McCain's choice reminds me of 1992

[cameozalaznick]

I'll never forget spending the better part of a weekend in the spring of 1992 watching the all white, all male Senate judiciary committee question SCOTUS then-nominee Clarence Thomas and beat up on Anita Hill. And then was horrified when they turned around and confirmed Thomas, who was barely qualified. On Monday morning, I was met by some furious fellow females at work. Basically we all said the same thing. "They just don't get it."

I was not happy with how Hillary was treated in the primaries and it was like 1992 all over again. But I'm a woman with a head on her shoulders and I don't care for reverse sexism any more than the other kind. When it came time to cast my vote in the Texas primary, I had decided for a number of reasons not to back Hillary and voted for Obama instead. However, had Hillary prevailed in the end, I would have switched my allegiance to her.

But McCain's cynical pick of Palin as his number two tells me that "he just doesn't get it." It's 1992 all over again.

The good news? That one hearing that spring weekend so galvanized women across the country that we got involved in the political process in greater numbers. I was living in California at the time and I worked on Barbara Boxer's first Senate campaign. That was the year the California elected two women to the Senate. And in one election we managed to triple the number of U.S. Senators from two to six.

I hope the voters can see through this cynical attempt to attract attention away from Obama. Furthermore, it doesn't even seem as if Grandpa is taking this thing very seriously.

[Bucky]

1. I would've said 1988 all over again

She's like an Arctic Dan Quayle.