Will McCain/Palin Beg Hillary's Forgiveness?

As anyone who follows politics knows, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been chosen by Sen. John McCain to be his running mate. The choice has been touted as being a "bold move" that reaffirms McCain's "maverick status."

Well, maybe so, maybe not.

In her introductory speech by McCain's side, Palin praised Sen. Hillary Clinton for creating "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" for women. Palin promised to be the one who "broke through" for them.

Of course, Palin was referring to the 18 million votes, many by women, for Sen. Clinton in the Democratic primaries. She claimed this mandate, and hopes to claim their votes, despite the fact that she did not do one thing to earn it or them. She did not raise or contribute a single dollar to Sen. Clinton's campaign. She did not knock on a single door or make a single phone call on Clinton's behalf. She did not take the heat Clinton took in the senator’s historic bid for the nomination. All she did do was say "Yes" when the man in charge asked her if she would hitch a ride at his side.

What really galls me is that Palin now praises Hillary even though Palin is a member of the party that spent the last 18 months trashing Hillary. Palin is valued for the fact that she will "excite" the party's conservative and evangelical base, the very people who said of Hilary, "Life is a B*tch; Don't Vote for One."

The GOP supposedly decries identity politics now brags, in Rush Limbaugh's words, to "have a babe of our own." So it seems that the Double Standard is alive and well in the GOP despite all their pretensions.

That is unless Palin and McCain wish to issue an apology to Sen. Hilary Clinton and beg forgiveness from the woman they once all hated but now pretend to love.

Double Standard Alive and Well on the Campaign Trail?

Anti-Hillary T-Shirt

Hillary seems to draw highly negative and very personal comments. I wonder if this doesn't say more about her detractors than it does about her. What if we were to make fun of Obama's race or McCain's prison days, or Romney's Mormon faith? Wouldn't that say more about who we are than who they are? When some clown shouted at Hillary, "Iron my shirt.", the media treated it like a big laugh. Suppose someone were to yell at Obama, "Shine my shoes." or held up the kind of sandals McCain wore as a POW at one of his campaign stops, or yelled at Romney, "Is your Mormon underwear boxers or briefs?" We would be outraged, justifiably so. We'd also condemn the heckler rather than the candidate. I find it interesting that when it's directed at Hillary, it's just good political humor.

Hillary Wins In Oklahoma

My Wife's Candidate

Hillary Clinton won big in Oklahoma although Obama picked up several delegates and carried Oklahoma County. Edwards fell below the required 15% minimum of the vote and will not get any pledged delegates from Oklahoma. So, if I go to the Democratic National Convention,it will be as a tourist.

My wife, however, could become an Oklahoma delegate to the national convention because she is a pledged Hillary supporter.

So far, she has refrained from claiming, "I told you so."

We are a House Divided!

Divisions in the Greenflame Home?

Well, not really. Yes, I am planning on voting for John Edwards, and Cat will vote for Hillary Clinton in Oklahoma's February 5th Presidential Primary, but we will be happy with whomever the Democratic Party nominates because we know the nominee will way better than anyone the other guys will be able to scrape together.