Our old friend Jill has a post up over at her place that I think is just crazy... Read it first and then come back here and I'll tell you why I think its crazy...
Back?
Good...let's begin.
First of all, the process for being selected to run for Vice President of the United States is VASTLY different from the process used to select the candidate for Governor of the Great State of Ohio. For Veep, basically, you have to be picked by the guy at the top of the ticket. Unless Jill is arguing that whomever the GOP elects as their nominee for Governor should pick Mary Taylor as their running mate, we're comparing apples to oranges. Sure, they are both fruit, but they don't taste the same.
Secondly, where does Jill get off holding up the GOP to a standard that her beloved Democratic Party doesn't uphold? Does she actually think that Barack Obama should have stepped aside for Hillary Clinton? Why isn't she saying that Joe Biden should have turned down the offer to run as Obama's running mate because there was a woman who might have wanted the job?
This is identity politics at it's worst.
Lastly, Jill makes no argument at all as to WHY these guys who have advanced their careers should just step aside so that a woman could take the job. This is as close as she comes:
Because frankly, Mary would probably make an excellent GOP candidate, better than all the other previously named GOP hopefuls.Really? Republicans are supposed to take the advice of some Democrat shill as to who is and is not a better candidate? Thanks, but no thanks...
I'm not saying that Mary Taylor wouldn't be a good candidate for governor someday because I actually think that she would. But when she won her election to be Auditor, she was asked what her plans were and she said that she wanted to run for a second term as Auditor. And I think that she should do that. At some point, these politicians who make promises need to be held accountable for them. Obama promised that he would fill out his term as US Senator, now the only way that is going to happen is if he loses to McCain, so is the lesson here is that the American people have to make Obama keep his promises?
Back on topic: this is identity politics, and that's the other party's shtick. That's YOUR party's shtick, Jill. Unless I've misread the point of your post, Jill...which is possible, I suppose.
UPDATE: In the comments, Jill says this:
This post is about how glass shattering her appointment by the McCain campaign to the position of GOP VP nominee will be for other races on a local and state level. That’s what I wrote two weeks ago - that’s what I’m speculating about here.So, let me go back to the mention of Bobby Jindal. What makes the nomination of Palin more or less glass shattering that an Indian-American should step aside? And again, why is Jill questioning the GOP? The Democrats nominated Ferrero and they still rejected Hillary. If this is the point of Jill's post, it still doesn't make any sense to me.
And as another of her commenters points out, as far as the state level goes, the Ohio GOP has been pretty outstanding as far as promoting women goes: Jeanette Bradley, Betty Montgomery, Sandra O'Brien, and Joy Padgett in addition to Taylor. What have the Democrats done on that score in this state? Jenny Brunner and Barbara Sykes...??? Check the scoreboard again and get back to me when the Democrats do something about their identity politics problem.
Let me be direct, I don't care if the candidate is a man or a woman; white, black, brown, yellow, red or purple; abled or physically challenged; or anything else... I want the most qualified, most likely to win candidates running.
