GirlTalk

Something has been bothering me since Obama was elected President.

The Republican Party.
And how they are handling the issue of Sarah Palin.

I’ve stated my opinion before, when she was accused of going “rogue” in her actions and speeches. Namely that she was probably tired of being the “token” female on McCain’s ticket.

I still feel that that was all she was. To me, it was obvious that McCain never considered her selection to be a serious choice. The dialogue that she uttered appeared to be no more than that of, to use her term, “Joe Six-pack’s” tagalong woman. And it was repulsive to think that to her, you had to be a beer-slugging, uneducated dimwit to even be considered a patriotic American.

It amazed me that the conservative coalition of the party “apparently” approved of her selection, when I felt in my heart that it is that group who still prefer to have women sequestered within their homes, barefoot and pregnant. Never in my right or left mind would I have thought that conservatives in the Republican party would ascribe to having a woman in a position of authority, nevermind breaking a glass ceiling.

But since the election concluded, it is shameful how the Republican party is using Palin as the party’s scapegoat in McCain’s political slaughter. Shameful!
The blame needs to be put where it lies, the actual candidate who authorized everything regarding his own campaign - McCain.

He authorized her selection; he allowed everything she did and said. Don’t believe it? Think just for one minute: If he hadn’t wanted her to say or do the things she did, you think he couldn’t have stopped her? No way he would’ve let the garbage continue - had he thought it garbage.

No the fact is McCain ran a nasty political campaign because as time went by, he became more and more desperate. He wanted the Presidency. He wanted it so bad, he felt entitled to it. And he thought his stint as a POW gave him that entitlement.

And I’m not debasing his sacrifices. Not at all. If it weren’t for him and men like him, who knows where this country would be today.

It’s just that in my opinion, it takes more than that to be a President. Much more. And as far as McCain is concerned, you get back what you give out.

Thankfully the public majority saw through his feeble attempts to masquerade his contempt for the average American and voted for someone much more like themselves.

As for Palin, she followed her leader’s queues (even though they would change from day to day), and in fact was really the only one who could stay on task during her entire 10 weeks in the limelight. She never let up. She was a bulldog. She consistently went for the jugular and though the attacks didn’t make a scratch, she remained honed in on what she thought the fight was about.

Sarah Palin made me embarrassed to claim she was a sister, in her zeal to seem downright homey and folksy and to portray herself as what she called the average American. In my mind, Americans are much more educated and knowledgeable and wise than that portrayal.

But in her tenacity, she’s got my vote. And hopefully that’s the example that young women today will take away from the Sarah Palin chapter of American history.

To read more about Sarah’s fight against innuendo and rumor, click here.