I've got a lot to blog about this year's election, but there is one thing I noticed last week that really has moved me to write. There are a lot of factors people keep citing as to why John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. She's a woman, and may help attract what I've been calling the "Vag Vote" since Hillary Clinton was finally eliminated from the race. She added something of a "wow" to what looked like a hum-drum Republican offering. She's a gun-toting, anti-abortion babe who's a bit cross-eyed (in a sexy way)...all reasons the Republican base of Bible-thumping automatons will probably find her kind of cute and cuddly. She's already been branded a GMILF, which is normally kind of gross, but in her case sort of fits. She seems really ethical...except when sticking it to her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper who was probably banging a 17-year-old on the side of some deserted Alaska highway.
Okay, all of that is fine. But what nobody, and I mean nobody, has pointed out yet is that she brings something else to the ticket -- she's actually shorter than John McCain! It's funny that nobody seems to notice that McCain is only 5-foot-7 or so, and that in 1988 Michael Dukakis was towered over by Lloyd Bentsen. (Bentsen, of course, also had lots of Senatorial gravitas, so he looked like the candidate and Dukakis looked like his puppet friend.) If McCain made the smartest move out there and chose a big, thundering white guy like Fred Thompson, well, Thompson would look like Edgar Bergen and McCain would be Charlie McCarthy. Now McCain's really got it all -- wow factor; woman (with pregnant 17-year-old daughter); issues that "fit the base;" and, most importantly, a few inches on his running mate.
**The Judge**
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