Distaste for the Illogical

Before I click the “Publish” button on my first post, I feel that I should preface a little bit about what I’ll be writing here. Every time you visit this particular weblog, I’ll be trying as often as I am able to question something controversial in recent news. For everyone’s sake, it’s probably the wisest idea to toss any kind of agenda or political leaning out the car window, despite the fact that controversy over close-minded thought seems to attract the most attention.

Here, my only ally will be logic. Metaphors will be my weapons, and tacky cliches my last resort.

I would like to start broadly, my reaction to reading a Reuters Article about a certain Washington Post/ABC News poll of American voters. Since McCain named Sarah Palin his Vice Presidential Running Mate, there has been an alarming shift in the number of white women who now support McCain.

With the narrow margin of polling support weighing in at 47% versus 46% (representing Obama and McCain respectfully), you have to wonder where that kind of swing came from. When I first saw that white women all over the country were now supporting McCain because of the fact that he picked a pulchritudinous governor from America’s forgotten state, I almost cried for the death of logic and reason in our country.

I don’t presume to undermine the credibility of any one candidate running for office, but I will personally drag people to hell by their bootstraps for their lack of coherent thought or action.

Palin and McCain may as well be clones, given their identical political agendas, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. We all believe what we beleive in, and we shouldn’t have to justify our reasons for doing so. What I find fault with is the fact that white women everywhere are now throwing themselves at the McCain/Palin platform like bras at a Tom Jones concert. The best reason I can see for this sudden motivation is because–surprise, surprise–McCain picked one of their ranks to be his running mate.

It’s these kinds of people who I dread entering political conversations with. I’m friends with a fair amount of women, and nothing surprises me more than when one or two of them think it’s benevolent to argue that “it’s a woman’s turn to be president,” or “it’s good to have a woman in office because she’s a woman.” Putting faith of any kind in that lackluster argument is like playing political-themed Russian Roulette.

There are women out there who actually believe that they are doing everyone a favor by completely ignoring political affiliation and issue stances to follow the estrogen. It’s fair to assume that any woman could feasibly do a fantastic job as a Vice President, or even a Commander in Chief. What is completely unacceptable and downright brainless is when you support a candidate in one political party, and when that woman doesn’t get nominated, you switch parties and trade in all your beliefs because the other party recruited a completely different woman.

Palin and Clinton (I almost got through that without mentioning names) are not the same person. You shouldnt support a woman just because you happen to be a woman. In that same manner, you also shouldn’t support a black candidate simply because you happen to be black. Even further, you shouldn’t support a geezer just because you happen to be elderly. When the day is done, you should be supporting someone whose beliefs are best suited to what you want in a candidate.

This poll sadly proved to me that a huge demographic of white women are pissed that Clinton wasn’t nominated, and are willing to betray their own beliefs in order to see any white woman in office. I think it might be prudent to ask each voter why they chose their canditate on the voting ballot, and then subsequently discard the ones with “vengeance” marked off.

Thank you for reading.