Sara Palin ( What a spot to be in) Blog 2

When I first heard that John McCain selected Sarah Palin to be his vice president I automatically thought that he choose her because he wanted to get women’s votes Then I went on to read such head lines, “McCain needed Sarah Palin, icon of sex -- not gender -- to recharge his potency and the cultural oomph of the right” and also, “Palin should be laughing stock to all feminists, Instead, this fast talker is a star—and that scares me.” These head lines were ones that I predicted.

I began to research Sarah Palin and found out some interesting things. First she has a rather large family of five children. One child of hers has downs’s syndrome. Since she is a mother and has a four-month-old (D.S.) son she supports protecting the unborn children and she is against the trend of genetic testing and eugenic abortions in the past these trends have made such children a small, almost unprotected minority in America. Recently Palins’ daughter Bristol is five months pregnant and intends to keep the baby and marry the father of her child. Wow, what a full plate Sarah Palin has! I feel that feminists will not embrace this part of her views because she is against abortion and most feminist are pro-choice. This could actually bring the feminist communities to not want to vote for her, even though Sarah is the first female to be selected as vice president of the United States of America. If she does end up winning the vice presidency it will be a monumental day for women in America, but will most women be happy about it or will they feel that it was a loss because Mc Cain used her as a sex symbol?