For realz. I know zilch about politics, but had I realized just how exciting it could be, I would have become an amateur (political) pundit YEARS ago!
First the Palin announcement. I didn’t blog about it b/c what more could I say besides BITE ME IF YOU THINK I’M STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR HER JUST BECAUSE OF HER (OR, MORE SPECIFICALLY, MY) OVARIES. I got into a heated debate (wih a guy, of course) about whether she will pull any HRC voters, and I just don’t see how. Her stance is pretty much opposite, and in my opinion, the women voters who would choose the Republican ticket simply because she’s female might have possibly already been in that camp anyway. And I’m not trying to be bitchy – I really just think Palin was a bad choice if your demographic are Hillary-voters. Whatever.
But then, if I wasn’t already stoked about watching the RNC after the DNC, I hear about this! And then this!
What? Possible baby cover-ups! In a three-day-old VP nomination! Holy shit!
And obviously I’m a horrible person for spreading gossip which I absolutely admit could be crap. But the fact that I could just as easily believe it’s true surely says something about.. well… something, right? It just seems to give me some sort of smugness that my disenchantment with government can be so quickly validated, during what is my first real attempt to grow up and take the whole election process seriously.
Who knows. Obviously if Bristol has a baby the whole thing will be moot, duh. Two pregnancies, two babies. But, like everyone has said already – because nothing I say here is original, I know that – if Bristol conveniently miscarries, I will absolutely join the queue that believe the scandalous cover-up theory. Which then of course gives me not a little bit of schadenfreude towards McCain, because if you’re going to make such a poor decision of leader in the first place (for experience if nothing else), you surely should have taken the time to discover her massively neocon-backlashed secret.
And more than that, it will make me somewhat sad for Palin. I just feel like she’s going past an idea of ‘token’ straight to.. patsy, of some sort, though I’m not sure why that word comes to mind. I guess at this point I don’t think I dislike her, I just get the feeling she’s being used.
MOST importantly, however, is that I actually don’t judge her if her daughter IS (or, really, was) pregnant; which is probably the real reason I won’t be voting for her, because obviously I don’t fall in her actual demographic of voters.
Surely there’s irony in there somewhere.
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Monday, September 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Casey
Jen, it gets even better, with these allegations she was a member of an Alaskan secessionist party prior to becoming mayor…
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html
McCain has ruined his campaign with this choice, and it has zilch to do with her ovaries.
Monday, September 1, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Shannon
Saw an icon/avatar that said “yeah, because I vote with my vagina”.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 12:12 am
Brandi
I kind of felt like McCain’s nomination of a female VP was like him crying out, “Look! Some of my best friends are minorities, too!”
And about the teenage pregnancy thing. Normally I wouldn’t care; if the kids are too stupid to use condoms, then so be it. I just love, love, love the irony of it all. Here, the daughter of a right-wing, NRA-lovin’ Republican, all knocked up and not even married. Of course, supporters are putting their own spin on it, using the fact that the kid is pregnant (and didn’t turn to abortion) that Palin truly upholds the Republican standard.
And, personally, I DO vote with my vagina. And mine’s just a-screaming for Obama.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 6:00 am
Brandi
Björn said this was reported today on German radio:
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/299-documents-suggest-palin-obsessed-over-retaliating-against-ex-brother-in-law.html
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Casey
And now Palin has a scary pastor in her past, too:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html#postComment
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 12:15 am
Rachel
Unfortunately there are lots of churches like the one she attended growing up (I was brought up in one). Bushie believes the same way and we elected him twice. The whole thing just has an icky, last-minute feeling to it. It’s sadly amusing how people who would turn a 17 year old’s unplanned pregnancy into a “choice” because she’s getting married/keeping the baby would use that as a reason to denounce a different party who calls for “a choice”. That girl has no choice.
I see this as desperate from John McCain.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 12:35 am
Brandi
What? Now she’s getting married? Poor kid. That’s so Jamie Lynn Spears of her.
I wish American politics could have more to do with real issues instead of all of this pseudo-pious bullshit.
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 9:07 am
Rachel
I just had to blog about this today. It’s getting worse, and now McCain and Obama are tied in opinion polls!
You can see the post here http://ahippychick.com/2008/09/08/hurricanes-all-over-this-place/