It's official...hell has frozen over! A republican presidential candidate has chosen a woman as his vice presidential running mate. Today, Senator John McCain has once again proven he moves against the grain by choosing Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin in his bid to be president of the United States and has given me, a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter one more reason to consider voting for him.
As one of those "18 million cracks" in the glass ceiling, I've been listening to all the candidates and pundits fighting for my soul since Hillary suspended her campaign. But as an independent voter (I was independent before it was cool) I have always voted my conscience and not party so I found it a little offensive they would take for granted that I would automatically change gears and throw my support and vote to Barack Obama. But today, as I listened to the Tina Fey look a like (whom I adore) speak for the first time, I was quite taken with her. Yes, I know...she's against abortion rights and gay marriage, both very important issues, but what you have to respect is she practices what she preaches, having given birth this past April to a son with Down syndrome. She has challenged corruption in her own party and big oil in Alaska and won. Something you do not see too often in Washington, in particular this do nothing congress we elected in 2006. She has crossed party lines on numerous occasions as governor and manages to do all this while raising 5 children, one of which is being deployed to Iraq on September 11 of this year. She refused the funds for the very controversial "bridge to no where" by saying, no thanks...we'll build our own bridge! Come on people, of all the qualities the candidates have been trying to convince us they have, she's the one that seems to have the goods of which they speak!
So while both parties continue to tear each other apart, and as I continue to heal the wounds of Hillary's loss, I'm going to be focusing on Sarah Palin to see what she does. She will be the deal maker or breaker for me. If this campaign was a chess game, Barack's speech on August 28th may have been check, but the choice of Sarah Palin as republican vice presidential nominee was definitely check mate...nice move Senator McCain! But no matter the outcome of this election, I am proud of my country and the barriers it has crossed with it's choices of an African American and female candidates. Perhaps this is Karma's way of apologizing for the past eight years of George Bush and the worst presidency this country has ever seen. In any case, the future looks bright!
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