My wife is pretty smart. When we were watching Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech, she looked at me and said “She looks just like Tina Fey, Tina should play her on Saturday Night Live”. While Tina does look a little bit like Sarah Palin, I mostly dismissed the idea as interesting if it happens.
This Saturday Night, we were watching SNL, the opening clip was Sarah Palin (Tina Fey) and Hilary Clinton (Amy Poehler). If you have not watched this clip GO HERE now! Let me tell you, Tina Fey was so incredible at playing Sarah Palin, I was not immediately sure it wasn’t Sarah Palin (and I knew it was Tina Fey!!).
So, barring anything other reason to vote Palin (and old what’s his face), it would be for 4 more years of Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin on SNL!
On a side note, everything else in this episode of SNL pretty much sucked as usual. (sigh)
I admit it, after hearing all of the political rhetoric flying around about Sarah Palin, her apparent lack of qualifications, her 4 month old baby with Downs Syndrome, her inexperience as an executive, all lead me to feel like the GOP missed the mark with their nomination of Sarah Palin.
As with most Americans, I was interested in hearing her speak last night. WOW! Color me impressed! If Sarah Palin can be remotely as eloquent and charming as she was last night in non-prepared speeches, she is going to give the Dems a good run for their money. (Rumor has it she did half the speech from memory due to a screwed up teleprompter)
I believe this election year will bring us the most interesting and exciting campaign season in a very long time. I find the stance the republicans taking on working mothers quite intriguing. The crazy right wing “Mothers should stay at home” crowd is being forced to bite their tongues while the more moderate republicans are defending working mothers! Wow, what a change of pace.
It is also very interesting to me that most of the “women first” organizations have either come out against Sarah Palin, or have remained silent. I thought the National Organization for Women was for Women, not for Women whose politics they agree with! Sarah Palin is the first legitimate female Vice Presidential Candidate in the history of this country, female gender activists should be jumping to her side in droves, but she is conservative and pro-life, so let’s remain silent. I sometimes abhor politics for the two-faced antics that go on (on both sides).
No matter who wins the presidential seat this November, both the campaign season and the next presidency promise to be very interesting. We will either have the first black President of the United States of America, or the first female Vice President of the United States of America. Either way we will be shaking up the establishment!
All in all I am more engaged in this campaign than I have been since 1988!
For some inexplicable reason, John McCain added Sarah Palin to his ticket as his Vice President. I have thought a lot about WHY he would do such a thing. Many of my friends seem to think that this is a death blow for the McCain presidency. I am not sure. Since this is front of mind for me today, I thought I would attempt writing an op-ed piece, although I have never formally written ANY “piece” for publication outside of technical journals.
Pros:
- Palin will help with the far right wing conservative vote. Palin is anti-gay marriage and pro-life (two things McCain apparently is not)
- Palin is a young 48 44 (offsetting McCains clearly advanced years)
- Palin is a raising star in Republican Party, clearly charismatic with a varied background which should make her appealing to “Joe and Jane Public” (Just call me Joe)
- In case you missed it, Palin is a woman. Perhaps McCain is thinking this will help him with the female vote? (I for one believe this country is prepared for a female Vice President! Heck if Hilary was not so despised, she would have had a reasonable shot at being president!)
Cons:
- Palin has limited experience in politics: She has served as governor of Alaska for only two years, with little government experience beyond that (Not necessarily a bad thing)
- Palin is governor of ALASKA! I love Alaska, it is beautiful, but certainly our 49th and least populated state is not strong resume material – The democrats will pick this apart in the coming months.
- In case you missed it, Palin is a woman. (”What?!??!” you are thinking, “dummy listed that as a Pro!”). This one is a double edged sword. I believe McCain will draw some support from the female moderate democrates he would not have otherwise had, he also will lose some support from the more sexist moderate male democrates who might otherwise have voted for McCain.
I am not certain how much Sarah Palin will help McCains presidential aspirations, though in aggregate, I think it might have helped him. What would help him more is Gustav not causing too much trouble during the Republican National Convention.