I wouldn’t push this particular argument.”

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All I can say is that this is a STRONG reaction. And I am a mother of three. I cannot understand a mother who wouldn’t be strongly affected by this decision.

Do I believe strongly in working mothers? Sure! I was one. Do I believe in stay-at-home fathers? Yes! I wish I had had one. But working as a mother, and coming home every night is one thing. Running for vice president, and being away from your family weeks on end is another.

This isn’t like anything else. A MOTHER of an infant running for president should put off any woman who has been a mother.

I hate the “she’s dumb because she was a beauty contestant” meme, and seeing it on a “progressive” blog sucks. She won a scholarship in the beauty contest, didn’t she? She used what she had to get to college and that makes her dumb?

But she, like McCain, would appoint Supreme Court judges that would – on the first one appointed – take away that right. So let’s be realistic about who Hillary’s supporters were.

Many were feminists and they won’t be giving aid and comfort to McCain.

Some were older women, could be of either party, voting for her because their lives are growing short and they want to see the glass ceilings broken while they live. Will they vote McCain? Some might, on that basis.

Some were blue dog Dems who will never vote for a Northerner perceived as a liberal. Though she’s NY/Chicago, her Arkansas time makes her acceptable out of regional bias.

Some could be racists even. A significant number of Southern Dems are.

My point is, all of Hillary’s support doesn’t fit the GOP/pundit stereotype of being feminist or even female or progressive. So if a big chunk refuse to vote Obama, that’s really not surprising. George Wallace Democrats still exist.

But don’t forget that many of them live in states Obama was never likely to carry. And with John Paul Stevens so old, it can’t be emphasized enough that McCain poses a powerful risk to womens’ rights, but by picking Palin, advances his image as a supporter of women.

No voters know whether Hillary sought or would have accepted the VP position despite her publicly stated position. So let’s let that go as some flaw in Obama’s decisionmaking. At best, it’s a guess that he even had the option.

She makes me think of Quayle: Photogenic, likable enough, but a lightweight.

Boxturtle (Whatever became of Dan?)

I heard somewhere that he’s going to be a contestant on Dancing With the Stars. [Not kidding!!]

She has a baby with Down Syndrome, which means she probably didn’t get tested and clearly didn’t abort. That will play big with those folks.

Given his choices, I think McCain, whom I despise, has made a good one, far better than Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, or Pawlenty would have been. The bigger spin Dems need to put on this is: look, even John McCain has to listen to what Obama and the Democratic party rank and file are saying: youth, women, fresh perspectives–McCain follows but the Democrats and Obama lead.

Why don’t you just give it up on the “why didn’t he pick Hillary” bit. It is OVER and every time you or someone like you brings it up, it just keeps the story alive that the MSM and the Repugs want. GET OVER IT. PLEASE

Shouldn’t a Senator from Arizona have a leg up in the West and not need the “help?”