You may think she's 5 times more qualified...

But that’s because you're doing that crackhead dumbass math.

So the word on the street lately is that due to the fact that I pushed a couple of people out of my body AND managed thus far to keep them alive, I am very, very well qualified for the “second most important job in the country.” I think i have Palin beat; she was so lazy she had to have 5 kids at 5 different times. I, on the other hand, had TWO kids during ONE pregnancy. Now

THAT’s efficiency we can believe in!!

I love how Republicans are playing this shell game with people where they assert that soccer mom, wolf hunter, and all around partygal Sarah Palin is qualified for VP because, dammit, she’s a MOTHER. And when you disagree with that point, then you are not only unAmerican, you are against American Moms everywhere in America…but mostly in small towns!

I am only slightly more irritated by that than I am with the people who scoff at the notion that being a mom really is very important. It’s hilarious to some that Palin is using her role as a mother to claim to be qualified because we all know that women don’t get extra points for having kids! I mean, shit: even ANIMALS do it, it’s not like it’s rocket science.

And so i find myself treading this fine line between wanting to agree that yes, being a mom is not all you need to be in order to be qualified to be Vice President; but also wanting to assert that being a mom IS a very important job! But it’s funny that we even need to feel like we’ve got to make that defense. I mean, couldn’t it reasonably be argued that I am not going to be able to show up at an airport expecting to pilot a plane solely on the credentials of having twins? Can’t we all agree that making that argument is in no way sexist: it’s common sense?

Well, we clearly cannot all agree on that point. In a world where up is sideways and down is hexagonal, we have to hear protective cries of sexism in defense of woman who calls herself a pitbull in lipstick and then hides from the press like a skittish field-mouse. The same lady who uses one son’s enlistment in the military and another son’s disability as a testament to her values and strength as a parent doesn’t want her hypocrisy highlighted by discussion of her unmarried pregnant teenage daughter.

Well, I’m not drinking the Koolaid. She’s not prepared and is not a serious candidate. But not because she’s a mom!

She’s not qualified because she’s an idiot.