Turns out "Democratic Party unity" doesn't mean "no more women" in this year's Presidential campaign:Today the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, tapped A Woman as his running mate.
Got nothing against Sarah Palin (left). Hard to; never heard of her. Do, however, have something against the identity politics that brought her to the fore.
Here's what pundits are saying to make sense of McCain's decision to place in the Presidential mix someone who's 2 years into her 1st term as Alaska governor, whose only other elective post was 6 years as mayor of a city of 9,000:
she gives women who are angry about Hillary being passed over another reason to vote McCain
We have been here, done this. Choosing a person solely because s/he fits "A" category seldom has done us much good.
One can only hope that Palin's better than pundits' soundbites augur. That, for example, it's the fault of this website -- and not a genuine deficit in her qualifications -- that Palin has "[n]o issue stance" on the critical issues of our time: Corporations, Drugs, Families & Children, Government Reform, Jobs, Local Issues, Principles & Values, Technology, Welfare & Poverty, Immigration, Free Trade, War & Peace, or Foreign Policy.
One can only hope.
