Send in the girls

Apparently, until last Friday, Obama hadn’t worried much about the female vote. He figured that forcing Clinton to make her “Unity” speech would be enough to earn him the loyalty of women voters. Well, then John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate, and now the Obama campaign isn’t so sure about their position among women. Time to send out the women to defend him (Washington Times/AP link);

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius all were scheduled to campaign for Obama in the coming weeks. Republicans say they hope Palin, who made her national debut with a feisty speech on Wednesday, could put some female voters in play.

“We respect her. She’s a skilled politician, as she proved last night,” Obama strategist David Axelrod told reporters aboard the campaign plane Thursday. “She’s deft at going on the attack.”

But it’s not clear exactly how Obama and his running mate Joe Biden should respond. They keenly remember how women rallied around one-time Democratic front runner Clinton when they perceived she was a victim of sexism. They don’t want to appear with a weak response, either, and certainly they also don’t want to send independent women flocking to the GOP.

The solution, at least in the short term, will be have top-tier female supporters vouch for Obama to largely female audiences and keep the candidate himself away.

Sebelius started on Thursday, linking Palin to the unpopular President Bush.

Of course she did…the Democrats are more comfortable running against President Bush than they are running against someone actually being elected. After all, they’ve run against Bush in the last 4 elections…and they were successful only in the most recent. That strategy can’t backfire, can it?

The Washington Post says that it may take more than a few battleaxes from the Democrats to bring Palin down;

Palin’s turbulent introduction and a speech that electrified convention delegates on Wednesday produced an unexpected surge of energy and unity within the Republicans’ conservative base. If that holds up, it could narrow a sizable enthusiasm gap between the parties that has been seen as one of the Democrats’ most important advantages in the general election.

One of my workmates, knowing my stance on politics, approached me yesterday morning and announced how energized he was after watching Ms. Palin Wednesday night. Another workmate, knowing my stance on politics announced he extreme dissatisfaction with the Palin choice and immediately began demeaning her as a woman in relation to her family. Now the first person was a borderline Republican who had moved to the DC area from Pittsburgh, the second was a lifetime resident of DC, a white elitist Liberal.

This certainly isn’t a scientific poll, and I don’t mean to present it as such, but it illustrates what has  happened in this country since Friday, last. Republicans and Conservatives are coming back tot the party, and Liberals are mad about it…and for the first time they’re worried about Governor Palin’s effect on the race. They think that they deserve the reins of government after eight years and all of us bitter, God-clingers had better give it to them.

So they send out the women that they should have named as VP picks to do their dirty work. Too little, too late. The Anchoress says Obama is “hiding” behind the women. John Hawkins at Right Wing News explains “Why Liberals Hate and Fear Successful Conservative Women“

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, John McCain/Sarah Palin, Liberals suck, Politics