POOR PALIN, POOR POLITICS
So I watched Sarah Palin’s speech last night - and I really wish I could like her.
She’s an engaging and lively speaker, and in her address to the convention, she made some really salient points about the flaws in Obama’s energy plan and tax proposals.
I wish that I could get behind her; she’s a dishy gal who looks pretty fun, and I bet she’s the kind of person who could really get things done.
Of course, she is almost the exact ideological opposite of everything I stand for, but that’s not why I’m bothered by her.
Palin has said that she wants to keep her children and family matters out of the spotlight…but only as it relates to the teen pregnancy of her oldest daughter. She’s happy to tout the virtues of her son heading to Iraq, her nephew that currently serves in the armed forces, and even her infant son, whose face she took great care to display to the crowd after her speech, assuring us that yes, indeed, he is handicapped.
Palin can’t have it both ways - cheering her accomplishments as a mother and displaying the well-behaved children, while crying foul when the media criticize her wayward daughter.
Her motherhood is front and central to this campaign, and it’s doubtful she would be on the Republican ticket if she weren’t a red-blooded, gun-toting, Bible-beating mother of five. Because the narrative of her family is so important to her image, the topic of her children should be fair game, including the topic of a 17-year-old girl who is old enough to have made her own decisions.
