A Political Post

I hope no one minds this. If it decided that this isn't in keeping with the blog, we can delete it, but since this argument is both well-researched and well-delivered, I think it should reach the widest audience possible.

Dear Gov. Palin,

How DARE you?

How DARE you stand on that stage, on the shoulders of generations of women who have struggled and sacrificed to allow a woman to achieve what you have, and spit in their faces the way you have done over the past few weeks? For a serious candidate for vice president to turn in such a poor performance in interview after interview that the fact that you managed not to pee on the stage meant that you exceeded many people's expectations is a crying shame. In the month since you were named as candidate for VP, you have embodied every single negative stereotype ever put forward as a 'reason' why women are not fit to lead a nation. You have been shallow, superficial, disorganized, and clearly uninformed on a wide range of issues that the president MUST understand. That is absolutely disgraceful. You are no longer Miss Wasilla - this is not a beauty contest that you can win by chirping "World peace!" into a microphone and waiting for someone to show up with your tiara and sash - it is deadly serious. How do you propose to take over the presidency, should that be necessary, when it takes you weeks of preparation and drilling and rehearsal in seclusion to get through a 90 minute debate? You are so afraid of the press after your three disastrous interviews that you have decided to avoid them completely - don't think that we can't see through your attempt to spin the situation to cast yourself as a victim of the evil, mean, press corps. Do you seriously believe that that would be an option for you, should you ever become president? What will you do then?

The open letter doesn't stop there. Please visit her blog to read the rest. Trust me, it's worth the visit.

Regards,
N. Vivian