Far from being a credit to the female voters in this country, the choice of Sarah Palin as the first Republican VP nominee is condescending and insulting to women. In selecting Palin over the legions of far more qualified women in his party (Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, to name but a few), McCain makes it clear that, in his view, American women are guillible and stupid enough to vote for anything with a vagina between its legs.
The fact that Palin is a former beauty queen is equally telling. At best, it's an old man's desperate attempt to seem relevant by putting a pretty face on the ticket, a la Bush 41 with Dan Quayle. At worst, it's a dismissal of female humanity. Maturity, wisdom and achievement mean nothing ... youth and beauty means everything.
The saddest part is that this disgusting ruse may actually work in November.