Democrats everywhere should be exhaling a huge sigh of relief tonight.  Sarah Palin will seem to be the Real Deal.  Whew!  Come on we all knew that she wasn't going to fuck up the carefully planned, and overly coached speech.  She was GREAT.  She knocked it out of the park.  AWESOME!!!

Now the gloves come off.

Everyone that was fretting about Joe Biden looking like a bully.  Fret NO MORE.  Everyone that was worried about how you take on a woman.  Worry NO MORE.  Sarah (I'll ignore the hurricane shit storm brewing in Alaska) has proven that she's one of the guys.  NOW the guys can treat her like one of the guys.  

See the whole bully remark worked when everyone looked at her as this weak small town mayor and governor.  But now she's proven that she can hit as hard and more time than the guys.  This means they can hit back.  It's like when your sister kicks you in the balls.  When you get up ALL BETS ARE OFF!!!  Now, I'm not advocating going dirty.  That's simply not Barack's or this campaigns style.  BUT, now they can go full barrels on her flippety-floppety record.  They can hit McCain straight on for being OLD.  He's a 72 year old two time cancer survivor that decided the person to take over for him in the event of his likely death with just a 15 minute job interview and a quicky background check.  If you want to buy a McDonalds you have to go through more than that.

This is the best thing that came out of this convention.    I wouldn't even refer to her as Sarah Palin, or Her.  It would always be Governor Palin.  She can be hit as if her name was “Sam Palin.”  Let the games begin!

Okay Gang here's yet another one of those Sarah Palin Columns.  If you're Palin'ed out then click away.  If not Proceed.

This candidacy is turning into a fucking joke.  The Republicans have finally found a way this election to play the victim card after being the most evil sons of bitches known to man come election time.  First off it starts out with the whole “Barack is calling us Racist Card!”  A horse shit charge considering that they did infact use an ad to put him on the hundred dollar bill and ask “What else will he change?”  but now they're playing the female sexist Victim Card.

GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!!

If I hear the words “Would you ask a Man that Question?”  One more time My head is going to go splatter all over the wall here at Denny's.  They are absolutely right.  She is getting asked (or the campaign since they apparently have put her in the same bunker that they keep Cheney hid in) a lot of questions that men don't get asked.  WHY?  Because she's running as “A HOCKEY MOM!”  

What does the term Hockey Mom conjure?  Someone that makes sure she's there for the kids.  Someone who handles all the responsibilities of the family and will juggle that with a  career.  Have you ever seen a man run as a “Hockey Dad?”  Has a male Politician ever used his credentials as a good father as a reason to vote for him?  Okay, admittedly every politician trots out their family for the photo op.  That's apart of the dog and pony show.  Typically men don't use raising their families as a qualification for running for office.  

Let's travel back to the primaries (Third Rail Time).  Some of the stories that Hillary had to face were ridiculous and sexist and deplorable.  Stories about her clothes, her neckline, her laugh were definitely out of line.  But Hillary was never faced with the questions about her family and raising her family because, She was never “that kind of Girl.”  Heck, If anyone remembers WAY BACK to 1992 Hillary caught hell for saying “I've done the best I can to lead my life ... You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.”

I get the feeling that if it was Hillary running for President in 1992 instead of Bill she would have faced some of those questions but, really, they would have been swatted away fairly quickly because she wouldn't have run, and in the primary didn't run as “The Mom.”  As the Primary showed, she ran as a candidate first, wife second,  a woman third, and forth “Woman who gave birth to Chelsea.”  She didn't run as a mom, or as a lady that is raising a kid, she ran as a lady who birthed a baby that is now grown.   Mom was somewhere on the totem pole but you can bet NO ONE is using that fact that she was a mother as any kind of qualification as Campbell Brown asserted after the speech tonight (or last night for many of you.)

What's shitty is Gov. Palin wants all the credit for being a hockey mom, for having a large family, and for deciding to keep her down syndrome child, but she doesn't want to face the consequences of that decision.

SIDE NOTE:  WHY THE FUCK, is she getting credit for CHOOSING life?  Why do you get credit for something you feel isn't a CHOICE.  That's like a fucking lung cancer patient CHOSING not to smoke cigarettes.  Well La-Ti-Fucking DAH!!!  It's a life and death issue.  She felt she would BURN in HELL had she CHOSE something else.  Why does she feel it's right to take that CHOICE that she was able to make away from other women?  The same is the case for the controversy for which we all know, but will not name.  Choosing to have a baby when you think you're going to be punished for not having it is just as honorable as saying “I DO” with a shotgun wedged into your back at the altar.  END SIDENOTE.

Personally, I think Gov. Palin made a good choice deciding to bring into this world and raise the Trig Palin.  I am all for other people having kids (I don't want any of my own) but when she touts herself and “The First Dude” as responsible and honorable for raising Trig while she's in office then she has to answer the questions that surround it.  When they decided to have a special needs child, I'm sorry, they decided that they needed to take on some extra responsibilities.  If Sarah was applying to work at a regular company and had a special needs child, the company would rightly be concerned about how many days off she would need.  What would happen if there were conflicts?  The problem is if you're the President of the United States, you're ALWAYS President of the United States.  There is no Punching out, or taking off.  You can go on vacation but let's remember, “The Football” remains with the President even when they're kicking it in Crawford.  She's RUNNING with the platform that she lives what she preaches.  She decided to have this baby even though she knew the consequences.  So as a person that could potentially pay her salary for th next 4 years, I want to know how she'll deal with the difficulties of being a Hockey Mom, and P.O.T.U.S.

SECOND SIDE NOTE:  The Joe Biden Response.  One of the responses that the republicans trotted out was “I don't remember anyone asking Joe Biden about being a father when he had to raise the kids.”  You know what I don't either BECAUSE IT HAPPENED IN 1977!!!  If it had happened in 2007, you better damn believe that would have been a question that would have been asked over and over and over again.  It would have been on Fox News and CNN.  They would have had “Biden Watch.”  It would have been a media circus.  END SIDE NOTE.

“Well, they don't ask questions like that about Barack Obama?”  We've seen Obama on the campaign trail for almost 20 months.  We know how the family deals with the personal responsibilities of balancing work and parenting.  He's done interviews about how important family is and how its hard but Michelle picks up the slack.  We've had 5 days to evaluate these same things from the “Hockey Mom.”  We truly haven't even had a chance to truly evaluate that because she hasn't answered a media question or come out of the dungeon that they brief her in for the entire time that she's been a nominee.