Stop Babying Palin!

For those who are uncertain, this presidential election is not men vs. women. Oh sure it would be nice to have a woman president, but the RIGHT one is what we´re aiming for…just like we´re looking for the RIGHT man. It´s the RIGHT person who should get the job. Can we all agree on this?

I have noticed that now that Sarah Palin is on the Republican ticket that many people have popped their heads up and cried foul against media bias and sexism against her. Perhaps a few of those who are incensed by media prying, depictions, and questions posed, have a new and improved way of finding out who the right person for the job is. Should we just leave her alone and pretend the doubts and questions in our minds don´t exist?

What if Sarah Palin had 10 kids. Should we still believe that her being a mother of so many children would not affect her role as commander and chief of this country if something happened to the oldest president in the country´s history, should John McCain become president? As a matter of fact, John McCain has 7…that´s pretty close to ten. Maybe the short-sightedness of the media is not that they are questioning Palin´s abilities, but that they are not questioning McCain´s as a father of 7. There, any semblance of sexism has vanished.

If we don´t put our presidential candidates under glass and shine light on issues that can potentially affect their abilities to work as we need them to once they are in office, then we are essentially giving up our freedom and spitting in the faces of those who have died to preserve it. And I´m not just talking about men and women in the military either, because they seem to be the only ones to get credit for the fight of freedom. As I recall, there have been plenty of my ancestors to fight for freedom without ever even holding a gun.

Presidential candidates, are no longer private citizens and no longer have the luxury of privacy and anonymity about the business and personal affairs they conduct. No one should ever back off of Sarah Palin as long as her hat is in this race, because as a late comer in the game, there are a lot of hard questions we need to ask, and she needs to stand up and give us all honest answers.