Tomorrow night will be the one and only vice presidential debate. Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden is such a lop-sided matchup it's like sending the New York Yankees to play a Little League team. And that's too bad, because Palin is the first woman on a major party ticket since Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, 24 years ago. After this, what do you think the chances are that another woman will be on the presidential ticket again?
I've seen the polls that say women are turning against her. There has always been a big gap in how many men like her (obviously not because they think she's a foreign policy genius) vs. women. But now it appears that women are waking up and realizing that, while it would be nice for a major party to have a woman on a presidential ticket, this is not the woman they would have liked to have had. Will her obvious lack of qualifications and mind-numbing gaffes make it harder for another woman to be chosen again? In other words, isn't she setting women back instead of helping us break the ultimate glass ceiling?
Personal opinion, the fact that this woman is not someone who can really be taken seriously in national politics is a real detriment to women as a whole. Her inability to even give coherent answers, in some cases, to questions that she should have been prepared for just solidifies in men's minds that women aren't smart enough for this job. So thanks, Sarah Palin, but I for one really wish you would have stayed home.
