Sarah Palin - The liberal woman's worst nightmare

I have to admit it. I am thrilled to pieces about Sarah Palin being picked as Vice President on the Republican ticket. Like the millions of other conservative women in this country, I am pleased to finally be able to throw my support behind a candidate that represents a little of who I am and what I am about.

When Hillary Clinton was running for president, I had a lot of people ask me if I would support someone who had the chance to break through the toughest glass ceiling in our country. While I give Hillary all the credit that is due someone who got as far as she did, her politics were just way too far from mine to support her. So I really do understand when I read the comments made by her supporters that say they will not vote McCain/Palin just because of Sarah's gender. That is perfectly fine. I have thought all along her addition to the ticket was to court the vote of moderate women like me (psssst...there are a whole lot of us, by the way).

I won't vote for McCain/Palin just because of her gender either. I'll vote for that ticket, because she represents me and women like me. Not in everything mind you. She has a couple of beliefs that I don't particularly share and when writing this blog I will try hard to be impartial about, but for the most part, we see eye to eye.

I am going to make the purpose of this blog to report about Sarah and her time on the campaign trail. I am going to be posting on the rumors and the myths, the facts and the fiction, the triumphs and the disappointments, the strengths and the weaknesses. I invite all comments, negative and positive, as long as they are worded without profanity and with substance.