Cheap Tricks

For those of you under rocks, who come here for all of the latest news, Senator McCain named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate this morning. What a cheap trick. Yes, she has a vagina - my question: Is that vagina supposed to show that she's a good substitute for Hillary? Hillary's fervent supporters wanted a woman in office - heck, I want a woman in office. But I'm NOT willing to vote for a woman who a) is anti-choice and b) has absolutely no record on foreign policy. I don't know much about Sarah Palin, but neither does Kay Bailey Hutchison, who actually has a record and a vagina.

Let me be clear here: Posession of a vagina does not give a person the right experience to be the Vice President, nor does it provide an automatic bye on the "sound judgment" question.

I think this is a cheap trick by the McCain team to try to get votes from those women who wanted Hillary in office simply because Hillary has a vagina and not because they believed in her policies. McCain and Palin have political viewpoints far from those of Hillary (and Obama, and Biden, for that matter), and a vote for the McCain ticket given only because there's a woman on the ticket is a vote from someone who only cares about that vagina, but not about the rest of the issues. McCain's record on women's rights, and children's rights, and veteran's rights is abysmal, and there's no reason to think that that record will change with Palin on the ticket.

I think it's admirable that Sarah Palin chose to go through with her pregnancy after learning her youngest child would be born with Down Syndrome. I probably would have made the same choice, but gosh, it's awfully nice to have that choice, and I do not want to lose it.

Cheap trick, McCain. I hope you're as embarassed as you should be. And I hope folks aren't so excited about the vagina that they forget about the issues.