I'm about to stick my neck out...

[figmo]

...and make a prediction re: the Presidential election.

I have been saying for months that if McCain were to select a female VP candidate, he'd win the election.

I stand by that statement.

This has nothing to do with anyone's political preferences, including mine. I am making this prediction as a journalist.

My logic: Barack Obama's VP, Joe Biden, is male, thus alienating the folks who voted for Hillary Clinton because they wanted a woman President. Many of Hillary Clinton's supporters felt alienated by Obama's choice.

Many of these Hillary Clinton supporters are so desperate to see the "glass ceiling" shattered they'd vote for anything female on a ticket, no matter what her viewpoints were. Now that they have their female on a ticket, many of these former Clinton supporters will vote for the Republican slate, mostly to have a woman only "a heartbeat away" from the oldest Presidential candidate ever, exclusively because of her gender even though Sarah Palin's viewpoints are very different from Hillary Clinton's.

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

"Pro-choice" means making the option to abort legally available. Palin is outspokenly against that option, and therefore is not "pro-choice".

There are many people (like Obama) who hold that whatever they choose for themselves, they are not the keepers of other adults' consciences. That is the "pro-choice" -- or, in its true terminology, "pro-freedom" -- position.

[howeird]

I was being facetious, and literal. :-)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Sorry -- I have a hard time distinguishing serious from sarcas, (and other nonserious tones) in print, without explicit help (e.g., "</facetious>").

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I accept that you were trying to be funny. However you were muddying the waters. It is not helpful. It does not contribute to a clear understanding either of Palin or of the abortion issue.

I accept that it was unintentional, but please don't do it again.

[howeird]

Yes Mommy.