A woman VP! A woman VP who can bag her own moose!

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  • Mimi 09.01.2008

    I am not a Repub­li­can, and am not plan­ning on vot­ing for the ticket, but I did think it was a good choice. As some­one who got preg­nant at 17 and mar­ried at 18, I know it is a hard road, but she has my best wishes.

  • Grace

    I’d like to think that Palin’s story is one that res­onates across party lines, so it’s cool that you thought she was a good pick. One of the rea­sons I like her is that she seems like a good match for McCain’s tremen­dous amount of raw courage. And lest I just sound like a par­ti­san hack when I say that, I’ll men­tion that I’m only talk­ing about him as a man who went through the POW expe­ri­ence that he did. As a can­di­date, I’ve got a lot of prob­lems with him, as most con­ser­v­a­tives do.

    But I have this notion that a pres­i­dent and VP should really con­nect as a team. I really don’t know if that mat­ters, but it *seems* like it should matter.

    As to the per­sonal his­tory, *major* kudos on the suc­cess story. Being thrown into mar­riage and par­ent­hood at such a young age has to be hard. The ones that make it show some stead­fast­ness that I think is in very short sup­ply these days.

  • Mimi

    I am truly blessed in the Dh depart­ment (not that we haven’t had our dif­fi­cul­ties) and that makes all the dif­fer­ence. He was ready and able to step up to the plate.

    FTR, I think Biden was a good choice, too.

  • Mark A Hershberger

    As some­one who thinks the Palin pick is a cyn­i­cal attempt at putting “McCain and a woman” on the bal­lot, I agree with you that the focus on her daugh­ter is over the top.

    Still, I under­stand the cries of hypocrisy. I can’t say I agree with them, but I do under­stand them. Despite most American’s rabid indi­vid­u­al­ism, we still think and act in a very tribal man­ner: if you aren’t one of “us” you’re one of “them” and are guilty of every­thing “they” are guilty of.

    In this par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion, she is being called a hyp­ocrite not because of what she thinks or does, but because of the prej­u­dice that many peo­ple on the left side of the spec­trum have against those on the right.

    They see Bill O’Reilly rant and rave about the preg­nant Spears girl and then jump to the defense of Palin’s daugh­ter and tar all con­ser­v­a­tives with the same brush.

    Is it right? no. But it hap­pens because so many of us don’t talk to each other. Chris­tians, espe­cially, have acquired a rep­u­ta­tion as being unlov­ing and unfor­giv­ing even though you and I know that in par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tions, that is not how most Chris­tians act. We’ve got­ten that rep­u­ta­tion because we suc­cumb to the temp­ta­tion to see our involve­ment in polit­i­cal dis­course (no mat­ter what our polit­i­cal beliefs) as part-and-parcel of Chris­t­ian Life instead of pur­su­ing per­sonal humil­ity and piety.

  • Mark A Hershberger

    (FWIW, I think Fredrica Math­ewes Greene par­tic­i­pa­tion in dia­log on abor­tion between pro-choice and pro-life advo­cates is a great exam­ple of what we *should* be doing.)

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