when she was about to be sexually active? Off doing politics somewhere. Nobody was around to tell her what’s what. Of course, Sarah is against sex ed, especially in schools. I guess she must be against sex ed at home too. (Hello, Sarah, it is possible to raise little girls to grow into mature women who don’t accidentally have a baby.) Who is going to help that child-woman through what will definitely be a difficult pregnancy? She will probably be delivering it in January, Sarah could possibly be at the swearing in ceremony, not in the nursery helping her daughter and first grandchild (to say nothing of her own baby). Who will teach her how to be a mom? Sarah? I doubt it. Sarah wasn’t there for her daughter and she won’t be there for the rest of the family. As far as Sarah is concerned, her family is already raised. She has moved on to bigger things.

And then the other idea that the Reps are trying desperately to float is how much they embrace pregnant teenagers. Another one said today, again on NPR, that all families have the pregnancy problem. What? I had no idea that all the Reps families are so prolific. We all know they are anti-abortion, and against sex ed in school, but I thought they were pro-marriage, especially between a man and a woman. That means, obviously, between seventeen year olds too. Sarah is quick to point out that the seventeen year olds will be getting married soon. As if that will solve all their problems.

Of course, the reps tradationally ignore those unwed moms’ babies after they get out of the womb. They want to deny them access to day care, to health insurance, they would even deny school lunches if possible. The poorest people in the USA today are children, especially those of single moms. And poor families have a hard time making a living on the minimum wage, even though the dems wrung some money out of them after years and years of stone walling that responsibility. But according to Sarah, they will be married. But what do they know about being parents? What did Sarah teach them? Will either of them work? Will they be independent or will they be living in Washington, where the “help” will help raise these children?

And then there’s McCain. What was he thinking? Even though the reps are denying it, I don’t think they looked past Sarah’s winning smile when they decided to choose her. There are plenty of qualified reps that are willing and able to take on the job of VP. Isn’t it sort of a slap in the face to them to choose somebody like Sarah Palin? It seems pretty scary to me to think that McCain could make such an unwise choice for a running mate. He wanted to be daring, he wanted to do something that would take our minds off of the dems. (Of course, there is presidence for goofs in choosing VPs: remember little Danny Quail?)  I give you that Sarah is a smart and successful woman, but what about the price she is paying? I’m sure her family is very proud of her, but it really doesn’t look good for her family or for our country to have a person like her so close to the White House. She, like McCain, suffers from a serious lack of good judgment. And worse, McCain obviously thinks that VP is a job that really doesn’t matter in the long run.