Posted by Mindy Fletcher at 12:00 am on Aug 29, 2008 2 Comments
Today, Senator John McCain has chosen a Governor, a fellow
maverick, a mother, and the first woman to ever be a part of the
Republican presidential ticket. After watching Senator Barack
Obama last week make what I thought was a weak, defensive and
underwhelming choice of Senator Biden as his running mate, I am
thrilled that McCain used this opportunity to seek out someone who
can turn the election on its head.
Governor Sarah Palin has chief executive experience – something
frankly no one else on the ticket on either side can boast, but is
greatly needed in the White House. And I know there will be
lots of talk about experience during this election cycle,
especially with Obama’s lack of it. But with Sarah Palin, she
brings another kind of experience that is found nowhere else on the
ticket. She is a mother of five. As a new mother of
one, I am blown away by her resiliency and her efforts at doing it
all.
Also intriguing is the perspective she might bring as a union
member, the mother of a serviceman who is headed to Iraq, a former
member of the PTA, and the mother a special needs child.
In addition, her appeal in the west… Read More