So, yeah, I'm back from vacation, and I suppose I should weigh in on the Sarah Palin selection, after all the entries I spent mulling over Obama's VP decision process.
I mean, she's a woman, right? Shouldn't I be excited?
Well, I will sincerely grant that it's cool a woman is the running mate on a major party ticket. If only it were some other woman (even Condi Rice and Kay Bailey Hutchison are looking better, and that's saying a lot.)
But then I don't think there was actually much of a decision-making process with regard to this one... maybe a spur-of-the-moment "gut feeling" a la George Bush decision was made (in each case, gut = Karl Rove?) And like all things suspiciously Rovian, it could turn out to be genius... or it could turn out like the long, slow decline and fall of the Bush administration, only mercifully faster.
All I can say is that if they think former Hillary supporters are going to fall for this (yeah, there are always a few... but...) well, ladies, and West Virginians (and West Virginia ladies -- not leaving you out) please let's prove them wrong.
About Me
- eudaimonia
- As noted on my bio page, along with the fact that I will occasionally wear a scarf, I work in the communications/media industry. In my other life, I am a grad student and (eek) poet. I live in state-sanctioned holy matrimony with a person of the opposite gender, but we find it more romantic to play like we're just shacking up. Actually, we've been together about 10 years as of today. Politically, I'm a registered Democrat who sometimes votes Libertarian, still mourns the death of the socialist project and thinks Arlen Specter is kind of cute (in that curmudgeonly grandfather kind of way.) Metaphysically speaking, my closest fits right now are secular humanist/religious trivia buff/failed mystic. Re: all this about the Golden Mean, etc., I wish I could say I knew my Classics (much less geometry) inside and out, but what I dig I dig.
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