Everyone is talking about Sarah Palin. I’ll admit that I was incredibly excited to wake up to the news of the surprise pick. Partly this is because I was dreading any of the popular names people had been predicting. There is hope in the unknown. (Such is my life.) Anyway, excited is not always a positive thing. Friday offered a lot to discover, and more to discuss. Comparing coverage between news stations was interesting.
After about fifteen minutes of consideration, I realized what a genius choice she was. Some people have actually ridiculed John McCain for making a choice that merely meets everything he needs strategically. Think about it. Disillusioned Hillary supporters wanted to vote for a woman. Now they can. Younger voters who related to Obama have a young candidate on the other side. Pro-lifers can cling to the touching anecdote of Governor Palin’s decision to give birth to her fifth child who has Down’s Syndrome – for my part I think this is a horrible testimony to the perspective of Americans that we think it is exceptional when a woman chooses NOT to abort. The big-family crowd is appeased because she knows what it’s like to have a big family. Those who have been skeptical about the lack of executive experience in prospective presidents are relieved to hear she’s been a mayor, a governor, and a MOM. For once there is no scandal in her marriage. She’s pro-gun, appealing to the constitutional conservatives that McCain sometimes forgets. Her face looks good on a campaign ad. She’s graceful. And she has a record of winning elections in unconventional circumstances.
Never mind her actual qualifications for doing the actual job of a vice president. Sarah Palin is the choice McCain made to get into the White House. After that they’ll manage.
And never mind the strange consistency of these conservative, pro-life, pro-family Americans that John McCain has once again proven are beyond his experience and comprehension. A less obvious mistake than Obama’s “above my pay grade” answer to the beginning of life question in a Southern Baptist sanctuary, McCain failed to realize that we disgruntled conservatives prefer to vote for men. We prefer men to be willing and able to lead. And we believe strongly that women, especially those with families, need to be home with their families, coming alongside their husbands even more than their communities, country, or president.
Voddie Baucham expresses my concerns very well. In fact all this writing has just been to introduce his essay on the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin: Did McCain Make a Pro-Family Pick?. So you have to click the link and read it.
To God be all glory,
Lisa of Longbourn
Lisa of Longbourn 
found this blog after doing a search for “Sarah Palin” and BIblical Womanhood
I think:
God might just be raising up a modern-day Deborah for this nation… I can’t see anybody else other than a WOMAN (with children including one with down’s synrdome) represent the pro-life cause at this point. Such desperate times call for desperate measures considering the infanticidal Marxist we’re up against. Hopefully this is all in God’s timing. I was going to vote 3rd party, but worried now that that would be out of pride instead of principle… IN a fallen world, no choice is perfect.
Hi Sarah! I found your blog looking for some reassurance that I was certainly not the only one concerned from a biblical standpoint that this VP choice was a poor one. I belong to a message board – a Christian one – where most of the members are SAHM and very committed to their families. I was shocked when I raised concerns similar to what Voddie Baucham does in his article to be met with resistance! At least 90% of the women there were not just in favor of SP as VP but they were ecstatic! I have been deeply saddened about it for days. Where is the joy in motherhood and placing it as our priority because it is a god-given role if we indeed have reproduced?! Why is it that it becomes a lesser priority if something as “big” as a VP nomination comes up? Why do even those of us who see the importance of being with our children to raise them see this as “something more”? I think that VB got it right when he said it is about winning – about a checkmate.
Thank you for writing this and for the link; and for being a proverbial “voice in the wilderness”. I have a feeling there will be few of us to ring the alarms.
I’m very exciited, and couldn’t be happier that McCain chose Palin!
http://loomisnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/i-heart-sarah-palin/
Thank you for interacting with my blog. It’s huge encouragement to have people comment!
News broke today on more of Governor Palin’s family situation. All parties are saying that families don’t need to be brought into politics. But facts about our family go to character, and as Voddie pointed out, either concern us or relieve us as to whether their families are going to be emotionally and spiritually neglected. Additionally, no one has objected to the facts of Mrs. Palin’s youngest son’s birth being mentioned in describing her as a political figure. Her choice to bear and bring up a son with Down’s Syndrome is proof that she personally chooses pro-life, in accordance with her public policies. So also with the recent news that they are expecting a grandchild.
My heart breaks for her daughter. I was seventeen not all that long ago. I remember how much I needed a mom who was around.
To God be all glory,
Lisa of Longbourn