Obama/Biden Palin Comparison

Regardless of her politics, the choice of Sarah Palin to be McCain’s VP is, in my view, a way for McCain to

Palin Family

reach out an olive branch to women voters.  Obama has proven that not only does he not care about women’s issues, he fundamentally doesn’t understand them at all.  Even worse he has such utter disdain for women that he refused to pick the one person who would have ensured him victory in November.  McCain on the other hand has just told the biggest voting block in the nation that while they may have disagreements on issues, even issues that are extremely important to a lot of women, he acknowledges their importance to the governance of this nation, and lets everyone know that he believes a woman is capable of governing the most powerful nation on Earth.   And in my opinion that’s a big deal.  Why?  Because for all of their boasting about being progressive on women’s issues, the Democratic Party has shown through their actions that they don’t buy what they themselves are selling. 

Obama and his supporters will try to tell us that we are hypocrites if we vote for McCain/Palin because we are ignoring the issues, and voting for her just because she is a woman.  This is because they don’t understand us at all.  Hell they think we are sino-peruvian lesbian Republicans.  And they will have their henchmen like that deranged anti-semitic, porn peddler Christina Cedeno barking about how we’re through, that we lost, that we’re pathetic, right on up until election day.  Then when McCain/Palin is done handing Obama/Biden their collective ass, we will remain as a formidable pollitical force to be reckoned with, and she will scurry back to whatever bridge she crawled out from  under.  Hey, we just played a part in having a woman put on the presidential ticket.  But I digress.  The reason that some of us will support Palin, even though we may not agree with all of her political positions, is that she is not an illegitimate candidate.  She did not steal votes from her opponent.  She did not smear us with charges of racism.  She actually has a lot in common with some of us (mother, businesswoman, athlete, etct).  And the man that will be her boss showed us that he is at least listening and aware of our presence.  He didn’t flick us off his shoulder and tell us we weren’t needed.  He didn’t play the abusive boyfriend and say “where else are you gonna go babe?”. 

But not only did Obama, and in turn the Democratic party, tell women to either STFU or get lost, they played on the darkest fears of, and used, yet another large, important, Democratic voting block; African Americans.  Obama is going to lose, and the REAL losers because of it are the African American community.  They got hoodwinked yet again by a leader who was more interested in his own glorification than helping out a community that supported him almost to a man.  If they had realized what an imposter he was and Hillary had been elected, not only would we have had the first woman president, I am positive that she would have put many African Americans (men and women) into powerful positions that could have served as springboards to higher office.  Obama has not only damaged race relations for a generation, he has damaged the prospects of African American politicians as well.  And he may have very well destroyed the Democratic Party.  

PUMAs, we have a lot of work to do.