Comments on: You can do it, Sarah!

By: Aly

Aly — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:31:53 +0000

She’s been scaring the be-jeebers out of me with some of her statements…or lack thereof when it’s nothing but an awkward pause. I am really concerned about her role now for future female politicians. Even Hillary. Some people (men and women) think female politicians are a big joke anyway and I’m afraid we’re going to be set back even more. Well, not me personally. I’m not running for anything but you know what I mean!

By: starrlife

starrlife — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:29:25 +0000

I feel sorry for her a bit- I even feel sorry for George B. who looks so silly so often and thinks he’s a hot shit! But I felt sorriest seeing her sitting next to McCain who was clearly doing his fatherly duty and fighting her battles for her with the media. How humiliating is that?

By: cousinavi

cousinavi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:08:45 +0000

@PunditMom
Failure due to gender hurts women everywhere, every time.
Failure due to incompetence – being held to the same standard of quality that is demanded of a vice-presidential candidate regardless of gender – helps every woman, everywhere.
Sarah Palin’s elevation to the ticket ought to be seen by women as an insult. A shameless ploy to exploit gender. IMO, it doesn;t matter whether they beat you down needlessly, or elevate you pointlessly, failure to treat each woman as a person – as an end rather than a means, is the ridest sort of objectification.
Obama’s choice not to select Hillary was not a slap at women; it was an assessment that she was NOT best suited to run with HIM at THIS time. And that was nothing more than good strategy – not giving the GOP the Clinton target the wanted, having to deal with Bill in the background or Hillary in the foreground.
The Palin play ought to be FAR more insulting to competent, thinking women on its face. Sadly, much like their testicular adversaries, thinking seems to be all too rare.

http://cousinavi.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/update-on-the-staked-out-goat/

By: Melizzard

Melizzard — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:52:36 +0000

Thanks for saying what we’ve all been thinking.

By: tcmom

tcmom — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:20:52 +0000

These comments are so interesting. I am also realizing that I feel sorry for her. And that’s leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I want VP noms in this election that are 100% capable. If a nom truly is unqualified for their job? Maybe its time to excuse yourself rather than have folks feeling sorry for you, like I am, make excuses for you, like the entire McCain campaign, or lowering their expectations to nil, like the voters who will be watching Thursday.

And exactly Pundit Mom. All my fingers are crossed she doesn’t mess up the class curve for the rest of us. Thanks for the comment.

By: PunditMom

PunditMom — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:59:35 +0000

I hear what you are saying. If she fails, how does that impact other women — professional women as a whole and political women who come after her? I’m hoping that she is so beyond the pale, that she’ll be seen as the aberrant test score that gets thrown out when looking at the rest.

By: cousinavi

cousinavi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:10:40 +0000

I guess I can understand your sympathy – sorta like seeing a wounded animal that needs to be put out of its misery, yet still not wishing to witness its throat being cut.
But Sarah isn’t just a wounded animal – her cocksure, unblinking, unthinking, incompetence has led her to this place and time; enabled her to think that she would be embraced for her folksy charm and Miss Congeniality smile; elevated to the 2nd highest office in the land on nothing more than “Gosh, darn it, I might not know much, but I sure know right from wrong and that’s enough to do whatever I set my mind to!”
Sorry Sarah – no surgery, satellite design, science teaching, physics or vice-presidential duties for you.

Sorry…but Thursday evening (Friday morning where I live), I want a BLOODBATH. I don’t want a mere euthanasia…I want the Pit Bull skinned, cleaned, quartered and hung.
The GOP have earned nothing less with this hail Mary bit of crap, and so has Palin.

http://cousinavi.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/palin-brain-bench-warmer/

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:24:44 +0000

I don’t know if I can watch. I just have a feeling it’s going to be a train wreck and she’ll have the deer in the headlights look. I hate to see people in embarrassing situations it just makes me cringe.

By: susanlindgren

susanlindgren — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:07:31 +0000

I am working on a blog about the emotion of a vote. Politics steeps Emotion and I often find myself get all emotional over McCains service- what he had to go through in Vietnam. I think it is par for the course:)

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:17:03 +0000

I watched the Palin interviews for the first time yesterday and was absolutely mortified. Beyond how she is obviously ill-prepared for the vice presidency, I felt embarrassed for her as a fellow working mother. As many of us are fighting off the negative stereotypes of women (and mothers) in positions of power, Palin effectively affirmed what a lot of people are thinking – women aren’t qualified or capable of being leaders. Despite this, I have a hard time rallying for Palin. I mean seriously…was she talking to Couric and voters or a classroom of 1st graders? Sad.