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7-Step Plan for Sexist Voting

1. Maintain a political philosophy molded by heartfelt values.

2. Support a female presidential contender who shares your values.

3. Watch with anger as your candidate is compelled to pull out of the race.

4. Get spiteful as your party’s nominee chooses a man for the VP slot.

5. Vote for the other party’s ticket as it chose a woman for its VP slot.

6. Resurrect your values next time – no problem.

7. Oh, one problem. Your face is angry – it wants its nose back.

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Media Will Foil McCain’s Palin Gamble

John McCain’s stunning designation of Sarah Palin as his running mate has appeased the religious right, tantalized the press and created a Republican rock star. Despite best attempts or none at all to be objective, you know the media is loving this. They’re loving it despite being denied access to Palin until this week’s appearance on ABC News with Charles Gibson. With blogs and emails circulating information about Palin during the media’s exclusion, Gibson should have a mountain of questions from which to choose. The media will not avoid asking tough questions of a candidate whose public record belies her rhetoric.

Until then, however, the McCain campaign will wring as much mileage out of her celebrity as possible. During this period of cloistered mileage wringing, she has traveled with McCain as not to get into trouble out on her own. There’s plenty of time for that when the media has at her. Will format restrain Joe Biden from shredding Sarah Palin in the VP debate? Hmm… I think not.

With complete impunity except in cyber-world, the McCain campaign has featured Governor Sarah as the women’s candidate, the reform candidate, the maverick candidate and the candidate for change. One has the feeling that all but the first will be dispelled as soon as the media gets the facts out to the electorate. As Barack Obama said today, you just can’t go out there and lie. Well, you can but you’re caught as the lies form on your lips. The media is licking its chops.

As to the women’s vote, one must first understand that there is no monolithic “woman” whose votes are being wooed. Comprising more than half our population there are as many if not more types of female voters as there are types of male voters. There are, nonetheless, generic blocs of women voters. Women of the Republican base will vote for McCain with Palin as will their male counterparts. After all, it was the religious right to which McCain pandered by choosing Sarah Palin. Undecided women will choose based on issues and/or personality. On the issues Palin is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Obama, Biden, Kennedy and Clinton – everything for which the Democratic Party stands. So go choose – the choices are clear. Personality is a crapshoot. You like your candidate honest (for a politician), forthright and charismatic? Charisma’s on both sides of this election, especially one side :-) Whether Palin is enough of a breath of fresh air for women to override even a cursory glance at her honesty, frankness and stands on issues affecting women will be determined as the media gains access to the candidate. Once that door is open McCain cannot shut it, hence the post-convention period of cloistered tandem campaigning.

Whether Palin fulfills McCain’s wildest dreams and draws droves of disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters depends on one factor: How stupid are those Hillary supporters? That too will be answered as the campaign moves toward November 4th. But, in case one of those stupid Hillary supporters has read this far, please read this:

Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin are similar in only one way. Each has a vagina.

Our nation’s media has always had a critical function in fostering integrity in our government. Our founding fathers wisely anticipated the watchdog role of the media by guaranteeing freedom of speech and thus freedom of the press in the First Amendment of our Constitution. Once again in this 2008 presidential campaign, it is the media which will come to the aid of our government by educating the electorate on the propaganda, lies and sleights of hand foisted upon it by those unable to stand on their records.

One final note applicable here and to future entries in my blog using the generic word “media”. At no time does the generic word “media” include Fox News. OK, now we’re done.

Associated Press

updated 12:03 a.m. ET, Thurs., Sept. 11, 2008

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will spend much of the next few weeks campaigning with Sen. John McCain, a move that not only capitalizes on the Republican enthusiasm for the vice presidential nominee but also limits her exposure to the news media.

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