Regardless of who wins the election on Nov. 4, an American first will occur. We will either have the first African-American president or the first woman vice president. Thanks to Sen. John McCain’s bold pick of Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP, this election ceases to be about the color of a person’s skin or the gender God has given them, but about the character, talents, and policy positions each candidate brings to the table.
Just as you never base a job hire on whether a person is black, Catholic, Jewish, female, etc. — using those qualities to decide a president shoud not be considered.
I’m not naive. I know that it is…otherwise we wouldn’t be hearing from so many “insulted” Democratic women thinking that McCain is pandering for their vote by selecting Palin.
My hope, though, is that because each ticket now has an identity that will make an American first, we can select the team who will best lead America.
Who will stand up to special interests? Who will eliminate government waste? Who will make prudent national security decisions? Who will have policies that help create the conditions for a prosperous economy? Who will address our social security, health care, and education issues best? Whose ideas will lead us to energy independence?
Those issues matter…those issues are what this election should be decided on. Hopefully voters will now move past lofty and hollow rhetoric, and gender or racial politics, to vote on what’s in the best interest of the country.
As a concluding aside: I ask all those who consider experience at the bottom of the ticket to be a bonus…isn’t that what we have in the current administration? How do you feel about their performance?
