Just to disclaim, I am a pro-choice, evolutionist progressive. The state of the planet's climate and what we are doing to manage it is my number 1 political issue, with civil liberties (for all people everywhere) a close second. I do want small government, but I also want that small government to stay out of my business and not tell me what to do with my body or my brain or my heart. I should not like Sarah Palin, but I do.

Sarah Palin, for me, is more an idea than a person (thought she is quite a person). She is totally accepted, unblinkingly, by conservatives, by Republicans, as a VP candidate, a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the most impressive job on anyone's resume. She, a woman who lactates, is a hair's breath away from a desk in an oval room, the most powerful office to be held in human history. That this is accepted so unflinchingly by so many, who, traditionally, have put down women as secondary to men, makes me so, fucking, happy.

It's like the curse of the Bambino. If a democratic woman had gotten into office, the curse would be broken, but the Democrats only got as far as Geraldine Ferraro sheepishly backing out of the race. No, it took the hardened, chiseled, marlboro manly-man's party to break the curse.

John McCain made the most brilliant decision of his career (possibly his lifetime) by risking it all on a lactating hockey mom from BFE Alaska. LACTATING! Still can't get over the awesomeness of that. I think it does say a lot about McCain -- cagey maybe, but smart, very smart, and very, shockingly, progressive in it's own weird way, because now no one will think twice about a woman in the oval office, of either party.