Wife Swap

Sarah Palin. We can't have Hillary but here's Sarah Palin. Is that what they think?

Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska. Probably a lovely yet tough woman. She does look a bit like Tina Fey, my fearless leader. But other than that it feels like they've propped her up and put different cut-out clothes on her to woo the women's vote.

I'm not an idiot you know. I can read. I can read that she is pro-life. I'm pro-life too for me. But I would vigorously defend the right of any woman to make a choice about a child. Sarah is a gun toter. I'm not. I'm thinking guns may be at least as dangerous as doctors who perform abortions.

Sarah has a daughter who is pregnant at 17. She's like a poster child for pro-life except everything doesn't turn out like Juno. Some girls who get pregnant as teenagers, have the baby, and wind up regretting it for the rest of their lives. They don't end up with the sweet Juno-y nerd singing folk songs on the front stoop. What happens to a girl who has a child at 17?

The fact is Hillary is a complex woman. It's something that happens to women who have the opportunity to be educated, who have the opportunity to pursue a career, who have the opportunity to have a child or children, who have the opportunity to run for President.

You can't just swap in a woman for the one that got away. Or granted was voted out. Still it's condescending and idiotic and just plain mannish.