Just sayin'

[textualdeviance]

If Sarah Palin's 20 months as governor of Alaska qualifies her to be a VP candidate, and thus a heartbeat away from the presidency, then my tenure on the board of a community chorus qualifies me to head the Seattle Arts Commission.

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[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much precisely it.

And there are some who did vote that way. They voted for Clinton not because of her experience or her plans and policies, but solely for chromosomal reasons.

There are, sadly, quite a few people out there so married to identity politics that they utterly ignore the content of a given person and vote just on the container. Which is bizarre, to me. Isn't the point of fighting for equality that we'd all like to be judged on our individual merits, and not lumped in with everyone with whom we share vital statistics?

That said, I do think the tactic is going to fail. There may be a handful of women who will vote for her just for the vagina factor, but I don't think there are enough of them out there to sway the election. Virtually all feminists--even the essentialists--are pro-choice, for instance, and her stance on that is going to turn them off, big time. And the women who aren't were already going to vote GOP anyway.

She'll solidify the women in the GOP base, and that's about it.