Le Sigh, Le Moan Part 4

It wouldn't be a weekday without more GOP concern-trolling that Obama should have picked Hillary. Today's contestant: RealCrappyPolitics blogger Marianne Means.

"Not a good fit" was about the closest an Obama mouthpiece came to an explanation. Meaning, one assumes, that he couldn't bear a competing shining star. McCain, of course, has no such worries. He is who he is, and Palin cannot challenge that. But she is proving so popular, if the raft of recent polls are sustained, that she is becoming a big political figure in her own right. At the moment, she is still a political stunt, but a successful one. In their first ad featuring Palin, the GOP shows the pair together and an announcer proclaims, "They'll make history," a not-so-subtle message that she could be the first female vice president.

She is the anti-Clinton, opposed to every domestic and social policy for which Clinton has worked for decades, yet she is pulling away hordes of white female voters who refused to settle for Obama after he dumped Hillary.

Gender may have an initial appeal only, but it could last if Palin proves to be clever and softens her hard-line anti-abortion, anti-stem cell research, anti-gay rights, anti-everything modern positions of the past. She's running for the second spot, not the top one. We'll see. The oddest thing about Palin's candidacy is that motherhood has suddenly moved into a top priority for political leadership. This is brand new, and a reflection of the fact her religious-right supporters want to promote her "family values," which differ from the standards of the past.

Sexual abstinence before marriage, for instance, has been dropped from the list of moral imperatives for the feminine ideal, given unmarried teen Bristol's inconvenient pregnancy.

This is just....stupid. Sarah Palin softening her positions? Mahahahahahahahahaha *smack* SHUT IT.