Those are reindeer.

Or does anyone else feel those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling sealing themselves back up?

I dunno ani, what say you? Is Sarah the chuch lady the ultimate feminist breakthrough?

Chelsea Clinton was never a "Private family matter that is off limits". If she had been pregnant at seventeen, can you imagine the condemnation of her and Hillary that would have come spewing out of Republican mouthpieces?

The Wall Street Journal has a profile of the governor (irritatingly subtitled "Governor, Reformer, Mother" -- leading me to wonder why Joe Biden's press coverage doesn't refer to him as a "Foreign Policy Expert, No. 1 Dad")

Biden's press does bring up his fatherhood. How many times have you read that he has taken the train home to DE every night for years so he can be with his kids? His early loss of his wife and daughter and subsequent actions regarding his sons have been covered repeatedly, always painting him as the good dad.

I think that it is not outlandish to mention that she is a mother, especially since the baby is only 4 or 5 months old. It may not be politically correct to point out, but the new baby is likely to have an above avberage level of needs for a variety of early interventions. This is no walk in the park for any parent. Add the 17-year-old daughter's situation, and you have an even higher level of family needs and stresses. I do not think it is sexist to mention these facts about her if you are writing a profile introducing her, an unknown, to the nation as the possible next VP.

Voting on bullshit issues jumped the shark about the time they started actually asking candidates about their views on evolution.

I'm not sure where you're going for your Palin fix. I've seen plenty of articles on major media sites and blogs addressing Palin's experience range,competence, management style, and reformer cred as mayor and governor, as well analyzing her associations with extremist groups like the Alaska Independence Party. These issues would still be hot 'n juicy if Palin were a male neophyte.

By throwing an unvetted fresh-faced "hockey mom" to the media wolves, McCain the Right have only themselves to blame for any blood in the water.

Perhaps now they're ready to have that discussion about women's reproductive rights being "private".

Perhaps McCain has proven his incompetence with this VP pick, but I just find it hard to believe his handlers have let things go this far.

The idea that Palin was chosen *because* she would explode was floated yesterday, and I'm starting to wonder if it is true. Is he hoping that her being forced to step down will allow him to pick who he really wants? Did he pick a woman who was doomed in order to make it that much less likely that a woman would be seriously considered for POTUS in the future? Is he hoping that choosing a woman who will cause a feeding frenzy in the MSM will cause all of those disgusted with MSM's misogyny to turn on Obama in frustration?

Even though the Republican base will rally to pretty much anyone they are directed to, I imagine that this mess is becoming a real turn off to Independents and moderates. What the hell was McCain thinking?

Oh, and Broadsheet? Isn't publishing the nonsense to show what kind of nonsense is out there just giving it more play?

Beautifully done article- and that video is too funny. :D

And a shot is something a barista gives you.

Me, I like a double shot. Am I missing something here?

Sarah Palin is an allegedly Christian, allegedly "pro-life" woman, a mother of five children, who takes great pleasure in shooting wolves from airplanes. This is a cruel, evil woman. To shoot any animal from an airplane, but particularly one that is the more intelligent forebear of the domestic dog, betrays a personality that is not only devoid of empathy, but cold-blooded and sadistic.

On top of everything else we've learned about Sarah Palin -- her persecution of town employees as a mayor, her blatant lies about being a fiscal conservative, her wielding of Christianity as a weapon rather than a balm -- leads to no other conclusion than that this woman is not only unfit to be Vice President, but barely fit to be considered a human being.

But then, considering the monsters in Pakistan who buried those teenage girls alive (reported elsewhere in Broadsheet), and their neighbors who proudly defended their horrible crimes, perhaps I am the one who is wrong, and Sarah Palin is just another typical example of our benighted species.

Just let me say that any woman who imagines that Sarqah Palin is anything other than a Puritan throw back to 17th century Jamestown, has got another thing coming. This woman is a motherloving monstrosity at the height of her pious powers of priggish pomposity.

or rather, one you see happening and possibly could do something to stop, but just can't do it...

Regardless, here I am, eager to add fuel to the rumor fire: http://cajunboy.tumblr.com/

(It's, at the very least, entertaining.)

There is one big question that sticks out in my mind about the whole baby-mama drama: when faced with relatively quiet internet rumors that your kid is actually your daughter's kid, why not just produce the birth certificate? (There is that rumor that there's no record of the birth because Trig wasn't actually born in the hospital...) Why fight off an easily dismissed and overly complex rumor by announcing TO THE MEDIA the news of a politically damaging family matter? Oh, then complaining to the media that it's not a media matter.

I'm starting to believe the conspiracy theory that her entire nomination is a ploy by McCain and his camp to (a) present an unelectable veep and allow him to pick whomever he wants after the convention; while (b) instilling distrust of women in power in his constituents and driving women back into the home. Where, sadly, repubs and dems seem to agree, Sarah Palin BELONGS.