Don't Mess with my Girl

Some people think it's foolhardy, some think it a shrewd gambit. I happen to think that it was probably the best possible choice considering. Check and checkmate to the never-to-be-underestimated consummate campaigner John McCain.

I'm no fan of McCain at all. But I think that the choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate may have just saved the GOP, or at least let real world conservatives know that we are at least still in the game. Having been pushed around by a steady stream of uncaring, illogical, arrogant Republican legislators for the past few years, it's good to know that our voices matter.
I strangely found myself not just happy or satisfied with Palin, but thrilled to the bone...almost like the Chris Matthews "shiver down my leg" (but not in the gay way like he meant it) for the Big O (hard to believe that Oprah is now a smaller O than community organizer Barry). But imagine my surprise and stunned amazement at some of the weak potshots thrown at my girl, and I am again surprised at how protective I've become of her already, like she is my lost and found again BFF. Here's why:
1) We're clearly both 80s ladies...Palin is one year older than me, and though she's five children up on me, we can both rock out to Cheap Trick in a tricked-out bitchen Camaro.
2) We are both Jesus freaks, but yet have no real desire to be affilitated with any one particular gooftball religion.
3) We are both unabashedly pro-life, but we both understand that there comes a point in every woman's life when they may decide that childbirth isn't possible.
4) Neither one of us are girly-girls; we both love sports and can get off watching Steven Seagal just as easily as we can watching "Out of Africa" for the 120th time.
5) She's a former sportscaster, and journo major...more or less the same path I chose.
6) We both adore this country and doing the right thing regardless of party affiliation.
7) We are both union members and are pro-worker, though some of the Republican-trons may not be.

So whatever you do, be careful before you start in on Sarah P, because you be messin' with me (and I don't play).