The Young Turks

Ok, all snarkiness aside, I'm being mean to her.  I admit it.  That's unfair, considering I know very little about her.  But whether she knows it or not, or whether she acknowledges it or not, she is being used as a tool. 

I can easily imagine the meeting of the minds on this one:

"We need a woman.  That way we collect all those women that wanted Hillary instead of Obama that are pissed because they believe it was a sexist choice.  But we need a woman who has her mind right.  She's got to be acceptable to the base (white male christian red-meat types), and it wouldn't hurt if she were young and kind of pretty to offset the "grandpa death" thing. (So much for "experience counts" I guess).  This Palin lady would be perfect because she's gung-ho for drilling in ANWR,  she's a life-long NRA member and likes to fish.  She's pro-life and anti gay marriage, and demonstrates admirably how a woman should feel.  I heard she may have fired someone who refused to fire her brother-in-law because of a legal battle over child-support he was having with her sister, so she may be a little vindictive, but probably nothing we can't manage."

Admit it, she's been chosen not because of her credentials but because she's a woman with the "correct" characteristics.  They did this with Colin Powell as well.  He was their token negro whose views and power were marginalized when he diverged from the neocon agenda and who was cynically used to promote the war before being cast aside.  Rice was/is their token negress.  Notice how she is carefully sequestered behind closed curtains the moment her views deviate from the party line.

My comment was ugly and sexist nonetheless.  I concede it. 

...and Hillary was never anyone's tool.