A Few More Ponderings On Palin

1. We're now seeing that the McCain campaign conducted no vetting of Sarah Palin whatsoever. Not only did no one bother to check the archives of her hometown newspaper, but the McCain campaign is apparently JUST NOW sending a team of aides to Alaska to conduct a background check on her. It appears that the decision to name her as Vice President was made in haste, almost haphazardly.

This should raise questions about McCain's judgment and his fitness to serve as President. The operative word here is "should"; it won't though. You see, McCain was a POW for five years, and that settles everything.

2. Sarah Palin is such a "maverick" and a "corruption-fighter" that she was actually for the "bridge to nowhere" pork project that everyone else opposed...before she was against it.

3. Is it a big gaffe thinking that the Founding Fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, when in fact it was written a century later, and the "under God" line wasn't added in until the 1950s? Not terribly, it's an honest mistake I suppose. But needless to say, had it been Obama who said that, everyone would be yapping their mouths about how UN-AMERICAN he is.

4. What infuriates me the most about the Palin nomination is the reaction from the Christian Right groups. James Dobson's Focus on the Family and Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum have long preached that women should stay home with their small children rather than working. To do otherwise will lead to a breakdown in the social order. Yet these groups are falling all over themselves to praise the selection of a woman with five children, several of whom are still young.

So what gives? Is there something special about Sarah Palin that magically enables her to "have it all", the high-powered career and the nice family?

Or is it just another blatant example of conservative hypocrisy, where you have to follow their rules even though they see no need to follow them themselves? Should all women except for high-powered Republican ones stay home?

Is this really all just another fresh version of IOKIYAR?

Do I even really need to ask that question?