A plea to women who are going to vote this year

When John McCain made his vice presidental choice this past Friday, people started saying, "This will get the Hillary vote!". The governer of Alaska, Sarah Palin, was chosen to help McCain in the election against Obama and Biden. She told a group at a Dayton, OH rally that even though Hillary Clinton had 18 million cracks, she was going to punch on through to the White House. As I was listening to CNN on the radio, women were emailing Wolf Biltzer and saying things like, "I wasn't going to vote for McCain, but his choice of vice president sealed the deal for me." Other things like, "I was a Hillary supporter, now I'm a Palin supporter!" were being said. That got me thinking, are women really going to vote for someone different just because she's a woman? Are they really going to compare her to Hillary? Think about all of the things Hillary fought for in her primary debates with Obama: equal wages for women, pro-choice for abortions, gay rights, the end of the Iraq war, etc. Sarah Pailin is none of these things! She is pro-life (basically saying that the government should be able to tell women whether or not they can get an abortion), pro-war (gloated about sending her kid to Iraq), and basically agreed with everything McCain had to say. Plus, she will allow religion to dictate her decisions when it comes down to governing. John McCain is telling the country that Obama has no experience, but her experience is no better. She was mayor of a city in Alaska that had over 7500 people. She was governor of a state that only took 100,001 votes to elect her governor. Plus, people who are heavily religous will not allow science to move forward, case in point, Bush's decision to not allow stem-cell research. John McCain turned 72 on Friday. He has had two bouts with skin cancer. If, for some reason, he were to die in office, we are leaving the country up to a woman who is, as she put it, "a hockey mom"? Women, remember when you vote this year, for those who backed Hillary and stood by all of her issues, this woman is not Hillary Clinton! This woman is a two year governor of a state that the majority of us don't even think about, whose anti-women rights (oddly enough), and the kicker, has only met McCain once! If you wanted Hillary in office because you believed in her, don't vote for Palin, or you will be more disinfranchised than you already feel.