Posted by Barry Slaff

In a recent article, Amy Morton takes Sarah Palin apologists to task by showing what kind of treatment actually demeans women. Here’s the punch line:

“Unlike Presidential candidates who must survive a grueling primary process and endless vetting by the public and the press, Vice Presidential candidates get little scrutiny. We rely on our Presidential candidates to do the vetting for us when it comes to the VP nominee. It is the first moment when the future of the county is in the hands of the Presidential hopeful. It is the first moment when we are able to see whether the candidate will actually put country before political interest. And it was in this moment that John McCain failed not just his Party, but his country.”

Please see Morton’s blog for the whole article. The point that I want to make– and the point Amy Morton and other commentators are trying to make– is that McCain’s picking Sarah Palin is most troubling because of what it says about McCain, not strictly because Sarah Palin is eminently unqualified to be either vice president or president of the United States.