The northlondonhippy

Archive for August 29th, 2008

I’m sit­ting here watch­ing TV, await­ing con­fir­ma­tion that Gov Sarah Palin of Alaska is to be John McCain’s run­ning mate.

Who?

I’ve never heard of her either, but I can already tell you she is 44 years old, a first term gov­er­nor and the mother of 5 chil­dren. She’s a “hockey mom” what­ever that is; she loves guns and is conservative.

And?

And its a fuck­ing mas­ter­stroke of polit­i­cal the­atre. With this one slick move, McCain has just stolen Obama’s post con­ven­tion thun­der. Not only that, but Palin’s gen­der will pull in lots of for­mer Hillary Clin­ton sup­port­ers — and she prob­a­bly shouldn’t, since she most likely has noth­ing in com­mon with Hillary or her positions.

I bet the Obama cam­paign is col­lec­tively shit­ting them­selves right now. They shouldn’t be.

The Repub­li­can party is hardly the party of fem­i­nism and this very cal­cu­lated maneu­ver by McCain should not fool any­one. It shouldn’t, but it will.

All any­one needs to know is that both McCain and Palin are “pro-life”, a term I despise. What they really are, are anti-choice on the sub­ject of abor­tion and they don’t think a woman has the right to decide what is best for her body and her life and that’s just plain wrong.

If you don’t agree with hav­ing an abor­tion, then don’t have one, but fuck off if you think you should be able to dic­tate the same to any­one else.

Palin is from Alaska, a favourite state for big oil com­pa­nies. Think Bush and Texas, its about the same.

Who knows? Maybe I’m wrong and Palin will bring in a new sense of fem­i­nism to the GOP. And pigs might fly!

All of this smacks cyn­i­cally of fear and pan­der­ing and the sort of des­per­a­tion I never expected to see from the Repub­li­cans. She may be per­fectly qual­i­fied to be a heart­beat any­way from the pres­i­dency, any­thing is pos­si­ble. Who even knew she was on the short list?

The one thing I am cer­tain of is that this cam­paign just got really fuck­ing inter­est­ing and the next cou­ple of months are going to be fun fun FUN!