Wanna be president? Prepare yourself by joining the PTA!
Navigating the cutthroat politics of involved mommies will totally prepare you for dealing with the UN, terrorists, and Vladimir Putin! And in these economically uncertain times, organizing bake sales and allocating those funds is the kind of budget-balancing practice you just can’t beat.
Joining the PTA will give you the real world experience you need for the presidency, the kind of experience you just can’t get doing something like editing the Harvard Law Review, teaching constitutional law, or working to improve conditions at the community level.
Yes, I’m mocking people like Cindy McCain, who included Sarah Palin’s PTA involvement as part of the executive experience that makes the governor ready to be the president. Because, really, we’re talking about Undead Grampers here – we have to think of his VP as the president.
I’m mocking people like my ex-boyfriend who insist that Palin is more experienced than Barack Obama without considering the context of said experience. Surely, being the experience of being mayor of a town of eight thousand people and governor of a state of just over half a million isn’t as valuable being the mayor of New York or the governor of Minnesota.
I’m mocking people who insist that Palin has foreign policy and national security experience because Alaska is next to Russia (does watching Red Dawn count toward that, too?). Following that logic, she has universal healthcare experience because Alaska is also next to Canada.
Hey! I live near a fire station! Following that same logic, that must make me a firefighter! Awesome! I always wanted to drive a fire truck!
Honestly, I’m kind of amused by the stretching that conservatives are doing to spin Palin as experienced and ready to be the president. It’s desperate. What isn’t so amusing is that a lot of voters are going to buy it.
America, please prove me wrong.
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FIRE TRUCK!: 1 Geeks: 0
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
Hey, now, Red Dawn is a great movie!
Not that McCain will win, but if twin comets struck the earth wiping out both the atlantic and pacific coasts and he managed to get elected by those who remain, the fact remains that he’s really old, and much more likely to die in office than any recent president, Reagan included (Reagan was old, but it had long been known that the guy was just freakishly strong and healthy). In which case, there’s your first woman president…
Wow, wouldn’t that make a great spy novel or political intrigue book of some sort? The Republicans want to steal the Democrats thunder by having the first female president, so they sneak her in by running an old man they know will kack in office…cool!
Uh-Oh, that unwed teen pregnancy is gonna’ hurt her. Definitely it’s gonna’ detract from the Republican’s plans to use her President Roslin-esque looks to lure away the crucial Galactica Fan Demographic.
If picking a chick for Veep narrowed the margin by an electoral vote or two, this news widened it by two or three.
I don’t know that it will hurt her that much, particularly with the Evangelicals she’s supposed to lure in to vote for McCain. Her daughter is keeping the baby and marrying the father. James Dobson praised them as living out pro-life values.
Groan. James Dobson. Groan. That man bothers me. I sense something false about him, but cant’ entirely be bothered to put my finger on it.
Anyway, a common evangelical complaint about Bill Clinton was “How can the man run the country when he can’t even keep his own house in order? He cheats on his wife, his wife cheats on him, he lies, takes drugs, blah blah blah.” The idea is twofold: Firstly that if a man (or woman) can’t or won’t be bothered to keep his/her kids/family/penis in line, is he reliable enough to run a country. Secondly: If a man will cheat in small matters, he’s more likely to cheat in large matters.
The fact that Palin and her husband couldn’t or wouldn’t be bothered to keep their kid on the straight and narrow is going to reflect badly on them with evangelicals. Yeah, great, they’re keeping the kid, but the babydaddy appears to be an utter tool http://thesuperficial.com/2008/09/sarah_palins_future_soninlaw_r.php and you really can’t spin this to look anything other than whitetrashy. Evangelicals don’t like white trash any more than anyone else does. So yes, keeping the kid is a good thing, but that’s like saying you survived hiroshima and had the wisdom not to go stay with relatives in nagasaki: You’ve still got one utter disaster under your belt.
It’ll cost them votes, trust me.
"Evangelicals don’t like white trash any more than anyone else does." Erm. I dunno. Have you been to some of those fundie churches out in the sticks? . . .