TheLastManInAmerica

  An historic moment. An important time in the history of civil rights. We were reminded of these things last night and they were again echoed this morning as John McCain announced his choice for his Vice Presidential running mate.She is Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and she is the first female to be chosen as a running mate for a GOP candidate. Just as last night with Barack’s historic acceptance as the first African-American Presidential candidate, that coincided with the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech, we’ve been given another historic candidate around the anniversary of another civil rights milestone, a female VP candidate chosen just ten days after the anniversary of  the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment that grated women the right to vote. 

It’s like watching a bad chess game; the moves are telegraphed and transparent. McCain is up against an opponent that comes with massively historic implications should his election take place. Not to be outdone, McCain is looking to load up his campaign with near equally daunting historic implications. The Democrats may have gotent a woman closer to the White House than anyone with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. But not to be outdone, the GOP is looking to get a female IN the White House.

It also seems they may be looking to take a page from the Dems and draw some flak for inexperienced candidates. Palin has spent only two years as Gov. of Alaska and prior to that, she was mayor of a town of 6000.

I’m reminded of that song “Anything you can do, I can do better!”   

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