Miau, bitches!

Vaikkakin Yhdysvaltojen pressanvaaleista on blogissa ennenkin keskusteltu (täällä, täällä) TL-kolletiivi ei ole vielä valmis virallisesti ilmoittamaan kumman ehdokkaan joukoissa se seisoo. Tähän liittyen emme myöskään ota virallisesti kantaa Sarah Palin varapressaehdokkuuteen.

Mikäli mielenne tekee mielipiteitä Palinista, niitä on saatavilla mm. The New York Timesin naiskolumnisteilta Maureen Dowdilta ja Gail Collinsilta. Tässä ensiksi näyte Collinsin lauantaina julkaistussa jutusta:

This year, Hillary Clinton took things to a whole new level. She didn’t run for president as a symbol but as the best-prepared candidate in the Democratic pack. Whether you liked her or not, she convinced the nation that women could be qualified to both run the country and be commander in chief. That was an enormous breakthrough, and Palin’s nomination feels, in comparison, like a step back.

NYTin sunnuntainumerossa kirjoittava Dowd ei juurikaan säästele sanojaan. Tässä muutama pätkä jutusta (koko juttu tosta linkistä):

Obama may have been president of The Harvard Law Review, but Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a minor in poli-sci and worked briefly as a TV sports reporter. And she was tougher on the basketball court than the ethereal Obama, earning the nickname “Sarah Barracuda.”

Palinistas, as they are called, love Sarah’s spunky, relentlessly quirky “Northern Exposure” story from being a Miss Alaska runner-up, and winning Miss Congeniality, to being mayor and hockey mom in Wasilla, a rural Alaskan town of 6,715, to being governor for two years to being the first woman ever to run on a national Republican ticket.

Sarah is a zealot, but she’s a fun zealot. She has a beehive and sexy shoes, and the day she’s named she goes shopping with McCain in Ohio for a cheerleader outfit for her daughter.