Fair enough.
So...to the extent that the passion behind Ms. Clinton's candidacy was motivated by the desire to see women break through to the highest levels of power (and let's be honest here...it was at least *partly* about that for a lot of women), does this mean that McCain putting Sarah Palin on his ticket is going to draw female voters to his side?
Don't get me wrong here--I think Palin is a pretty good choice (from McCain's POV) apart from her mere lack of a Y chromosome; she's a governor (and a popular one at that), pro-life, and has a reputation of fighting political corruption in a state whose politics are notoriously corrupt. She is also, like McCain, a westerner, which goes a long way towards moving the image of the national GOP away from dominance by southern/Texan evangelicals.
Actually, I think this has a very good chance of working out in McCain's favor. Sure, female Democrats are going to (perhaps rightly) call this pandering, but this doesn't really matter, because they weren't going to vote for him anyway. But the unaffiliated women drawn into the Hillary camp by the prospect of installing a woman in the White House are almost certainly up for grabs, and national elections are all about capturing the middle. The real question is how big a group this really is.
All of that said, in light of this choice, I don't know how anyone can take the 72-year old (and he looks older in person) McCain seriously when he criticizes Obama's lack of experience, considering he would put a first-term governor with *no* foreign policy experience within the proverbial heartbeat of the presidency.
ADDENDUM--By "pandering", I of course mean "pandering to the Battlestar Galactica fanbase":
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the experience issue is already so done over, to keep harping (by the GOP) would be beating a dead horse.
it is/was effective in framing O as a neophyte, changing his appearence to the older generation.
now, M just needs to start emptying the other arrows in his quiver. and the last 8 weeks of O stumbles shows that O will be giving him arrows a plenty.
a political charge: to old,too young,too crooked,too horny is only effective for a while.
like watering your lawn, the excess just runs into the gutter.
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It will be interesting to see if McCain can salvage a win after 8 years of the dumbest President since Carter. His tightrope walk is the issue, not an ex-beauty queen who wants Creationism taught in schools. Continue Bush's policies or not? This is what the election is about, not the same old partisan bullshit. This is a referendum on the abject stupidity and lack of intellectual curiosity currently breathlessly slobbering on his desk in the Oval Office.
Bush largely won the White House 8 years ago when just enough people were upset with Clinton getting a blowjob just like people were upset with Nixon over Watergate and we ended up with (oh God no) Jimmy Carter.
And now - if Obama is elected - the Republicans will have no one to blame but themselves. Especially seeing as how there's been a DEMOCRAT in the White House for the last 8 years anyway.
Oh and also... I disagree that only Democrat women will call this pandering. I have gonads and am not a Democrat, and it just blatantly is pandering. Quite cynical as well, playing strictly for those who vote by identity rather than issues (much like the Obama people). Since I'm also not a Republican I think I'll just have the last word on that one.
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