Palin - Appeal to Hillary supporters? Palin is an insult to Hillary supporters.

Warren Goldstein

Sarah Palin: From the Sublime to the Insulting

Posted August 29, 2008 | 03:57 PM (EST)

At first I was worried, when a friend wrote me that John McCain's VP
choice Sarah Palin was a conservative anti-choice Christian, with a
union-member husband, a son going to Iraq, and membership in the NRA.
"A deeply cynical choice," I wrote back. "Sure," he agreed, but "she
is going to appeal to a lot of working-class women and Hillary
supporters."

Then I got a call from my friend Wendy Strothman, an accomplished
businesswoman who ran a publishing house for a decade, and worked as
VP of Houghton Mifflin before opening her own literary agency (full
disclosure: she's my agent). Wendy just retired after 17 years on the
Corporation of Brown University, the last ten as Secretary.

She was furious. "Appeal to Hillary supporters? Choosing Sarah Palin
is an insult to Hillary supporters," she said. And I think she's right
on target. Sarah Palin's qualifications to be president of the United
States -- that's right, President. The vice president has to be
qualified to step into the Oval Office -- are simply that she happens
to be a woman. We can hardly be expected to take seriously her track
record: being mayor of a town of 9,000, and less than a year of being
governor of a state with fewer residents than 19 American cities (if
it were a city, Alaska would rank just above Baltimore, just below
Charlotte).

And the Republicans have had the nerve to suggest that Barack Obama
lacks experience! In what universe does Sarah Palin's experience
qualify her to be vice president -- or president -- of the United
States of America? The choice is not only cynical -- it's insulting to
women, and insulting to the entire American electorate.

It's the Republicans who ought to start worrying.
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