CALLED IT, bitches.

OH, well look at what shorty Johnny Mac just chose to ride in his sidecar. I made that half-court shot of a prediction three MONTHS ago. Okay, maybe I posed it as a musing instead of a prediction, but I still invite the established punditocracy to suck it. And by it, I mean my fat, floppy, turgid political savvy.

Three months ago I said Palin as VP would shore up the women vote and the horny dude vote. On further inspection, Palin is really hot. This continues to secure heterosexual men. (And homosexual men need only to look back at photos from McCain's youth.) Women, however, will not be won over by her distract-their-husbands'-attention good looks. Just as men would not vote for Jared Leto, women will shy from Sarah Palin. McCain has made his half-court shot, and bricked it.

J-Mac shoulda went for the warhawk jew vote in Lieberman.


Edit: LOLLOL Palin says "nucular."

Editedit: Honestly, getting to my non-kneejerk non-reductive opinion on the pick, this seems like a pretty dicey choice. McCain is asking that voters forgo traditional women's interests (he and Palin wish to repeal Roe v. Wade, for example) for women's advancement in politics. That's not an easy trade-off to accept. For that matter, it's not an easy trade-off to reject, either. Lady VP or an Equal Rights Amendment? It'll spark some hearty feminist debates, but I imagine most people will side with their traditional political leanings in the end.

"And finally, the most important Women’s News item there is, we have our first serious female presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton. Women have come so far as feminists, that they don’t feel obligated to vote for a candidate just because she’s a woman. Women today feel perfectly free to make whatever choice Oprah tells them to." - Tina Fey