I think it is so stupid for people to say that it is sexist to question Sarah Palin’s credentials. The Republicans spent months criticizing Obama on his credentials. Now anyone that comes out and asks why McCain didn’t select one of the completely able-bodied women or men in his campaign with more experience is sexist. Give me a break! Who in their right mind would not question if a woman who is going to leave her five kids to go campaign, just recently got her passport, has a unmarried teenage daughter who is pregnant and a newborn baby with Down syndrome is ready to take on the job of vice president? If Obama had five kids and one of them was a special needs child and he was running for president or vice president I would ask the same questions about him. In fact, if Obama had a teenage daughter and she got pregnant, I don’t care how much smoothing over he did, there would be calls and SCREAMS for him to step aside! There would be no “it’s a family issue” or “it’s normal” or “the young man is going to marry my daughter so it’s OK”! There would be a lot of people questioning his judgment and his values. They would also question if he was doing enough to watch after his children. Why should Sarah Palin be treated any differently?

 

I think that the questions about Palin can only be classified as sexist if we wouldn’t ask the same questions of a man, however, the truth is that women are typically the caregivers in the home. I’m not saying that there aren’t men who also fill that role, but let’s be real for a minute. Mothers typically look after kids. It is a fact of life. Why is it sexist to question if she will have enough time to function as both a mother of FIVE kids and a vice president? I think it would be STUPID for us NOT to question it. How many people with five kids do you know? I know a few and trust me when I say, they DON’T have a lot of time on their hands! Parenting five kids, with one of them being a newborn, is work! In fact, let’s be honest. Parenting one or two is work – even with both parents in the home! Is it wrong to think about this when it comes to Sarah Palin?

 

There is another factor to her life that we are spanked as being sexist if we ask or talk about. Sarah Palin obviously still has sex, so the idea that she may have another child is also an issue. I’m not saying that there is something wrong with that, but let’s face it. A pregnant woman trying to handle her job as vice president or president, as well as all that goes along with being a mother of five along with all that goes along with being in a high-risk pregnancy (which is any pregnancy to a woman over 35 according to medical professionals) is absolutely a question we should be able to ask. Women, the last time I checked, are the only ones able to have kids. Unless that changes, why is it sexist to ask that question?

 

Then there is her son Trig. He has Down syndrome. How many of you have ever had a special needs child? Such children typically require A LOT of effort. There are endless visits to see the doctor, special needs in school, special needs at home. I’m sorry, but I’m not sexist because I want to know how Sarah Palin is going to handle that along with the very stressful job of being vice president and possibly president! I want to know! If it were a man I would want to know the same thing! Kids won’t wait when they are sick. Sure she can hire a nanny to do those things or put the task on her older children or her husband, but since she has so many children, I want that question answered and I don’t think that it’s wrong for me to want that.

 

I would never knowingly expose my teenage daughter to ridicule, criticism or pressure during a pregnancy. I would want to do as much as I could to make sure that she was making the best choices for her and her baby on the way. Why is it sexist for me to ask if Sarah Palin is doing the same? On the one hand she says that she doesn’t want her kids talked about in the media, then she brings them to the convention so we can talk about them. Am I sexist to ask why? Am I sexist to ask why she bought the boyfriend of her teenage daughter to the convention when all he did was have unprotected sex with her daughter and then get her teenage daughter pregnant? Am I sexist to ask if they had planned to get married before the baby and if not, why are they going to rush into that now? The answer isn’t just no its HELL NO!! It doesn’t make me sexist to want to understand the true family values and position of someone like Sarah Palin.

 

Sarah Palin just recently got a passport AND she said in a recent interview that she didn’t know what a vice president does. Am I sexist to ask questions about that? She has absolutely zero foreign policy experience. Am I sexist to say this? I think that it’s sexist NOT to ask these questions. If McCain really feels that she is the BEST candidate, then asking these questions shouldn’t be and wouldn’t be a problem.

 

I think the real issue is that McCain selected on impulse, as even he acknowledges that he does sometimes,  without fully knowing the family issues Sarah Palin brings to the table. She supports his base, but she also has baggage….and LOTS of it. I’m a woman and I would never want to get anything over someone else just because I’m a woman. THAT my friends is sexist. McCain selected her over more qualified men AND more qualified women because he felt that she would appeal to his base. She does! But that surely doesn’t mean that people like you and I don’t have a right to question who she is and what she is about. She is possibly going to be vice president of the United States people! Questions should lead to answers. To say that we are sexist for questioning who she is and what she believes in is a very stupid thing!